The Montgomery advertiser. [volume], June 04, 1917, Page TWO, Image 2

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010 LET1EB TELLS
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MIS' SORROW
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Sfeminolcs Wanted Talas
see Man Placed In
Charge of the Braves
Apparently ene of the most pathetic
phaaes In the history of the State of
Alabama waa the forceful removal of
the Indiana from their native homea
to the 'reservations of Indian territory
In 1SSI. An old letter, written at the
request of the Indian chiefs of Ala
bama to Major-General Jessup, then
commanding the campaign against the
Seminole Indians, of Florida, graphi
cally Illustrate* the sorrow of the na
tive* at being driven from the homes
that had been theirs for centuries. A
ton* of sadness Is brought out In the
letter In the request that the Indian
warriors who had volunteered to as
sist the whites In the quelling of
the raids of the Semlnoles be placed
t-nder the command of frlonds who
were acquainted with the customs of
the Red men.
The letter was dated August 27.
1119, only a short while before the re
moval of all Indian tribes In the State
to their new homes. The request prov
ed to be the last one made by the
Indians before their departure. Some
white friends of the Indiana had
written the letter for the Indiana and
It was signed In a huge scrawl, ret re
senting the figure X, the signatures
of the chiefs.
Aak Far (Jerald.
The only request made by the In
diana waa the P. L. Gerald, of Tall
aaee, Ala., an old friend of the Red
Men, who the chiefs believed would
justly treat their sons and friends
whom they were leaving behind, would
be placed In their command.
Besides the fact that ths letter clear
ly shotfrs the loyalty of the Indian
warriors to the white men. even
though they were fighting a same race
of men.
The signing of the letter was made
by the four Indian chiefs of Tall
asee, Hopothle Toholo, Little Doctor,
Tuckabatchee Mlcco. and Mad Blue.
The letter is as follows:
"Tallasee, Ala.. August 27, 1335
"To Major-Genoral Jessup:
“Brother—Our young warriors being
about to embark In the warfare now
raging in Florida, having volunteered
their services on ths part of theta
white friends, we would respectfully
represent that In addition to Ihe of
ficers sent in command of them hy
you we are desirous that there should
be associated a gentleman of our own
Immediate selection, with whom both
of our young warriors and ourselves
have for the most part an Intimate
acquaintance and In whose friendly
care and superintendence we have un
limited confidence. This requeshL Is
made from Its apparent necesslty'ana
not from any discontent or dissatis
faction towards the officers already
appointed (as is understood) to the
principal command, on the part of the
United States and to whom the con
ducting of the expedition Is to be en
trusted. The gentleman we allude to
Is Mr. P. L. Gerald, of this place. The
presence of an old acqutantance who
has also proved a friend will Inspire
our young warriors with a higher
degree of confidence, and better re
concile them to the dangers and fati
gues before them than if left to the
entire guidance of strangers, no mat
ter what degree of kindness or affec
tion they might be disposed to treat
them.
"We are about to be separated from
theTn while they are marching to the
battle field periling their lives In be
half of theta brethren the whites, we
shall be journeying towards the far
west, abandoning our homes and ths
consecrated sepulchres of our fore
fathers. never again to revisit them,
or return. We have not n^any »>ore
reguests to make of tour friends
here it Is natural therefore under the
circumstances that we should feel a
parentlal solicitude for our young men
whom we thus leave behind us. It Is
hoped that our request may be list
ened to and granted. -
“Very respectfully
“Tour friends and brethern.
SlgnSedl “Hopothle (X) Yoholo
“Little (X) Doctor.
“Tuckabatchee (X) Mlcco.
“Mad (X) Blue.
(X)—His mark.
H. W. Russell. George Boyd, Spire
.M. Hagerty.”
NEW HIGH LEVELS IN
PRICES OF COTTON
MADE DURING WEEK
(Associated Press.)
NEW ORLEANS, LA.. June 3—Last
week was one of advancing prices in
the cotton, market, the low prices be
ing made bn Tuesday and the high on
the closing session. New high levels
* for the season were reached on both
spots and futures and In the caee of
the latter the highest quotations on
record were made. July touched 21.97
cents a pound. Middling rose to 21.75.
At the highest the active months in
the contract department were *3 to 87
points over the previous week's close
and the last prices showed a net gain
of 55 to 59 points.
The main feature of the week' was
the first government report of the
season on condition of the new crop,
and the figures, «».5 per cent of the
normal on May 26, not only were
well below ths expectations of the
trade but were the lowest returns
ever made for the date. Following their
Issuance the market bulged strongly,
but was held within bound bd realiz
ing and evening u|* over the week
end and the triple holidays which
followed It. In this market both Mon
day and Tuesday will be holidays
Monday is a legal holiday and the
trade decided to close Tuesday out of
a spirit of patriotism and In order
to. aid draft registration.
With the new week not opening until
Wednesday, there may not be much
awaiting the trade to discount In the
way of weather and crop news or
political events. Should unfavorable
weather conditions prevail during the
holidays the advantage will be with
the long side to marked extent. The
spot situation, will be Important.
New Corn Remover Causes
Big Run On Drug Stores
8lnc« the virtues of Ice-Mint ee s corn
remover became known In this country
druggists heve been hevlnir an extraordl’
nary demand for this product and it is pre
dieted that women will wear smaller and
prettier shoes than ever.
The fact that this new discovery which
Is mads from a Japanese product will
actually remove corns—roots and all—and
without the slightest pain or soreness Is
of course mainly responsible for Its lares
and Increasing sale.
Tou apply a little on a tender, aching
corn and Instantly the sorsneas Is reliev
ed, and soon the corn la so shriveled that
It may be lifted out with the fingers_
root and all. It Is a clean, creamy, snow
white. non-pMsonoua substance and will
never Inflame or Irritate the most ten
der skin. Cutting or paring corns too often
produces blood poisoning and people are
warned to stop It. Just ask In any drug
store for a small Jar of Ice-Mint and you
caa quickly end your corn misery and
make your feet feel cool ami fine. There
la oothing better.
DHUS BUY IMS
MANY 01 ROUTE FI
KTEMrnn
Women of Selma Will
Picket Registration
.Booths on Tuesday
lirtM
Of The Advertiser
Pfceee TT.
The Alabama special with flags fly
ing, pulled out of the Union Station
today promptly at IX o’clock carrying
many representative veterans, malde,
•tonsore and chaperones, bound for
the big reunion at Washington. The
special consisted of six coaches, bag
gage and Pullman cars and was un
der the direct supervision of Maj. D.
M. Scott adjutant general and chief
of staff and General B. F. Ellis who
wll^ command the Alabama division
at the reunion during the absence of
C. W. K'oopec, commanding general.
Among those leaving from Selma
were Dr. T. P. Waitby. Joel C. Bab
cock, Philo B.- Shepherd, E. M. Byrne
Morgan Richards, E. H. York, R. B.
Creagh, H. C. Keeble, Hampton C.
Kennedy, A. P. Hogg, Mr. Wagner,
Miss Ida Byrne. Miss Pauline Welch,
Mias Minnie McKinnon, Mrs. B. H,
Craig, Mr. and Mrs. Adgate Bibb. Miss
Varnon, Mrs. A. J. Stocks. Mrs.' A. f.
Reeves. Archibald Reeves, Mr. and M'rs
Childers, Mrs. Irving Rohenberg, Mrs.
M. M. Meyer, August Rothschild. Mr.
and Mrs. Rosenberg. Mrs. L. M. Hoop
er. Miss Alice Clapp, Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Axford, Miss Terrle Jones Miss
Josepheno Sutton and the Misses Hardy.
There were other contingents from
Demopolle, Unlontown Marlon and
nearby places who motored In to Join
the Selma delegation making some
thing like 160 delegates who took
cassage here.
Registration Day*
All preparations are In shipshape for
Registration Day In Selma and through
out Dallas county. No antl-conscrtp
tlon agitation has cropped out and all
forces are pulling together for tu
creditable showing • The Woman’s
League foe Service working In co
operation with the federation of clubs
will picket the polling boothes of
the city during the day, distributing
the rresident's war message and heart
enlng the boys as they discharge their
military responsibilities.
Under the special privilege granted
by the war department 105 young men
between the prescribed ages reported
to Circuit Clerk T. W. Barker Friday
and Saturday to fill out the cards
which will be accepted as equivalent
to the registration certificates where
the parties expect to be absent from
home June 5. Seventeen of the num
ber were negroes.
L’oaspletlag Audit.
R. E. Troy of Montgomery, special
accountant, who was a[ pointed by
■Governor Henderson to make a thor
ough investigation of the books and
trans actions of the Selma water
works commission says he Is now on
the home stretch of hla labors but
that It will require a few weeks more
to clear .up everything and get ready
his report.
After he shall complete auditing the
records Mr. Troy intends to throw
open the doors to the public, invit
ing any citizen who wants to offer a
criticism or a suggestion, to come in
and make hla statement. He Is anxious
that his work be thorough and satis
factory to all concerned.
Buying The Beads.
Selma banka continue to publish
long lists of subscribers to the Lib
erty Loan Bonds. It is believed the
allotment assigned to the city $150,000
worth of the bonds will be oversub
scribed by June 15.
LIGHTEST DOCKET IN
MANY YEARS TO BE
TAKEN UP MONTHLY
Not a single murder case will be
heard at the approaching term of the
criminal division of the Olreult Court.
This state of affairs manv say is at
tributable to the rigid enforcement of
all of the laws by the city and county
officials. %
Court will begin to grind Monday
with a long list of Jury cases appealed
from the police court, most of them
being for alleged violations of the pro-,
hibitlon law. Later there will be
heard cases involving fighting, assault
and battery, gaming, running disor
derly houses, htrand larceny, embezzle
ment and the like.
The term of court will last until
June 19, but the docket Is lighter than
In previous years.
BLUES AND GRAYS TO
RECRUIT COMPANIES
FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
The Montgomery "True Blues" and
j the Montgomery "Greys." Companies
I "P” and "A." Second Alabama infantry
now guarding railroad bridges over
the Mississippi river at Memphis, this
week will make up the escort Aof honor
for Prince Udine and the ^Italian war
mission, and Tuesday afternoon will
play a big part in the Registration Day
parade which Memphis Ib planning to
make the biggest thing in the history
of the city.
This Information was brought to
Montgomery Sunday night by Lieuten
ant McFarland of the ’Blues,” and
Lieutenant Douglass of the "Greys.”
who will be here (wo or three days
to accept recruits for the two Mont
gomery outfits. The men enlisted for
the two companies, according to Lieu
tenant McFarland, will not be required
to go through a tiresome period In a
training camp. »ut will be Immediately
| shipped to Memphis and placed In the
j ranks of the companies now In active
j service. The two officers will open
! recruiting offices in theirfarmories at
I the city hall.
The life of the Montgomery guards
i men at Memphis has been one of pleas
ure ever since their arrival In the Ten
| neesee city, according to Lieutenant
| McFarland, who says the baseball
| pafks, movies, boat rides and all other
j amusements are free to the Alabamians,
j "The Montgomery troopers have made
a great name for themselves in Mem
I phis," said Lieutenant McFarland, "and
| the people of that town are playing
ideal hosts.”
HILLieSi WVBCBTiBLEI.
<Serial to The Advertiser.)
MOBILE, ALA , June 3.—Vegetables
worth over a million dollars have been
shipped from the Immediate trade ter
ritry of Mobile during the present sea
son which opened little more than a
month ago and which Is now little
more than under way. A little over
five hundred solid carloads, valued at
close to $800,000, have been shipped by
local produce houses.
WEATHER FORECAST
(.Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jun* J—Forecast for
Monday.
Alabama. Mississippi! Fair Moaday,
warmer north portions! Taesday prob
ably fair.
South Carolina. Georgia. Florida:
Probably fair Monday and Tuesday;
moderate temperature.
Tennessee. Kentucky. West Virginia
Fair and warmei* Monday, Tuesday
t robably fair.
Passing Throng
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■mtimnlni I* Biftcrin.
"So many Montgomery young men
nr* working In Barberton, O., that if
one wajka down the etreet It will ap
pear that It la Montgomery and not an
Ohio city, so many familiar faces are
seen,” says a letter from Private Mc
Daniel, former member of the Signal
Corps, now In the Ohio city.
Many of the other towns In Ohio,
he said, now claim Montgomertans as
residents. The rubber plants are em
ploying most of the men, It is stated.
To Advertise Liberty Bends,
“The sale of liberty Bonds in this
section must be made a successful un
dertaking.” said R. B. Wllby, presi
dent of the Strand Amusement Com
pany, “for the capital city of Alabama
can not afford to lag behind In the na
tion-wide movement. The loyalty of a
peoples Is ehown In the manner In
which they support their government,
financially as well as In the ranks of
the fighting men. Montgomery has the
proud reputation of providing more
men with the colors per population than
any city In the United States. Let us
win and deserve the same record In the '
purchase of Liberty Bonds.
"Our'company has done and Is doing
everything possible to assist In this
work. On the screen in each of our
photo-play houses we have been ad
vertising the sale of these bonds and
urging our people to buy. On Tuesday
we will devote the bill boards used by
us on all the street cars of the city
for the purpose of boosting the sale of
these bonds. Our attaches, with few
exceptions, are under age for accept
ance In the fighting branches of the
government, hence we are adopting the
only method left open to us at present
to ‘do our bit' in this time of national
crisis."
T» Ask Women to Aid.
“Patriotic women all over the United
8tates have volunteered to asatst In the
Buy-a-Liberty-Bond campaign, and
they are doing aome wonderfully effec
tive work along those llnea,” said Sid
ney Levy, who Is a member of the
Chamber of Commerce committee to
promote the sale of these bonds.
"When our committee meets at the
Chamber of Commerce Tuesday morn
ing at 10 o’clock, we propose to form
ulate plans for obtaining the assistance
of the patriotic women of Montgomery
towards popularising the bond Issue
sale In this part of the state.
"To my mind, there Is no more im
portant work before the citizens of this
country today than that of seeing that
the Liberty Bonds are not only sold,
but that they are distributed generally
among the people. If they are bought
up by the larger monied interests there
will be a corresponding reduction In
the amount of revenue derived by the
government from the war revenue
measure pending In congress. These
bonds are not only a good Investment,
but their purchase by the citizens of
this country Is a patriotic duty.”
Big Day In Birmingham.
Joseph B. Babb, secretary of the
Birmingham Civic Association, was In
Montgomery Sunday evening, returning
to the big city from the coast. Mr.
Babb says that the civic association
lias effected an alliance, offensive and
defensive, with the reorganized Birm
ingham Newspaper Club, and that the
two organizations working together
expect to make the tall timbers pop for
Birmingham and that section.
"Tuesday will be a big day In Birm
ingham,” said Mr. Babb. “The Civic
Association Is erecting In Capitol Park
a flag pole that Is 1(4 feet In helghth,
and from It will fly an American flag
26 by (2 feet, the largest of Its kind
ever flown to the Alabama breeze. Gen
eral Leonard Wood will be one of the
speakers at the flag raising on Regis
tration Day, and Birmingham will turn
out en masse for the occasion."
STILL TIME TO PLANT
THESE VEGETABLES
IN ALABAMA
Sweet potatoes, beets, squash, okra,
pepper, eggplant, and cucumbers still
may be planted In the zone between
Mobile and Birmingham.
These vegetables may be grown In
ground occupied by early maturing
crops such as peas, kale, early cabbage,
and radishes. There is ample time for
sweet potatoes to mature, and there
Is no tetter way to add to the winter
food stock of the family than by grow
ing this root crop. Late cabbage Is an
other profitable crop to grow for win
ter use. Beets, squash, and cucumbers
may be planted now wtttfegood chances
of success.
There Is, of course, some variation
within the region for which this ad
vice is given.
Keep Oa Caltlvatlag
Now la the time for every gardener
to cultivate his garden thoroughly. If
weeds have been allowed to start they
should be destroyed at once as they
are robbing the plants of needed mois
ture. Work the ground until a fine
soil mulch Is formed. Nothing will
save moisture for the use of the crops
like a soil mulch. Very few weeds wjlll
come up from this time on if they are
thoroughly cleaned out now.
Cultural Helps
The following cultural suggestions
are made for the crops which may yet
be planted with fair chances of success
throughout most of Alabama:
Sweet potatoea It is desirable to
have a row or two of sweet potatoes
In the home garden. Set the plants In
ridges 3 to 4 feet apart. Space the
plants 14 to 18 Inches apart. About
seventy-f.ve plants will be required
for a hundred-foot row .
Beets may be planted at any time
from now on. The young, tender beets
make fine greens and every gardener
should make an Immediate planting
so there will be an ample supply. Sow
in rows 16 to 18 tnehes apart for hand
cultivation or 2 to 2 1-2 feet apart
for horse cultivation. The plants
should be thinned to 4 to 6 Inches
apart In the rows.
Squash—The bush varieties should
be planted In hills four feet apart each
way. and the running varieties 8 to
la feet apart each way. One-half ounce
of seed Is sufficient for a hundrei
foot row of either the bush or running
varieties.
Cucumber. (For home use only)_
Sow the seed In rows 4 to 5 feet apart.
The plants should be about 15 Inches
apart, but the seed Should be sowed
much thicker, the plants being thinned
later. A half ounce of seed Is sufficient
for a hundred-foot row.
Eggplants—Set the plants 18 to 24
Inches apart in rows 2 1-2 to 3 feet
apart. A dozen good healthy plants
supply enough fruit for the average
sized family.
Peppers—Set the plants 15 to 18
inches apart In rows 1 1-2 to 3 feet
apart. A dozen plants should be suf
ficient. •
Okra—The rows should be three to
four feet apart for the dwarf varieties
and four to five feet apart for the tall
kinds. Sow the seed a few nches apart
and thn the plants to 18 nches to two
feet apart. Seven ounces of seed is
sufficient for a hundred-foot row
WKKKI.Y WHITHER SUMMARY FOB
WF.KK F.MUYC Jl'\E 8, 1#1T.
Highest temperature for the
week.93 'legreea
lowest temperature for the
week. 01 degreea
Average temperature for the
week.73 degrees
Excess In temperature since
Jnn. 1, 1917.77 degrees
Total precipitation for the
week. 0.44 Inches
Total precipitation since Jan
„ 1- >»'7.. 17 95 Inches
Excess In precipitation since
Jan. 1. 1917. 1.8! inches
P IT. SMYTIf.
Meteorologist.
“There’s A Light
Shining Bright”
Happy .it is for our land and for our people
that conditions are right for even greater prosperity
than we have heretofore experienced. How fool
ish, then, at this time, when human needs of all
descriptions are overwhelming our factories, and
the demand for labor is greater than the supply—
the pay rolls greater than in the history of the
country,, to put the brakes on prosperity.
General Pessimism
will bring about panics and business depressions without any
basic reason. Pessimism is a most dangerous and contagious
disease; prosperity and common sense are the antidote.
A Word To The Merchant *
To stop advertising means admission of a depression. Are
you making this admission? Advertising and values are the
mainsprings of business. You have the latter,. use the former.
The sick man needs the tonic, not the well one.
The Demand Is Normal—Prosperity Is Greater.
Get After The Business.
ADVERTISE.
Make
Business Better Than Usual
The Montgomery Advertiser
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Advertising Department. Phone 3695