Arkansas Democrat from Little Rock, Arkansas • Page 8

a 0 0 000. TUESDAY EVENING. THE ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT. OCTOBER 13, 1914. LAUNCH STATE MOVEMENT FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE Mrs.

Minnie U. Rutherford of Magazine Elected Temporary Chairman at Meeting of Arkansas Suffragette Meeting. MAY ASK LEGISLATURE TO GIVE WOMEN THE BALLOT Movement for woman suffrage in Arkansas was officially launched in a meeting of women delegates from Hotel various sections of the State at the Marion today. A permanent organization is being effected this afternoon and permanent State officers will be named. d.

The society will be known as the Arkansas Woman ciation. ion Articles of the constitution were being discussed early this afternoon and the final of the sembly will be the election. Fourteen accredited delegates were in attendance but the room was filled to capacity by women interested in the most of them from Little Rock. Women Want Ballot. The object of the organization is to establish the right of citizens of Arkansas to vote, irrespective of sex.

That article of the constitution, the second, BUY A TON OF HACKETT CITY COAL No Soot; No Clinkers. The best Coal on the market. We sell the Genuine Hackett City Coal. R. D.

LEAS FUEL CO. PHONE 2276. MT. WANT IDA RESIDENTS STREETS Mount Ida, a town in Montgomery County, has had an ordinances: passed by the Mount, Ida city council compelling all male realdents between the ages of 18 and year 45 to work- for -ten-days the city, streets. That is what has waged dissension among the for more than one la opposed 40 demonstrating his manual labor abilities, on the streets, August 95 the Mount Ida city council passed the ordinance, and the only recourse the Mount Idune the other aide" have is to get the ordinance repealed.

The stetutes give a city counell the right to pass such an ordinance. was adopted just before adjournment at the lunch hour Following the per fection of the organization the election of officers this afternoon, the various committees were to be chosen. The plan had not been discussed except in an informal way between the delegates, but it was intimated that the legislative committee will be given instructions to prepare a bill or have one prepared to be introduced in legislature in looking to the passage of a State law that will give women of Arkansas the right of ballot: While the movement started today is the first State-wide movement to be set on foot, it is not the first work women of State have done in the cause of suffrage. There are numerous political, equality leagues in the 'State. It was through the Little Rock.

local organization that the meeting here today was made possible. Mrs. Ellington Presides. The meeting, was opened pray. er by H.

O. Smith, pastor of the First Christian Church. Mrs. 0. F.

Ellington, president of the Little Rock Political Equality League, cited briefly the object of the meeting. She said that Arkansas, and North Carolina were the States in the Union in which organization of suffrage clubs have not perfected. Mrs. Cotnam, first vice President of the Little Rock league, deliv. ered the formal address of welcome.

In her comments, she made the interesting statement that nine States in the West have given women the right of the ballot. Mrs. L. K. Land, of Pine Bluff, struck a responsive chord when she declared that a great many women in Arkansas, as well as in other States, are eagerly awaiting the time when they will be given the right of the ballot, but that instead of furthering the movement by lending helping hands, they declined to "come out into the She urged that the women of the proposed Arkansas society do all in their power to get the following of women that such an organization should have in view of the widespread interest.

In the formation of a temporary organization, Mrs. Minnie U. Rutherford of Magazine was named temporary chairman. She was escorted to the chair by Mrs. Julia Warner and Miss Timely Grocery Suggestions for Tomorrow We've a lot of new, good things that will be of immense help to the thrifty housewife in producing tempting meals economically.

Take in VEGETABLES AND FRUITS you'll find most everything at our store, all and strictly fresh. SPECIALS FOR TOMORROW. Bulk Queen Olives; New Mince Meat, 2 lbs. 25c Boned Cod Fish, per 20c New P. C.

Flour, Grits and Cereals. SPRING CHICKENS, HENS, dressed to order, thus ensuring absolute freshness. PROMPT DELIVERIES MADE EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. JARRETT'S -Fancy groceries, Poultry and Fish. Corner Fifteenth and" Main Streets.

Phones 3041 and .3042. Several of the residents of Mount Idn presented to the secretary of State. Earle W. Hodges, a petition to refer the matter to a referendum vote, to be voted upon at the next city election. The election will not be held until next spring.

and in the meantime. it the petition were granted, the ordinance would be held up. However. the. remonstrants against the ordinance failed.

An ordinance, of such character can not be referred under the muleipal referendum act. which provides that 110 section of the act shall conflict with the policing or police powers of a city or town or municipality: The opinion was made for Mr. Hodges by Attorney General Moose. Frances Edmonson. Miss Mary Me Cabe was named temporary secretary.

Decide on Name, Adoption of a name for the association elicited a good deal of discussion before the decision was finally ed. Numerous of the delegates were anxious to have the word inserted, but it was finally voted down and the name Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association' decided upon. General and the chairmen of the several committees will constitute the executive body association if proposed articles of the constitution are adopted. this afternoon. Other articles will provide for the payment of 10 cents by members of locals which become affiliated with the State organization.

Annual State meetings will be but the time is yet to be decided upon finally. Luncheon was given in a private dining, room hour, of the the visiting Hotel women Marion being at guests of the Little Rock league. The effecting of a permanent organization was expected to occupy a great part of the afternoon. Delegates in attendance included the following: Fayetteville, Mrs. N.

F. Drake. Pine Bluff, Mrs. E. D.

Russell, Mrs. Mike Schnable, Miss Willie. Hocker, Miss Ruth Schnable and Mrs. L. K.

Land. Hot. Springs, Mrs. P. I.

Henry, Miss Elia Wright and Miss, Adele Johnson. Magazine, Mrs. nie Rutherford. Little Rock, Mrs. T.

T. Cotnam, Mrs. George E. Cuningham, Mrs. Darnell and Mrs.

O. F. Ellington. AROUND THE CITY CRYSTAL LITHOX WATER FROM Hot Springs, 10c per delivered. Phone 177.

-Advertisement. Negroes interested in the movement to form co-operative association to better conditions among the negroes of Little Rock, and to support the recently organized negro infirmary, held a meeting at the Arkansas Baptist College, Sixteenth and High streets, last night. Addresses were made by Rabbi Louis Witt, L. H. Moore, secre: tary of the State Federation of Labor: Police Judge Fred Isgrig and E.

W. Perrin. OZARKA EUREKA SPRINGS WAter, 75c per five-gallon bottle, delivered. Phone 94, Errett Hamilton, -Advertisement. Caught last night in a raid on an alleged gambling room at 126 1-2 West Markham street, J.

A. Wilson and C. A. Howard were fined $15 each by Police Judge Fred Isgrig in police court this morning. Evidence against seven other young men caught in the room was not sufficient for conviction and they were released.

The raid was made by Sergeant McDaniel and Detective Jones at 8:30 last night. A large number of dice and some playing cards were found in the room, according to the police. DON'T FORGET CRAZY OR GIBson Crystals, nature's own remedy for constipation, malaria, liver trouble, etc. Price now 65e box. Agents, Snodgrass Bracy.

-Advertisement. John Gentry and Miles Lockett, negroes charged with stealing a case of eggs from one of the Pulaski Commission Company's wagons yesterday were arraigned before Judge Isgrig in police court this morning, but the case was continued because of the failure of witnesses to appear. The were arrested yesterday afternoon, in negroes, to the police. case of eggs had the act of hiding, the eggs, according been consigned to Commissioner Rowland of the Arkansas Railroad Commission, and was taken from the de. livery wagon while it was stanting in: AL LTHEIMER'S Department Stores ARCADE SIXTH STREET- -CENTER STREET.

Just Out of the High Rent District. SUITS TRIMMED HATS Many different styles. Velvet Shapes in black and colors. All with long coats and Trimmed with the popular gold or silver pleated skirts. The materials are serges braids and ornaments.

diagonal cords. Colors, Regular $7.50 Values, Negre brown, Russian green and navy. Many of med the with coats braid. are These trim- $4.85 suits are easily worth $18.00. A fortunate purchase allows us to sell price of them at the very low Dresses $12.95 de misses, For chine, in both silk messaline, women crepe and All 25 poplin.

the wanted shades, in a WAISTS SKIRTS variety of styles. Included in the lot are also serges in In Lingerie or Pi- In all the new ma- several colors, with black que, trimmed with terials and colors. silk sleeves, underskirt and lace or embroidery. Some are pleated, sash. These dresses sell Some have the ves- others in the tunic regular at $18.00 to $20.00.

effect. These Skirts While they last, may tee effect. All sizes sell' for $8.00 in you have your choice at up to 46. They are most stores. Our regular $1.50 rent saves you for ues.

days a few Specially priced is only $2.05, as our $5.95 price $12.95 26 $350.000 PLANNED FOR COTTON POOL Little Rock Jobbers and Wholesalers to Meet Thursday to Discuss Means of Aiding $150,000,000 Holding Wholesalers and jobbers of Little Rock will confer at the Chamber of Commerce at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon to discuss tho raising of $350.000 to add to the $150.000,000 cotton pool. Invitations will be issued late today or Wednesday to some forty-five firms. It is the hope to have suhscribed at least as much as was, raised by the bankers of the city. The project was discussed first at an Informal conference at the Chamber of Commerce Monday afternoon. Henry Patterson, of the Arkansas Association of Wholesale Merchants, was present and serted that he expects soon to call a conventim of the wholesale and jobbing interests of the State to create interest or raise a fund to add to the fast-growing pool.

The method of assessment has not been formulated, but it is proposed to make per cent assessment based upon the capItal stock of the Little Rock concerns. In round numbers. the total capital stock La $4,000,000, according to C. G. Price, who has taken a leading interest in the move ment.

It is virtually the same basis 8.8 that adopted by the bankers. The proposition of raising the pool, which originated with Festus J. Wade In St. Louis, was explained by Mr. Price at the informal conference Monday.

He was at the first meeting of St. Louts' interests. He stated that the subscriptions would not be considered as. contributions since the pool syndicate will issue receipts for all money raised, these to be prime pacotton per at any bank, backed as they will be by the syndicate, subscribers and the borrower and borrower's cotton. The movement, is to take on ever a broader extent in Little Rock in the next few weeks.

Preliminary plans are under way for the raising of a pool through the retall dealers of the city. Other organizations are taking a lively interest. the rear of 109 Main street, police say. MISS MAYME ALLEN, ARKAN. sas' gifted pianist, is now permanently located in Little Rock.

Engagements for parties, clubs and dances. Phone -Advertisement. dinner, The revival at Scott Street Methodist church, Fourteenth and Scott streets, is progressing well. Two services daily, 2:30 and 3:30 p. m.

The Rev. J. B. Kendall of Wilmore, is in charge. THURSDAY, 8:30 P.

IN ST. Paul's Chapel parish house, Capitol avenue and Victory street, thirty-minute skit, Bachelor's Seventeen young ladies in cast, followed by dancing. Mesdames Hinton and Webster, hostesses. -Advertisement. The regular monthly business meetling M.

of C. the A. board will be of held directors at the of insti- the tution's building at 5 o'clock this afternoon. DRY WOOD -LEAS FUEL COM. pany.

-Advertisement. The entertainment at the Pulaski Heights Presbyterian Church will be held Thursday evening, October 15, instead of Friday, as was reported-1 Monday. RALEIGH SPRINGS WATER IS. the best and cheapest. Five gallons, 35c, delivered.

Phone 6958. -Advertisement. Jack Walker, collector of Internal revenue, is at Harrison attending a session of the Federal court. The Dardanelle Bank and Trust Company filed suit in circuit to secure judgment on a note for $2,500 dated January 13, 1914, and signed by D. Duncan and W.

H. Garantlo, who are named defendants. The instrument was for four months, but no part of it has been paid, It is alleged. HACKETT CITY COAL -PHONE Mrs. J.

N. Stegall has returned from St. Louis, Kansas City, and Sedalia, where she visited friends and relatives. 8-IA-Y! GOOD, OLDfashioned country pork sausage, would g0 fine this cool weather. your butcher or grocer for the Rose Brand Country Sausage." Sold only in sealed one-pound -(Advt.) Physicians at the County Hospital today report that Mrs.

William Barlow, who was assaulted at her home in Argenta last Thursday night and FO: ceivel- painful injuries, is recovering and will to leave the hospital in a few days. George McLean, president of the Merchants' Transfer Company, has recovered from a serious illness and sable to at his office today. He was confined to his home for some time. MISS ANNE CURTIS HAS OPENcd her Auction Studio in the State Bank Building, Room 204. -Advertisement.

Miss Minnie McDonald, formerly stenographer at the office of Governor George W. Hays, has resigned her position and has established an office at rooms Nos. 401. and Bankers' Trust Building. Miss McDonald: and Mrs.

Effie Scott, formerly of the T. H. Bunch Elevator have formed 8 partnership as public stenographers and multigraphers. SUITS CLEANED AND PRESSED, $1.00. Cockmon Phone 2433.

-(Advt.) August Probst, assistant secretary of the, Little Rock Board of Trade, ceived a posteard today from George R. Brown, who is in Richmond, saying that he is enjoying the trip with the bankers immensely. Stop Those Early Bronchial Coughs They hang on all winter if not checked, and pave the way for serious throat and lung diseases. Get a bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound, and take it freely. Stops coughs and colds, heals raw inflamed throat, loosens the phlegm and is mildly laxative.

Best for children and grown persons. No opiates, For sale by Read's Drug Co. -Advertisement. A meeting of the School Improvement Association of the R. H.

Parham school will be held at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the rest room of the school at Fifteenth and Vance streets. The meeting is an important one and all members are urged to be present, John Grice, a negro, was tried on a charge of robbery, the theft of $6 from Elzie Wood, on August 14, in the first division of the circuit court this morning. The jury retired ten minbefore noon, but failed to reach a verdict and Judge Lea excused them until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when they again retired to consider the evidence. Clarence Toomey fled a suit for divorce from Maggie Toomer 10 enancery court today. He charged she deserted him in 1910.

Claims against the T. H. Bunch Commission Company, which went into the hands of a receiver recently, were filed in chancery court this morning by the following: George W. Johnston, Charles Smith, $18; W. E.

Blackburn, $13.50. BULLET PUNCTUATES DEBATE, AUDIENCE LOSES INTEREST Tomorrow morning in police court before Judge Fred A. Isgrig, Fred L. Young, attorney, with offices in the State National Bank building, wit answer to the charge of assaulting H. E.

Farabee, also a member of the local bar, with intent to kill. with his brother, Quinn C. Farabee, a clerks, will answer to the charge of disturbing the peace. All three charges in police court are the result of an argument between the three men at Main street and Capitol avenue at 5:45 yesterday afternoon, which ended in a pistol shot from revolver held by Mr. Young, which punctured an awning over Jimmie" Housey'8 news stand and dispersed an over-curious crowd four corners of the city.

The argument is said to have originated a legal obligation which Mr. Farabee claims is due him, but it is certain that the argument ended with a tol shot, which caused 8 number of onlookers suddenly to lose whatever interest they had in the debate and remember very pressing engagements in the outlying sections of the city. Patrolman Piteock and -Rolling NTrested the three principals in the neartragedy, and all made bond for their appearance in police court this morning. Previous engagements of their attorneys caused the postponement of the case until tomorrow morning. MAY RUSH ARIZONA TROOPS TO BORDER Phoenix, Oct.

The Arizona 'National Guard was ordered by Gover- nor Hunt today to be in readiness to entrain at a moment's notice for Naco, where bullets and shells fired by MexIcan forces in battle across the border have been falling in American territory for many days. The governor alyso telegraphed to Secretary Bryan for advice. Victor F. Waddle. Victor Fletcher Waddle, eleven months old son of Mr.

and Mires Victor Waddle, died at 11 o'clock yesterday morning at the family residence, 1515 East Third street. Funeral services will be held at 3 o'clock this afternoon from the residence, conducted. by Rev. L. E.

N. Hundley. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery. Earl Wilkerson, the six-year-old son of Jesse Wilkerson, a barber, living at 3121-2 Main street, was painfully injured about the head and body at 2 o'clock this afternoon when eh was knocked down at Third and Main streets in Argenta by an automobile driven by a Mr. Gibson of Little Rock.

The lad was crossing the street When he was struck. Mr. Gibson stopped the auto as soon as possible. The injured boy was rushed ohis home and given medical aid and is reported resting well this afternoon. No arrest was made.

Building Permits Issued. The following building permits were issued: Arkansaw Water Company, to erect pumping station, Including intake tunnels, foot of Lincoln avenue, also to remodel present pumping station; P. B. Hill, to erect a garage and servants' house at 1601 Denison street, $125; to 8. M.

Apple, to repair residence at 1801 Gaines street, to J. C. Geyer, to erect a residence at 421 East Twenty-first street, $8,000. ATHLETICS IN LAST GAME LOSE TO BOSTON (Continned from Page 1.) lins? legs, Whitted going to third. Gowdy struck out.

On an attempted double steal Schmidt was. out, Pennock to Collins to MeInnis. No rurs, two hits, no errors. Seventh Inning. First Half---Mann went into left in place of Connolley.

Walsh walked. On a wild pitch Walsh went to second. Barry fanned and Walsh was picked off second, Gowdy to Evers. It was a smart double play. Sebang struck out.

No runs, no hits, no errors. Second Half- -Collins threw out Maranville first. Baker threw out Deal at first. Rudolph walked. Moran fouled out Baker.

No Tuns, 110 hits, no errors. Eighth Inning. First Half- -Evers tossed out Pennock. Mann made a brilliant catch of Murphy's drive, cutting off a twobagger. Oldring flied out to Evers.

No runs, no hits, no Second Half- Evers orrerick out. Collins threw out Mann at first. Whitted walked. Whitted stole second. Whitted went to third on a passed ball.

Schmidt fanned. No runs, no hits, no errors. Ninth Inning. First Half- -Collins fanned, Evers threw out Baker. MeInnis came to the bat.

Deal threw. out Mcinnis at first. No runs, no hits, no errors. Leslie Hall. Leslie Hall, the elevenof Mr.

and Mrs. Murray Hall, 807 East Sixth street, died at 2:50 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home. He is survived by his parents, two brothers and two sisters. Funeral services will be held residence at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Burial will be in Oakland Cemetery.

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Gans Sons. Over Little Rock Cafe. Phone 7131. IF You Live in Little Rock USE NATURAL GAS Some Suggestions Relative to the Use of Natural GAS In preparing for the maximum winter demand. this company.

ever ready to do that which will be for the best interests of all concerned, assures the general public that its mains and services are in perfect condition. Realizing that a better understading of conditions will make for better satisfaction generally, there will appear in the daily of Little Rock regularly a series of suggestions that newspapers if followed, will mean not only conservation, but better service, something we are all striving for. The very cheapness and convenience of natural gas, howincrease in consumption, when the ever, causes an enormous temperature drops suddenly in winter, as it may do, any morning This increase is sometimes as great as 1,500 per cetn, and now. the demand comes instantaneously. Help us meet it.

Help your neighbor and yourself- by using gas as sparingly as you can when these cold mornings come, and by being prepared for them. LITTLE ROCK GAS FUEL CO..