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Coy, the great Yale football player
as he is punting the ball. Coy's run
ning and weight have made Yale's
many victories possible.
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Next Building to Former Shop.
IIS RAILROAD STREET
JONES REPAIR WORKS
Bicycles, Guns, Revolvers, Locks
and Sundries. Safe Work. : :
HATTIESBURG TRUST
& BANKING COMPANY
HATTIESBURG, MISSISSIPPI.
OUR FACILITIES.
The eonvient location and extensive facitities of this institution
commend it to business men and all persons who receive money
and disburse the same in payment of regular expenses, such as of
fice, household and business. This bank invites eheecking accounts
and also savings or inactive ? coounts on which we pay interest at
the rate of 4 per cent, per annum.
All sums deposited in our Saving Department up to the 5th of the
month, receive interest as from the first of the month.
A general banking business conducted. Authorized by law to act
as Administrator of Estates, Guardian of Minors, Receiver, Trus
tee and Agent.
CAPITAL
$ 150 , 000.00
( )FITCERS:
H. A. CAMP, President.
I Joe Shelby, Vice President,
] I R. L. Bennett, Cashier,
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John Kamper, Vice President
R. B. McLeod, Asst. Cashier.
MISSIONARY MEETING OPENS
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j Galesburg, 111., October 20.—Noted
j ministers from all over the country
and missionaries from many foreign
' lands are included in the attendance
at the national convention opened in
Galesburg today by the American Mis
sionary Association of the Congrega
tional Church.
The delegates declare that there is
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NEW STYLE IN SPOOKS
SAY THE SPIRITUALISTS
Indianapolis, Ind., October 20.
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Styles in spooks are changing. "Little !
i Bright Eyes," the Indian maiden
"bant" who has served as an A. U. j
T. messenger between the "mediums"
and the spirit land ever since the Fox ]
sisters "discovered" Spiritualism, has j
j gone out of fashion. Crude material- '
| izations, fake slate writing and other 1
I occult demonstrations of the mediums, I
1 mystics, psychics and seers will no
I longer be allowed to mask under the
I cloak of organized Spiritualism. So
| declare the influential Spiritualists of
the land, who assembled in Pythian
i Hall today to begin the sixteenth an
nual convention of the National
| Spiritualist Association.
George W. Kates, of Washington,
I). C.. seertary, announces there will i
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be some very interesting documents .
1 presented, showing the status of the
1 movement represented by this asso- j
aition. An increase of organized ef- j
fort will lie made and new churches |
and local societies reported. Addi
tional slate associations have been or
ganized the past year, and now one
peculiar appropriatness in holding
just now in Illinois the annual meet
ing of the society which came into
being as a protest against such racial
animosities as have cropped out
furiously in Springfield, 111., recently.
Its sessions will not end without
fresh reaffirmation of its
principles of human brotherhood,
constantly illustrated in the schools
and churches which the association
maintains throughout the South.
There are today under the support
of the organization schools for the
education of the Negro, Highlanders,
or the mountain whites, the North
American Indian, the Alaskan, Mexi
can, Japanese, Chinese and Hawaian
people in the Christian faith,
all of these there were delegates to
represent their school and their work.
In most of the cases those who have
come to the meeting are of the na
tionality of the school which they
represent.
some
primary
From
j half of the states are at work with
! all states represented liberally by lo
cal societies and churches.
j The Spiritualist's movement is a
religious one as well as one to
pro
] icet and secure capable psychic data
j of spirit communion,
' The Spiritualists are determined to
1 protect their cause from defilement
I t>y fakirs and charlatans.
art or science.
Orastic
measures are being instituted in this
direction, even to securing such ordi
nances as have been adopted by Chi
cago, 111., and Portland, Ore., making
t a punishable misdemeanor to adver
tise in any way for the purpose of
telling the future, or committing any
fraudlent practice
astrology, palmistry and any kindred
in tnediumship,
WAS OPENED TODAY
Hearst News Service.
Columbus, Miss., October 20.—An
extensive array of exhibits of o high
order were on display when the Mis
sissippi and West Alabama Fair
ed its gates to the public this
ing. A four-day racing meet will be
held in connection with the fair,
mencing this afternoon.
open
morn
eom
Lame Back.
This ailment is usually caused by
rheumatism of the muscles of the
small of the back, and is quickly cured
by applying Chamberlain's Liniment
two or three times a day and massag
ing the parts at each application. For
sale by Hays & Field and Yellow Pine
"There's two things I never worry
about."
"And they are?"
"What might have happened if the
baseball season had lasted a little
longer; an' how things would go if the
election was to be held today."
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! Notwithstanding Mr. Taft's decision
j not to take the stump, there are Dem
! ocrats who persist in believing he is
I up one.—Austin Statesman.
THE THRICE-A-WEEK WORLD.
More Alert, More Thorough and More
Fearless Than Ever.
A President of the United States
I will be elected this
year. Who is he
! and who is the man whom he will
! beat?
Nobody yet knows, but the
Thrice-a-Week edition of the New
| York World will tell you every step
| and every detail of what promises to
be a campaign of the most absorbing
j interest. It may not tell you what you
hope, but it will tell you what is. The
j Thrice-a-Week World long ago estab
i lished a character for impartiality and
fearlessness in the publication of
j news, and this it will maintain. If you
I want the news as it really Is subscribe
j to the Thrice-a-Week edition of the
New York World, which comes to you
| every other day except Sunday, and Is
| thus practically a daily at the price of
a weekly.
The Thrlce-a-Week World's regular
subscription price is only $1.00 per
year, and this pays for 156 papers, we
offer this unequalled newspaper and
The Hattiesburg News together for
one year for $5.00.
The regular subscription price of the
| two papers Is $7.00.
BIG HOLINESS ONION
Several Hundred Delegates Present
at the Opening Service
Today.
MERIDIAN MAN IS
PRESIDENT OF UNION
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Practically the Whole South Is Rep
.the .Gathering .This
Metropolis
resented ii
Week in the Alabama
for Five Days.
Hearst News Service.
Birmingham, Ala., October 20.—One
of the largest conventions that Birm
ingham will entertain this autumn was
opened today by the Holiness Union,
and will continue its sessions for five
days, adjourning next Sunday. Sev
eral hundred delegates, among them
some of the most noted divines and
college presidents of the South, are
in attendance.
The Holiness Union does not pro
fess to he a church, nor has it ever
sought to be a church.
I an association of members of the va
rious churches who believe in, advo
cate and seek to earnestly progagate
the doctrines and experiences of en
tire santification.
L. P. Brown, a prominent business
man of Meridian, is president of the
union, while the oilier officers are:
First vice president, H. C. Morrison,
of Louisville; second vice president.
E. P. Ellyson, of Benile, Tex.; third
vice president, B. F. Haynes, of Wil
more, Ky.: assistant secretary, W. W.
Voight, of Meridian and
Andrew Johnson, of Wilmore, Ky.
This is the fifth annual convention
of this union since iis organization in
1904. The first convention was
in Memphis, that year, the next one j
in Meridian, followed by Atlanta in j
1906 and Louisville in 1907. !
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Hearst News Service.
Peoria, 111., October 20.—With pros
pects of one of the most important
and exciting sessions in years, the Illi
nois Stale Federation of Labor con- |
vened in Peoria today. Aside from j
the elec ion of officers, the principal
matters before the convention have
to do with the stand to be taken by
the federation in the
paign.
favor the indorsement of Bryan, and I
the passage of resolutions condemn- i
ing Speaker Cannon, but these recom
mendations are opposed by the Re
publicans and Socialists, and those
who believe that the federation should
be kept free from political entangle- \
ments. Local unions and central j
labor bodies in all the industrial cen
ters of Illinois have sent delegates.
Chicago unions are represented by a
large delegation.
present cam
The Democratic delegates
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Mrs. Franciet Thompson, of Chi
cago, who was found strangled to
death in a rooming house, and of
who»e murder Luman Mann, it
cused.
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Southern States Association of Com
missoiners of Agriculture
Meets in Nashville
Hearst News Service.
Nashville, Tenn., October 20.
velopment of the farming interests of
Dixie is the object of the Southern
States Association of Commissioners
of Agriculture, which opened Its an
nual convention in Nashville today.
The sessions will extend through three
days and will be addressed by some
of the leading agricultural workers
of the South.
-De
j riving. The gathering will be known
j as the International Bible
! tiou, and was plauned by the leaders
j of the World's Student Christian
I Federation for the advancement of
j the intelligent study. and use of the
j English Bible. The rending of the
Bible in the public schools of the
| country will he one of the important
matters considered.
BIBLE STUDY
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Hearst News Service.
Columbus, O., October 20.—One of
the most important conventions for
tho promotion of Bible study ever
held in America will convene in
Columbus this week, and many dis
I tin sulsbed delegates are already ar
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and you will miss the best Bargains ever offered in Furniture.
This is not a sale that merchants have to
reduce stock ° r to sell more goods. This
Sale means a change in the line
carrying, and we will clean this stock °ul
at any price to get ready -for our new line.
We are
We Only Have a Few More Days
to do this in.
Our stock consists of everything
Furniture and House Furnishing line. :: :: ;;
in the
Come down and convince yourself and you
will see that we mean what
can furnish two rooms for what
furnish one.
the sale is on. Sale only lasts till Nov. 1st.
Cash or Easy Payments
we say. We
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MASONS ATTEND FUNERAL.
Besides the large number of other
people who attended the funeral of
Capt. Ben Stevens at Augusta Sun
day the following Masons from Hat
tiesburg were there: W. M. Conner,
F. W. Foote, T. M. Ferguson, W. P.
Smith, A. V. Hays and E. E. Conner.
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CORNER FRONT and KAMPER STS.
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Boilers, Engines, Mill Supplies
Repairs of all kinds, Locomotive and
Saw Mill Work a Specialty. Gas and
Gasoline Engines Installed and Repaired.
Brass and Grey Iron Castings and Gen-.
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At .L WORK DONE PROMPTLY
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Enterprise Boiler Works
HATTIESBURG, MISS.
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CARD OF THANK8. \
We desire to thank all of those
so nobly rendered us assistance dur
ing the illness and death of our dar
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ling boy. May the Lord abundantly
bless you all.
MR. and MRS. O. B. SELF.

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