DAILY NEWS
Published Every Afternoon.
(Except Sunday.)
Office, 112 Front Street.
M. J. EPLEY.
EDGAR G. HARRIS
T R GORDON .
A. B. HOBBS.
.. .Manager
.Editor
Advertising
.Circulation
Telephones:
Home, 30.
Cumberland, 904
HEARST TELEGRAPH AND CA
BLE SERVICE received daily, the ex- 1
elusive franchise for which is owned
by th? Daily News.
Entered as second-class matter on
May 22, 1907, at the postoffice at Hat
tiesburg, Miss., under the Act of Con
gress of March 2, 1879.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEW
COUNTY OF FORREST.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER, 14, 1908,
DEMOCRATIC TICKET
For President
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN
of Nebraska.
For Vice President
JOHN WORTH KERN
of Indiana.
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For Mayor—Dr. J. D. Donald.
For Marshal—J. F. Williams.
For Police Justice—J. K. Davis.
For Treasurer—John Williams.
For City Clerk—A. Fairley.
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For Street Commissioner-Owen Reedy |
ALDERMEN.
City-at-Large—M. J. McGrath.
Ward 1 —E. L. McGowan and Dr. E. J.
Mitchell.
Ward 2—R. A. Cameron and H. C.
Greer.
W T ard 3—A. T. Powe and C. F. Lassiter.
Ward 4—R. C. McKinzie and X. R. Me
Cullough.
The Newman Mill .
Hattiesburg's greatest industry, the
mammoth mill of the J. J. Newman
lumber Company, destroyed by fire
early last spring, will be rebuilt.
All question of doubt as to the in
tentions of the company in this re
gard were dispelled by the publication
In these columns Saturday of the fact
that bids will be opened tomorrow for
- ems |
The rebuilding of the Newman mill!
will give steady employment to approx
lmately 1,000 men, who will spend
their money with tile merchants and
the construction of the plant, and that
the work will be pushed to completion |
without unnecessary delay
equally certain.
business men of Hattiesburg.
It will probably be several months;
before the new plant is fn full opera-!
tlon, but a large force will be em-1
ployed In the work of construction and j
the business Interests of the city will
doubtless experience immediate ini-1
provement.
The true Hattiesburg spirit was nev -1
er more manifest than in tin matter of i
securing the rebuilding of the New- M
man plant.
When the company demanded ex
municipal
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taxation. I
there was no disposition to argue the |
point. On the contrary, a mass meet-| V
ing of citizens was immediately asseni- L'
bled and a resolution was unanimously j
passed asking the city council to pass j
the necessary ordinances and to give
to every worthy industry seeking to
enter the gates of the city immunity
from local taxation for a period of ten
years.
When the Newman people decided
that they needed a larger site on
which to locate the new plant, and
that Hattiesburg should donate the
additional ground, patriotic citizens
immediately set to work to secure the
money with which to make the pur
chase, and the .promptness with which
the people responded to this appeal is
an eloquent tribute to the enterprise
and progressiveness of the men who
, have bullded here in a few years Mis
sissippi's most marrelousvcity.
The new plant of the J. J. Newman
Lumber Company will not be a tem
porary affair. On the contrary It is
to be of tfie best and most durable con
struction fireproof throughout, and
equipped with the latest and best ma
chinery which money can buy. And it
will be the largest and best lumber
manufacturing plant in the south with |
the possible exception of the plant of j
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the Southern Lumber Company at Bog- j
alusa, La. |
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Up to the City Attorney.
The Hattiesburg city council ordered
the Cumberland Telephone Company
to reduce its rate on residence tele
phones to $1.50 a month and to refund
to the people of Hattiesburg the
money which it has already collected
in excess of its franchise agreement.
The city clerk was authorized to notify
the company to this effect and to re
quest that the order be complied with
within a period of three weeks, and in
•be event of its failure to do so the
city attorney was requested to pro
ceed to compel compliance by action in
the courts of law.
Information comes to the News that
the local manager of the Cumberland
Telephone Company is not only ignor- J
ing the order of the council, but that j
he is serving notice on patrons who j
{have been paying $1.50 a month that
they will be charged $2.00 after Oeto
ber 1 .
A number of patrons have informed
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the News that they will not submit to
the raise. Some of them are ordering
their telephones taken out, while oth
ers are tendering the company pay at
the $1.50 rate, declaring that they will
sue for damages in the event their
'phones are taken out.
This latter
course seems to be the more sensible
under the circumstances and the News
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trusts that it will he generally fol
lowed.
In this connection, it appears to the
Xewg that lt |s now up to the c|ty
iforney to proceed against the Cumber
land Telephone Company as directed
by the council. There is no doubting
the fact that it has violated its fran
Berve ,0 b, ' ln S the corporation to its
chise and ouster proceedings instituted
before the district attorney might
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Farmers' Union Warehouse.
In another column of today's paper
appears the charter of iileorporation of
the Farmers' Union Warehouse, of
Hattiesburg, the first institution of its
kind ever located in this city.
The new building will be devoted
exclusively to the storage of the
South's chief agricultural product—
cotton. Hattiesburg has never figured
much as a cotton market, for the sim
very little of the sta
j,i e has heretofore been produced in
jtfie territory immediately tributary
to the city. But Hattiesburg buyers
have managed to get together from
20,00} to 30,000 bales a season and '
[this 1ms shown a steady increase from
it
to
pie reason that
the
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year to year.
Experiments have demdnstrated that
cut-over lands in this immediate sec- i
Hon will produce from one-balf to a
bale of cotton to the acre
erly fertilized and cultivated,
Quires, considerable fertilization,
course, but 1 he land is easily culti -1
vhen prop
It re
of ,
vatef l a,, d a
tw * ce as nian >' acres as
ian dled
more fertile
man and a mule can work t
could be j
ith the same help in the
•gions of the state, where !
the soil is heavy and the seasons late. '
The cotton acreage in the Hatties
bur K district will increase from yegr to
V " ar an< i Hattiesburg will consequent-,
L' become more of an agricultural een
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The building of a cotton warehouse
should be supplemented with a com-1
fortable camp house and convenient
hitching racks for the accommodation I
of country patrons and the merchants)
and business men of Hattiesburg j
should take early steps to provide
these accessories.
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Where Credit is Due.
No newspaper ever pleased every
body, and no newspaper worth the ]
name ever seriously entertained the
idea that it could do so. In fact, there
are few editors who are ever really
satisfied with their own efforts.
The above paragraph is going the
rounds of the state press credited to i
the Yazoo Sentinel, that excellent
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weekly (jver which Frank R. Birdsall
so gracefully presides. The fact that j
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the paragraph first appeared in
Hattiesburg News, however, suggests I*
that some of the state papers are a lit
tle careless in giving credit where I
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credit is due. All of the good things .y
do not necessarily come from the Ya- •>
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Forgetting the fateful comparison-re- ^
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j cent] y drawn between Mr. Bryan and <
| Moses, the Houston Post is moved to
I rhapsodize thus:
sun-kissed.
"On this beautiful
dew-spangled,
zephyr
swept Sabath morning, when the good
Lord and all His radiant angels are
w-ith us in heavenly Houston—the City
of Anthems—it is a sweetly solemn
thought that, after wandering in the
wilderness for years, the serene and
saintly Democrats may now trudge up
the purple slopes of Pizgah and view |
the Promised Land, where ripening
postoffices, juicy collectorships, se
baceous consulships and other glorious
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fruits await ,he coming invasion."
in
oil
refused to elect Governor Cummins to
lette Republican. But Cummins will j
submit his cause to the people and the |
Editor A. W. Noble is advertising
the Laurel Chronicle for sale.
Chronicle is the only newspaper in
the thriving city of Laurel and is one
of the best properties in this section
of the state.
The
Mr. Noble was recently
elected to the office of mayor of his
town and wants to devote bis entire at
tention to the duties of the place.
The Republican legislature of Iowa
the U. S. Senate because that gentle
man is so much of a Democrat that he
has been characterized as a La Fol
chances are that he will be nominated !
bv an overwhelming majority.
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tent ion to the fact that Mississippi is {
the first prohibition stale to be in
vaded by night riders. Ilut the Ten
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The Nashville Tennessean calls at
nessean will please remember that '
whitecaps have given us the devil in J
days gone by, and there's not enough j
difference between night riders and *
whitecaps to fuss about.
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The Poplarville Free Press has en-1 •>
tered upon its nineteenth year and ! *
Editor J. R, Oliphant tells us that it is | *
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lory. The Free Press ranks among the . *
leading weeklies of the state and well ( <•
deserves the splendid patronage which
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enjoying the best business in its his
Ex-Senator Sullivan says that he led
caI >ie to his death at the hands of par
Goa unknown.'' Is it possible that
it receives at the hands of the good
people of Poplarville.
During the first three months of the
present year Japan is said to have
purchased $18,000,000 worth of Amer
ican cotton, which is another reason
why the people of this country can't
afford to allow Congressman Hobson
to pull off a war with that country.
by
the Oxford mob, but the coroner's jury
gravely remarked that
"the
negro
' Peruna Bill" is a prophet without
honor in his own ball wick?
William Randolph Hearst's claim I
that Bryan tried to trade polities with
him sounds a little too much like a !
fish story to those who credit Mr.
Bryan with enough sense to get in |
out of the.rain.
Tlie Houston Chronicle says the >
ails." Down here in South i
Mississippi it blows gently through the
tall pines, whispering gently the
thems of returning prosperity.
"wind
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Hattiesburg will not Btand for near*
beer, and for the reason that Hatties
The Natchez Democrat says that
burgans want the genuine article or |
none. Correct,
Hattiesburgans have learned to rely
implicitly in what they see in the col
umns af the Hattiesburg News.
An effort will be made to get Wright
and his aeroplane for the Mississippi
State Fair.
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The Newman mill contract will be
awarded tomorrow,
siong.
Pass the word
It is Happy Hattiesburg now with
a vengeance.
People are looking every day for a
good boarding house. If you want
boarders say so in a little want ad in
the Dally Newg . The COBt lg but one
j cent a word.
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The Hattiesburg Daily News ♦
.y has secured larger and more com- *>
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TO MAKE OIL
Mr. McCoy Also Proposes to Have
Huge Crude Oil Tank Erect
ed Shortly.
To establish a plant in Hattiesburg
for the manufacture of crude oil burn
ers and to erect here a big tank to hold
thousands of gallons of crude oil, is
the ultimate purpose of Mr. J. H. Mc
Coy, who is now in the city.
Mr. McCoy has established a plant
in Natchez similar to the one he pro
poses to establish here, and he is hav
ing one put in at New Orleans that
will be the largest In the South.
Mr. McCoy is introducing the crude
oil burners on cooking stoves and
ranges in Hattiesburg and is making
daliy demonstrations in the building
formerly occupied by the Robinson
store on Main street.
When he has introduced the burners
here a tank containing several thou
sand gallons of crude oil will be put
here t0 su PP ] y the demand, and the
burners will be made in a factory es
tablished here.
The advantages of
crude oil as a fuel are claimed to be
economy, cleanliness and safety. The
rangp on whlch the demonstrations aye
being made was supplied by the Haw
Wns Hardware Company, and the
burners can be used on any stove hav
ing a fire box.
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MR. MERCHANT.
Spend thousands a year on rent ❖
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and electric light and experienced ❖
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* niggardly hundred or two on ad- •>
* telling the people ❖
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<• store that spends $ 3,000 a year <♦
on rent, decorations and electric ❖
❖ lights, ought at the very lowest <•
❖ estimate spent $ 2,000 a year on <•
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Six good solicitors, ladies or gentle
men, can earn big money working for
the Hattiesburg News. Most attrac
tive premium proposition ever offered
by a Mississippi newspaper. Call for
the circulation manager at the Daily
News Office.
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Don't Pass By
without stepping
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look at the beau
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laundry
work we are do
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know the clean -1
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prevailing a 11
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LAUNDRY
Why not have us
send for your
Laundry the
next time? You!
cannot find a I
worthier place;
or one giving
better service
than ours.
Wish
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PHOENIX LAUNDRY
— Try Our —
CLEANING AND PRESSING DEPT.
200-206 Main street.
Plicncs 36.
If It Is
FURNITURE
You want to buy and
save money, call at our
store, 128 Front Street.
M. S. Haisjleld.
.FINE SHOWING OF BANK;
SAME OFFICERS ELECTED
An important and interesting meet
ing of the stockholders of the Citi
zens Bank was held Saturday after
noon for the purpose of electing offi
cers and a board of directors, and to
attend to such other matters as should
come up for consideration.
The following officers were elected:
President—John A.' MeLeod.
Vlce President—Dr. C. W. Bufkln.
Cashier J. C. Ballard.
Assistant Cashier—G. M. McWil
liams.
Directors—John A. McLeod, Dr. C.
W. Bufkin. J. R. Talley, H. E. Welch,
N. B. Blount, Dr. J. D. Donald, T. S.
Jackson, F H. Powe, Dr. L. H. Howard,
W. H. Magee, James Hand, W. E. Her
ren, P. M. Ikeler, F. F. Phillips and J.
C. Ballard.
The meeting was one of the best at
tended and most enthusiastic ever
held within the history of the bank.
The cashier presented a statement I
Romance of
Tablespoon
and Ds Moral.
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They're going to be married very eoon
And that ia why they need a table- l
epcon,
But when they're wedded they wiU
need a set,
And many other things they'll have to j
get.
They'll buy their epoone and likewise j
forks and knives
From etorea that ADVERTISE to
please young wives.
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BRYAN CAMPAIGN FUND.
The Dally News acknowledges the
following contributions to the Mryan I
and Kern campaign fund. Every good I
Democrat should contribute at least
$1.00 to the Democratic cause:
E. A. Sanford .
R. E. Rawls .
Dr. J. D. Donald,.
J. E. Arledge .
James W. Howell ....
Edgar G. Harris .
T. N. Clark .
A. B. Hobbs .
R. P. McLeod .
R. L. Bennett .
W. H. Gilliam .
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business and
PROFESSIONAL
MEN'S
READ! THINK! ACT!
Proteet your wages against loss of
time caused by Accident or Illness.
POLICY
INSURANCE EFFECTIVE
Insurance against accidental injuries
and accidental death takes effect im
mediately on issuance of policy, and
for illness contracted after policy has
been in force 60 days.
Combination H
and Accident
$ 100.00
$500.00
ealth
monthly
indemnity
ACCIDENTAL
DEATH
SPECIAL BENEFITS
Pays Principal Sum for accidental
death caused by Sunstroke, Freezing
or Hydrophobia.
monthly premiums
AGES
Class AA
18 to 50
50 to 65
$3.00
.$3.50
event
per cent.),
per cent. Increase),
$2.00
All Honest Claims postively
paid at sight.
No Red Tape.'
Policy Fee, $5.00. payable but once
In a lifetime.
$2.50
Class A.
May be paid annually (in which
indemnity is increased 10
semi-annually (5
Square
Deal
No delay.
or quarterly.
Policy fee, $5.00, in addition
premium, payable once only.
to first
A. Li* LINDSLEY, General State Agent.
106 West Pine Street
Hattiesburg , Miss.
Tally.
A five per cent, semi-annual divi
dend was declared and paid in cash.
The remainder of the profits were pas
sed to the usdivided proflit account,
The re-elecr-lon of all the present
officers and the same directors, with
Mr. W. E. Herren added, shows the
confidence of the stockholders in the
good business judgment of the
now at the head of this prosperous
and growing financial institution. The j
Citizens Baiflt is one of the most solid
institutions of the city and the evi
dence of prosperity presented will be |
highly gratifying to all the citizens of
the city.
of the year, which was excellent and I
highly gratifying and was considered
a splendid showing. This statement
showed a cash reserve of thirty per
cent.
Several enthusiastic speeches
were made, among the speakers be
ing Dr. J. D. 'Donald and Hon. J. R.
men
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Joe Shelby ...
R. A. Beall
W. P. Jones .
O'Ferrall Bros.
Cash-.
C. A. Russ ...
F. H. Powe ...
M, J. Epley .
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NOTICE
Owing to the scaricity of money throughout the country I have
not pushed the real estate business in the past several months be
lieving it would be against the interests of the City to do so, but
now that we see better times and
as the return of prosperity is
near at hand, I have decided to again push the business and
any one
eitber wanting to buy or sell or do anything else pertaining to the
real estate business will find it to their
interest before trading
elsewhere to come to see Thos, M. Ferguson, 610 Main St.
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WANTED
Two Competent Lumber
Stackers. Steady work.
By the Thousand.
PROGRESS LUMBER CO
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HATHORN, MISS.,
or
ARMBRECHT LUMBER CO.,
HATTIERBURG, MISS.
Six good solicitors, ladles or gentle
men, can earn big money working for
the Hattiesburg Nows. Most attrac
tive premium proposition ever offered
by a Mississippi newspaper. Call for
the circulation manager at the Daily
News Office.
Good
Photographs
At Reasonable
Prices.
You may come to this
Studio confident that
you will get the best
Work Q t the most rea
sonable price.
The stamp of Excel
lence is on the Pictures
made here. : : : : : .
Henley's Studio
120 Railroad St.