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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
COUNTY ATTORNEYS.
SECOND ANNUAL MEETING TO
BE HELD AT ESTILL SPRINGS.

The second annual meeting of. the
County Attorneys Association of Ken
lucky will be held at Estill Springs
July ., 10 and IL. A meeting of the
executive committee was held in
Louisville yesterday. Governor Beck
ham will be present for a short time
during the meeting.
The executive committee is COM
posed Of W. o. Davis, of Versailles,
president; Samuel O. Molloy, of
Kuttawa. vice president; Thomas W.
Thomas, of Bowling Gieen, secretary !;
La Vega Clements Of Owensboro,
treasurer, and Samuel B. Kirby, of
Louisville.
The third day of the meeting will be
devoted to a consideration of the
good roads" question, and an exhi-
bition of improved road making ma
chinery will be made.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
|. c. EXCURSION BULLETIN.

Cerulean Springs-June 18th, opta.
ing ball, one fare, returning June 90.
Lexington, Ky.-June esd and
gath, one fare, Kentucky Educational
Association, returning June ~.
Chautauqua Lake, N. Y.-July 18th
and July 25th, sl9.95 for the round
trip, tickets sold July 4th will be good
returning until August 9TH, and those
sold 5uly 25th will be good returning
until August 26th.
Nashville, Tenn.-June 18TH, 18th,
and 18th, eth, 2sth and Goth, july Sd,
4th, and 5tn, one fare Peabody Sum
mer School, good returning until July
3lst with extension.
Knoxville, Tenn. June 10th, i7,h
and 18th, 2sth, Goth and soth, July
nth, 18th and 18th, one fare, Sum
mer school, good returning August
10th.
Denver, Colo. and Utah common
points-One fare plus o., June LIST to
2lst, June 26th to Soth ana July l4th
to 3ist, returning October 3lst
Denver and Colorado common points
$40. o round trip, June 22d to 25th
and July LIST to 18th, retaining Octo-
Der 31st.
st. Paul and common points-$2i. 65
round trip June LIST to 30th, July LIST
to 4th, July 9th to Slst, good return.
ing until October 3lst.
E8dyville. Ky.-Csmp me sting July
10 10 81. one fare limited to July 2s.
Providence, r. LIB. 7. p. u.
July 6, and s, one fare plus 81,
limited July 22.
Minneapolis, MINI. IN. f. A. July
5, 6 snd Z, one fare plus 80 limited
July > with arrangements for extern
sion Until octobr /.
Salt Lake City, Utah--Grand Lodge
b. p O. Z. August Z. s, 8 and 10.
$50 is for round trip, limited TO Sep.
TENDER 80.
Tacoma, wssh.-Young Peoples
Christian Union July l6 to 81, s52 so
for round trip limited to september
Is.
J. T. DONOVAN. agent.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
GREEN QUITS.
wITHDRAwS FROM THE RACE
FOR CONGRESS IN ILLINOIS.

Cairo, Ill, June 2l-Hon. Reed
Green, democratic candidate for con-
gress from this (25thl district, today
formally withdrew from the race. In
a letter which ne mailed to each Of
the members of the congressional com
mitee, he stated that the death of his
father, the late Judge william II.
Green, had imposed Lpon him addi-
tional burdens and duties which he
can neither neglect or postpone.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
ON CONGRESSMAN
WHEELER.
GOT ANOTHER COLLAR BY MIS-.
TAKE IN A BARBER SHOP.

The congressman wife in the Phil
adelphia Post tells this Joke on Con.
gresham Wheeler of Paducah:
Talking of Clothes" said Robert,
"there has been great mix-up over
in the house barber shop. You knew
Wheeler of Kentucky and Dinsmore
Of Arkansas are not exactly of a size.
and they both went to the barber
shop at the same time yesterday, and
both hung mp their collars on pegs
side by side. All went well fo- a
time, and Wheeler was the first to be
through and go. When Dinsmore
came to go ne took down his collar and
began to tug away at it, and it would
not do thing toward brttoning as
usual The air grew blue and finally
he whipped out his handkerchief and
tied it around his neck, and was about
to go back to the house when Wheeler
came rushing in in a tragic way and
cried out;
"I've got on somebody's collar and
it its like thunder.
" I should say you have growled
Dinsmore, untying his handkerchief
I've always heard that man has got
TO hang onto his pocketbook when he
comes to congress, but 1 never knew
that he'd got to hang onto his col
lar.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
NOT READY
CONTRACT FOR SCHOOL I'M.
PROvEMENTs NOT LET.

meeting of Trustees Leake,
Bauer, Mammen, Lally, Fuller, weille,
BocKmon, Sutherland and jackson
to award contracts for most of the
$4,000 improvements to be made on
the public school buildings this sum.
mer, was held last evening. The
plumbers reported that as they had not
yet received prices from the supply
houses, and could not bid fntelligently
on the work. The meeting adjourned
until Monday morning at 10 O'Clock.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
GOES SOUTH.
YOUNG PADUCAH MAN TO AC-
CEPT A RAILROAD POSITION.

Mr.. Eli Hutson, the young man
who has been running the popcorn
stand at Fourth and Broadway for the
pas. several seasons and has served as
a special policeman, will leave the
city Wednesday for Mississippi to ac-
cept position with the Gulf and
Ship Island road. Mr.. Illusions regu-
lar trade is that of mschinist hut he
has not been following it for several
years, His many friends here will
regret 20 learn of his departure.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
ECONOMY OF HAVING
TRUST COMPANIES ACT
AS EXECUTOR.

4 trust company receives exactly,
the same commission as an, individual
when % serves rs an exec ptor or aCt
minissratw, yet it brings 30 the NAB
agement Of an estate the combined ca
perieacos of several men of great alsl-
ity in financing and mssseement. IN
stead or that OF a single individual.
A srut company. being a perma-
nenS institution, these rs no deAger
from deaths like there is in the man
agosnent by an indiNidual. 4. trust
conpany, also, has its own strong
wants, burglar and fire prosf, aud
oRers every protec kion from tTes aud
other dangers.
A trust company is in the position
to SEIZURE Better investments than. q
private individual, as this comes in its
line Of business. and it can usually
find sucn investments quicker than an
Individual could. A tust company
for the same reason is IN better
position to dispose OF any property /;
il should he advisable TO do so.
The Globe Bank aud Trust 90, DO.
sides doing trust company business,
does a general banking business and
paws interest on time deposits. onice
500 Broadway
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
STRIKE OVER.
NO CONCESSION WAS MADE BY
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL.

The strike Of trackmen. which had
been on since Mondy, including most
Of the districts of the Illinois Central
which radi ate from Carbondsle, cam e
to a sudden end yesterday, when the
men again returned TO work. No
concessions werc granted by the com
pany. Nearly $50 Were out.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
COURT AT BENTON.
TWO BROTHERS GET SENTENCES
FOR HOUSEKEEPING

The criminal docket in the Marshall
circuit court has been finished and the
civil docket will now be taken up at
Benton. L. and Clarence Worshain,
charged with breaking into house
near Hardin when all the natives We're
away at a funeral, were sentenced to
four and two years respectively.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
WAS HELD UP.
ILLINOIS CENTRAL ENGINEER
REPORTS ROBBERY TO THE
POLICE.

Engineer W. l.. Skees of the Illinois
Central, last night reported to Captain
Henry Bailey Of the night police
force, that he was held up, and robbed
of $40 and his fine watch by two
negroes as he was ON his way from the
yards to the round house. One held
him while the other went through
HIM.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21

Engineer Reginald Duval of Louis
willie is visiting his mother here
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
SMALL WAGE GARNER

Can become the man Of ease and
wealth If he will only save good part
of his earnings. Spending money Is a
habit, TO a great extent. Make up
your mind TO save few pennies every
day and you will soon form the saw
ings habit, which is the most profit
able and greatest pleasure bringing OF
all habits. With our Home Savings
bank always before you, you have a
constant reminder to put away some
thing for the rainy days. Come. let
us fit you out with bank. We are
as pleased to receive small account
as we are to receive the largest one.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21

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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21
BASEBALL YESTERDAY.

American Observation-Disclosures 2,
Toledc'L
Nationals Observation-Disclosures 2,
Boston I. New York 3. Brooklyn I.
Pittsburg 81. Louis, rain.
American League-Clevelsad S,
Washington ). Detroit 3, Bsston o.
st. Louis Philadelphia, rain. Chi
Gag D Bal simore, rain.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-06-21

This is the Grandest Display Of
Fireworks ever conceived and is a
great education for all who may ar
tend these exhibitions.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01

doors then nail plank across the
doors three feet high. Pack In this
square space as compactly as possible
and as near on the plan of the rest
as possible and the work is finished.
Sell on the side track if possible,
as there is no telling what the car
of melons will bring after they leave
you; for often you are called on TO
help pay the freight. Be sure you
know she man you ship to, as there
is more rascality perpetrated by
commission merchants of fruits and
vegetables than any other. Sell on
the side track for $75 rather than
risk getting 800 per car by shipping
yourself.
For local markets you can be gov
erned by circumstances and sell
wholesale or retail them from the
wagon. Remember an early crop,
or a very late crop, Is the one that
pays best. BENJAMIN IRBY.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
CARTERET COUNTY FARM NOTES
Columbus Co, N. G.

correspondence of The Progressive Farmer.
Farm work is somewhat delayed
on account of the wet weather, very
little plowing done the last week.
These will be about as much fer
ti,izer sold this year as last for TO-
baoco and more for potatoes, but not
over one fourth as much for cotton.
Our farmers have SOW consid-
cradle amount of oats this spring be-
cause of the shortage of drops last
year.
Cattle and hogs seem TO be in fair
condition, considering the cold win
ter we have had. We hope for a
good crop year. Farmers here didn't
make over a half crop of tobacco last
year and not over fourth of crop
of cotton; corn, potatoes and pea
nuts were not one half crops.
d. MCCAIN.
Carteret Co., N. @.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
GOING INTO THE BRICK BUsINEss-A
WORD OF WARNING.
Washington, D. G.

After 80 much wet weather we will
feel as if we are almost obliged to
plow. We will get impatient. We
will think the time to plant has come
and that we cannot wait The temp
tation TO plow will be very strong.
But we must remember that to plow
when the soil is wet means to go in TO
the manufacture of sun-dried brick
bats. The sunshine and wind will
harden these thousands of small
clods which we have made into some
thing like a sun-dried brickbat. They
will then be worth no more TO the
crop than brickbsts. The plant food
in them will be inso1uble.
We cannot afford TO make this
mistake. Better wait and plant
later.
Dust and not mud is what we need
in the farm to make crops with.
Flowing land wet is the quickest
way to destroy fertility. This is the
chief cause of the poverty Of South
ern soils. The damage will last for
several years.-Southern Cultivator.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
No. 8
STATE CHEMIST KILGORE's RRAsOWs ron
WARNING FARMERS AGAINST TRR
SECRET PROCESS" FRRTILI-
ZEB gCHKNRfa

As promised in last weeks Pro
GREssIyE FARMER, we give herewith
the State Chemists convincing SUM
mary of reasons for warning farmers
against the agents of the Lpps' fer.
tili2er process scheme. After pub
fishing in full the Lipps process as
obtained from the Patent Office, Dr..
Kilgore comments as follows:
1. There is nothing new or ingen-
ious in the materials employed, ma
nure, dirt, aoid phosphate, muriate
of potash, nitrate of soda, sulphate
of ammonia, lime and salt, being
familiar and we'll known substances.
Except lime and salt, these ma
terials are, and have been, in fre.
quent, if not constant, use for years
by farmers and fertilizer manufao-
turers. Salt is not plant food and
the lime as used works far greater
injury in driving off the. ammonia
from the manure than it does inppul.
value of the manure resting in it's
ammonia, it is mistaken economy TO
throw part, at least, of it: away,
merely for the sake OF getting the
less valuable residue in condition to.
be put through a grain. drill
.. Great stress is laid ON the ar.
rangement of the materials, ita being
claimed that this is such as TO bring
about complete disintegration of the
manure with the release and reten.
tion of the valuable plant food In the
compost heap. Not only is this not
so, but the arrangement is Gerry un.
desirable, in that the lime is placed
where it will do the greatest injury
in driving off the ammonia Cet any
farmer who has a son in any of our
schools, taking even elementary
chemistry, put this question to him),
and likely also injuriously efFecting
the acid phosphate by making it less
soluble and valuable as plant food.
The nitrate of soda is also in danger
of being lost, not because Of being
put in the worst place, but because
anywhere in the entire mixture is
bad for it. The chief object in com.
posting is to protect andeTender bet
ter fit for plant food the nitrogen (or
ammonia) compounds. The Lipps.
process helps to defeat this aiua, and
if the compost does not go wrong, it.
is certainly otits fault; as the temp.
tation is great.
8. But the proportions of these
materials are said to be such as TO
make specially "well- balanced"
fertilizer. For the good of the mix
ture it is to be hoped that there is
something in this contention. Let
US examine The constituents which
give to a fertilizer it's value are am
mOnia, phosphorio acid and potash
In what amounts and proportions do
these enter into the Lipps CompostP-
Using his formula we have:
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01

it and the decrease was very marked
where fresh horse manure was used.
This experiment, which probably is
of value, is not of course TO be taken
as accurately indicative of the re-
suits of similar field applications.
THE GREAT VIRGINIA ROAD CONGRESS-
For more than a hundred years,
the pathway leading from Charlottes-
vile, Virginia, to Monticello, the
home and tomb of Thomas Jefferson,
in the beginning a bride path
has, by the tread of countless feet,
become worn to the size of narrow
road. This road is in some places
very dangerous, having rise of Is
feet in the 100 in many instances.
The enterprising people of Char
lottesville have formed Memorial
Road Association with Gen. Fitz,
hugh Lee as President. It is their
desire that the Department of Agri-
culture shall undertake the construo-
ton of an object-lesson road over
the route leading to the tomb and
former residence of our great "Ex-
pansion" President.
In laying the plans for this new
road-a distance of two and one-half
miles-it has become necessary TO
re. locate almost the entire length of
the old road over a new course, re-
sulting in an easy grade with a maxi
mum of only feet in the hundred.
"When this road is completed,
said Mr.. M. o. Eldridge, the Assist
ant Director of the Office of Public
Road Inquiries, ''it will not only
serve to benefit the people in the
locality where it is built, but as we'll
visitors from distant places who
make pilgrimages TO the tomb of the
immortal Jefferson.
'In our work we have been aided
by the National Good Roads Asso-
citation as we'll az by the Southern
Railway Company, which will bring
the good roads train to Charlottes-
vile.
"The object-lesson of this road
should be of great value to all who
see it, especially when it is consld-
cred that the variations in the differ
ent sections of the road are such that
it will be a good example of noun
tain road construction.
son April 2nd, 3rd and 4th, the
Jefferson Memorial and Inter State
Good Roads Convention will meet at
Charlottesville to view the road, see
the progress of the work, and discuss
road questions generally On this
occasion General Fitzhugh Lee, Gov
ernor Montague, of Virginia, and
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
speak. In addition, the President
and his Cabinet are expected to at
tend the exercises if possible"
Guy e. MITCHELL.
Washington, D. G.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
Carteret Co., N. G.

Many farmers are gradually learn
ing that their condition may be ina
proved by keeping less but better
live stock. There is still tendency
60 keep larger number of stock on
orr farms than can be we'll and
nrofitably cared for. One animal
veil cared for is more profitable than
three or four half kept.-A. J. Smith,
Clarified County, Pa.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
Raleigh, N. c., April l, 1902.
LXVII.

Correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
The boys will want to go fishing
occasionally now days Let them
go; it will do them good. "All
work and no play makes Jack q dull
boy" Some times it is a good idea TO
assign task TO be done at or by a
certain time, and when Ii is done, let
the boys have any extra time they
may have gained We liked fishing
when boy and used to do our best
in order to get through certain job
in time TO go fishing We have
spent all day along the banks of a
creek, wading through the mud and
water, doing without dinner and 60
ing home late in the afternoon with
about two cents worth of fish, and
far more weary than if we had
plowed all day; at other times we
would have more success and oatch
enough for good "mess."
A day off from home will do any
farmer good. It will help him by
taking his mind off of his work and
he can take hold next day with
greater courage. Many farmers
stick too closely TO work. 1t will
help them TO see what others are do.
ing, and make life more pleasant.
How often have we enjoyed picnic,
q fish fry or a church meeting, where
we could meet our old friends and
neighbors Some times men waste
too much of their time this way, but
suoh cases are exceptions.
The Sunny South colony at Chad
bourn, this county, have adopted the
stock law by a good majority. They
claim that it is necessary to keep
stock confined, and think Ii too
costly to fence their stock in and
have TO fence their neighbors' out.
We are glad TO know this, as our
people can see how it works before
it becomes the law of the whole
State, which will only be few years
as least.
We are glad Mr.. Franklin Sher-
man is working TO get the farmers to
spray their fruit trees. We shall
try is ourselves and see what effect
it will have. The high price of ap-
pies and other fruits which can be
grown in North Carolina should
stimulate fruit growing. When
young we often went to our grand.
father to get apples (not having any
at home on account of young trees)
and have often wondered why peo-
pie do not raise them now like they
did thirty years ago. My grand
father did not take much trouble
with his trees, yet he had them by
the hundreds of bushels. Brandy
and cider were as plentiful as one
could wish. You could find them
then on every farm of any size But
it is different now. Apples sell here
for as much in the summer now as
they did in the winter twenty gears
ago. We do not know the cause of
the decline in this part of the State,
but will give our opinion another
time.
HARRY FARMER.
Columbus Co., N. G..
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
BEAUFORT COUNTY FARM NOTES.


Correspondence OF The Progressive Farmer.
Farmers in these parts, the central
and eastern portions of Beaufort
County, are right much behind with
their work on account of unfavorable
weather. Hence the hitherto early
crops will be later than usual this
season. The acreage in Irish pota-
toes, however, win be fully as large,
if not larger than it was last year.
The signs of the times indicate
that our planters this year will
diversity their crops even more than
usual. Preparations are being made
to cultivate some of nearly every
thing adapted to our soil and climate.
Tobacco is one of the exceptions
hear of no one here who aims to cul
tivate she weed.
Several years ago there we're many
of our people driven 60 the wall by
depending entirely on their cotton
crops for all their supplies. Since
then there has been a change for the
better. There is now no farmer,
large or small, known TO the writer,
in the county, who does not make it
a point TO raise most of his supplies
at home. Everybody now, more or
less, diversifies his crops with corn,
cow peas, oats, grass, Irish potatoes,
sweet potatoes, cotton, etc. Cotton
has not been king with us for some
time.
The most fertile and productive
land'in our county is a large area of
swamp containing several thousands
of acres known as South Creek POGO
sin. Quite a large acreage of this
land has been held for many years
by wealthy owners for speculative
purposes, the terms of sale being
such as TO render the farmer unable
TO buy. Two tracts of the lands
thus held have been sold to other
speculators within the last two years.
These have recently been divided up
into plats of suitable size for farms
and are now being sold so farmers on
long time, but at high figures. Some
twenty-five or thirty of these plats
have already been sold to the work.
ing men, and though the price of the
unsold portion is rapidly advancing,
nearly doubling in less than year,
there are still buyers TO be found.
Of course, the speculators will realize
by far the greater profit out of the
transaction, and some of the buyers
(farmers) will probably ''go under"
in the end, for it is certain that the
situations places them largely on the
tender mercies of the parties of the
first part-the speculators. This
condition, however, is better and
more hopeful for the future than it
would have been for all this produc-
tiveness and richness to be entirely
lost TO the county. Every stroke of
we'll directed labor on this land means
increased production and the general
enhancement of property in this
section.
Our public roads are perhaps Deb
ter than the roads in some parts OF
the State, but they are not so good
as they ought TO be, and might be
greatly improved at a comparatively
ANAL cost. CLoD HOPPER.
Rnnnfnrt Co N O.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01
Beaufort Co n Q.

Dublin Journal: Onions are the
leading article of perishable stuff
now being shipped TO the Northern
markets. There has been quite de-
mand for them this season, and from
the hundreds of packages that have
been transported TO the cities OF late,
we must believe they are highly per-
fumed by now.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01

Whiteville Press: Messrs. o. T.
Brown and NJ Fl. Sweet, two com.
mission men of Providence, R. l.,
have recently acquired lands adjoin-
ing Whiteville, which they intend to
devote to the production of straw,
berries for their own market. The
demand for berries has excelled the
supply in their market and they have
been reduced TO the necessity of
growing for themselves. Fifteen
acres will be put in berries at once
and the acreage increased TO 200 in
the future.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-04-01

There were, therefore, put into the
mixture, phosphoric acid so per
cent. f.; potash, 1.59 per cent. and
ammonia, 81 per cent, or one and
one-hah times as much potash as.
phosphoric acid, and twice as much
as ammonia. What farmer would,
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