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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1908. !
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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE NEW
COUNTY OF FORREST.
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UNION
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. E. Davis.
For Treasurer—John Williams.
For City Clerk—A. Fairley.
For Street Commissioner—Owen Reedy
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ALDERMEN.
Ctty-at-Large—M. J. McGrath.
Ward 1—E. L. McGowan and Dr. E. J.
Mitchell.
Ward 2—R. A. Cameron and H. C.
Greer.
Ward 3—A. T. Powe and C. F. Lassiter.
Ward 4—R. C. McKinzie and N. R. Mc
Cullough.
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Major Pat Henry.
The defeat of Major Pat Henry for
congress in the Eighth district will
occasion general regret, not that Mr.
Collier is unworthy of the honor
which he has fairly won, but because
of the love that Mississippians still en
tertain for those who wore the gray
and fought the battles of the south
when the souls of men were sorely
tried.
Major Pat Henry was a gallanl
Confederate soldier. He has made a
most exemplary citizen in the walks
of private life, and was an honor to
"To the defeated candidate, the gal
the state and the nation in the halls
of congress.
In this regard, we quote from the
Vicksburg Herald, edited by Captain
J. S. McNeilly, himself a gallant Con
federate soldier:
lant old veteran who has been elected
to stay at home, the sympathies of the
Herald, and the voters at large we are
sure, goes out in full measure. None
will rejoice in his defeat. He fought
a good fight, but the prize was beyond 1
his powers. Leading in the first pri-1
mary, the old war horse fell down on
the home stretch. His fate is an ad- [
monition of the passing of a sentiment |
—of the retirement of the old Confed
erates as factors in the direction of the
affairs of state,
fate, the rule of life—the old must give
way to the young; a dispensation that
will be accepted by the followers of
'Lost Cause,' in that spirit of
obedience to orders and fortitude in
adversity that was their distinguish
ing character, in the brave old days
that are no more."
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Truck Farming.
The News has so often called atten
tion to the possibilities of the truck
farming industry in this section, that
our readers are certainly familiar with
its advantages. The climate and the
soil are especially adapted to all kinds
of truck raising. Vegetables mature
earlier here than elsewhere and they
are easier to get ready for market.
J. H. Cooper, of Orange County,
Florida, in an interview in the Ander
son (S. C.) Mall stated that It Is not
uncommon for truck growers In that
state to clear from $1,000 to $1,500 an
acre a year, and as a result of this the
price of land has greatly Increased,
the quotation ranging from $2,000 to
$4,000 an acre. Of course, he added,
all of the trucking land does not bring
these high prices, but they are the fig
ures at which the land is held by some
in that section who are getting these
large net returns from their crops and
tp whom the land is worth that much.
The same story is told all over Mis
sissippi where truck farming has been
intelligently followed, and it has large
ly enhanced the value of lands hereto
fore considered worthless. There is
yet ample opportunity for the devel
°pment of idle lands in this immedi
ate section.
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The local manager of the Cumber-!
land Telephone Company says that
I the Hattiesburg News is responsible
for the fact that subscribers heretofore
i paying $1.30 a month have been raised
to $2.00. He might also tell them that
! the Hattiesburg News is going to com
pel the aforesaid company to refund
| the money it has filched from the
pockets of the people, and that there
j will be a general readjustment of tele
[ phone rates in Hattiesburg before the
j question is settled.
Hon. J. W. Collier, who is to suc
ceed John Sharp Williams as the rep
resentative of the Eighth Mississippi |
District in congress, is now the circuit
clerk of Warren County. It is a long !
jump from circuit clerk to congress
man, but it is no more than Grover
Cleveland did when he stepped from
the sheriff's office to the guberna-1
torial chair in the great state of Now
York. Mr. Collier is a young man of
ability and has a brilliant future before |
him.
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If the morning sun is bright, if the
dew makes diamonds in the grass, if a
bird tvakes up with its song, if a
child's prattle falls upon our ear, or its
little feet patter through our home—or
if a loved one turns to us with a smile
or a kiss—let us be thankful. Nothing
adds more to the sum of human happi
ness than this faculty, developed if
possible into a habit, of seizing upon
and enjoying all of the small pleasures
and joys of life as they come.
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The sale of the property of the Wil
liamsburg Lumber Company to a New
York syndicate for $500,000 was noted
in these columns two weeks ago. A
moribund local contemporary played
it up under glaring headlines yester
day afternoon just as If it were real
news.
There is nothing new in the attitudo
of those who control the cotton mar
ket. It is usually the custom to ham
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Peruna Bill Sullivan for Reading a
1110 b in order to get himself mentioned '
in the newspapers should remember!
that he has been painfully obscure fo- I
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mer the price down early in the season j
and to push it up in the spring, after I
the bulk of the staple has passed out
of the hands of the farmers.
Those who are inclined to criticise I
a long time.
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Another Mississippi editor is seek-;
ing an office. Joseph E. Norwood, the i
able editor of the Magnolia Gazette, J
wants to be mayor of his town. He is i
a good man and
mayor.
fould make a good \
"I've had my dream, and so I live
content," sings Grantland Rice in the
Are we to in !
Nashville Tennessean.
fer, then, that you are to stop pulling |
the feathers out of George Bailey's
plume?
Since the Independence party failed
to get the names of its nominees on
the ticket in Mississippi, it is hard'y
probable that Hattiesburg will be hon
ored with a visit from Hisgen and
Graves.
The paragraphers Union is in ses
sion in Atlanta this week. We have
sent our proxy to Paul Cook, of the
Birmingham Age-Herald, who is close
enough to walk.
A correspondent wants to know
"who is George Bailey, nohow?"
Shades of John Barleycorn! Is it pos
sible that there is even a solitary red
neck In the wilds of Simpson County
who hasn't heard of George Bailey—
the man who discovered Texas and
made the Houston Post infamous with
his Impertinent paragraphs about
things that do not concern him?
nomination to congress will occasion
regret among the members of that
enough political party for vice qresl
dent cannot afford to waste words with
John Temple Graves.
The defeat of J. Adam Bede for re
body who enjoy a good joke.
Of course the nominee of a sure
What about that meat and milk In
spection ordinance? It is hardly prob
able that the council would joke with
so serious a subject.
Li Sum is the name of an editor of
a Chinese newspaper. If he lived in
this country, he'd be supporting Taft
for President,
The sheath gown is
soon to be
numbered with last year's jokes.
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Mrs. Eva Booth, commander of the
Salvation Army of the United States,
has returned to New York, after fully
j recovering from her illness, while in
, Warsaw, Indiana. She was overcome
by the heat, while addressing a large
audience.
CLAUD HILL WILL
00 TO UNIVERSITY
Mr. Claud Hill, a popular and well
known young man and an employe
in the chancery clerk's office, will
leave in a few days for Oxford, where
he goes to take a law course.
There isn't a brighter or more popu
I lar young man in Hattiesburg than
Claud Hill. As deputy clerk, he has
always been obliging and accommodat
' ing and he is thoroughly familiar with
, * lc duties of the office. His friends
I are c0, 'ddent that he will make a gqod
record in the University and that he
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will some day be a bright legal light.
! Mr. Hill will be succeeded by Mr.
Anderson Foote, another well known
i and popular young man of the city.
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BRYAN CAMPAIGN FUND.
The Daily News acknowledges the
*°** 0W ' nK contributions to the Mryan
and Kern campaign fund. Every good
Democrat should contribute at least
$1.00 to the Democratic cause:
E. A. Sanford
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Dr. J. D. Donald
J. E. Arledge ....
James W. Howell
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Clarke Memorial College
Now Nearing Completion
Dally News Special.
Newton, Miss., September 17 —Rev
I S. B. Culpepper, field agent for the
Clarke Memomlal College, established
within the past few months at New
ton, his home. In honor of Rev. N. L.
Clarke, makes a most favorable report
of the result of his work throughout
hls territory/which isp radically all
the state, but particularly In the
southeastern portion of It.
The school Is not yet complete, but
several of the buildings are nearing
completion, and will be ready for the
! opening of the colle * e at the "PP°lnted
I time of September 29, which Is sched
uled to be a big day for the Baptists
AN OKLAHOMA WOMAN IS
LURED TO LONELY SPOT
Oklahoma City, September 17.—
Lured to a lonely spot in Central Park
addition, Mrs. Harry Pearson, aged
21, was shot and fatally wounded by
Harry Parker, aged 28, a grain inspec
tor from Iola, Kansas yesterday .after
noon.
Mrs. Pearson died last night.
Parker escaped.
According to a statement by Mrs.
Pearson before her death, Parker took
SUMRALL LAD DIES FROM
EFFECTS OF KICK RY HORSE
Joe Tate, the young lad who was
brought from Sumrall yesterday to the
Hattiesburg Infirmary, died about 1
o'clock this morning, from the effects
of a kick on the head by a horse.
The funeral was held in Ramsey's
undertaking parlors at 1:30 o'clock
this afternoon and were conducted by
Rbv. I. P. Trotter. The interment fol
lowed at the city cemetery.
Joe Tate was the son of Mrs. E. V.
Tate and was delivery boy for the
Brown Grocery Company at Sumrall.
Tuesday evening he was driving his
7HE COTTON
MARKET.
Report received by wire today, Sep
tember 17, 1908.
Liverpool—Middling,
4.80 l-2d; close, 4.89 l-2d.
New Orleans—October
8.81c; December, 8.80c; at^^H
tober 8.99, December 8.84c
5.46d; open,
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School Days, School
Days, Dear Old Gold
en Rule Days. . . .
They are here and they call for
school supplies. We are ready for
the school children with a complete
line of everything needed in school
supplies, except books.
Our stock of Tablets, Book Satchels,
Pencils, Crayons etc., Is especially
complete and reasonably priced.
Send the children here for
plies. They can buy here without
any difficulty.
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Love Drug Co.
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ROSS BUILDING
In that section of the state. A picnic
is to be a feature of the opening, and
people from two or three adjoining
counties are expected to be on hand
and take part in the event.
Rev. N. L. Clarke, to whose memory
the school is being built, was in many
respects a remarkable man. He was
for a long time the editor of the Mis
j dented record in retaining the pastor
ship of the church at Decatur for a
slssippl Baptist at Newton, as well as
being pastor of the Newton Baptist
Church, and made an almost unprece
period of fifty-six years, being at the
same time In charge of other churches
in the same territory.
her to see some property for which
he wanted her to act as agent. When
they reached an out of the way place
Parker asked her to fly with him to
Mexico. She refused and he shot her
three times, took her diamonds valued
at $200 and fled,
crawled to a house, a quarter of a mile
away and told the story of the trag
edy.
Mrs. Pearson
delivery wagon and ran the wheels
into a ditch, and was pitched forward
on his face. The horse then began to
kick and the boy was struck in the
head and had his skull fractured. He
was brought to the hospital here and
an operation performed, but it did not
stay the hand of death.
Joe Tate was a little over 14 years
old and was working diligently to help
nis widowed mother, he being her only
Mrs. Tate came over yesterday
afternoon and was with her son when,
he died.
son.
AMUSEMENTS.
New Gem—Moving pictures: "The
Masquerade Ball," a great scenic pro
duction. New illustrated song.
New
Empire—Moving
picture:
"The fatal Likeness." Illustrated song:
"Where the Weeping Willow Shades
the Mossy Lane."
COMING EVENTS.
Auditorium—Saturday night,
September 19.—Tim Murphy in "Cupid
and the Dollar."
seats begins tomorrow.
The
Advance sale of
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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT BANKING
In each issue of this paper, me are going to discuss the interest
ing matters about banks in general and our institution in particular,
mhich concern the practical, every-day * sort of person in this
munity.'
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We mill tell you something about the early stages of banking
and the advances made; what elements make a strong bank; the
bank's relation to the community; how a bank benefits the people;
tohy you should have a connection with this bank■
These talks mill be in a series of simple, straightforward ex
planations of banking. You mill find them interesting and instructive.
Read every bne.
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J. C. BALLARD, Cashier.
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NEWMAN PLANT CONSIDERS
COST OF DIFFERENT PLANS
From what can be learned, it ap
pears that the adoption of plans and
the letting of the contract for the
rebuilding of the J. J. Newman Lumber
Company's plant Is being delayed by
the consideration of the cost of re
building and the price the plant will
cost under the different plans. Natur
ally the company desires to get the
work at the lowest possible price con
sistent with good workmanship.
Mr. E. S. Peck went out to Sumrall
yesterday and the trip had some con
nection with the rebuilding at this
place. When he returned he was
asked if there, was anything to give
out, and he replied: "Nothing definite
yet."
Mr. Peck was then asked if the con
tract would be let here or at the office
in Scranton, Pa., and he replied:
"Here, if the price is not too high."
Since it is known that both th«
plans and thep rice of construction
together with the machinery that is
to be used, have been under consider
ation since Tuesday, it is reasonable
to suppose that the company has not
yet secured a satisfactory price from
the contractors, and while they have
THE AUDITORIUM
SATURDAY, SEPT. I9!h
Opening Season 1908-9
THE DISTINGUISHED COMEDIAN.
MR. TIM MURPHY
PRESENTING
HIS NEW COMEDY SUCCESS
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Splendid Cast, Including
OROTHY SHERWOOD
lLLY ELABORATE SCENIC PRODUCTION.
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•rices, $1.50, $1.00, 75c, 50c, 25c.
Sale of Seats and Box Office now Open.
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hopes of concluding the entire deaf
here, yet the matter may have to go
to the general offices at Scranton.
The architects and th6 machinery
men have been in Hattiesburg this
week. Several contractors have also,
been here and have placed bids on tho
construction work, but It appears now
that an agreement on prices is all that
is necessary to conclude transactions.
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