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PAGE TWELVE HOME-RULE Thursday, January 16, 1908 TODD GETS JOB, Minneapolis, Jan. 14. A. D. Todd of Grant township has been appointed Ottawa county's assessor.

SADDLERY AND HARNESS MEN. Portland, Jan. 13. A convention of the Northwestern Saddlery and Harness Manufacturing asociation met here today and will remain in session two days. A number of matters of importance to the trade are slated for consideration.

Mrs. Phillips In this city. Mrs. Gil-lete came from her home in Boston to attend the reunion and a third sister was present from Illinois. The twin sisters were born in Boston, daughters of Gerry Terrell, who died at the age of 80, leaving 13 children, 10 of whom are living.

His father lived to be 104. His widow, mother of his 13 children, died at 86. DUFFY AND M. W. A.

Clay Center, Jan. 15. Last night Thos. H. Duffy, national lecturer of the M.

W. addressed a big crowd at the lodge, hall here. house and swimming pool idea and was backed by Mayor Speer and the city council. An appropriation of was set aside for the site and building and every cent of this money will be required in executing tho plans. In adition to the regular baths and swimming pool, a complete gymnasium will be maintained nd also reading- and assembly rooms.

In the basement provision has been mado for a laundry and arrangements will be made to keep this open to the public at all times and at a trifling cost. It is recognized generally that Alderman Hyder first put forward the demand for public baths and swimming pools in Denver, and it is conceded that he is entitled to have the first public bath bear his name. It is probable that it will be known as the Thomas M. Hyder's Bath, No. 1.

TO SING "ELIJAH" AT 84. Montclair, N. Jan. 13. Thomas Ball, the well-known sculptor, now in his eighty-fourth year, is to sing in the oratorio, "Elijah," here tonight.

Mr. Ball was the first to sing the part of Elijah in America. It will be just, sixty years ago tonight that he first appeared in the oratorio in Boston. HAS THIRD CARRIER. Clay Center, Jan.

14. The third carrier of the city delivery force begins his duties at the Clay Center postoffice tomorrow morning. AUTO SHOW IN HARTFORD. Hartford, Jan. 14.

A large and interesting exhibition of automobiles and accessories opened in the Foot Guard hall in tLls city today. The show is held under the auspices of the Hartford Automobile Dealers' association and will last through the remainder of the week. AGED WOMAN BURIED. Clay Center, Jan. 14.

Mrs. Rebekah Thomas, mother of Mrs. William Cooney, was buried this afternoon. She died Sunday morning at an advanced age. ROCKFORD POULTRY Rockford, 111., Jan.

13. The most notable show ever given under the auspices of the Rockford Poultry and Pet Stock Association opened today, to continue through Jthe week. A liberal premium list has attracted many high class exhibits from various parts of Illinois and neighboring states. TIES UP A HUNDRED-TWENTY. Smith Center, Jan.

14. Probate Judge Yard of this county issued an average of ten marriage licenses per month during 1907, an even 120. The largest number issued in any one month was 22, issued in December. He issued four in July and four in November. AFTER $75,000 POSTOFFICE.

Abilene, Jan. 14. An agitation has been started here by prominent business men and by the Commercial club to ask for a $75,000 federal building and postoffice. Senators Long and Curtis have introduced the bill. AUSTIN FOR STATE PRINTER.

Topeka, Jan. 15. W. C. Austin of Cottonwood Falls has announced him-sel fas a candidate for the Republican nomination for state printer.

Mr. Austin saye he will be a candidate whether the nomination is made bv primary election or state convention. The only other announced candidate for the place is Albert T. Reid of Topeka, the well known cartoonist and publisher. For a time there was a possibility that T.

A. McNeal, who is now MRS. GORDON A BRIDE. Baltimore, Jan. 11.

A wedding of note here today was that of Mrs. Basil Gordon, belonging to one of Baltimore's leading families, and Lieutenant Colonel George Barnett of th United States Marine Corps. The ceremony was performed in Christ Church and was followed bf a breakfast and reception at the home of the bride. HE IS ASSESSOR. Manhattan, Jan.

14. Riley county's board of county commission-firs hft P.lfir.tfirl A ffrh or mprhnrn nf Ogden as county assessor. There were seven other applicants for the completing nls second term as state prniter, might again be a candidate, but it is understood that he is out of the contest and will be a candidate for the nomination for Governor In SOLDIERS TO BE DISCHARGED. Junction City, Jan. 14 Almost sixty men of the Seventh cavalry wi'l be discharged at Ft.

Riley tomorrow. About an equal number will be discharged in February and in March. Unless -recruits are received during this period the organization will be greatly depleted in numbers. TRI-STATE BOWLING TOURNEY. Fort Wayne, Jan.

13. The tri-state bowling tournament, for which preparations have been going forward for several months, Opened here today under most auspicious conditions. Many of the most prominent alley experts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio are entered in the various events, which will extend over a period of three days. case the nomination is made by pri WILL GET INTO THE RACE. Hiawatha, Jan.

14. The friends of Ralph W. Hicks have prevailed upon him to enter the race for the Repub-lian nomination for representative from this district to the state legisla BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL. Santa Jan. 13.

The State Building Trades Council of California began its seventh annual convention in the city today a representative attendance of delegates. Jurisdictional questions and matters of importance to the building artisans throughout California will be considered by the convention and officers for the ensuing year will be elected. tureand he has so announced. SCHOOL RESUMED. Lawrence, Jan.

14. School work was resumed at the University of Kansas, yesterday after an interruption of two days, caused by the tragic suicide on Thursday morning of Urban mary. A rumor was started here yesterday that McNeal and H. B. Miller would demand that W.

R. Stubbs declare whether he will remain in the race for Governor if a primary law Is passed, but McNeal denied the report very vigorously. LUMBERMEN MEET. Indianapolis, Jan lS.The Retail Lumber Dealers' association of Indiana, opened its twenty-fourth annual convention today, with headquarters at the Claypool HoteL President Charles Frank, of -Mishawaka, presided. During the two days the convention will be in session a wide range of topics of interest to the trade will be discused and there will be addresses by Carrol F.

Sweet, president of the Mighigan Lumber Dealers' association, L. L. Ott, of Jefferson City, and James Bingham, attorney-general of Indiana. FRATERNAL CONGRESS. Topeka, Kan.j Jan.

13. The Kansas Fraternal Congress met in regular session in Topeka today and was called to order by President William L. Bur-dick of Lawrence. The congress includes in its membership the most of the fraternal beneficiary societies doing busines in Kansas. The principal work of the annual meeting is tcvcon-sider insurance, legislative and ohter matters of mutual interest.

WEST INDIAN Bridgetown, Barbadoes, Jan. 14. Representatives of the various West India colonies assembled here today for a conference to consider agricultural and other matters of general concern. Two representatives of the Dominion government are here to bring before the conference the question of closer trade relations between Canada and the West India colonies. Angney, the crack football player.

MARE VALUED AT $1,000. Clay Center, Jan. 14. W. T.

Ransdell has brought suit against the Rock Island Railroad company 'for $1,000, the alleged value of a fine thoroughbred mare killed on the track near the fair grounds last June. HAS GOOD SHOWING. Jan. 14. An annual sum ACCUSED OF MURDER.

Millersburg, Jan. 14 The case of Ben Dickerson, who was an inmate of the death house in the state prison at Columbus for many months, was called for trial here today. The case was brought here- on change of venue from Coshocton county, where Dicker son was found guilty in April, 1908; of the murder of Kate Hughes by strangulation. He was sentenced to death in September, 1906, but after being in the shadow of the death chair for months he was granted a new trial by the supreme court on legal TRAMPS TO BATHE. Denver, Jan.

10. Next June wijl mark the opening of Denver's first municipal bath house and swimming pool. It will be located a Twentieth and Curtis streets and the tion is entirely completed. It will be the most modern building devoted to that use in the country. All the best points of similar structures have been united in drawing the plans io: Denver's baths, and tome improvements have been added that were suggested by a study of the composite plans.

Alderman Thomas M. Hyder of the Third ward fathered the public bath CH.RCH HAS NOVEL PLAN. Lawrence; Jan. 15. The Unitarian church of this city has adopted" a novel advertising plan.

Paragraph sermons are printed every day, with heading showing the denomination rep resented and notifying those interested that literature may be obtained from the resident minister. The church has made a contract for six months' advertising service of the kind indicated and the experiment will bo matched with interest. mary of the finances of the Fraternal Aid association, whose national headquarters are here, shows, assets on January 1, 190S, of $400,563.43, an increase of almost $100,000 in the past twelve months. 77 YEARS OLD. Binghampton, N.

Jan. 14. Mrs. Anginette Phillips and Mrs. Antoinette Gillette, said to be the oldest twin sisters In this part of the country, celebrated the anniversary of their birth today at the home of.