The Dothan Eagle from Dothan, Alabama • 1

DOTHAN ALABAMA THURSDAY EVENING MAY 13TH 1909 VOLUMB 1 and few people 'regret it depar ncr which may be or depend ordinance and for each and IMPORTANT MEETING TRIAL Was No 9 MAIN STREET SOMETHING NEW 0 YOUBS 0 0 0 000 0 0 00 00000000000 AN ORDINANCE 15' The Bible Name 00 Uma said thne per nt due said An uXsaKcatsa 00 CHERRY THE SHORT ONES Bs 00 is a the 1 i iSi 3f th will all 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pike Stewart Sheriff County is in Dothan 00 00' 00n 00J 00 of fl ies tnan $3 00 and not more than 10000 shall be impose) Anloptid this the lllh day of MBtsra NUMBER IM Webb of Webb is in town tay Coffee day The regular monthly meeting of the Commercial Club will be held this evening at eight in the Council Chamber and some important business is scheduled to come up for discussion and settlement Among the more im portant items are a cotton mill proposition and the matter oi holding a Chautauqua here some time next year The Club has received an offer from a well known firm to organ ize finance apd establish a cot ton mill of 20 (MM) spindles and the stipulations and terms will be thoroughly gone over at the uieet ing tonight and some action taken in the matter Quite a number of I citizens are imbued with the idea I of having a chautanqua i and the proa and cons of this subject will receive attention at the meeting tonight Not only the Club members but even in tew sted citizen is requested to be s' present and to take a part in the discussions TO BE HELD BY THE COMMERCIAL CLUB Cotton Mill Proposition and Chau tauqua Matter To Ba Considered No charge for neck shave at RYSTAL The trial of Sr be Tiller halted tudaj on account of the ab sence of an important witness This witness lived in the Sanders neighborhood and had to be sent for fn the mean time the case of Bartow Holland was called and carried over to the all term The case of the State agains Lilia Martin and Will I lue hes col ored charged with murder is now being tried The evidence is not all in at the hour of going to press but it is thought thut (he case will get to the jury this afternoon and a verdict reached tonight As soon as this case is out of the way the trial of St be Tilhi will be resumed There are sev eral other important eases and a number of minor ones still on the docljet that have not been reached by the Court and chant's are that most of them have to go over until the 'enn DOTHAN ALABAMA A M' s' 3 s' ally adjtulil editorial writing will be a lost art in the course of time just as letter writing is a lost art bitty year ago before type writers re invented and be fore the world got into tuch a thundering hurry people wrote beautilul letters generally of ma kun ports Thusiivho come after us will jiid" H'S a po' deal by our news lapcis it those newspapers madf elli AVrod pulp will beni ruitny ami they will find th hurt jerky spasmodic editorials is harsh and lisnerc'itblea theotig pon ii ruiis ones Air plan would take all the character mt nJ newspapers and make hf as dry and unprofitable as be let bis that bm den the mails The (Jitorial pave may cease toe an iii'titutmn in time since the people are being educated up to di idea th it very thing that is not utilitarian is rubbish but vhile th editorial page is toleral liiiunee shall keep a complete andorreet record of all moiwys re vived by it for the business shtdl make statement with mid pay over to said City the amounts ns ei rtained to he due tinder this or dinam every three months from the date this ordannnee beeoim effective that a full and neviiratr statement shall be made up show ing the gross receipts of said bus iiiess tuid to be sworn to by the manager or person in charg thereof and submitted to th Mayor every three month a aforesaid provided that th Mayor of aaid City or any per son he may designate to act fm said City shall have the and authority to audit or check the books and records of bait business ami for this purpo said hooka and records must kepi open and subject to such in speetion as may be necessary' a any ami nil times ourth: That the sum of thro pct cent per annum on said gno ri ceipta shall apply to all charge for local or long distance use phones whether charged as phom rent orotherwisi' when said phon are conecteil with the wires main tinned as aforesaid and th" said three per cent of the grjss re ceipts on lung distance messages conversation or iimu of said lines mi all outgoing messages or con tsHtions to points beyond tin Stiit of Alabains shall be a er III mIpwii 1 mem When Laarm Mie hi ture and now there is a tendency to go to the other extreme and Drsent an rimrilfiit in an exnlo GOES OVER UNTIL sire paragraph This plan may THE ALL TERM I have it virtu but if it is gener Why Dam Stockings By Handls Ym GnM fraelMtm If Mike that? You miht be plan caning a trip ''vtXoinfejjMiJw fix you fup We wish to thank yon very kindly for th libera) paironugton have given us since havimharge of this place u( amuse ment and appreciation of sauu ve have ordered an up to date Edison lickerless Motion Mahine which should arrive nextyjek This machine gives a fifty per cent better and brighter pic ure the objects move naturally the pictijre is steady and brightei in fact it is to perfection in even respect Watch for our an uoiincement of its anial Again thanking you ami solicit ng a continuance of ymir patron ige and promising you the very st of pictures from a moral itaridpoint We beg to amm Very tridv MR AND MRS MORRIS Im out i gc th gentle liti ran zravi which should give it aoim value in 111" si dit of men whe njoy isur ly i ading Tiber CaM Will Hughes and Lilia Llartin On Trial TO PATRONS THE ELECTRIC THEATRE rom the New York World Have you ever reflected when I you finish up yoru letter sincerely John uhy you Ai so or whence came the origin of the epistolary method of sub scribing to your state of soul in regard to any particular corres pondent? Well if you subscrib ed yourself without wax John it would amount to the same thjng how: Wwcn the Roman jurymen re turned their verdicts they usually did so on a wax tablet In cases however when the verdict was so overwhelmingly in favor of a per son on trial for any offense they were slowed to give th ir serJic! that is to say with out wax or without going io tin1 formality of iincrbiing their ver dict on the wax tabbt teera) Smvhen you subscribe youro lf to a person yon (11fln hen yot are serious oi ijr that your regard him dwv bai rd 's the bu si i You 1 An Alabama man tills of an in Birmingham who he cum? possessed 1 'cdv ami lorn lookim? dmr to uhirti nromptly assiirm the says Weri Time is worth money in Dothan Save it by shaving at the ACME theaced negro ya asked did you hit upm a immr lhe dog? it onten de 1 th" tlarkey sah her where it say lav nt ib rich gate over de dm come In 4 Mv IKK I Clerk Maj ent upon the grant of public pow every violation of the terms of era or privileges or the uoof the orjll)ajUe or any pttrt there territory or streets alley upon conviction a tine of amt highway ot srd vity Second: 7 That every corpora tion individual aoeialion part nership or company engaged in the businessembraced or set out in the preceding selion ot this or dinance shall is addition to the ad valorrun and special tWs im posed on them now 6r hereafter by law annually begiuntnip with the year ItMMi and each year hereatter pay to said 5 City of Dothan and there is levied a tax by said Cityor the year 1WD and for each year on their franchise three per cent of 1hecntire gross rceipta of said business so maiiitin or con and upon all cmivi raatioiiVTn's sfiges or iim oi said line orip natitig without the State of Ala 9 MET DOTH A A A A i Henry Allen of th" Wichita Beacon whose opinon on anythin' touching newspaper work i worth considering since he ha made such a conpicuous sm cevs of his paper hands down the opin ion that no editorial should more than three inches long and with admiral emiristeney he fol lows this editoral shout J0" The old fashioned long winde editorial about twelve inches long it iiLiiifiil by th Citymm il Dothan as follows: Th it oh ami after the of tl is ohlinancv Hot1 JiaH ami io by is lend a i'nim'hi on all corporal urns whether organized imh'r tbr laws tl Mi i nr oilier Slat riovewimmit ach ami charge for the "ntir diriHtanm evety imli vidua! pirlm hip oi company iiigagcil in th business mainteinmg or operating for gam any lim plant btisinrss by nu wires or rabies shuns oil poles pipes othirwise or conduit const mot rd I or ma i taim on 0tr under or tbr mirhiiv rrin ty or any street alleyr highway in aaid of Do than or who iiiainlains or operate th" cables wires polls and con notions over said City by mean aforesaid which message 4te transmitted to mints in the City or ymd the limits thereof and oxer which mesagr io or from point beyond said City are received or over or by which a local or long distance telephone station is operated or maintained for the purpose enabling per son to commnnicate with each other fmm different jint by mean of tlm uee of said wires cabk conduits or otherwise conducted in the aforesaid man th indifferent alh' the unpardon pi 1 ir atroetie a rnf riHn rd? 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A irncbmnii xmII 11 ymt t'1 w''h" remains viib especial twnt: rem's 4 ih higli'sl i msidri your Jules Le Mouton Chinaman will say: irm favored of heaven May the gods preserve your honorabh rriin in i iiiirer mif for the anw llu 0 0 5 rrlarire pri the distance YOW NEED A GRIP yoml sahl tdite line to the bj( 00 4' live point bears to th eutit in tins pl asiiut labor such a gn i that when they died their was collected and published in book form and inane th? imM luteri'stiug book in(he world are of this epistolary ehraetr nimh of the history ducted as know it is based upon the Third: That every corporation Idlers oi people who died long person firm association or com long ago the glimpse we have pany engaged in the biiiii' de of th colitis Ibr great iimn im rili in section one of this or itrlis all that we know of the ill aui love affair and inml" diplomacy is drawn from I yellow let the people of genera tion hiVi goii" to their fathers who will altrnipl to make books Il would be like of pat nt oflien re When this bettie Is fHlee with het ceffee hot 0 tea oY anything else it remains the same tern 0 peratore for two days If filled with Ice water 0 the same is the result If It's cold it stays cold if hot it stays hot Useful in the sickroom with children at night useful on the road or at hotae See them in display windows Hommond Drug Company 00 0 0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0 City shall be dt rinmed by 'ik ing fn Hie nntir price charged for 1 ha same the rt 1 ibve price tfer distanea bi voud said State line aid initial point bear to the tire i harge ifth: Tin book and kept and the statcm mt required by this ordinance to be shall be so kept arranged ami made a to the differ ence in tlhtanrrs and pricei on alt message conversation ami uses to and from all points vend said State of Alabama that the correct amount due nn 0 0r this ordinance way be wr lOO tained from aid book and re tp eordsJ that each and every day "or fractional part thereof that said business i maintained operated or conduct ed shall coiatitute separate of 0 tIhus JLA 4 9 As i JOE DAKKlt Mayor MM MW irst National Bank of Dothan UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY al Stock '250n0O(X) Surplus? 5000000 Stockholder liftfdliliek rrPir 550 00000 rtd firV asofMtooo l'h irgcsi lunik in Southen Alihami Your business solicited C111101111 treiitmr nt Al nilcd IV CMimirha IL Mnhme VIm pMikhnt Maluhr ('hIut Bcjd Assistant i i Av I 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 Sic Suit Case Trunk or anything 't 5 i MniiRiwm1 3 a yir BMWOiti1i: "Mi A fll 4 XI rW" 3 i TT Tf IT 1 5 II i Sl f' i tsi 4 '1 1 al I ra 4 I tt kstfltotlV BA kt VS Vr V' i 0 51 7.