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The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
EMPLOYEES PICNIC
INSTRUCTIONS FOR HOLDING l.
@. EMPLOYEES PICNIC
RECEIVED.

Last night at about 6 o'clock the
local Illinois Central employees receiv-
ed message from Mr.. o. NJ. Dunn,
assistant superintendent Of Southern
lines of the l. c., saying that the an
nunl picnic could be held on the 93rd,
today, the date asked for by the shop
mems committee.
The request was made many weeks
ago and the officials had not acted soon
enough. The telegram instructed
that the coaches could be had, but as
the men could not get the necessary
arrangements completed the picnic
could not be held. They will ask
that the 9th of the next month be set
for the picnic and feel that the request
will he granted.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23

the most famous boats and had some
thrilling experiences. He was on the
John Howard and the Robert Z. Lee
when they burned and the Corona
when she blew up. He also stood at
the wheel Of the Oauchita Belle, the
America and the big Ouachita.
In the sos and sos there used 20 be
from three 10 six big, new, fast side
wheel steamboats, every week for
New Orleans. Last season there
were but two boats in the trade,
one sidewheeler, the New South,
and the other, the John X. Speed,
big steruwheeler. Now there is none.
The New South is laid up at Cincin-
natl and the Speed was burned at New
Orleans As no preparations are be-
ing made 10 rebuild boats for that
trade it is natural to suppose that the
trade, so far as passenger business
is concerned, has about run to seed"
and viii die out out altogether IL big
boats are not built to do the business.
The Pittsburg coal combine has begun
to carry freight in bsrges at low rates.
They carry II from New Orleans to
Cincinnati and Pittsburg and
vice versa. Now, TO man up
sspling, it looks as IL things were
drifting into big river and rail trust,
and it is only matter of short time
when the railroads and river interests
will be one big combine
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
LOCAL OPTION VOTE.
LOCAL OPTION ELECTION IN
MAYFiELD POSTPONED UN-
TIL AFTER NOVEMBER.

The local option vote in Msyheld
has fallen through for the present and
no election will BIO held in September,
as the residents in favor Of the present
law wanted.
There have been many petitions, cir
oulated by those opposing the local OPP
ton law going, around the town and
through some misunderstanding they
were withheld too long and could not
be filed with the court in time to Sc
cure a vote until after the November
elections.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
MRS. JONES DEAD.

Mrs Ellen Jones, aged "A years, of
Msyfield, is dead and the funeral was
held yesterday; interment at the fam
lily burial ground just out of Mayfield.
The deceased was q prominent woman
of Mayfield and leaves besides a num-
Der of grandchildren three daughters,
Mrs. Doc johnson, Mrs. Ed Settle,
Mrs. Laura Grassland and two sons,
Charles Jones and George Lupp, the
latter three of Texas.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
Underwear.

You will be surprised when you the nice garments
that be purchased for so little money at UNDER
It's your interest to these bargains
Corset Covers made up in good styles and nice material
and trimmed, for csc and soc. Corset made Of
long cloth and beautifully trimmed 75c and So
Drawers-Fine cambria drawers with tucks and wide
rufHes Of embroidery, only SOC Long cloth drawers
deliberately trimmed with lace embroidery 75c and 81.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
THE RIVER NEWS.
THE STAGES.

Csiro, 2s. f-O.4 fall
Chattanooga, 2.g--O.2 rise.
Cincinnati, 12G-O.3 fall.
Evansville, 1i0-i.i fall.
Florence, 1.3-stand.
Johnsonville, ADO. fall
Louisville, 6.8-O.4 fail
Mt Carmel, 5.7-l.O rise.
Nashville. 22-O.3 rise.
Pittsburg, 9.i-O.5 fall,
Davis Island Dam, go. 0 fall.
st. Louis, $3.50. . rise.
Paduoah, li.7-O.5 fall.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23

Tho Memphis is due tomorrow from
Tennessee river.
The Dick Fowler departed on good
time this morning for Cairo.
Captain Browinski, Of the O. and
L. l. road, of Joppa, is in the city to
day
The Clyde will leave at O'Clock
tonight for Tennessee river with a
good trip.
The Mary Stewart is due today from
Goloonda and will depart on her re-
turn trip tomorrow.
The steamers Beaver in charge of
Captain Frank Farnsley, is At st.
Jacobs, La, loading lumber for st.
Louis
Tho J. b. Richardson, in place OF
the Buttorr, is due from Nashville.
She will leave Immediately on her ar
rival for Clarksyille.
The Joe Fowler wss late today and
did not arrive until 1 O'Clock The de-
lay was ocoaosined by a shortage in
deck labor and in big business,
Pilots Will T. Campbell OF Cairo,
John Rollins of Paducah and John ".
Meredith of Chester have become
members of the st. Louis harbor
masters and pilots.
The steamer Delta will arrive from
Memphis tomorrow and will go ON the
ways for repairs. Tho ways has SOW
eral big boats to overhaul and has
work enough TO laat the remainder of
the summer season. The company
now has the Harley, Buttorff and
Delta and the little tug Alice Barr 80
repair.
Towbosts OF the same power are
taking tows Of coal almost twice
AS large rs they did thirty years
ago. Towboat pilots have been &C
oustomed to handling large tows
There is no better work done any
place in the country than by these
towboats pilots, who often Leave with
big tows snd very little water to
spare.
Captain Louis G. Rawlins, a vet
eran Mississippi river man, is dead at
his homo in New Orleans. He was a
native of this state. During his long
career as pilot be served on some OF
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In Our Shoe Department.

While we are not making much money having
lots of fun wrapping up shoes for pleased
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
Coat Suits and Skirts.

All Of our fine $40 suits made Of nice quality chevot in
brown and gray Elton coat we'll lined with ROMAN lin
ing and sylishly trimmed with satin bands skirt cut
with hounce and trimmed with bands; well lined and
tailor finished for only s6.67.
Swell Gibson suits made of fine cloth in tan and
CASTOR skirt with percane drop lining and coat taeta
lined trimmed with stitched bands. These suits offered
at cost
Swell $40 chevot dress skirts handsomely trimmed with
MORE bands and made with full sweep for $3.50
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
Mating Specials.

rs pieces extra fancy China mattngs, worth CSC per
yard at ISc pieces fine Japanese cotton chain mat
ting, fine carpet patterns, at 2oc pieces finest China
mating, very closely woven, soc,
To Close Out pieces grass Irvine mating the best
wearing floor covering produced for the money,
the regular price Of these goods is 4oc. We will sell
them as long they last at acc
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
Waists.

Beautiful White Waists Cheap-s 90 lnon waists with
embroidery and tucks, 75c, sr.2sc aud $3.50 very
sheer white baste waists tucked and embroidered ST.
sI75 waists beautifully tucked back closing with fancy
pearl buttons and embroidery 'front.' for sI.25.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23

Mrs. W. NJ. Stevens and children re-
turned yesterday to Msyfield after WIS.,
iting the formers brother, Mr.. Cor
don Head and Mr.. Ed Thurman.
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23

Observations taken at a. m. River
1A7 on the gauge, fall Of o, 5 in last
% hours Wind east, light breeze.
Weather, light rain and warmer.
Rainfall last "a hours .02 inches.
Temperature ~. Pell, Observer
The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1902-07-23
AT THIS SEASON

Oh the year we offer many stocks al greatly re-
duced prices in order to move them out before
Fall Goods come in.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
OF A SCIENTIFIC SORT.

The mud eel is one of the very
few creatures possessing both lungs
and gills.
Ivory may be made flexible by
sleeping it in a solution of hydro
chloric acid.
Vaccination against distemper is to
be tried in the case of a pack Of
hounds in North Wales.
Half a dozen Peruvian mummies
were recently auctioned off in Lon
don at less than SO apiece.
a single grain of Tripoli powder
contains $4,000 of the transparent
finty skeletons of dead animalculae.
Some trees are much more unfavor-
able to the growth of plants beneath
them than are others. The worst
are the yew and the ash.
bat was found torpid, but alive,
in vault at Iatesbury church,
Calnc. which had been closed and
sealed l0G years previously.
The tubes in the human tooth are
one-four thousand five hundredth Of
an inch in diameter. These pierce
the dentinc below the enamel.
Some plants are affected by chloro-
form Just as animals are. The sensi-
tive plant loses its irritability in air
charged with chlOroform vapor.
Sir John Ucrschell estimates that
the very largest comets. with tails
often millions of miles in length, do
not weigh more than few ounces.
The hamster's pulse. which beats
$50 times a minute during the sum
mer, beats but - times minute
while the creature hibernates during
the winter.
The brain of child at birth
weighs under ten ounces, but at the
end of a year has increased to two
pounds. Full growth is attained by
men at about 20 years of age, and
by women at IS years.
\ sanatorium has been established
over the limestone caves at Luray
Va, and air from the caves is forced
through the rooms. This air is free
from impurities and it gives the
guests virtually the air of the noun.
tain attitudes without going there.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
Mary Fletcher HospitaI.

At the annual meeting of the Mary
Fletcher hospital the following officers
elected last week.
President, NJ. II. Buckham; vice presi-
dent, Henry Wells; secretary, w. j.
Van Patten; treasurer, c. p. Smith !;
auditor, Henry Greene; superintendent,
DR.. b. j. Andrews; finance committee,
C. p. Smith, Henry Greene and J. l..
Southwick.
Attending surgeons, DR.. j. b, Wheeler
DR.. d. c. Hawley, DIR. III. c. Tinkham,
and DR.. S. f. Maynard; attending physi-
clans, DIR. p. +. McSweeney, DR.. III. r..
Watkins, DR.. G. A. Pease, and DR.. w. A..
Lyman; Opthalmologist, DR.. NJ. c..
Twitchell; Psychologists, DR.. NJ. j. Wiltse
and DR.. b. ii. Stone.
According to the reports of Superin-
tendent Andrews the total number of
patients treated during the year was
!, 4G6; the number admitted, 903; number
treated as "outdoor," 563; and the aver
age number of patients in the hospital
daily, 6l4.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
ALL SORTS.

Somehow cut-diamond rates are al
ways higher than the original prices
Barely ten per cent. of the children
in Brittany can speak or understand
French.
English has been made a compul-
sorry subject of study in Austrian
schools.
The duties on automobiles in Ar
gentna are 25 per cent. of the de-
clared value.
Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield
was sold for a trife to save him from
the grip of the law.
Eight varieties of bantams are be
ing exhibited by the queen OF England
at show at Barnstable.
a wall 80 feet high and IS feet broad
could be built all round England with
the coal annually raised in that coun-
try.
In 1900 the total number of wage
earners in the factories of the United
States was 5,31G,000. In 1850 1t was
only $4,000.
Alfred Jessup,of brooklyn, has been
selected to assist the Chinese govern
ment in the work of currency system
reorganization.
The piece of flooring upon which
Mckinley stood when Leon Czolgosz'
the anarchist, fired the bullet that
caused the death Of the nations chief
executive, will go to the Field Museum,
in Chicago.
The Paris sweeps are having quite a
good time of it just now. The tragic
death of lola has created quite SCOT
scare. and now there is perfect craze
for clean chimneys. Instead of in
quiries about the weather, the usual
remark after greeting in Paris now is:
"Have you had your chimney swept
yet?" and, if not: Remember the
fate of lola"
The Petit Bleu publishes prediction
by the meteorologist, Herr Finger, of
Prague, who is of opinion that Mar
Unique and probably other West In
dian islands will be virtually destroyed
by volcanic eruptions next year. lie
also foretells terrible eruptions il
! Italy. He points out that the most vio'
lent volcanic disturbances on record
have occurred in years ending with the
figure 3.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
Brad streets Trade Report.

The few wintery days during the
past week have given tone to the retail
trade, which has been comparatively
good notwithstanding the unreasonable
weather of the fall. With the excep-
ton of the granite business which is
quiet, the leading industries of the
state are well occupied. The demand
for labor continues and in some in
stances productions have been curtailed
because of insufficient help. Bank de-
posts indicate that locally finances are
in a healthy condition. There are no
particularly unfavorabe features visible
affecting the business interests of the
state.
Burlington reports the retail trade
good and should the cold weather con-
tinue the holiday trade will be large.
There is no particular change in the
wholesale trade which has from this
point a uniform demand for goods |;
collections are satisfactory. The mills
are busy and labor is well employed,
the lumber interests continue fairly
active.
Business in Rutland is brisk in nearly
all departments. Other manufacturing
concerns are doing reasonably well,
although the strike is still unsettled and
has a somewhat depressing effect on
various business interests. Retail trade
is good The paper mills are busy at
Bellows Falls and other manufacturing
business is active. A modern coal
elevator is being built and the Interna-
tional Paper Co. is Increasing its capac-
ity by building an addition to its plants,
and the creamery supply house will
have increased facilities because of a
new addition. Retail trade Is brisk and
collections good.
The machine shops in Springfield con-
tinue busy and factory is being fitted
up to accommodate the Superior Tap
Co. Retail trade and collections salts
factory. Labor is in good demand.
Bennington reports the large cloth
mill very attractive, the underwear mills
are moderately busy and other lines OF
manufacture are well employed. Re-
tail trade is good, and collections as
usual.
Barre reports the granite business
dull and prospects are not favorable for
any material improvement until after
the first of the year.
The large scale works at st, Johns
bury are very busy, and other manu-
features are well occupied; retail trade
is fairly good and will be better now
that the weather is colder.
Business conditions are unchanged al
Wells River; retail trade is very good
manufactures are we'll employed, colec
tons good.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
TRADE UNIONS.

California has $4,000 trade union
lists, of whom 10000 are in San Fran
cisco.
Theatrical stage employees have 90
local unions and more than 1000
members.
OF over 100000 women employed
in the German industries less than
$4,000 are organized.
Chicago is the best organized city
of carpenters in the country, having
membership of nearly 5000.
The Women's Butchers union, at
the Chicago stock yards, has 600
members. st. Louis has a similar
union.
Seven thousand fishermen on Puget
Sound have organized a trades union,
chartered by the American Labor
union.
The most prominent Austrian
trade union, the Gewerbe Verein, of
Lowe, Austria, has decided to send
deputatiOn to the United States in
1904 to visit the St. Louis EXPOSE
ton.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
500 REWARD, 500.

The readers OF this paper will be pleased TO
learn that there is ut least one dreaded
dis ase that science has been able to cure IN
all It's stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh cure is the only positive cure known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a
constitutional disease, requires n constltu-
tional treatment Hairs CatarTh Cure lstaken
internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de.
stroying the foundation of the disease, an
giving the patient strength by building up the
constitution ana assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
Its curative powt ~, that III y offer one
Hundred Dollars for any case that ii fails to
cure. Send Cor list of testimonials.
Address, +. j. CHENEY CO., Toledo, o.
sold by Druggists, 7jc.
Hairs Family Pills are the best.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
SAVED AT GRAVES BRINK.

81 know would long ago have been in my
grave" writes Mrs 5. IL. Newsom, of Decatur,
Ala, ''if it had not been for Electric Bitters.
For three years suffered untold agony from
the worst forms OF Indigestion, Waterbrash,
Stomach and Bowel Dyspepsia But this ex-
cellent medicine did me a world of good.
Since using ii can eat heartily and have
gained IS pounds For Indigestion, Loss Of
Appetite, stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles,
Electric Bitters are positive, guaranteed cure,
Only soc at w. II. Sheldon's drug store.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
Verm ont Pensions.

Washington, Dec. Vermont pen
sions, increase, reissue, etc, David Ball
Brattleboro, Sl2. widows, minors, and
dependent relatives, Susan A. Shaw,
Morrisville, SIP; Margaret Farroll,
Stafford, SIP.
Original, Julius Whitney. Brattle boro,
$40; increase, reissue. etc. Lulu d..
Gordon, Newark, IS; Dighton ii. Fair
brother, Westminster, S.; Alfonso b..
Stearns, Charlotte, $l7.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
ANNUAL MEETING.

The annual meeting for
electing a Board of Directors
of the National Bank of Mid
dlebury, for the year ensuing
will be held at the office of said
bank on Tuesday, the 18th day
of January, A. d. 1908, at ?
O'Clock, p. m.
CHARLES E. PINNEY, Cashier.
Middlebury, VT, Dec. IL, 1902. 50w4
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12

This is the season of the year when the
prudent and careful housewife replenishes her
supply of Chambcrlain's Cough Remedy 1t
is certain to be needed before the winter is
over, and results are much more prompt and
satisfactory when it kept at hand and given as
soon as the cold is contracted and before it
has become settled in the system. In almost
every instance a severe cold may be warded
off by taking this remedy freely as soon as
the first indication of the cold appears. There
is no danger in giving it to children for it
contains no harmful substance. 1t is pleasant
to talte-both adults and children like it.
Buy it and you will get the best. 1t always
cures. For sale by D. \. Bisbee, druggist.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12

1t will be good news to the mothers Of
small children to learn that Group can be
prevented. The first sign of Group is hoarse-
ness. a day or two before the attack the
child becomes hoarse. This is soon followed
by peculiar rough cough. Give Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy freely as soon as the
child becomes hoarse, or even after the rough
cough appears and it will dlspel all symptoms
Of Group In this way all danger and anxiety
may be avoided This remedy is used by
many thousands of mothers and has never
been known to fail. 1t is, in fact, the only
remedy that can always be depended upon
and that is pleasant and safe to take. For
sale by d. A. Bisbee, druggist.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
New Books Added to the Ladies'
Library Dec. 6, 1902.

TRAVEL.
1898 Dawson. German Life in Town and
Country.
1899 Lynch. French Life in Town and
Country.
1910 Johnson Worlds Shrine.
394l Mackinder. Britain and the British
1912 Smith. Gondoa Days.
BIOGRAPHY.
39i3 Birrer. William Hazlett.
39i4 Harrison. John Ruskin.
5StS Wesley. Journal. 2vols.
39i7 Boswell. Samuel Johnson.
ART AND POETRY.
39is Goldsmith. Plays.
39i9 Goldsmith. Poems.
1850 Riley. The Book of Joyous Children.
39N Heaton. a Concise History of Painting
S933 Woltmann. History OF Painting. 2vols
FICTION.
1867 Barrie. The Little " hlte Bird.
4677 Van Dyke. The Blue Flower.
1866 Adams. Confessions of a Wife.
i66S Besant. No Other way.
1869 Daudet. Kings in Exile.
1870 Hogan. Mrs. Wigs OF the Cabbage
Patch.
467l Hope. The lntrusions OF Peggy.
1872 Meredith. Diana of the Crossways.
1913 Merriman. The Nultures.
1914 Pidgin. Blenr erhasset.
1918 smith. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn.
1876 Warrington. The TWO Van Revels.
JUVENILE.
4GGl Baldwin. The tory of Roland.
1862 Pyle. Robin Hood
1863 Black. The Four Macnicols.
1864 Gilman. Magma Charta stories.
1865 Twain. IIuckl cbeTry Finn.
MISCELLANEOUS.
3o99 Fiske. Historical ana Literary Essay Us.
1898 vols.
1894 Lowell Stories in Stone from the
Roman Forum.
3995l
1896 Bagehot. Literary studies. vols.
/ 1897
| 3g9S Brown ell. Victorian Prose Masters.
1899 Mazzni. Essays.
! 1870 Wagner. The simple Life.
1884 Adams. Democracy and Social Ethics
1885 Belts The Lcaven of Great City.
1856 Search. Ideal school
/ 1897 I stephen. History of English Thought in
1855 the 18th Century. vols
1888 Van Dyke. The Gospel for an Age OF
Doubt.
1860 Person. Among the Night People.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
Frank Fish President.

The executive committee of the West
ern Masonic Union, which includes prac-
tically all the members of the Masonic
fraternity in Western Vermont, held a
secret meeting at Rutland, Dee. 3, which
was well attended, members of the com
mlttee being present from all over the
state.
G.. II. Shinville of Fair Haven. the
retiring President, called the meeting to
order. The members of the committee
from Nergennes ade bid for the
annual meeting and ball, and it was voted
to hold the affair at that city during the
first part of January.
The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: President, F. l.. Fish
Of Nergennes; secretary, G.. f. o. KIM
bail of Nergennes; vice Presidents, Il. W.
Fletcher of Bridport, A. ii. Narney of
Poultney, F. j. Hubbard of Middlebury.
Il. X Leavenworth, Il. w. Ray of Bran
don; executive committee. j. A. far-
rington of Vergennes, Ira II. Allen of
Fair Haven, ID. II. Preble Of Shoreham,
DR.. Jesse f. Thomson of Rutland, c. G.
Wells of Middlebury. w. F. Scott of
Brandon, w. Il. Wright of Orwell, A. G..
Mansur of Burlington, 5. n. Allen of
North FerrIsburg, w. A. Lawrence of
Bristol, +. b. Norton of Addison.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1902-12-12
A MILLION VOICES

Could hardly express the thanks of Homer
Hall, of West Point, la. Listen why; A
severe cold had settled on his lungs, causing a
most obstinate cough, Several physicians said
he had consumption, but they could not help
him. When all thought he was doomed he
began to use DR.. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption and writes, at completely cured
me and saved my life. now weigh 227 lbs. -
It's positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds
and Lung troubles. Price soc and SI.oo.
Trial bottles free at w. IL. Sheldon's.