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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
RANDOM NOTES

MT. and Mrs. Claud Estes have named their little son Alfred Swann for his ma ternal grandfather.
 
 Mrs. J. B. Head is the guest of her son. MT. Beverly Head and Mrs. Head at their home in Tuscaloosa
 Mrs. Shaler Houses who spent the past few days in the city as the guest of her parents, MT and Mrs. G. M. Cruksank, has returned to her home in Tuscaloosa.
 
 Mrs. J. E. Methvin and Mrs. Florrie Dunn went to Birmingham Monday to spend several weeks.-Eufaula Citizen. Mrs. Clark Williams and daughter, lit tie Nell B., and MT. Louie Dent of Bir- mingham are visiting their parents, MT. and Mrs George H. Dent-Eufaula Citi- zen.
 Mrs. Raymond Brown of Albany is the guest of friends in the city.
 Mrs. Thomas Sansom of East Orange, N. J., is the guest of her son, Mr Har- old Samson, and Mrs. Samson.
 Mrs William Mudd, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs A. w. Lynn and MT. Lynn in New York, has returned home. Miss Elizabeth Jordan will re- main several weeks longer.
 Mrs Joseph Walker, who has been the guest of MT. and Mrs. Robert Randolph Meyer in Jacksonville, Fla, and on their yacht, Wild Rose II, will return home today. During her stay her children were the guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Latady
 
 Mrs. Robert Patrick of Laurel, Miss, will arrive today and will be the guest of Mrs. D. l.. Keiser at the Dian.
 MT. and Mrs Ben Morgan will shortly move to their new home at Mountain Ter race, which is nearing completion.
 MT and Mrs Borden Burr have re- turned from short trip to Indianapolis and Louisville.
 Miss Elizabeth Chapman, who was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Earl Pettus. for the weekend, returned to her home in Huntsville last evening.
 
 Mrs. William L. Sessions and family will occupy their home at Chestnut Hill after April 1.
 5. recently moved to 2S1S Juniper avenue Mir. and Mrs. l.. B. Shelton, who have been the guest of their daughter, Mrs. Charles Reed and MT. Reed, at their home in Selma, have returned home. Mrs. Eugene Smith and children who have spent the past few days in the city as the guest of Mrs. Smiths mother, Mrs w. S. .Fordham, have returned to their home in Sylacauga.
 Mrs. L. F. Whitten is critically i'll at St. Vincent's hospital Mrs. LeRoy Percy and baby are the guests of Mrs. Percy's parents, Mr and Mrs. Billups Phinizy, in Athens, Ga Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Linthicum left a few days ago for Maryland. where they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21

A Ass ANNA MORGAN, daughter of llWll the late J. Pierpont Morgan, will SVS probably be in Macon next Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the conference of Southern Women, which will be one of the features of the first week of the chautauqua of the south' says the Macon Telegraph.
 Mrs. T. M. Owen of Montgomery daughter of Senator Bankhead of Ala bama, yesterday wired pr. A. P. Bour- land that she has sent telegram to Miss Morgan urging her to come to Macon Dr. Bourland followed her telegram with another one urging Miss Morgan to ac- cept Mrs. Owen is confident Miss Nor gan will come.
 Miss Morgan is member of the board of the National League for Women Service. and she has been taking great interest in relief work in the European countries now at war. If she comes here she will be asked to speak on Recon struction of France" in which work she is taking a most active interest.
 Miss Maude Wetmore, daughter of United States Senator Wetmore of Rhode Island, who is also member of the board of the National League for Wom- ans Service has been invited to attend, and it is understood she will come.
 Mrs. Van Rensalear, who, In addition to being associated in the work of the league with Miss Morgan and Miss Wet more and other noted women, is also secretary of the woman's division of the American Civic league, has accepted an invitation to attend the conference here Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
 Miss Morgan. Miss Wetmore and Mrs. Van Rensalear, were at the Chattanooga conference of the Southern Educational association two years ago and took q great deal of interest in the work
 Mrs. E. J. Willingham has received word from Mrs r. M. Owen of Montgom- cry that she will be present and Mrs. Charles Henderson, wife of Alabama's governor, has sent word she will be here Tuesday.
 Mrs. l. F Young will entertain at luncheon tomorrow at the Country club in compliment to Mrs Thomas Samson of East Orange, N. J., who is the guest of Mr and Mrs. Harold Samson.
 The Pierian Literary society held it's school for Friday afternoon There was a humorous debate on Resolved, That Women Make Better Policemen Than Men The affirmative was upheld by Misses Anne Forney and Lillian Karples;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
$ O CHE T Y

o'clock at her home at Mountain Ter race.
 The Nineteenth Century club will meet this afternoon with Mrs. Gaston Tor renee.
 There will be a meeting of the Im- promptu club this afternoon at o'clock at the home of Mrs. R. w. Williams.
 The Bachelor Girls club will meet this afternoon with Miss Etoile White.
 The Catholic Womans club of West End will meet this afternoon at 2;30 o'clock with Mrs. J. A. Kiernan.
 
 The Birmingham Graded union will meet this morning at 10 o'clock at the First Methodist church.
 There will be a meeting of the South Highland School Improvement associa- ton this morning at 10:30 o'clock in the school auditorium.
 The Modern Study club will meet this afternoon with Mrs. Rhodes Boyl1in at the home of her mother, Mrs. James Going, on Highland avenue.
 A dime social Will be gwen at the nome of Mrs. Bessie Lowe in West End this afternoon from 3 to 3 o'clock for the benefit of the L. A. of B. L. E.
 The Young Matrons' Needlecraft club will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. Fred Vann instead of Mrs. L. M. Parker as was announced Mrs. Charles Geohegan will be hostess to the Huntsville Avenue c. L. S. C. The following announcements have been received: MT and Mrs. Thomas Dawson Howard announce the marriage of their daughter, Vivian, to MT. Harry Anderson Burns on Monday, March 19, 1917. Bir- mingham."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
Passenger Rate

Birmingham railroads have been notified that beginning May l, the minimum pas- senger rate per mile will be 2A cents.
 The Alabama public service commission has announced that it will allow the tariff to be increased. The principal par ties affected by the raise will be the base- ball teams and the theatrical companies Heretofore they have been given a flat rate of ? cents a mile. | Virtually every state in the southeast has granted permission to the railroad companies to put this increase into effect The exceptions are Georgia, Florida and Virginia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21

Today is payday for the employees of the Birmingham Southern and the by product plant at Ensley of the Tennes- see Coal, Iron and Railroad company
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
Optimism and Service Two Big Attributes to Success Says Richard F. Lussier, ErstWhlle
 Newspaper Man, Now Head of Drug Company

been given us for year'with the com pliments of the Tutwiler because we have improved it so much and added so much to the beauty of the hotel by our at tractiyely arranged drug store, but there's no doing anything with one of those real estaters,' as our friend, Mon tagu Glass would put it. v
 "As for my optimism in regard to the future of our drug company, said MT Lussier, ''it is colossal l am grateful for heinz in Birmingham, which happened through the kindness of MT. D. w. Bar rett. who induced me to locate here five years ago and I've never regretted 1t for a moment, as the Magic City has done magical things for me; it has given me many warm, true friends; the lovellest wife in the world and an opportunity to
 make good in business. Now that ] am an actor in the worlds play and have laid aside the role of crluc, feel that it is all up to me to make or lose. Dur ing the 30 years of my kaleidoscope ca reer. a repetition of which would brand me as a modern Baron Munchausen, have never been so optimistic or happy over my commercial interests as l am to- day. I am here to grow up with Bir- mingham; I mean to make our drug com panv a credit to this city; service is the main thing which 1 shall insist upon, and the man who comes regularly lllto our store is going to be served so well that our salesmen won't even have to ask what brand of cigar he wants today be- cause they'll already know also being now an opulent corporationist. l am in ssting upon cleanliness in our drug com pany to most vital degree; no place Ill the world can become so filthy as drug store, but ours is model 1917, and means to hold the blue ribbon on that score.
 "Yes, for auld lang syne, you may even use my autographed photograph-let us say in imitation of the movie heroes I've written so much about but remember it's at your own risk" said the opulent corporationist In conclusion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21

iniquity of the professional prohibition ists, I sought by various ways to secure a favorable lease of the much coveted corner, and so after acquiring the advice and later the partnership of Dr. David Letaw, one of the finest drug men in the
 world, as everybody knows, who has ever visited bis City Hall pha rmacy, we worked out the details together and with favor able terms granted us we consummated the deal and here we are, Of course, per- sonally, I think the corner should have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
COTTON CROP OF LAST YEAR WAS
 ll,442,838 BALES
According to Bureau Report This Compared With Ill., 191, ,S20 in 1915-Linters
 Not Included

Washington, March 20.-The 1916 cotton crop of the United States was 11,442,sSs, equivalent to 500-pound bales, exclusive of linters, according to final figures of ginning announced today by the census bureau.
 That compares with Il, so bales in 1915 and 16,134,93O bales in 1914, the year of record production. Linters produced in 1915 were 931,141, equivalent 500-pound bales, and in 1914 were S56, 300 bales.
 Round bales included in the ginnngs for the season numbered 19204o compared with 1l1,75 for 1915 and 57,61S in 1914.
 Sea Island bales included numbered Ill., 544 compared with 91,S44 for 1915, and S1, ,654 for 1914
 The average gross weight of bale for the crop counting round as half bales, and excluding linters, was 50SS pounds for 1916, compared with 5056 for 1915, and 507.3 for 1914.
 Ginneries operated for the 1916 crop numbered 2L621, compared with 231e2 for 1915.
 Ginning by states in equivalent 5oO- pound bales was:
 Alabama, 532, S26
 Arkansas, l 133, 56S.
 California. 43,620.
 Florida, fl 449.
 Georgia, 1,S19,S74
 Louisiana, 443, 115
 Mississippi, Sl1, ,2y6.
 Missouri. 62699.
 North Carolina, 654, 259
 Oklahoma, 822, ,679
 South Carolina, 929, 71S.
 Tennessee, 3S2, ,273.
 Texas, 3,T24731.
 All other states, 13,604.
 Sea Island production by states was Florida. 36,O92 bales; Georgia, 77,966, and South Carolina, 34S6.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
NEWS QF ENSLEy

The remains of Mrs. Allie Goodwin, who committed suicide Monday after noon at the family residence, 20111s Park avenue, by inhaling escape gas from gas heater in the bath room are being held at the private chapel of Echols & Angwin pending funeral ar T. Rives stated that death was due to asphyxiation.
 MT. and Mrs. Goodwin have made Ensley their home for the last three years and during their residence here have made a large circle of friends. MT. Goodwin is employed at one of the local drug stores.
 No clue has been found by the police department as to the parties who left a newly born white baby in a patch Of woods about a mile west of Fairfield which was found Monday morning.
 Today is payday for the employees of the Birmingham Southern and the by product plant at Ensley of the Tennes- see Coal, Iron and Railroad company
 A called meeting of Fonville Grove No. 75, Ladies of the Woodmen Circle will be held at o'clock this afternoon in the Woodmen of the World hall Several candidates will be voted on and arrangements will be made for a social to be given the latter part of the month. All members of the circle are urged to be present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
ANNOUNCEMENTS

There will be meeting of the Volun- teer Relief association this morning at 10:30 at the Y. W. C. A.
 LEtude D'Art club will meet this aft ernoon with Mrs. J. G. Whitfield at 2:30
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-21
Georgia S0lOns Will Now
 Consider ''B0ne-Dry" Bill

Atlanta, March 20.-"Bone-dry" prohibi- tion bills, which would bar liquor abso- lutely except for medicinal and sacra- mental purposes and make it's possession crime were introduced in both houses at the opening of an extra session of the Georgia legislature hcre today. Both House and Senate committees began work on the bills immediately and gave every indication that the measures would be rushed to speedy vote. The Senate tenn perance committee late today killed sec ton of the Senate measure which provided that the state commissioner of commerce and labor should act as prohibition com missioner with an additional salary.
 supplementary shift key for typo writers has been invented to permit lower case letters to be written slightly above the line to serve several purposes
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
OUR HOME BOYS READY.

The Herald this week, publishes a
list Of the boys who have signifed
their willingness to serve their Uncle
Sammy to any extent he may need
them. The expression Of willingness
does not necessarily imply that all
the boys will be called upon to serve
as there will be exceptions and per-
haps the government through the
draft measure, has removed the prev
ious question of choice. Notwith-
standing this, however, their step is
a notable and noble one. 1t express
ly implies that the lessons of pat
riotism instilled and inculcated in
them by their parents and teachers
have not been lost and the boys re-
alizing the gravity Of the step, are
manly young men and good Ameri-
cans.
Boys, we salute you. You are ready
to do the supreme thing that an Am
erican can do and that is to give all
if necessary for your country. Make
no mistake that the community does
not appreciate your action and that
it's prayers, hopes and best wishes
will not go with you should you be
called
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
SELECTIVE CONSCRIPTION.

The selective CONSUMPTION bill has
removed all choice from eligible men
whether patriot or Stacker, as to en-
listment. No longer is it necessary
for a young man to enlist out of fear
Of draft for selective CONSUMPTION
like the rain, will fall on the just and
unjust, the brave and the cowardly.
In other words, young man, do not
worry about the matter. If Uncle Sam
wants you he will say so and when he
does you must do his bidding. If for
any reason he says you are to stay at
home-that will settle it. When the
government gets ready to make up
its army it will do so in business
like manner and with precision.
There may have been some need
for enlistment activity under the vol
unteer scheme At present there is
not and all that is necessary is to
keep the matter properly before us
and assist the government in the ways
we are asked to. And when the call
comes-go!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09

ham Lincoln. The railsplitter had
given him one of those mighty, in
tense natures and the lesson Of hui
mainly permeated his soul just as the
sodof the prairie from which he came
chung to him making him humble
with the lowly and equal to the great.
The lesson impaired by those who
have lived for service is that in de-
mocracy, love of country and love of
humanity are one and the same thing.
Loving your eighbor-teaching him,
helping him-fghting for him-means
a religion of practical service exem-
plified by the best men in our nation
al life.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
'THE MOST TERRIBLE THING"

A great yiOlinist says that Ameri-
can women are ''inhuman." do you
know what to me is the most terrible
sight in all New York;" he asks.
Worse than the pitiable procession
of little girls up Broadway? 1t is the
women in the foyer of the opera.
When | look at them it is with pity
and with dismay, and finally with ter
ror. How can there be so many We
men, l ask myself, who look so in
human? Oh, the splendOr Of their
perfection, how terrible it is. One af-
ter another, l see them; early mid
die age and middle age, calm and
magnificent, their too abundant flesh
carefully corseted, their arms and
bosoms shining, every detail of them
speaking how they live in the realm
OF the body and how much thought
and time it has taken to give ,.4eD4
that special aspect of perfection. One
knows how they live, how sheltered
are they from every uncomfortable
physical sensation. They shrink from
discomfort more shuddering than a
drawer race shrinks from PAIN
Woman's Home Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
BEAUTY OF A CREDIT SYSTEM.

The credit system is a test Of en-
durance which shows just how far a
retail business will run on the pro-
ceeds Of a 160-acre farm.
Some businesses run farther than
others and last for several years be-
; fore passing away in company with
/ a chap-fallen collection Of outlawed
! book accounts and mildewed promis-
| sorry notes. One of the livliest and
most poignant experiences in this
| life is for a man to exchange a good
farm dotted here and there with the
sprightly pig and the retrospective
heifer for a grocery store in a town
whose people do not believe in pay
ing for anything until the will has
been admitted to probate.
The mercantile agencies tell us in
mOurnful numbers that the credit
system is responsible for more deep
well failures than the habit of going
fishing four times a week. Whenever
a new merchant comes to town and
opens up with a credit system which
will stretch farther than a new stock
ing supporter, he will have so much
trade that nobody else wants that his
petty ledger will choke to death in
side Of the week one Of the easiest
things in the world is to sell a good
patent xxx -four to customers who
have not paid for anything since
James K. Polk was elected president
If it were not for the credit system
the twO-legged pest known as the
bomb-prOOf deadbeat would entirely
disappear and be replaced by a class
of trade which comes in before the
tenth of the month following, and
leaves a check along with an order
for two pounds of soda crackers. If
the deadbeat could not get trusted for
anything from kerosene can to an
upright piano, more business men
could go away in the summer without
their wives and rest their head and
feet at some boarding house where
prunes are served three times a day.
The credit system is all right when
1t is not allowed to spread out too
much, like fat man in lawn swing.
The man who is insulted when a bill
which has run since the last presi-
dental election is presented to him,
is a great trial to timid storekeeper.
but there are times when his money
is worth more than his affection. The
merchant who collects his bills when
due will never have to order cheese
cloth by parcel post c. o. D.
All of which teaches us that no man
is good who doesn't pay.
Forgetfulness is the nobIest remedy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
HIGHLAND COUNTY'S MEANEST
MAN.
(Richland Democrat.)

A Democrat reporter has disco T.
cred lie meanest, lowlived, despira
BILE, contemplate, two-legged creature
on the face of Gods green earth and
he lives in Richland county. Last
winter widow Cook, who lives in the
north part Of the city, had the mis-
fortune to have her home destroyed
by fire. The business men of Rich
land Center contributed the money to
buy the material for a new house and
the carpenters of the city did the work
gratis. The house was nearly com
pleted when the act was committed
which prompted this item. The car
penters on going to their work in the
morning discovered that the siding
had been stolen. No use to look for
that human hyena, he is so Infinite
smally small that he could not be To-
Gated with a microscope. In fact he
could play baseball on the white of a
gnat's eye.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
OLD ED HOWE, HE SAYS:

1t is nearly always a mistake To
accept g gift.
Boil barrel of philosophy and you
may soon reduce it to pint
An awkward man in society is Of
ten thoroughbred in business.
In writing, remember that an opin-
ion often makes an enemy; informa-
ton rarely does.
The easiest way to become distin-
guished is to quit the mean little hab-
it's that most people have.
So many people believe that when
they are not sleeping or eating they
should be having a good time.
When man shows an ugly temper
in a game of cards he will display
still more ill-humor in an argument
about religion.
Plenty of people who do not care
for the work of the best writing men
take considerable interest in the work
of the scrubs.
Probably the doctors in your town
are poor lot; but when you become
very i'll they must pull you through,
il you get through.
If man works only eight hours a
day, and has rules against doing too
much, his age will advance more rap
idly than his wages.
1t is not the first essential of a
leader that he have a following: that
the leader be an honest and intelli-
gent man is the important thing.
About the best example of repartee
know anything about was afforded
by the man who fonud thirteen gram
NAUTICAL errors in "Murray's Gram
mar"
Everyone believes a little more is
coming to him, and willing to back
almost any agitation to see how it
will como out.
Riley Wilson and wife, of the Po-
tato Hill neighborhood, have lived to-
gether thirty years with only one dis
agreement: he accuses her of ironing
the buttons off his shirt, and she de-
MES it.
The name of a certain town woman
is IN the papers a good deal, in con-
nection with reform, and all the Pc
tato Hill people call her Mrs. Cack-
le." On looking over the paper they
say: II see Mrs. Cackle has laid an
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
TIRED OF KINGS.

God said, l am tired of kings,
I suffer them no more;
Up to my ear the morning brings
The outrage of the poor.
My angel-his name is Freedom
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.
My will fulfilled shall be,
For, in daylight or in dark,
My thunderbolt has eyes to see
His way home to the mark
From Emerson's Boston Hymn, read
in Music Hall, Jan. /, 1863.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09
LOVE OF COUNTRY A RELIGION!

To many men whose activities for
common good bestrew the bright page
Of this country's history, the histor-
ians point as examples Of patriotism
reaching to exalted heights Of creed.
These men have felt so intensely the
truth behind the lessons of democra-
cy that they have devoted their ex-
istence in war and peace to public
service. In fact, by no other means,
can their motives be made plain.
Such a man, for instance, was Abra-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09

am the days work of the weak
est man, and the largest dream of the
mOst daring, / am the Constitution
and the courts, statutes and statute
makers, soldier and dreadnaught,
dTayman and street sweep, cook, coun-
SeROr and clerk. / am the battle Of
yesterday and the mistake Of tOmOr-
row. am the mystery of the men
who do without knowing why. | am
mo more than what you believe me to
be, and l am all that you believe
can be. My stars and my stripes are
your dreams and your IabOrs.
Franklin X, Lane.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-05-09

daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. John Kleb-
enstein Jr., was married to Otto jain
Ike of Owen, Wis The couple left on
Monday for Owen where the groom is
manager OF a cold storage plant
M. V. Bevans, who had a wireless
station, received orders some time ago
from officials to dismantle the station
until further orders Mr.. Bevans re-
ceived a note from the supervisor Of
this district thanking him for the Of
fer Mr.. Bevans made to the govern
ment to furnish his outfit if the time
should come that it would be needed
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