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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22
Billy Sunday Sayings

Audubon society.
A plow horse makes more miles In
year than Kentucky thorough
bred on a race track.
Aim high. It's no harder on your
gun to knock the feather out OF an
eagle than it Is to shoot skunk.
Know as much as you can without
blowing all the packing out Of your
cylinder head or puncturing your
| tires.
It's the false ideals that strew the
shores with wrecks. Z
Your size depends on your mind,
and not on your muscle.
The engineer is bigger thar, the en-
gine-he runs it! The captain is
bigger than the ship-he controls It!
Size isn't the only thing that reach
es the home base or puts the ball out
of the lot.
You can keep COW alive on brush
and potato Feelings, but she won't
give any milk, and when COW stops
giving milk her mission In life ends.
We don't keep COWS for company.
The newspapers today are better
college than Abraham Lincoln had
just your newspaper.
For hundred years nobody had
enough sense to make a lucifer
match.
Education is knowing what you
want, knowing how to get it and
knowing what to do with It after you
get it.
Here a lot of you are trying to
build character but you are leaving
God out. oYu will lose as sure as you
live. You can't build and with with
, out Jesus Christ.
Don't build a character like won
an fixes sewing machine.
Some people will never be leaders
at anything. They lack courage.
can tell mans size by what he has
overcome.
Be like a man with the itch. II he
comes near he makes everybody
scratch.
It's a sad day for a young fellow
when he has such an exalted opinion
of himself that ex-President Taft's
overcoat won't make him a vest. A
conceited man is the stripes on the
barber pole.
Every time you smile you put {
crimp in the undertaker's bushes!
and keep the hearse away from the
house.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22
DEATH OF MISS BIRDIE WARD

The many friends of Miss Birdie
Ward were grieved to learn OF her
death, which occurred Thursday,
March 20, at her home in Lakeland.
The young lady was i'll two weeks
with influenza, which was followed
by congestion of the heart.
She contracted the influenza in
Tampa but was brought home by her
uncle. Mr.. ]. c. Anderson. when he
learned Of her illness.
Every one hoped for her recovery
and thought she was going to get
well. She was up for a couple OF
days but had to take to her bed
again. Congestion Of the heart SET
fr and DR.. Richards said he had lit
tie hopes for her. She took turn
for the worse about one o'clock a.
m. and at $50 a. m. she passed
away.
She spent her childhood days IN
Floral City, Fla, and later attended
Brennan college at Gainesville, Ga.
for five years where she became an
accomplished young lady.
She was a beautiful girl and OF 9
lovable disposition and counted hel
friends by the hundreds.
/ She was carried back to her ole
home wnere she was buried by thu
side of her father, j. w. Ward. Jr.
who died two years ago.
The floral offerings were beautiful
and profuse-friends from far ant
near sending them.
Besides her many friends. sh'
leaves to mourn her death devoted
mother and sister Of Lakeland end {
brother, who is now in France.
Mrs. Ward and family have thu
heartfelt sympathy of their man!
friends in their present bereavement
A FRIEND.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22
Tin Tampa Tribune)'

You can go just as far as your abil-
ity and your decency will permit you.
You'll never get drunk II you don't
drink. That's four toon shot and
a lead pipe cinch.
Put your life in italics SO when you
leave the world you will leave some
thing besides an epitaph on a tomb
stone or an obituary in the newspa-
pers.
A midget in body can be turned into
a financial account in dime museum,
but a midget in morals is a carbuncle
on the neck of the body polite.
One woman dreamed she went to an
auction sale where they sold hus-
bands. She told her husband men
like him sold three lunches for a
nickle.
You can't look up to runted mind
and runted morals unless you are
married to the runt and every time
you do it urder protest.
The only man God ever condemned
was the fellow who hid his talent In
a napkin and wouldn't give it a chance
to grow.
God likes to see man leave this
misty valley, climb the sunlit hills,
leave the subway of life and 60 up on
the roof garden.
A bow-legged, pigeon-toed, cross
eyed, frecklefaced, red-hesded kid
with a stone bruise on each heel can
ride a Kentucky thoroughbred to wa
ter, but a college professor with NUT
ton chop whiskers and forty-nine d.
plomas can't make the horse drink
if he doesn't want to.
P. T. Barnum failed at fourteen diff.
ferent callings before he found out
he was a natural born Snowman.
Many of you start at third base.
The run doesn't count. No sir. You
are off side. Play the game of life
fairly. Tell yourself what everybody
knows; you're a gutter.
Helen Kellar, blind, deaf and dumb
since baby, has a clothes basket
full Of diplomas.
If God wants you to be an iron cog
wheel in machine, the sooner you
stop trying to be searchlight the
better.
1t is as impossible for some young
men and young women to succeed the
way they are doing as it would be fol
a tom cat to play the organ at the
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22
THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN "FLu"

An aftermath of influenza which
has been raging in the middle West is
the sleeping sickness. From Kansas
City a case is reported wherein the
patient has slept for 120 days. Food
is given during. periods Of semi-con.
seriousness. Several cases are re-
ported from Kansas and number of
cases are under observation in Chica-
go. The symptoms are identical in
every instance and the medical fra
ternity is agreed that Spanish influ-
enza is responsible for the peculiar
epidemic.
Spanish influenza has been followed
by so many and so varied complica-
lions that it may be seriously consid-
cred as terrible scourge, During
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22

they walk up to get their medals anc
dollars for the latest porkers and
sleekest mixers and the most pro-
life layers; and he has missed much
who hasn't heard such a group Join
in some chorus like the following.
sung to the now familiar tune O.
Keep the Home Fires Burning"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22

Keep the home cow milking,
And the club corn silking !;
Tell the idle boys and girls
We work for home;
There's club pig growing,
While the grain we are sowing;
Boost the club; work day and nis
Till we live at home. W b
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22

the coming summer supreme efforts
will be made to stamp out the disease
In Florida this disease was milde1
than in any other State, but even here
in some instances it developed into
pneumonia and terminated fatally. II
ran its course here during the late
fall and first few weeks Of the winter
but was eventually stamped out and
is now but memory. Many people
have almost forgotten the disease, but
they should not forget it to the ex
tent of ignoring its dangerous char
acter, and the fact that a fight is to
be made to stamp 1t out completely
Miami Metropolis.
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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-03-22

Florida has more than 200 varieties
Of forest trees--a greater number
than any other state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
REPORT
 ON JUDICIARY BILL

Montgomery, August S--(SpeciaD- The
 judiciary bill with amendments provid-
 ing for ten circuit court judges in Jeff
 ferson county. was reported favorabty py
 the house judiciary committee this
 morning The original bill, prepared by
 the joint recess committee and introduc-
 ed by Representative Lynne, of Morgan
 county, redistricting the judicial dis-
 tricts of the state and fixing the saarles
 of the judges thereof, cut down Jener-
 son county's number from ten to eight.
 The Birmingham Bar association made
 strong protest against this reduction
 before the house judiciary committee
 a7 the conclusion of which the committee representing the Bar association was re- ouested to prepare amendments that would take care of the Jefferson county proposition. These amendments are in cluded in the bill as reported thls morn ing. |. 1 The salaries of circuit court judges in AIabs ma is sS000 year and the Judiciary committee recommended that this be in- creased to $3600, and no other compensa- tjon be allowed them. In Jefferson and nerhans in one or two other circuits the counties have been supplementing the salaries of circuit judges out Of county funds, but under the bill as originally introduced in the house, this additional eompensaton would not, have been per mftted. The amendments take$ care Of | this so that the county can continue to add to the salaries of the judges out or I the county treasury,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
ISHOPMEN IN SOUTH
 | IGNORING APPEAL
Rx Assoeiated Press

Atlanta, August S.-StriSing shop men generally in the southeast remained away from their jobs today, despite the ap- peals of President Wilson and their grand lodge officers that they resume work and await the outcome of wage negotiations in Washington. Roanoke, Va. was an exception, the men having returned to the shops at that place to- day. Notwithstanding this situation, which has had the effect of continuing Ep bargoes on freight, both railroad ad frhistration officials and union leaders believed that a day or two would see the resumption of work in all cases, and, in consequence, the re-establishment of normal conditions.
 In sharp contrast to these optimistic views, however, came views from va rious places that the men would refuse to call off their strike. The Atlanta, Memphis and Charleston strikers flatfy rejected the Presidents appeal, until as sured their demands would be met while at Macon and Montgomery action was held in abeyance pending developments. In consequence of embargoes, the freight situation tonight was rapidly growing more serious Some trains had been cancelled, and it was said the suspen- sion would increase soon unless the sit uation showed decided improvement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
High Lights in Yesterdays
 Session Of the Legislature
By wNl. L. GoRMLEY

by Senator Mcdowell. was successful in January in the senate.
 
 Seeking to eliminate as far as possible strikes which are brought about be- cause of the inability of employers ana employees to successfully negotiate their differences, Senator O. T. Smith or Coosa county on Friday introduced a bill in the Alabama senate which pro- vides for state board of arbitration, and local boards. The measure defines the powers and duties of each board an fixes compensation of s10 per day for each member of the state board. This sum- however, is drawn only for the days actually at work
 Provision for the appointment of two members of the state board by the gov ernor, one an employer and another an ernploye, is made. The third membeD who will be chairman, will be named by the other two, and will be neither an employe nor an employer, but must be as near neutral as possible, within the meaning of the law.
 The local boards will be named by the parties to the controversy. one to be named by each side; and the third, chairman of the board will be se- lected by the other tive members.
 The bill went to the senate commit tee on judiciary. Senator Smith took cogdzance of the increased dissat1s- faction existing between capital and labor in the country. He is determined to push the measure through the sen- ate, in order that it may be enacted before final adjournment of the legis- lature-
 Continued and additional mistreat- ment of convicts in Alabama mines is charged in senate resolution of Sena- tor Ieith, which was referred to the committed on rules.
 The resolution said that the attention of the legislative committee which was named in January to investigate condi- tions at the mines, had been called to additional and continued miStreatm ent of the convicts. Some of the convicts camps are not porperly maintained, it was charged. Reorganization of the special committee, to work during the present session, reporting it's findings at a later date, was suggested by Sena- tor Leith.
 l Another resolution of Mir. Leith re- Quires the department of archives and history to have copies of the report of the legislative committee printed and mailed to the people of Alabama This resolution also was referred to the rules committee.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Atlanta to Distribute $10O,00O Worth of
 Government Foodstuff
By Associated Press

Atlanta, August S.-The city council at a special session late today voted unani- mously in favor of the recommendation of Mayor Key that s1O0.OOo be appropriat- ed immediately for the purchase of gov ernment food.
 The food, comprising a wide variety of commodities, will be sold to individual consumers through a chain of 97 retail stores. The retail prices will be 10 per cent above government prices and ap- proximately IS per cent below dealers prices, it was estimated. Distribution will begin Monday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09

Montgomery, August s.-(Special.) Another bill. designed to require the taking of convicts from the mines of Alabama, was introduced in the senate of Alabama on Friday by NIT. Leith of Walker county. The bill provides that all convicts be taken from the mines not later than January l, 1923, and that they be worked on the state trunk roads under the supervision of the state highway department, in cooperation with the state convict department
 The convict department is required to provide housing facilities for the convicts. A similar bill is now on the house calendar.
 Senator Tally introduced the follow I ing bill:
 ''To require the highway commission or highway department to locate. con struct and maintain the state highways in Alabama so as to connect county seats of the several border counties at or about the state line with an i'm proved road in the border states and to require an equitable division of time, money and labor, in the prose- cution of such work" The bill was referred to the committee on public roads and highways.
 
 Provision for the election by the qualified voters of Alabama of a di- rector for the department of archives and history, is made in a bill by Sen ator Phillips, introduced in the senate. The bill fixes his term of office, com pensation, duties, etc. Ths office is now held by Dr. Thomas M Owen, named by state board
 A bill of Senator Craft of Mobile county will exempt all persons in the military and naval service of the United States from the payment of poll taxes during the period of such ser vice" The Craft measure went to the committee on privileges and elections
 The house committee on revision of laws Friday made a favorable report on the editors pass bill, which will permit editors of Alabama to exchange space in their newspapers for railroad met with such strong opposition in the committee that MT Carnley of Coffee county, submitted a substitute, which was favorably reported on. The sub stitute will permit the exchange of space for passes. but certain limita tions are provided for. This substitute it is believed, will meet with the ap- proval of the house. The original bill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
SELMA

Selma, August s.-tspecial)-Vice President Marshalrs big White orping- ton rooster, weighing 10% pounas' which, according to MT. Marshall himseH is 100 per cent democrat and coai black Shanghai rooster, sent by Maj Robert Moton, as big and as black as the major himself, are conceded 10 be the handsomest birds so far re- ceiyed for the Demopolis rooster sale. August 14-15, when the eyes of the state will be turned toward the hvest htl!e town in the south, where every man is a booster, and the air is full ot the growing cocks.
 Every express into Demopolis has It's quota of cages filled with every type oq rooster known to the chicken fancler. Secretary Daniels has sent a loW-como game from Raleigh, N. Gland former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo has also ordered low-comb game to De sent with his compliments, selecting the cock among all others conceded to be the best fighter in the world.
 An airplane will convey Governor Kilby's bird from the state capitol to Demopolis on the first day of the sale, and a hydroplane from Pensacola will NoN%~
 mandant at that point. Surveys of the river at Demopolis have been made, and the plane will land oposite the town on the Tombigbee, the river which is to be bridged at Moscow Ferry, from the proceeds of the cock sale.
 The Big Four roosters, President Wilson, Lloyd George. Clemenceau ano Orlando, arrived in Selma today from Montgomery, and are on exhibition at Swift's drug store, where the pubhs ] is viewing them, in their gold cages ] A committee of the Demopolis booster committee, accompanied the roosters and were the guests of the Selma Ro-
 tary club.
 1 Several birds have already been sen from Selma. and the city will be repre-. scented by handsome cock, purchased
 by Fire Chief Blakey
 l The action of the judiciary committee I of the house in reporting the Fourti circuit without changes, effectually dis 1 poses of the movement for an extri 1judgeship in Selma. Its-was not be llieved by those in position to know that any changes would be ordered il this circuit, and the agitation in tha 'direction is now considered at an end
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Governor and Assistant
 Attorney General Fight
By Associated Press

Jackson. Miss August S-Walter Dent, assistant attorney general of Mississippi. today knocked Governor Theodore Bilbo down in a fist fight in the office of the secretary of state,. Joseph Power. who, with other of- ficers, separated the men.
 Dent, in a formal statement after the encounter. said he resented an in suit in a recent statement printed in the newspapers and which was quoted as the governors. Governor Bilbo said he was struck without warning No arrests were made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
PULLMAN

Cullman, August s.-tSpecia1)-Ths county jail was emptied here this week,
 II of the inmates having been sentenced to serve terms in prison. They wers transferred to the state penitentiary, with the exception of E1i1ah Gilreath. a l5-year-old Birmins ham boy. who was found guilty of stealing the car of Lee Cochran, tax collector. few week ago. This boy was transferred to the state reform school to imam until he is 21 years of age.
 Walter Beck, who was >also impli- cated in the stealing of the Cochran car, was sent to the penitentiary for one year and one day.
 Felix Williams left to begin his sent ence of 10 years for murder. Williams escaped imm ediately after the killing took place several years ago. He was captured here about one year ago and placed in jail, being later released on bond
 Catha Perdue, negro, was sent to prison for 10 years for knocking q Hanceville merchant in the head some months ago. The negro planned to rob the mans store, it is said. John Leigeber, who was found guilty of violating the prohibition law before Judge Robert Brickell, was sentenced to
 six months in the penitentiary. He is now out on bonda and will appeal his case. It was in Leigeber's building that the recent killing of Sheriff John Sparks and John Mack took place. Leigeber, however, was found to have had nothing | to do with the killing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Gasoline Distributors
 Cited by Commission
Rx A,.ocIat,d Press

Washington, August S.-Thirty-one interstate distributors of gasoline were cited today by the federal trade commission for alleged unfair compe- tition. The complaints charged the concerns with supplying gasoline deal- CTS with automatic measuring pumps at cut prices on condition that gaSo- line of competitors shall not be rS- tailed from pumps thus furnished.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Certificate Issue
 Is Oversubscribed
By AssonIstsd Press

Washington. August S.-Secretary Glass announced today that subscrip- tions to the first semi-month1y offer ing of treasury certificates of indeht- edness to finance the current needs or the government were more than s55'- 000,000 in excess of> the Sb00,O0O,ou9 ked for. The quotas for all reserve districts except the Boston and Rlch- mond districts were exceeded.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Desertion Charged

Clarence Arter, aged about 9, was ar- rested yesterday afternoon by Detectives DeGroat and Granger on charge of be- ing a deserter from the United States army and committed to the city jail
 Arter, it is alleged, deserted from Camp Benners of Georgia some months ago, is being held at detective headquarters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Grand Larceny Charged

Leonard Smith, negro, was arresteo last night by Dobyns, Burges and Wal ton on charges of grand larceny an1 landed in the city jail. The arrest was made for authorities at Montgomery, who stated that Smith took S47 from hotei there and escaped. Montgomery oHicers will probably take the prisoner pach there this morning.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
SEEKS FAVORABLE CALENDAR
 FOR GARNISHMENT BILL

Montgomery; August S-(SpectaD- His bill subjecting salaries of county officials to garnishment having been adversed by the house committee on revision of laws, Representative Arnold of Jefferson, gave notice this morning that he would move on the nexet legislative day to take it from the adverse calendar and put it on the favorable calendar.
 Under existing laws, salaries of state, county and municipal officials and em- pIoyees cannot be attached or garni-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Held for Burglary

John Pappish, alias Grover Lewis aged 21, was arrested by Officer Cart wright at 12o5 o'clock last night at Twenty-fourth street and Avenue c on charge of burglary and grand larceny and committed to the city jail. He is being held for authorities at Harperville and Vincent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09

sheed. MT. Arnold contends that there is no reason for the exemption of such salaries any more than there is a reason for the exemption of salaries of any oth- CT line of work.
 He is making a determined fight to get his bill through the house, but the chances are very much against success.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Bill Would Remove
 One of Most Drastic
 Features of Dry Law
Continued from Page one.)

NCVHtHHueu HUH "St VHc'J iuries he might receive while working in 9 mine.
 The bill as passed provides that all persons working in coal mines, whether they do so in violation of law or not, are subject to it's provisions. That in effect repeals the law regulating the em- ployment of boys under certain age in the mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi Local showers and thunderstorms Sat urday and sunday gentle variable winds.
 ennessee-Generally fair Saturday and Sunday; not much change in tsais- perature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Caribbean Storm Reported
By Associated Press

by Nss0cIated7 Pfess Washington, August S--A tropical dis turbance reported today by the weather bureau tonight was said to be over the ing to the bureau. that the storm would move westward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Seven-Hour Bill Adopted

BY Associated Pross
 London, August S.-(Hayas (-T~he House of Commons today adopted the bill providing fog a seven hour day in the mines.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
Local Data

Local data for the 24 hours ending at D. m. August s, 1919:
 Highest temperature .......... 90 Lowest temperature ............ 70 Mean temperature .. S5 Normal temperature ........... GU Deficiency in temperature since
 January l .....-......-.. ..'..''' zoz Rainfall .............. .05 Total rainfall since January l. .3292 Excess in rainfall since January 3s Relative humidity: a. m. .. ST
 D. m. 40
 D. m. 75 Dry thermometer: 8 a. m. fS
 D. m. sS
 D. m. 79 tesdelc-, ,oS$iver 40 cm cm cm cInfcc Wet thermometer: a. m. ...... 74
 D. m. A
 D. m. 75
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-09
DEATHS

James M, MarshalI-Aged S7, died at Chicago, Ill, August D. Funeral services from Johns chapel this morning at 9:30 o'clock, With inter ment in Forest Hill.