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EAST TENNESSEE
AT the Centennial Exposition.

BY HON. JOSHUA W. CALDWELL.
The cordial endorsement and the ener-
getic assistance which the Centennial
is receiving in all parts of the State
make argument in it's behalf unneces-
sary. This article is prepared by re-
quest, with the hope that it may enlist
the interest of some who have not yet
realized the Importance and the sure ben
efits of the undertaking.
That expositions Of the kind which we
intend to have are highly beneficial,
will be disputed by no one who has con-
sidered the subject. The relation of the
New Orleans Exposition to the new
epoch of Southern enterprised and de-
velopment is obvious.
1t is plain, also, that the industrial
leadership of Georgia and the prosperity
of Atlanta and Augusta, are in large
measure the results of advertising by
means OF industrial expositions.
THE TENNESSEE CENTENNIAL
is not intended to be exclusively an in
dustrial exposition. The historic and
patriotic features of it ought, however, to
be subordinate to the industrial. This
statement must not be taken as indicat-
ing want of patriotism or OF State pride.
1t is a matter of duty no less than of
pleasure and pride to rehearse and make
more widely known the admirable and
heroic history of our ancestors, but in
order to attract the attention of strang-
ers and to win accessions of population
and of capital we must show what Ten
nessee is and what she may become in
dustrially, materially. The historical
Centennial we shall have mainly for
ourselves, the industrial Centennial for
others. Our students, our writers and
our orators will find boundless unex-
plored and rich fields ready to their
hands, and we shall encourage and APP
plaud their efforts, butSnot a dollar of
capital will come to Tennessee because
John Sewer fought at Kings Mountain;
not an immigrant will come because Old
Hickory whipped the British at New Or
leans. 1t is our soil, our cotton, our corn,
timber, coal, iron, marble, that will
bring men and money to us.
address myself first to the benefits
to be derived by East Tennessee from
the industrial features of the Exposition.
East Tennessee is the mineral pro-
ducing and manufacturing section of the
State. While statistics prove that she is
one of the most important and product
i've agricultural sections of the country,
it may be admitted that her lands have
not that uniforms fertility that the lands
west Of the mountains have Upon the
other hand, shells in mineral wealth
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the other grand
divisions of the State, and is richer, we
believe, than any territory OF equal ex-
tent in the United States.
| call attention first to the fact that
she is especially favored in that great
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THE TENNESSEE WOMEN.
What They viii Do at the Coming Big
Centennial.
The Watauga Settlement and the Daugh-
tiers of the Revolution.
Rv Mrs Mildred Spotswood Mathes.

BY Mrs. Mildred Spotswood Mathes.
The Woman's building, Assembly
hall and Watauga settlement of the Ten
nessee Centennial will be in the direct
charge and control of the women of Ten
nessee, and the members ofthe Woman's
Board are anxious to secure cooperation
of women of ability, influence and pat
riotism in making the department a
grand success.
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LANDS ADAPTED TO SHEEP INDUSTRY.

What we really want is a class of
home-seeking agricultural immigrants.
We want the waste places of our State
filled up with an industrious agricul-
tural population. We want our hun
dreds of thousands of acres of forest
felled and converted into orchards, and
fields of fruits and grains and grasses
and thousands of sheep and cattle.
Thus we will make a market for our
growing cities, and the cities will make
market for the farm products We
want parts of our country, which now
have population of five persons to the
square mile to have fifty persons to the
square mile. These parts of the country
will better support the fifty than they
now do the five, and the fifty will have
all the benefits that abundant wealth
brings, and which the five are now en-
tirely without.
Tennessee has not sufficient popula-
ton to utilize natures gifts 70 her. Her
population is so sparse that she cannot
support proper system OF public or
private schools, and hence she lacks
trained and skilled labor, and muscle
and brain to be united to the proper
development of her resources. In short,
she needs more people, She needs
them faster than she can breed them.
We must have immigration. Our fore
fathers were immigrants. and we want
more until our country is sufficiently
populated to give the best results OF
civilization.
No section of country can attain the
full benefit of its resources or enjoy the
full measure of prosperity to which
these resources Justly entitle it, until il
contains sufficient capital and popula
ton to develop these resources and util
ize them for man.
The settlement of all parts of our State
by prosperous, industrious people
will make freight for railroads and rail
roads will be built to carry these freight'
and these people. The railroads will
make accessible and bring into marke
our vast timber and mineral resources
and induce the establishment of numer
GUS industries which will give wages t
| thousands of wage-earners.
| AS Tennessee has vast resources of un
developed mineral wealth and great ag
ricultural productive capacity, it is rea
sonable to suppose that in doubling he
population, she would double her assess
able values. So, at our present rate o
taxation, the revenue would double.
AS an economic question, we can SCI
the advantage OF increased population
The cost of administering the govern
ment would not increase in the same ra
ito as assessable values. The rate of
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struction Of new ones, and all tends to
multiply the demand for honest labor
and the abolition Of vagrancy, The inn
mediate returns are in the distribution
in the community of thousands of dol
lars, but the prospective advantages are
far greater and more important. Here
lies dormant wealth in practically limit
less abundance and almost infinite vari-
ETY.. In the border section of the South,
including the far-reaching Tennessee and
Cumberland River valleys are found the
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WAR BETWEEN THE STATES

she furnished thirty thousand soldiers to
the Federal army. Since the war, she
has been intensely and overwhelmingly
Republican. These causes have produc-
ed certain alienation of East Tennessee
from Middle and West Tennessee, and IL
must be admitted that our compatriots
west of the mountains have assumed oc-
casionally a tone of somewhat positive
superiority which will, upon examina-
ton, be found TO have limited justi-
fcation.
The Centennial can hardly fail to re-
move very much of this unfortunate and
unfounded sectional feeling and preju-
dice. 1t will bring the people Of the
whole State together IN a common patri-
otic and worthy undertaking; it will
enliven the spirit of enterprise and beget
a sentiment of mutual esteem and re-
spect
Writing as a Southern man and q
lifelong Democrat. venture to suggest
to our brethren beyond the mountains,
that they may possibly find that some
good may come from East Tennessee.
And so while have endeavored to show
that East Tennessee will derive the
greatest benefit from the industrial ex-
position and may contribute most richly
to the historical exposition, | think Of
nothing in connection with the Centen-
NAL which is more pleasant or more
likely to produce good results than the
fact that all'divisions are at last united
ia good and great undertaking for the
welfare Of the entire State, of all the d.
visions, and OF all the people.
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THE STATE OF FRANKLIN

was the State of East Tennessee. II
there be touch of exaggeration and OF
burlesque in the later history of this
unique and short-lived commonwealth,
nevertheless the unselfish patriotism
and the devotion of its founders and
supporters call for the highest praise.
1t was but another manifestation of the
spirit that had produced the Watauga
Association. Not long after the demise
of Franklin, courtly William Blount
comes upon the scene, and builds at
Knoxville that magnificent and incom-
parable mansion Of logs sheathed in
planks, wherein he soon enshrines the
most beautiful and gracious of ladies',
Mary Granger Blount.
In few years Tennessee became a
State. East Tennessee favored the State,
Middle Tennessee opposed it. The Con-
stitution was made at Knoxville, which
became the capital OF the State as it had
been the capital of the Territory.
The names most conspicuous in the
succeeding years were John Sewer,
Willie Blount, Andrew Jackson, Hugh
Lawson White. To the war of 1912 and
to the Mexican war, East Tennessee con-
tributed her part.
Most worthy of mention is the love of
education displayed by East Tennessee
from the first The Constitution" OF
Franklin was earnest and elaborate, il
impracticable in providing for education
The first Territorial and the first State
legislature alike, seem to have had the
subject first in mind. The old Wash =,
ington College and Blount College, which
is now the University of Tennessee, are
among the noblest monuments of these
early East Tennesseans.
In the later history of the State, East
Tennessee has been no less active and in
fluential than the other grand divisions.
She has been dominated by political
faith directly opposed to that which pre-
walls in the remainder OF the State, but it
is. of the very essence of our principles to
tolerate differences of opinion.
During the
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FOR EXHIBITS OF RELICS

of all the different wars, with flags repre-
senting the period and organizations I'M
der which they are displayed Sbeginning
with the colonial period and down into
this century, depicting every phase, his
tory, character of the times.
An Assembly Hall will be in connec-
ton with this building, where every
organized society, church, school and
nationality under woman's province can
have its day. with its exhibitions, pro-
gramme, teas and reunions. Through
..these organizations the greatest lectur-
Ners, scholars, writers, poets, artists and
musicians can be brought to take part in
their especial day and chosen line of
work. As this feature was the great
centre of attraction at the Columbian
Exposition, it is greatly
DESIRED THAT ALL ORGANIZATIONS
in tie State, whether industrial, relig-
ious. educational or patriotic shall avail
themselves of this opportunity to adj
vance and promote the interests and
building up their cause by arranging a
programme and naming some special
day on which they would like to have
the Assembly Hall for their use.
There will be grouped appropriately
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THE woMAN's BUILDING.

The directors of the Centennial having
realized the great advantage and attrac-
ton that this building will be with its
vast variety of exhibits of useful and
ornamental branches of woman's work,
representing all its color and beauty,
have agreed to erect building suific-
iently large for fun display of every
department, and they have entrusted
great and responsible duties to all the
women of the State. There will be COM
mittees on fine arts, statuary, wood
carving, ceramics, embroidery, charities
and reforms, kindergartens, training
schools, inventions, sciences and all i'm
portant lines of work in which women
are now engaged. There will also be
space allotted
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essential OF cheap manufacture, water
power Her rugged topography pro-
duces this in the greatest abundance,
and the climate is such that is always
serviceable Even in our coolest win
ters, the swift mountain streams are
never frozen, and they are capable OF
furnishing power for all the manufacto-
ries of the United States.
First in importance among her min
erals is coal. The coal area of this divis-
ion covers all the counties that lie ON the
Cumberland Plateau. We must recall
the fact stated by Mr.. f. L. McCroskey,
OF Knoxville, in his admirable paper on
the coal district of East Tennessee, that
the first car load of East Tennessee coal
was shipped in October, 1867.
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BY HON. JOSHUA W. CALDWELL.
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u6NtlOpcu. LII IIlo 6AbT6Hlo southeast
ern corner of the State, in Polk County,
mines of copper have been worked for
more than forty years. Various causes
interfered for time with the working of
these mines but within the last three
years operations have been resumed with
satisfactory results. There is probably
not county in East Tennessee which
does not contain either coal, marble,
iron, lead or zinc in sufficient quantities
to repay development.
There are fourteen iron furnaces in
East Tennessee in active operation or
temporarily suspended There are eight
copper mines in Polk County, all capa-
BILE of producing ore The principal
operations in zinc have been carried on
at Messy Creek, in Jefferson County,
and along Powell's River in Uniou
County.
East Tennessee is particularly adapted
to the manufacture of iron, on account
of the great abundance and proximity to
the iron beds of limestone OF quality
suited to that purpose.
Thus we have the greatest abundance
of water power, of steam coal, Of iron
and of marble, together with liberal de-
posts of lead, zinc and copper
/ have already stated that the mild
ness. of the climate enables us to use the
water power practically without inter-
ruption. Statistics covering ten years
show that during that period there were
on an average three days in year when
it was too cold forxcarrying on outdoor
mining and quarrying. The stoppage of
machinery is never necessary.
The climatic advantages OF East Ten
nessee are very imperiectly known. The
writer has had correspondence with in
telIigent and educated people in Pennsyl-
vania who would not come to East Ten
nessee in the summer time for fear Of
yellow fever. They we're not informed
of the fact that during more than one
epidemic of yellow fever East Tennessee
has been a place of sure refuge for the
people of the afflicted districts.
The average elevation of East Tonnes
see above the sea level is about 1900
feet; and while it is thus secure against
such diseases as yellow fever it Is pro-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
PLAINFiELD.

John M~argeson, of Grand Rapids,
returned home Monday after several
days visit with bis sister, Mrs. ]. W.
Boyee.
Henry Pellersels, of Grand Rapids,
spent last Thursday and Friday here
the guest of his brother-in-laws, T. L.
Chamberlin and w. B. Runcorn.
Young Weaver came over from the
Twin Cities last week and will be
employed on the farm of Preston Weber
the coming season.
j.. I. Aber and daughter Della spent
Saturday and Sunday with relatives at
Stevens Point. Mr.. Aber had been
summoned as Juryman but as court was
postponed one week he came home to
await until next Monday.
Gilbert Inghram and family, who
have been spending the winter with
their daughter, Mrs. Hiram Slack.
expect to return to their home in New
Rome next week.
Miss Gertie Wood, a former teacher
in the Centralia high school, closed Z
successful term Of school this week al
West Plainfeld.
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. V. Ferdon, Fred
Culbertson and Oliver Ferdon, were
business visitors at Wautoma last week
On Sunday last Albert Lakin anC
Miss Clara Bently were married by Rev
r. d. Sparks.
Mrs. W. II. Youngman departed the
first of the week for an extended visi
at WauSau.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28

Mrs. Martha Turner, aged 81, died
Wednesday morning March 90. She
had been confined to her bed for nearly
four years. Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon in the schoolhouse,
Rev. Barker of P~ittsyille preacher.
Rev. Davis, presiding Elder of the
Ashland Dist. NJ. E. Conference. held
the quarterly conference of the Dex-
terville circuit here Saturday afternoon.
He preached an able sermon Sunday
evening and administered the Lords
supper.
The /. @. G. 7. ~reorganized their
lodge here Wednesday evening with
Mrs. E. S. Hiles Deputy Grand Chief
Templar, Jessie NJ. Favell as Chief Tenn
plar, Eta L. Wooddell Vice Templar,
Homer Taggart, Secretary, Mrs. H.
Winegartner, Treasurer and John
Wcoddell as Marshal. A good time is
reported.
Mr.. Fred Harlan has moved his
family to Pittsville and departed for
Minnesota where he will continue to
farm.
Mr.. Henry Winegartner has rented
Mr.. Harland's farm and we understand
will move his family into the country
for the season.
We are glad to note that John Morgan
Jr. is able to be among us again.
The Mendellsohn Club of Pittsville
called the Baskerville band to assist
them at their third appearance with
Queen Esther"
Mesdames Johnson and Favell of
Pittsville spent Thursday with Miss
Favell.
Cash is more plentiful since March p
pay day.
Mrs. Keller of Mcmillan is visiting
relatives i'll town.
Lalia Butterball came over from
MERRIAM Saturday to spend her vaca-
ton with her aunt, Mrs. A. 6. Miller.
A son and heir came to stay with Mr..
and Mrs. l.. Miller Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Jas. Hiles spent the Sabbath in
Milwaukee.
Born, Saturday March 23rd, to Mr..
and Mrs. Pierce, a son..
Mr.. Samuel Hiles visited Lynn and
Neillsville on Tuesday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
SPRING CREEK.

The Spring examination for teachers
is held at this place Mar. 30 and 30th.
MI. II. Speese, of Necedah was
around last week buying mutton.
Mr.. E. Williamson Jr. and wife, Of
Rib Lake, Wis, are visiting their
parents at the present writing.
The work on the new school-house in
District No. 2 in this town was COM
menced last Monday.
Miss Sue Beeston is expected home
on Wednesday of this week from
Chippewa Falls. She will begin teach
ing again in the Ely Dist. April LIST.
Mr.. H. G. Anderson hauled two load
of potatoes to Hancock last week and
received SO per bushel. The buyers
are getting anxious for the early seed.
Miss Eva Ford closed her winter
term of school here last Saturday Mar.
10th. She has been engaged to teach
at Barnum this summer.
Mr.. Geo. Z. Beeston made a business
trip to Portage last week.
The house Of Mr.. r. Bates caught
fire last Thursday afternoon and before
the flames could be extinguished it
burned a large hole in the roof.
Mrs. Richmond, who has been very
sick tor the past month is somewhat
improved at this writing.
Mr.. Y. i. Edwardson has an Auction
Sale of his personal property this week
Thursday.
The Ice Cream social at Mr.. G.
Haven's last Friday was quite we'll
attended. The proceeds amounting to
500.
The School Boards in the ArkdaIe
and Thompson Districts have adopted
the Werner Publishing Co.'S list of text
books for school use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
Found Guilty.

The people in the fourth ward in this
city have been agitated the past week
over the fact that D. W. Compton and
his son George had beaten Mrs. D. W.
Compton the past week. Her person
had several black and blue spots as a
result of their blows. She had them
arrested and they were tried before
Andrew Oettinger's court of Justice
Monday and Tuesday. The prosecution
was represented by J. w. Cochran and
the defense by B. NJ. Vaughan. A large
number of witnesses testified 10 the
facts in the case. The evidence was
strongly against both father and son.
Those who were present at the trial
report that the justice was liberal
enough when he fined the father $40
and costs amounting in all to S3S.59 or
10 days in the county Jail. The boy was
fined S15 and costs amounting to $685.
or 10 DAYS in the county Jail. They
both took appeals and bonds for their
appearance.
The following taken from The
Western Reserve Medium is very
applicable in this case and expresses
our sentiments:
Mark the young man who is coarse
and disrespectful to his mothec. No
roseate pathway can be hers who shall
sustain TO him the relation of wife. Not
the happiest will be the lot of those
who shall come to be his children. Not
to be envied is the neighborhood even
in which he must be reckoned as a
citizen. 1t does not matter what the
mental status of that mother is, how
old, how bent; how decrepit, the man
to whom she is mother owes to her
gentleness, kindness tenderness and
consideration. Did she fall back and
did the children with superior advan-
tages pass her in the race? But think
of her toll and trial, her devotion and
denial, her mind and her years that she
gave that the children might derive the
benefit. Think of her sa~crifce-no
wonder if she fell behind, with her
heart in her home, in the buds that
were hers.
There is no rank, no station, no condl-
ton that may exempt a manly man
from a kind regard for a mother. Much
might we learn from pagan China and
Japan in tilial tenderness and respect.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
PETTSVILLE.

L. Ward has broken camp and is now
III Pittsville with his horses and camp
kit.
c. II. Finley and VIM. Hannah have
gone South to look mp timber interests.
Mrs. Mary Hannah is visiting friends
in TOmah.
The following are the officers nomi-
mated at the City Caucus for city offices:
Mayor-L. L. Doud.
Treas.-L. L. Colvin.
Assessor-Jno. Landlord.
Marshal-Wm. Z. Little.
Police Justice-JOs. Clapper.
Chas. Galloway has concluded to bid
good bye to friends and neighbOrs in
Pittsville and take up his residence in
Marshtield where his son Andrew is in
business.
Mr.. Ring has been compelled to close
his mill in Nevins on account of the
well going dry. Ed. says he will start
again April lst with A. G. Briggs at the
helm.
r. n. Keringham Dick has gone to
Chill for the summer. The girls will
miss Dick and his candy.
Jay Blakeley has quietly folded his
tent and HE'D away TO Dakota.
Mr.. @. P. Mcneil, photographer of
Grand Rapids, was in our city Wednes-
dav taking pictures, and will be here
every Wednesday for a while.
T. Harland and family have moved
into the Nash Mitchell home for the
summer.
Doud, Son d Co. expect to start their
factory April LIST. They have in a large
stock and Will be kept busy until some
time in October.
Call on Mcneil, the artistic photo
grapher Wednesday next and have a
good picture of yourself taken. Stand
Ii the old gallery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
Lenten Services.

a series of Lenten Services will be
held in the Cong'l Church during the
remaining weeks of the season, to be
conducted by the Pastor, assisted by
visiting ministers.
Wednesday and Thursday April 3rd
and 4th, Rev. Thos. Barker.
Monday to Friday April Sth to 18th.
Rev. J. r. Ward.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-03-28
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Per Year
Correspondence.
NEW ROT1E.

Mr.. 0. G. Ranck made a business trip
to Hancock on Monday last returning
on Tuesday.
Mr.. F. Walker was the guest of Miss
Ida Burhite a few days the past week.
The school of District No. 2, spent
Saturday last at Grand Rapids, while
there they all bad some pictures taken.
Mr.. Arnie Anderson made a business
trip to Arkdale last week.
Miss Edith Ranck, spent last week at
Mr.. j. Harrisons of Grand Rapids.
Mr.. S. Faye and Miss Alma Burh1te,
of Plaintield, made a visit in this
vicinity the past week the guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Monroe and Mr.. and
Mrs. r. NJ. Burroughs and family.
Mr.. D. Hanson, Of Minnesota, is the
guest Of Mr.. Arnie Anderson.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. G.. Ranck gave a
party on Mar. 23d, in honor Of Grand
ma Harrison's 18th birthday. All who
attended report an enjoyable afternoon.