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INFANTRY OFFICERS
CALL ON COLONEL
STEINER AND MEN
Camp Henderson Busy
Place as Examinations
and Vaccinations Go an
Camp ReiifraoB
ery
Camp Henderson was'visited Mon
day morning by officers of the first
regrlment of infantry, which hiked over
from Vandiver Park and encamped in
a stretch of woods near the cavalry
Nasty drug salivates, makes you
sick and you lose a
day’s work.
Kver.v druggist In town—your drug
gist mid everybody's druggist has no
ticed a great falllng-off In the sale o£
calomel. They all give the same rea
son. Dodson's Liver Tons is taking
its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, wltlle* Dodson's Liver Tone
is perfectly saTe and gives better re
sults.” said a prominent local drug
dFt. Dodson's Liver Tone la person
ally guaranteed by every druggist who
sells It. A large bottle cost EO cents,
and if It fails to give easy relief in
every case of liver sluggishness and
constipation, you have only to asT;
for your money back. ■. . .
Dodson's Liver Tone is a pleasant
lasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults,
Take a spoonful at night, and wake
up feeling ffne; no biliousness, sick
headache, acid stomach or constipated
bowels. It doesn’t gripe or cause In
convenience all the nest day like vin.
lent calomel. Take a dose of calomel
today and tomorrow you wfl! feel
weak .sick and nauseated. ' Don’t lose
a day's work! Take Dodson's Liver
Tone instead and feel tine, full of
vigor and ambition.
“Perlection”
Oil Heaters
FOR
BATH OR
BED
ROOM
LITTLE PAINT STORE
11 N. PIRRV ST.
Wedding Gifts
Our stock abounds v th iunmer
able new pieces of dcwelrv and
Silverware suitable for Wedding
'lifts. All the newest and best
novelties now on sale. Include
our store in your shopping tour.
Davidson Jewelry Co.
-SEE THESE
9 Inch Boots
I
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and T. CouMina
From $4 to $10
JH6iS9£i!£K
-23 Dexter Ave.
PIANO TUNING
By V. M. STOVALL, Oar Expert
Satisfaction Guaranteed
or Money Refunded.
Jesse French & Son Piano Co.,
Of Ala.
PHONE 1937
HAYGOOD’S AUTO LOCKER
“INN”
A Safe Place to Keep
Your Automobile
Phone 241 210 Monroe St.
Moeller & Co.
17 S. Perry St.
Popular Price Tailors
French Dry Cleaning
Club Rates $1.50 Per Month.
Phone 379
Draughon's
The Leading Business College
In Montgomery
Draachon'i the Only Business
College Owning Its Homs
Draughon's the Only Business
College Owning a Dormitory
DmaghoB’i the Only Business
College Recommended by
Court Reporters
Draughon's College
Draughon Building
Corner Church and Catoraa
Stre ■*.< . Montgomery, Ala.
Abe Martin
I "Uaiut th' National anthem purty?”
said Mrs. Tflford Moots, as she stood
up while th* band played "I £>idn’
Raise My Boy t* B«* a Soldier/* at
Melodeon Hall last night. While mo
torin’ near Morgantown t'dav Tell
Binkley narrowly escaped bein’ killed
by a train as th* engineer could not
see him fer a corn field.
camp. Officers of the regiment called
on Colonel Steiner, who returned th©
visit, and the infantrymen later re
turned to their own headquarters, with
many expressions, of praise at the ef
ficient appearance of Camp Henderson
and the progress which has been.made
in getting the men into shape.
It was announced that the work of
examining the men at Camp Hender
son will tye completed Tuesday, and
the work of vaccination is proceeding
rapidly. The issuing of the new uni
forms to the men is expected to be
gin Tuesday. Captains Roberts and
Kaempfer have been busily engaged in
instructing the officers of the various
troops in the duties which they will
perform, and the work of training the
inen is proceeding rapidly.
Captain P. C. McAlpine was officer
of the day Monday: Lieutenant L. D
Coker, officer of the guard, and lieu
tenant Hugh Lester, junior officer of
the guard.
Mobile Man Takes
Carbolic Acid and
Is Dead When Found
, < Special Ta The Advertiser)
MOBILE. ALA., Oct 2—John Neff,
a former prominent newsdealer, com
mitted suicide Sunday night by taking
carbolls acid. Business reverses was
the cause of the suicide.
Neff was found by neighbors in hi,
home where he was alone In a dying
condition. A bottle that contained car
bolic acid was found on a chair near
hia bed.
Tile dead man left a note to his son
John J. Neff, telling him where to
find certain papers, but gave no reason
for his act. Neff was a former book
keeper for the People's bank and was
widely known throughout the city:
he was prominent in fraternal circles.
MRS. HENRIETTA PREWITT
MOBILE ALA., October 2—Mrs. Hen
rietta Adams Prewitt, wife of L»r.
Darid Prewitt, of Ozark, Ala., died
it that place Sunday afternoon after
an Illness of one week. The funeral
look place Monday morning at 11
J'clock at Midway, Ala. Mrs. Prewitt
was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
?penoer Adams, of 59 north Ann street,
this city, who survive her, with si*
children, four sisters. Misses Marietta
Adams. Masselina Adams, Mrs. Hich
ard D. Lundy, of Mobile and Mrs
Louis Davison, of Oakdale. La., three
brothers, Q. S. Adams, of Birming
ham, Rosser Adams of Lake Provi
dence. La.; Monroe Adams, of Silsbee.
La., and other relatives.
To the Wife of
One Who Drinks
I have an important confidential m-***
for you- It will come in a plain envelope,
(low to conquer the liquor habit in 3 days
tnd make home happy. Wonderful, safe,
aating. reliable. Inexpensive method, guar
inteed. Writ# to Edw. J. Woods, K,
Station E» Now York, X. Y. Show this to
ithers.
i EMPIRE
j TODAY
Vaudeville
And Feature. Pictures
Vaudeville Bill
i Majestic’s Old Stand.)
IB1BB STREET.
K\ ERETT AXD WHITE.*
| Combination Act (Male and Female).
I Comedy Acrobatic Act.
j A Great team—Rich Comedy, etc.
J Ray and Ray, the Girl on the Dee
Comedy Singing and Dancing,
i THE ELKS TRIO,
j Two Roys and a Girl,
j Comedy and Harmony Singing.
An Act that will please every min
ute it is on the stage. *A Roar Every
where.
TODAY
Theodore Roberts
, —IN—
! “Anton, the Terrible”
A First-run Feature that is sure to
. please.
TOMORROW
Marguerite Clark
In
“Seven Sisters.”
SCHEDULE TODA1.
Fixtures—3 Shows, commencing at
i 11 A. M.
Admission 10 cent**; Balcony 5 cents.
Vaudeville and Pictures:
Matinee at 3:30 P. M.
Admission 10 and 30 cents.
Nights at 7:30 and o’clock.
Admission. Gallery 10 cents; Balcony
20 cents; Orchestra 30 cents.
Full Musical Orchestra, Afternoons
and Nights.
Phone 1700 for Schedule.
I
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STMM1L
Great Paycant Will Be
Feature Each Day; Presi
sident Wilson Will Re
view, Parade One Day
(AMoriatH Pres*. I
INDIANAPOLIS. INP.. Oct. 2—What
is expected to prove the largest cele
bration of any kind ever held in In
diana opened in Indianapolis today
with an afternoon parade of civic, pa
triotic and fraternal organizations
and with an immense exposition of tine
and domestic art. the product of In
diana for the last one hundred years,
on display at the Herron Art Institute.
The celebration is that in honor of
the centennial anniversary of the
state, it will continue for two weeks.
Will l out bine Paseaat.
The performance of the pageant of
Indiana will be produced every after
noon this week.
All parades and pageants which
pass over the business streets will
pass the soldiers and sailors monu
ment. and it is from there that Presi
dent Wilson, former Presidents Roose
velt and Taft, and others will review
the processions to be formed on the
days they will visit the city.
Tomorrow will be “home coming
day.”
DO IT TODAY.
Phaae 2241J to make aa appoiatmrat
with l enpopold Straus* today and he
will ahow yoa a Maple of a woader
I fal life insurance policy Issued by the
; Prudential Insurance ( ompaujr at low
j rates. Remember that this company
.carries nearly one-eighth of the en
i tire life Insurance la force la all the
legal reserve companies doing busi
ness In the I sited States. There must
be a reason.
POLICE CHIEFF IS
IMPLICATED WHEN
CLUB IS RAIDED
j 4Associated Press.!
• CHICAGO, Oct. 2—Detectives operat
ing- under the direction of states At
torney Hoyne, who is investigating
(slot machines in Chicago, today raided
the Sportsmen's Club of America, of
| which Mayor Thompson formerly was
j president, seized all records and sum
| nioneti the secretary and other at
| taches to appear before the grand jury.
I Assistant State’s Attorney Burger is
! ?uw a statement that the raid follow
ed investigations which indicated that
officials of the club, including Chief
| of I*olice Healy, were connected with
the installation of slot machines in
Chicago.
The statement charged specifically
that James A. rush, predident of the
club and reputed financial backer of
Mayor Thompson in the campaign
leading to his election, and William
II. Luthardt. secretary to Chief Healy,
were directly connected with the in
stallation of the slot machines. Healy
denied Burgc-r's charges and said he
welcomed an investigation of the club’s
| affairs.
Pour police captains were found
guilty la.*t week by the city civil*
service commission on charges of in
efficiency in permitting slot machines
to be operated. They were fined, sus
pended and reprimanded.
Story of Student,
disclosed by Death,
Reads Like Romance
(A«Mfla(«4 Prnw.l
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—Hov a poor
student of chemistry who came here
from Germany in 1868 attracted the
attention of John D. Rockefeller, be
came the chief chemist of the Standard
Oil company, and by his ingenuity
amassed a fortune of $10,485,825. is
disclosed by an appraisal of the estate
of the late Herman Frasch, of this
city.
After attaining success as chemist
Mr. Frasch undertook to develop a
sulphur mine in Louisiana which had
passed through the hands of four com
panies that were unable to make it
pay. The sulphur lay 800 feet below
the surface. Mr. Frasch devised a
method sf conveying super-heated wa
ter into the mine, melting the sulphur
and then pumping it out through a
pipe.
The appraisers estimated Jhe value
of the stock of the company owning
the mine at 812,003 a share. Mr. Frasch
owned 505 shares.
SI B LX ARTIC
CHRISTIANIA NORWAY Oct. 2—A
German submarine has made its way
into the Arctic ocean and has tor
pedoed three Norwcigian steamships
TAKE SALTS TO
Says Backache is sure sign you
have been eating too
much meat.
Uric Acid in meat clogs Kidneys
and irritates the
bladder.
—
Most folks forget that the kidneys,
like the bowels, get sluggish and clog
ged and need a flushing occasionally,
else we have backache and dull mis
ery in the kidney region, severe head
laches. rheumatic twinges, torpid liv
^er. acid stomach, sleeplessness and all
sorts of bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney
region, get about four ounces of Jad
Salts from any g..od drug store here,
take a tablespoonful in a glass of
»'«tir before breakfast for a few
days and your kidneys will then act
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon Juice
combined with lithla. and is harm- ,
less to flush clogged kidneys and stun- ,
uiate them to normal activity. It
also neutralizes the acids .In the urine
so it no longer irritates, thus ending j
bladder disorders.
Jad Salts Is harm!. s»; Inexpensive. 1
makes a delightful effervescent lithla- 1
water drink which ct-rybodv should
take now and then to keep their kio- |
neys clean, thus avoiding serious com- |
Plica! ions.
A well-known local druggist s.-.yt
he sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who
believe in overcoming kidney trouble
while it ip only tumble.
EAT BIG MEALS! NO !
SOUR, ACID STOMACH,
INDIGESTION OR GAS
***»*e*» Dfapepsis** la Qairknt, Sar
wt Sfaaarh Relief
Kaevra—Try It.
Time it! Pape’s Diapepsin will di
gest anything you eat and overcome
a sour, gassy or out-of-order stomach
surely within five minutes.
If your meals don’t fit comfortably
or what you eat lies like a lump of |
lead in your stomach, or if you have |
heartburn, that is a sign of indiges- I
tion.
Get from your pharmacist a fifty- j
cent case of Tape’s Diapepsin and take !
a dose just as soon as you can. There !
will be no sour risings, no belching i
of undigested food mixed with acid, !
no stomach gas or heartburn, fullness I
or heavy feeling in the stomach, nau- 1
sea. delibitating headaches, dizziness |
or intestinal griping. This will all go, j
and besides, there wil be no sour food ;
left over in the stomach to poison j
your breath with nauseous odors. I
Pape’s Diapepsin is a certain cure j
for out-of-order stomachs, because it I
takes hold of your food and digests '
It just the same as if your stomach j
wasn’t there.
Relief in five minutes from all stom
ach misery i8 waiting for you at any
drug store.
These large fifty-cent cames contain !
enough “Pape’s Diapepsin” to keep
the entire family free from stomach
disorders and indigestion for many
months. It belongs in your home.
Passing Throng
--
When the Jackson Highway path
fir tiers enter the city of Montgomery
Friday. October 13. they will ride into
town over a stretch of roadway prob
ably as good, if not better, than any
traveled in Alabama or Mississippi.
Realizing the importance of Mont
gomery doing her share in assisting
the State in procuring a route from
Chicago tOgXew Orleans through Ala
bama. instead of Mississippi, the city
engineer Monday announced that
work would be started Tuesday on
repairng roadway from the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad bridge at Bell
Street, through West Montgomery to
the £ity limits. The roadway to be
repaired is nearly a mile long. The
road, which is graveled, will be torn
up and rebuilt, and will be completed
by the time the pathfinders reach this
city. This is the route over which
they will enter the city.
Arrangements will be made by the
Montgomery Chamber of Commerce to
entertain the motorists. The party
will include R. E. Toms, engineer rep
resenting the Federal government.
Walter H. Crlm of Indiana, Emery
f?. Dent of Kentucky, and W. L.
Brown of Indiana, the official members,
and William Gibbs, special represent
ative of the Motor Age.
Relief tor Coosa Sufferer*.
Coosa is the latest county to meet
the Federal requirements in order to
receive aid as Hood sufferers, accord
ing to H. P. Merrill, junior United
states engineer in charge of the flood
relief work for this district.
Mr. Merrill says that about forty
men will start to work on the dirt
roads of Coosa County Thursday, this
lumber having proved their eligibil
ty as flood sufferers.
Muredevant Inspecting Work.
Capt. C. L. Sturdevant, senior United
Staes engineer, with headquarters at
Montgomery, has gone to Pensacola,
Fla., oil a general inspection trip. Al
though it is understood there is no
special significance to the trip. Cap
tain Sturdevant will look over the
LTOvernment work being done about
Pensacola, which is a portion of his
district.
Dublin School Completed.
County Revenue Commissioner J. L.
Scogin Monday morning ndvised tho
county superintendent of education
that the addition to the school build
ing at Dublin, this county, had been
completed and is ready for inspection.
The work of erecting this addition
was done in record time.
Friday afternoon there will be a
community meeting at Dublin when
there will be present a representative
from the state educational department
and one from Montgomery county. Af
ter inspecting the new part of the
school house there will be a rally and
a campaign of education In connection
with the educational amendment which
is to be voted on at the November elec
tion.
Professor R. E. Ledbetter, of the
state department of education, will be
the principal speaker of the day.
There will be a number of meetings or
this kind throughout various parts of
the county, within the next few weeks
The committee on .speakers for the
campaign held a meeting at the Capi
tol Monday and selected those who
will talk to the people during this
campaign. •
Want .New School Halldlng.
Action may be taken by the city com
missioners at the regular weekly meet
ing Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock look
ing towards the appropriation of a
sum of money to erect a new school
building in north Montgomery.
It is said that the building now in
use is inadequate and should be re
placed with a new structure. There
were some sixty pupils taught In the
old building last season. The house is
claimed to be out of keeping with the
general progress of the city.
Patrons of the school in north Mont
gomery arc desirous that the commis
sioners decide to appropriate a sum
of money for a modern building.
Wurrneit ml Trmmpm.
Loading of the equipment of flic two
batteries of artillery at Vandiver Park
will not he finished as 60on as was ex
pected and tlie batteries will not leave
! Montgomery until 5 p. in. Wednes
day. They will be routed from Mont
gomery to Tuscaloosa over the Mobile
and Ohio. Tuscaloosa to Shreveport,
La., over the Queen and Crescent and
Texas-Pacific and El Paso and Texas
: Pacific. Shreveport to El Paso and
Douglas. Arizona. The headquarters
| staff, signal corps, hospital corps and
second regiment will be routed the
same way when orders are received
for them to leave, the First and Fourth
regiments being routed via the Louis
ville ami Nashville to New Orleans and
Southern Pacific, New Orleans to El
This also will be the routing of the
, Florida troops w hich left Jacksonville
in four trains over the Atlantic Coast
Line a! 1 o'clock Monday afternoon.
They will reach Montgomery sometime
Tuesday morning, the Louisville 'and
Nashville taking them out at once for
New Orleans.
S.jO.OOO DAMAGE IN
BIRMINGHAM FIRE:
SECRECY IS RIGID
HIK.MI.NV,HAM. ALA.. Oct. 2—Fire
wHi<-h threatened to destroy the mil
lh»n dollar plant of the Barrett Com
I'anv. a tar roofing concern at Fair
field. a suburb, late last night ruined
•*!!♦ of the tar development plants. Of
ficials of the company refused to
make any statement, but the damage
is* estimated at approximately $50,(M»0
Kigid seerecy is maintained at t»ie
factory r**sardin>c the fire and armed ,
guard* ar** patrolling the works pro
hibiting visitors from the grounds I
C.tuiit of the fire has not been learned.
n
ur Style
Anno tfncemenls
appeal to Men whose
good dress reputation
is never J
questioned.
Men and Young Who Want the
Best at $20 and $25
Are Taking
Rice's
Rice s Xtra Value” suits arc splendid examples of custom-tailor style in ready-for-serv
ice garments.
You’ll find the young men’s models as they should he, youthful, also a large variety of
the more conservative styles for older men who wish to remain young. *
‘‘Xtra-Value” suits are the utmost in value at the prices—$20 and $25—and they are sold
at the same low prices the year around—with no reductions. .
s
Alex Rice
“Your Money's Worth or Your Money Back”
MOTHER LOVE IS
It Brings Belief To Boy Standing
His Watch Deep In
Mud.
Once upon a time, only a few months
after this terrible world war had be
eun. Private Dailey, a soldier in the
' ranks, had stood for days in the
! trenches “somewhere In France.” The
eoid rains soaked him to the skin:
the mud was deep. He had no rest.
Weary and aching with rheumatic
pains he recalled the faith his mother
had in Sloan's Liniment. H* asked
for it in his next letter home. A
large bottle was immediately sent
him and a few applications killed the
pain, once more he was able to stand
I the severe exposure. He shared this
wonderful muscle-soother with his
comrades, and they all agreed it was
ihe greatest “reinforcement” that had
ever come to their rescue. At your
druggist. 25c.. 50c. and $1.00 a bottle.
4
Sloan's
K/LLS pa in
Paralysis Decreases;
Only Ten New Cases
NEW YORK. Oct. 2—During the 24
hour period ending at 10 a. m. today
there were ten cases of infantile par
alysis reported ami six deaths, a de
crease of 6 cases and an increase of
two deaths over the day before. The
borough of Oueens has not had a new
case or a death in two days.
The epidemic which has prevailed in
New York and vicinity since the early
part of July has now reached such a
low ebb that a discontinuance of travel
inspection from the stale of New York
by the United States public health
service has been recommended bv Dr.
Hanks. United States Public health
surgeon in charge of the situation
here.
STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT CIR
CULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF AUGUST
. 24, 1912.
Of The Montgomery Advertiser, published daily and Sundav at
Montgomery, Ala., for October 1st, 1916.
Editor, W. T. Sheehan. Montgomery, Ala.
Publisher, Chas. II. Allen, Montgomery, Ala.
Business Manager, R. F. Hudson, Montgomery Ala.
Owners:— * ’
Estate of W. W. Screws, Montgomery, Ala.
W. T. Sheehan, Montgomery, Ala.
Chas. II. Alleu, Montgomery, Ala.
Known bondholders, mortgagees, and other, security holders
holding 1 per cent or more,of total amount of bonds. mortgages
■ or other securities:
First National Bank, Montgomery, Ala.
W. C. Oates, Montgomery, Ala.
M. Taylor Pyne, New York City.
Travelers Insurance Co., Hartford. Conn.
Average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold
or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid sub
scribers during the six months preceding the date in rnn
shown above.,. lu,UUU
R. F. HUDSON,
(Signature of Business Manager )
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 2nd day of October
1916. R. c. PHELPS,
(SEAL) Notary Public.
My commission expires August, 1917.
Average Daily, Net Paid
Average Sunday, Net Paid
18,575
20,602
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Spanish Parliament
Would Reconstruct Its
Army, Navy and Roads
i Issoeiated PrrM.)
PARIS, flet. 2.—T|U‘ Spanish budget
laid before the parliament, says a
Havas despatch from Madrid, shows
expenditures estimated at approxi
.mately 1.325,000.000 peset: anrl rev ■
lines estimated at approximately ; .
| 4S5.000.000. peseta*. Extraordlna \
credits of 2.133,000.1)00 pesetas to >e
spread over a period of ten years a -,
asked for the reconstruction of tin
army and navy, for roads, railways and
public instruction.
Canada his 528 waterworks sys
tems * *
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