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HATTIESBURG. MISSISSIPPI. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON MAY 27. 1908
VOL II. NO 8
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ELECT NEW OFFICERS
Out of Registration of 140 Only
Two Failed to Express Their
Preferences.
CAMP CROSEN MAYOR
. BY LARGE MAJORITY
Truckers' Association and Business
League Will Be Organized—Citizens
Have Decided to Begin Boosting
the Town.
Lumberton, Miss., May 27.—The mu
nicipal election was held here yester
day. There were 140 registered vot
ers, in the town, and 138 of them vot
ed in the present election. The larg
est number of votes cast for any one
candidate was polled for Mr. S. E.
Slade for city marshal, who received
96 votes, a majority over Mr. C. M.
Kelly, his only opponent, of 64 votes.
Mr. D. C. Camp received the next
highest vote, over his opponent, Mr.
J. R. Mason. Mr. Camp received 86 ,
a majority of 32 over his opponent.
The entire ticket as elected in yes
terday's contest follows:
Mayor—David C. Camp, 86.
Marshal—S. E. Slade, 96.
Treasurer—Dr. W. W. Hall, 76.
Clerk—J. E. Bufkin, 68.
Aldermen—A. S. Hinton, 9; J. A. Hall,
78; H. M. Freeman, 74; W. P.
Haynes, 70.
Enthusiastic workers were busy all
day, but no friction was generated and
the day passed off quietly. Elected
and defeated candidates shook hands
and It Is believed that these aspiring
men who have fought a good fight but
at a losing game, wlli be the bo3j
supporters of those who are success
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A move Is now on fool to organize
a Farmers' and Trucaers' Association
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and a Business l eaguo. Nothing more J
profitable can be done for 'fie town |
than to adyerti e the possibilities of,
the soli and tTe business possibili- j
ties of the town. Mr. T. L. Venable, j
one of the ablest and most, enllnis
iastic business men of this section, is
behind the movement, and that it will
succeed, there is no doubt.
Miss Corine Venable, one of Lure
berton's most charming young ladles
has just returned from Brunau College.
The government has appointed a
crop correspondent for this, Lamar
County. This is a helpful move for
the farmers.
ONE KILLED
TWO INJURED
IN BIG HRE
Hearst News Service.
Chicago, May 27.—One man was fa
tally Injured, two others Seriously,
and many families made homeless by
a fire which destroyed the big plant
of the Standard Sash and Door Com
pany this morning. A number of
homes In the vicinity of the mill were
also burned. The total loss is esti
mated at $125,000.
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SWEPT mi IN CLOUDBURST
Hearst News Service.
Cumberland, Md., May 27.—A flood
from a cloudburst overwhelmed Mrs.
* Reyes Redstock, aged 28,'near Dub
lin, Va., today. She was in the yard
feeding chickens when the cloudburst
occurred ^ In the ravine above the
bouse. A wall of water eight leet
Bay Street Presbyterian Church
Will Be Used for Sunday
School.
BUILDING HANDSOME
AND COST $25000
Only a Few Finishing Touches Needed.
Paetor Being Abaent Only Sunday
School Will Be Had Next Sunday.
Things Nicely Arranged.
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The elegant Bay street church bulld
lng is almost completed.
There are some few finishing
touches to be put on the building yet
but services will be held in the new
church for the first ttme next Sunday.
Owing to the absence of the pastor,
Rev. R. L. Campbell, w^o is gttejidlng
the meeting of the general assembly
there will be no services Sunday ex
cept Sunday school at the regular hour
and the Sunday school will be held in
the new church building.
The new Bay street church is one
o' the neatest and prettiest church
edifices in the state, costing the neat
sum of $25,000. It is situated on Bay
street at the corner of Laurel and is
one of the prettiest locations In the
city for a church. The new church
ic built of concrete blocks and pre
sents a magnificent outside appear
j ance. it has three entrances, two on
J nay street and one on Laurel avenue,
| m beautiful style of architecture
an( ] wa3 designed especially for the
j congregation by Architect Vfunt,
j chattanooga ( Tbnn. The contractor is
j_ ^ Frazier, of this city, and the
building committee is composed as foi
lews: George Komp, R. J. Haqensteiu,
A. D. Draughn, Arthur Carr annd W.
E. Griffin.
The building committee, aided by
other members of the congregation,
have stood nobly together in securing
the means for the building of this,
modern and handsome bouse of wor
ship.
If the building is handsome from
the butslde, and it unquestionably is,
the interior is far more so. In fact
the interior is the essentially hand
some and comfortable feature of the
magnificent building. The large audi
torium has plenty of ventilation for
the summer and the windows have
all been placed throughout the build
ing, except the large ones on the sides
and they are expected to arrive before
a great while. In the main audito
rium there is a place arranged for
the choir and directly 1 n front of the
congregation is where the pulpit will
be placed, so that the Sunday school
room can be added when occasion re
quires. The Sunday school room, is,
perhaps, the best arranged place of the
kind in the city. Besides, the ^ mam
Sunday school room, there is a large
room for the Infant class and four or
five other rooms for the different Sun
day school classes. Besides this there
are other rooms, among them being
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hlghg passed through the yard. The
woman's dead body was found several
hundred yarde below the house, where
It had lodged In the brush of a fatlep
tree.
Floods are reported throughout this
section ond serious damage has been
done to property and live stock.
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SENATOR THOMAS C. PLATT AND THE WOMAN WHO SUED HIM IN ODD DIVOICE CASE
Mae O. Wood, lawyer, newspaper writer and school tea cbe^i bused her snlt for divorce from Thomas- O. Plate New
York's aged senator, on a secret marriuge ceremony whicb. sbe says: was held iu New York In 1901 and bis subse
quent marriage to Mrs. Lillian Janeway The many endearing letters wbicb the woman produced in court us baring
bhtn written to ber by *he senator threw an interesting side 'igbt on the senator's private life. The plaintiff aukl
she was forced by Abraham Hummel:the notorious divorce lawyer who afterward served a term Id prison, to sign
a release oi ail claims against Senator PlntL For this she said she received $7 500, but she folia she was sufficiently
versed In law to know that a document signed under duress would not stand In court
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❖ Jackson, Miss., May 27.—Ex- ❖ |
❖ Governor James K. Vardaman has ❖
❖ returned from Castllllan Springs, 4 1
❖ where he has been for several ❖
4- days in the interest of his health, <4
♦ having been indisposed for the 4
4> past few weeks with malaria. He >4
♦ is looking much better than when <•
♦ he left the .city, and has donned 4
<4 his white duck suit tor the sum- 4
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the pastor's study, the gentleman's
cloak room and the ladles' parlor. The
latter is probably the prettiest room
In the building and when fitted np It
will be an elegant place for the ladies
to hold their different meetings.
The entire Interior, while not gaudy,
is pretty and arranged for the com
fort and convenience of those who wor
ship in the structure. _
An etftirely .new set of pews ara be
ing plaoed in position today and the
building will easily seat 600 people
and more can be comfortably seated
when it is necessary. The grounds are
being cleared off today add it is the
intention of the congregation to beau
tify the front as rapidly as time will
permit.
The congregstion has been worship
ping in the Newman Chapel up to this
time. About two years ago the
church was organised with a member
ship of about forty, and although they
have been compelled to use a house
not suited to their needs, the member
ship has .grown until it now is approx
imately 100. This is a fine showing.
In this Important work of church
building the ladies have been an im
portant factor, as they are In all good
movements.
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Hearst News Service.
Colbert, Okla., May 27.—Fourteen
persons on an Island formed between
the new and old channels of Red
| river were swept away in the rising
floods this morning and all of them dre
1 believed to be dead.
Three children of J. H. Roberts, the
ferryman at Lawton, were swept from
the branches of a tree in which they
had taken refuge and drowned.
. Will and Newton Stidman were
drowned near Henrietta while trying
to cross a swollen stream.
In the same vicinity two men
started across the river in a skiff, but
failed to stem the current and ware
carried down stream,
probable that they have escaped death.
All of the rivers and streams in this
section are still rising. It rained very
little during the early morning, but the
weather is threatening this afternoon.
It is hardly
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Hearst News Service.
❖ Philadelphia, May 27—Rear *
❖ Admiral Crowinshield died at the ❖
❖ Episcopal hospital here early <•
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CARRIE NATION
GETS DISORDERLY
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Hearst News Service.
Pittsburg. Pa., May 27.—Mrs. Car
rie .Nation, of Kansas, was arrested
here last night for disorderly conduct
ia a saloon. She roasted the bartend
ers and said saucy things to the officer
who placed her under arrest,
raigned-in police court this morning
she promptly liquidated a fine of $30.
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ACCUSED WIFE
OF GRAVE CRIME
Hearst News Service.
Mobile, Ala,, May 27.—Because he
tried to lay the blame for conducting
an illicit dletlUery on his wife, Frank
Capps was today sentenced to one year
Imprisonment and given a reprimand
for ungallantry.
Remol-se lasts only as long as it
takes the degire for pleasure to get
brave enough to risk another head
ache.
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GULFPORT
AFTER OIL
New Orleans Captalists Will Sink
Shaft in Suburbs of the
Coast City.
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CRUDE PETROLEUM IS
ALREADY DISCOVERED
First Effort in Some Time, but a
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Good Deal of Money Has Been
Spent on Such Projects Without Suc
cess.
There are indications that the oil
craze is to be revived in this section,
and that several companies are to be
formed for that purpose In this and
adjoining states, particularly Louis
iana. .
The first of these companies to be
formed with any definite plans was
that just organized In New Orleans by
New Orleans and Gulfport capitalists
to bore for oil in the suburbs of Gulf
port, where samples of oil taken from
the ground is said to have been pro
nounced genuine crude petroleum by
a New Orleans chemist to whom it was
submitted .before the formation of
the company.
The concern is capitalized at $50,000
and is officered by man from both New
Orleans and Gulfport.
This is the first organization of the
kind to be formed in Mississippi for
two
were several of them being organized
during the period following the Beau
mont, Tex., find and up to two or
three years ago, a good deal of money
having been spent in Mississippi bor
ing for oil that never came.
In fact, a good deal of Hattiesburg
money has gone down into the ground
in the same way, and while it has
been rather hard on the trusting in
vestors, it has served perhaps to keep
many others away from those holes
in the ground.
But while Mississippi has so far
failed to develop oil in paying quanti
ties, it is also pointed out that other
states failed repeatedly and continu
ously up to the time they succeeded,
and former failures should not, per
haps, operate to the discouragement
of those who now have renewed
Jiopes of finding fortunes in oil.
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The chief trouble genius has U In
making the ordinary mortis turn in
and support it. /
three years, although there
KILLS 4
Hearst News Service.
Wichita, Kan., May 27—Peter Rudy,
his wife and two children were killed
in a tornado which passed two miles
east of Alva, Oklahoma, at midnight
last night. Several other citizens of
the same community were seriously
injured and a number of houses were
wrecked or damaged.
WANTED TO WED
FIFTH HUSBAND
BEFORE FUNERAL
Baltimore, May 27.—The fifth wed
ding of the widow of John Ludwig
to Ernest Jancke was to have taken
place today preceding the funeral of
her fourth husband, but friends inter
vened and pursuaded her to postpone
the nuptials until tomorrow.
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PROPERTY
Is Turned Over to the Local Red
Cross Organization For
Future Use.
NURSES AND CORPS
PREPARING TO LEAVE
It Is Believed That the Situation la
So Well in Hand That the Nurses
and Hospital Corps Can Leave for
Other Points.
The local Red Cross is making fine
headway,
Yesterday afternoon a meeting of
the organization was held in the Com
mercial Club rooms and it was well
attended and about fifteen new mem
bers were added to its membership
list.
The following officers were present:
F. F. Phillips, president.
V. M. Scanlan, vice president.
Mrs. Longre, vice president.
R. L. Bennett, secretary and treas
urer.
It is stated that all the property of
the Red Cross that is now in this city,
nd amounting approximately to $4,000,
Is to be turned over to the local Red
Cross which is the first to be organ
ized in Mississippi. This property con
sists of tents, beds and other valuable
and useful things that are needed in
times of awful distress and calamity.
The work of the Red Cross people
who came to this distressed district >
is rapidly drawingg to a close and
probably by the first of June they will
all be gone. The same thing can be
said of the hospital corps. Some have
already left and the condition of things
has so much improved that there will
not be either a Red Cross or hospital
nurses left in the city in a few days.
The patients left in the city have all
improved so rapidly that it Is only a
question of a very short time when
they will all be well, with possibly one v
or two exceptions, whose cases may
require more extended attention.
The relief fund that has been sent
to the city of Hattiesburg will be in
charge of Messrs. R. L. Iiennett and
V. M. Scanlan. Mr. Scanlan and a* \
H. C. Yawn, of Lumberton, will have
to perform the task of placing the re
lief funds wherever they may be most V
needed, making their recommenda
tions to the sub committee at this
place and at Purvis and of course
their recommendations will receive the
approval of all having charge of the
funds as they are both gentlemen of
good judgment and discretion.
With the leaving of the Red Cross
nurses and the hospital corps, if any
thing arises that requires attention
in the way of further nursing, the local
Red Cross will see that whatever is
needed is done.
The relief work that has been done
by the Red Cross nurses and the hos
pital corps has been a God send to this
section and the splendid service* ren
dered can never be forgotten.
Now, however, that the local Red
Cross is to be so well equipped, it ig
hoped that the membership will rapid
ly increase. It only costs $1 a year
to be a member and there is no telling
what good will be accomplished.
The members thus far enrolled are
as follows;
Maj. Wendell L. Simpson, U. S.
army, F. F. Phillips, V. M. Scanlan.
Mrs. S. E. Longre, R. L. Bennett, F. W.
Foote, M. J. Epley, Wm. Griffin, T. S.
Jackson, John B. Burkett, T. O. Wat
kins, Mrs. T. O. Watkins, Mrs. A. U.
Montgomery, Mrs. S. C. Eaton, Mrs.
Chas. Rich, Mrs. J. A. Bishop, Mr*. 1>.
B. Holmes, Mrs. J. S. Albritton, C. P.
J arson, J H. Mitchell, P. E Phillips.
Mrs. W, J. York. Mrs. W. H Rsmsey.
Mrs. L. H. Dillard, Miss Louise Dil
lard, Mrs. Archie Fairley, R. T. Staple
ton, C. P, Jones, J. D. Sanford. Mrs.
Hugh Graham, Miaa Ida Cowart Miss
Zells Throckmorton, Herman Katz.
Dr. T. E. Ross.
The membership fee of $1 per ysar
Is Vow enough to induoe a very large
membership. Those interested iu the
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