Southern Star from Newton, Alabama • Page 1

THE SOUTHERN STAR. LXIV OZARK ALABAMA, WEDNESDAY JANUARY 1911 NO Mrs S. A. Culverhouse Dies News was received in the city on last Wednesday announcing the death of Mrs Sarah A. Culverhouse which sad event occurred at Shrevesport on Tuesday last.

Mrs Culverhouse for many years lived in Dale County and has many relatives and friends who will regret to learn of her death. To the bereaved the Star tenders its sympathv. Mrs. Mary E. Howell Dies It is with much sorrow that we learn of the death of Mrs.

Mary E. Howell, which sad event occurred at the home of Mr. T. A. Helms on last Tuesday night.

She had been in feeble health for some time and on the night of December 24th, she suffered a stroke of Paralysis from which she never rallied. Mrs. Howell was the widow of the late John H. Howell, and was at the time of her death in her 86th year. She was a good woman, a kind and tender mother, a devoted member of the Baptist church of this place, she haying joined at the organization of the church at this place some fifty years or more.

Her remains were tenderly laid away at the Cemetery at this place on last Wednesday. Rev. R. C. Deal conducted the funeral services.

She leaves several children and other relatives and to them the Star tenders its sym-; pathy. Work Begins Work on the new depot has started and is progressing rapidly. It will be only a few days before the building will be completed. We understand that work will commence within the next few days on the freight depot also. It will be located near where the old one was burned.

Save Your Children. In our last issue F. B. Cullens suggested that iron ladders be run up the walls upon public school building from the outside SO that in case of fire the pupils could climb down them. This would be better than the thing as it stands.

But the little fellows could never be taught to climb down these ladders sufficiently fast for the rooms to be promptly emptied in case of fire. Besides, in their fright many of them might fall and sustain fatal injuries. Now let us make a suggestion. Put up two or three stairways on the outside of the building, making them broad, and thoroughly balustering them so the pupils could not fall off in their maddening rush. Furthermore, make resting platforms to the high sections, so they would be caught by them in case of a tumble down -Then make broad door ways leading to these stairs so the exit would be easy.

This it seems to us is the solution of the most urgent problem confronting the community just at this time. Sheriff Gets Blood A few nights ago Sheriff drews went up on the upper edge of the county near the Barbour line to arrest Tom Rhett, who is wanted in this county for assault with intend to murder. While in the house making the arrest, the negros brother John Rhett became angry and tried to take the Sheriffs gun. The negro soon found out that the Sheriff much better man than he was, and began to call for help from his other brothers. The Sheriff was forced out of the door but not until he had shot the negro who caused the disturbance, and had braclets on the negro he had a warrant for.

He is now behind the jail bars. The boll weevil pest is coming Dont let that get out of your mind. Two more years of unde sturbed cotton growing for South east Alabama is all we hope for. Then comes the pest with all the losses and calamities following in his wake. Forewarned is forearmed is a trite and true saying and our people should take heed.

Some are nursing the delusive phantom of hope that the weevil can not thrive in this section and that the amount of destruction he will do will" be trivial. Let no such delusions enter your mind. He is coming and when he comes he will do great damage. A good resolution is a good thing and it is better to whistle to keep up our courage than to whine at everything that gets in our way, but here is something you cant whistle down. When the pest gets bere it will be a condition that we must face and not a theory, and the sooner we realize this the better for us.

It is with pride that we note the progressive spirit of many of our citizens who are making fence and preparing to raise pigs peanuts, cows and a few horses and mules. This is the best alternation for cotton growing in this section. But we regret to note that some of our people are not as much alive to this imminent danger as they should be, Let them open their eyes and prepare to meet their enemy. Wins Gold Watch Sure To Come. Mr.

Frank O. Deese, District Agent of the Southern States Life Insurance Company, has been awarded a handsome gold watch and chain for writing more business during the past month than any other Agent of the Company. Mr. Deese is to be congratulated upon winning such a handsome present. FENCING! Is of interest to every farmer.

The question of whether 1.12 s.ock is properly fenced in or out, as the case may be, is always a vital one. A good fence brings that sense of security that the stock may be found in the field where they were left, and that the growing 00 3 will not be disturbed and damaged. ELLWOOD FENCING SEND NO possesses all the good qualities of the best fence. It is woven wtih continuous wires, the cables are doubled and twisted, there are no locks or joints to slip, it isimpossible to be penetrated wihout breaking the wire, the meshesare small enough to turn the small pigs and the wires are strong enough to withstand the onslaughtsoftae fiercestbull We Have a Full Stock on Hand land the Prices Very Reasonable. Besides the Fencing we have all the necessary tools and implements for putting it up Saws of many kinds for sawing the timbor to make the posts, Axes for splitting the Posts, Post Hole Diggers to set up the posts, Hammers, Hatchets and Fence Tools for nailing the staples to the posts.

For further information call on or write to Byrd Hardware Company. Ozark, Alabama. Son Shoots Father Dead Troy, Jan. deplorable tragedy occurred Sunday noon a few miles south of Troy. when Jackson Cowart is said to to have shot and killed his father Alfred J.

Cowart, at their home about six o'clock. Cowart Lit is aileged, has been drinking for the past week and was always said to have been cruel to his family. It is said that he came into the house Sunday afternoon and began to abuse his family when Jackson Cowart, his son remonstrated. This so angered the father that he immediately pursued the boy with a gun and it was only when driven to bay and seeing that his father would kill him that the son shot. The bullet passed through Mr Cowart's body," piercing the heart and as he turned to leave the room he fell dead.

An inquest was later held over the body and a verdict. of justifiable homicide rendered, so young man was not held. Cowart is survived by his wife and several children. of Officers At the regular meeting of the of Lodge on last Tuesday night the following officers were elected for this term. Rev A Blizard Grover Flowers Crawford Prelate Smith Bartow Garner Hillard Jesse Carroll Carroll A Dowling I Matthews 0 A Brown Representing Grand Lodge Rev A Blizard Alternate Pay Your Poll Tax Because there is no election be held this year is 110 reason why you should not pay your poll tax.

Remember that you must pay them on or before the first of February. We hope to see every one who is subject to such a tax pay the same in the time allowed by law. T. Wiudham Leaves, Mr. T.

A. Windham, the pop ular salesman of Lax-Fos, after spending seyeral days in the city with his family, left on last Sunday for South Georgia where he goes in the interest of his company. Mr. Windham is one of the most popular salesmen on the road and his visits home are always a source of much pleasure to his friends. Teachers Pay Day On last Saturday, the teachers of the County were paid off by Superintendent Head.

The fact that the past month was broken into by the holidays, the pay roli was quite a large one. Jury Commission Meats. The Jury Commission for Dale County was in session on last Wednesday, revising the Jury box for the ensuing year. The Commission is composed of Messrs L. W.

Kolb, S. Deese and R. L. Jones with Mr F. O.

Deese as Clerk. The man who handles the cal department of a newspaper learns after due experience not to expect even brief thanks from a column of pleasant things but he knoweth as surely as com eth the winter that a single line in in which there is an unintentional representation will cause some one to be heard from as if fret hehouse top: And we may add that when he has made mention 999 times of of some person, place or thing but on the thousandth time fails to do so, he must not expect to be forgotten. The omission may have been from accident, inadvertance or even an entire lack of knowledge. It matters not. The simple fact remains and he will be judged by that.

Dothan Journal. Resolve On New Year To boom business. To tell only half you hear." To believe no scandal, and not to listen to it unless tied down. To fight the devil even if he licks you. To work for what you get and not depend on beating some one out of a living.

To meddle with nobody's business but leave that to the editor. To cuss no one but the editor -he doesn't mind it. To work for your town, and boost it every chance you get. To put off getting mad unti tomorrow--that day never comes. To pay for the Star when your subscription is dre.

To advertise your business and thereby do business. To do more for yourself and not depend on someone else to do for you. To keep out of debt for debt is a hard master. To quit lending your paper to some fellow who is too stingy to subscribe for himself. If you will keep these resolutions you will live long, prosper in Ind be happy.

Try it. Always Just Going To He meant to insure his house but it buined up before he got around to it. He was just going to pay a ote when it went to protest. He was just going to send some flowers to a sick friend, hen it proved too late. He was just going to stop drinking and dissipating when health became wrecked He was just going to close a asiness deal when he found that dis competitor had preceded id closed the deal.

He was just going to quit work take a vacation when nervs prostration came. He was just going to repair his sidewalk when a neighbor fell and broke his leg. He was just going to provide his wife more help when she took to her bed and required a nurse, a doctor and a maid. He was just going to introduce a better system into his business when it went to smash. He was just going to join a printers's organization, but the sheriff called and he didn't need Shop Talk.

"I have visited a number of cotton states -practially all of them -within the past six weeks and I am impressed with the fact that Alabama is behind none of them in agricultural progress," said CF Caisson of St. Louis. "I have spent a good deal of time in the South in the last five or six years and marvel to see the advance that this state has made in the matter ef diversified crops. Its new high record in corn and hay production this year will mean a vast addition to the wealth of the state and the best of it is ever higher records will be made in the years to come. Alabama is questionable a most prosperous state and is destined to be the richest in the Herald.

John F. McCarty, of Floydada, Texas, has established headquarters at Daleville in the live stock business. He sold out a hundred head at Hartford and then bought out Mr. Bourner who was here from the same place, and let Mr. Bourner go home, which he did last Sunday.

We welcome John back. He was raised at Daleville, being a son of the late Alsie McCarty. The Knights of Pythias have decided to build a $75,000 temple in Montgomery. The plans have been accepted and the building will go up immediately after the meeting of the Grand Lodge in May. The site has been purchased and all plans made for the building.

It will be on Dexter Avenue. Ule wish For OUR CUSTOMERS A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR Ariton Banking Company Ariton, Alabama Bank With A Personality" Charles Carroil of Cottonwood spent several days of last week the city the guest of relatives. Hon. Wm Garner was confined to his bed several eays of last week with a severe cold. We call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Mutual Fertilizer Co.

to be found elsewhere in this issue of the paper. This Company has been in business for the past sev, eral years and have a large trade We understand that the tist denomination will some soon begin the erection of a parsonage on the lot purchased near the church. We congratulate them upon their decision and hope to see the work begin soon. The hardest freeze of the win. ter struck this section Tuesday night of last week.

Considerable damage was done vegetatiou-turnips, beets, cabbage plants and the like-and business was parallyzed for several days. Get your land ready for early planting. If your cotton and corn get cut. down by frost you will be apace with the foremost but if they escape you stand a better chance to make a crop. It won't hurt corn to get nipped in infancy anyway so say many good farmers.

The spring session of the Dale County High School opened 011 Monday of last week with a fine attendance. This is our school and everybody should put their shoulders to the wheel and push it along. So far this has been the most successful term the school ever had. Next week and the fur will begin to fly. Those who think that liquor will be put every town and hamlet of the country will find themselves disappointed.

The Fuller law will likely remain on the statutes of the state, although the existlaws on the liquor question will likely be modified. The paving of sidewalks in Ozark at the expense chiefly of the abutting property holders is being agitated by leaders in public affairs. We should like to see estimates of cost before expousing the paving cause. Will some one in position to make such estimates furnish the Star with data soon as as convenient. Mr Walton Andrews Chief of Police went down to Way Cross one day last week after Zack Paramore who was wanted for jumping a contract.

Zack. had been draying for Mr A Loftin for the past year or so, and a few days ago, he decided to go somewhere else, leaving Mr Loftin with the bag to hold and also a good size account on his books. He is back however and is doing duty at the same old place. ORDINANCE 110 249. Requiring and providing for a License Tax, regulating the payment thereof, and fixing the punishment and fine for the violation of this ordinance.

Be it ordained by the city council of the city of as follows: 1. That on and after the a- doption and promulgation of this Ordinance; each and every Itinerant tailor, salesman, dealer or merchant or vender, in, and of of goods, wares, merchandise, dry goods, notions, ladies' and gentlemens' wearing apparel or furnishings, carpets, mattings or rugs, doing business within the corporate limits in the City of Ozark, whether by principal, agent or representative, and whether by direct sales, orders delivery or otherwise, or from samples or other modes of doing or procuring such business, must before doing such business or procuring such orders and making such delivery secure, take out and pay to the City of Ozark, a Privilige License Tax, in the sum of twenty dollars, permitting and authorizing the entering in and carrying on such business within the corporate limits of the City of Ozark. 2. The license tax mentioned required and authorized in Section 1 of this Ordinance shall apply particularly to resident citizens of the State of Alabama doing or carrying on such business within the corporate limits of the City of Ozark, and to such other persons and in such cases and matters as provided for here in not to conflict with the rules, regulations and laws of InterState Commerce, and the same shall apply to all businesses named in Section 1. of this ordinance.

3. That the License Tax authorized, required and to be ken out, shall be per anum; and shall be issued upon application to the Mayor of the City of Ozark, as other License are issued and by the same authority and Officers of The City of Ozark and the time and amount given and divided as other Privilige License Tax issued by The City of Ozark. 4. That any person firm, association, or corporation, violating this Ordinance, shall be guil ty of a misdemeanor, and upon a conviction therefor, shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than fifty dollars at the discretion of the mayor trying the cause. 5.

That all Ordinances and Laws of The City of Ozark, in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this Ordinance, are to that extent repealed, otherwise to remain in full force and effect. Approved and adopted, Dec. 1st, 1910. J. R.

Dowling, J. E. Acker, Clerk. Mayor. Go to Godwin for the wine Burt seed oats,.