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Evening journal., 1909-03-18
pebate at eIIbert Church.

In Gilbert Presbyterian church tomor-
row evening six students Of Lincoln
University VIII contest for two gold
medals, in an oratorical effort The ora
tions wilbb be original and upon such prac-
tical subject as The Congo an Inter-
national Question.
Evening journal., 1909-03-18
Taken Suddenly mn.

Martha Anderson, colored, aged 26
years, living in Garasche's Lane, was
taken suddenly III today and was re-
moved TO the Homeopathic Hospital.
I'm the Phoenix ambulance. II was re-
ported at the hospital that her illness
is not serious.
Evening journal., 1909-03-18

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
MILFORD. March 1S-There was a
sensation In the Wilmington Methodist
Conference this morning. when, rather
than face investigation as 60 the val
idity of the standing of a member OF
the Conference, the Rev Dr. A. w.
Evening journal., 1909-03-18
Distinct Attorney Briqqs Here.

Walter Briggs District Attorney OF
Schenectady county. New York, is the
guest of his brother Or. II. w. Briggs.
He attended the court Of oyer and Tef-
nliner today.
Evening journal., 1909-03-18

Lightbournc. OF Dover rresentcd his
resignation as a member OF the Confer
ence. Bishop Moore, who had ruled
against the contention OF DIR. Light
bourne that the case could not be re-
Evening journal., 1909-03-18
Ten Nem Iunior..

Townsend Council. No. IL, Jr. o. L.
a. NJ. OF Townsend. is growing in
numbers. At its last meeting ten new
members were admitted.
Evening journal., 1909-03-18
After March 22d

the ad OF Jacoby's New Daylight De-
partment store will always be found on
Page 6 OF THE EVENING JOURNAL.
ADV.
Evening journal., 1909-03-18
After March 22d

the ad Of Jacoby's New Daylight De-
psrtment store will always be found on
Page 6 Of THE EVENING JOURNAL
ADV.
Evening journal., 1909-03-18

THERE is nothing that slim
4 uIafes trade so much as
Regular Advertising in a pa
per of recognized standing,
influence and known circuIa-
fion.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01
His Prayer.

A preacher in a neighboring
town has a little son who has been
praying every night for six weeks
that he might be given a bicycle.
The parents thought him hardly
old enough to ride a bicycle, but
thinking a tricycle. a good compro-
mise, ordered him a three wheel
ed vehicle to be put where the
heir apparent could see it as he
rolled out of bed in the morning.
AS the little fellow saw the gift
he reverently looked up and said:
"Oh, Lord, don't you know the
difference between a bicycle and
a tricycle?"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

Based on reports to the Adver-
tiser, the cotton crop in Alabama
is in an unsettled condition, from
very good to very bad, all de-
pending upon the amount Of at
tention and cultivation given it
and the amount of rainfall receiv
ed. Nevertheless, the crop on the
whole made some9improvment
during the past week. Complaint
were heard from some sections
toward the last of the week that
the crop had too much rain. The
term Spotted otton" is en-
bodied in almost every report.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

Old strawberry beds should be
plowed up and the land for plant
ing new beds be prepared. The
beds should after blowing be har-
rowed fine and the weeds be en-
couraged to terminate and these
be killed by reharrowing fire.
quently. Weeds are great him
ORANGES to successful strawberry
growing therefore get rid Of as
many as possible before setting
out the plants. Apply fertilizer
and manure and work in thor
oughly so that it will be available
to give the plants a good start
before frost. October is early
enough to set out the new plants.
Southern Planter.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01
Jas. B. Carson.

Tuesday morning Mr.. j. B.
Carson at his home at Phil, shot
himself in the head causing in
slant death. He had been in bad
health, but was not noticeable to
any extent by any of his friends.
He was one of the county's best
business men, and was supposed
to be worth $4,000 at his death,
having earned it by honest bust
ness principles. Since he be-
came of age he has been asso-
ciated with Mr.. F. P. Combest
as a business partner and this
business has been a very success
full one.
He was a young man with
hundreds of friends, and a long
list of relatives being of the best
people the county affords. He
was the only brother of J. R.
Carson the well-known Salesman
for Flood & Co.
Particulars can not be learned,
as we go to press, but he was
talking with F. P. and C. C..
Combest at their store at Phil,
Tuesday morning, and excused
himself from them as he wanted
to go to the house a moment, and
soon after he got home report of
the pistol shot was heard. He
has been respondent for several
weeks, some think. and that i'll
health brooded on him so heavily
that he was driven to take his
life.
This is one of the saddest
happenings that has ever occur
ed in Casey County, and much
sympathy is extended to those
near him in relation and friend
ship. He was buried Wednes-
day at Antioch, by the Macca-
bees to which order he belonged.
Casey County News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

More narrowing and less water
on the land is advocated by Prof.
Cyrus L. Smith, a practical fruit
grower and veteran institute
lecturer of eastern Washington.
to produce the best results in up
land orchards. He also favors
thin ming the fruit to secure uni
formity in size and to prevent
overproduction, thus assuring
crops yearly. By keeping the
ground free from weeds and har-
rowing once a week during the
growing season, thus making a
mulch of the dry surface earth,
the natural moisture can be con-
served sufficiently to grow fruit
that will command the best mar
kets.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

preciate just what that means.
At the time the Citizens Life was
organized, the Southern life in
surance companies had practical
ly no business on their books.
You may be surprised, therefore,
when | tell you that the South
ern companies today are carry
ing nearly one-third of a billions
of dollars of life insurance. The
amount is stupendous, yet it is
only about 3 per cent of the to-
tai amount of insurance carried
in the United States.
"The big banks Of the North
and East have been built up large
ly by life insurance money, with
South all these years paying the
freight, as it were, and the banks
themselves have in turn been a
powerful factor in commercial
development of the North and
East. Yet the South pays out
enough money each year in prem
iums for life insurance to build
up some of the strongest banks
in the world in the South. !"
The business associates and the
friends of Mr.. Gregory, Mr..
Helm Bruce, Mr.. Charles D.
Pearce and the other gentlemen
who are striving industriously
for the success of this great en-
terprise have confidence in their
ability to carry it out. Kentucky
will apparently have every good
reason to pride herself on being
able to furnish the home for the
company. But greatest good
will come to the largest number
by people of the South being able
to lay proud claim to one more
great and powerful institution,
destined to go through genera
tons to come as a monument
erected toSouthland development
and enterprise.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01
Home Companion For
September.

Twenty-Five pages, many of
them in color, are devoted ex-
clusively to fashion in this issue.
The whole subject is so exhaus-
lively covered that this issue will
serve as a basis of fashions for
year to come. The latest word
from Paris shows styles that will
not appear here in general use for
some months-and the latest
American good styles show that
American originality can even i'm
prove on Paris.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

For small chikcs at first it is
well to feed stale bread crumbs
and d-boiled eggs crumbled
fine. Afterwards oatmeal and
cornmeal cake, or ''johnny-cake"
as it is generally called, make
good rations for the growing
chicks, with wheat or cracked
corn added as soon as they can
eat these grains. Many people
prefer oats to wheat, as a better
muscle and bone-forming food,
but chickens will eat the wheat
at an earlier age.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01
Go With a Rush.

The demand for that wonderful Stom-
ach, Liver and Kidney cure, DR.. Kings
New Life Pills--is astounding ...
,.......,....s say they never saw
the like. It's because they never fail to
cure Sour Stomach, Constipation, Indi-
gestion, Billiousness, Jaundice, Sick
Headache. Chills and Malaria. Only
25c. at PAUL Drug Co.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01


The small amount of money re-
quired to start in the hog raising
business and the quick returns on
the amount invested make it an
attractive field for operation.
Hogs will make greater gains on
less feed than almost any other
live stock and at the same time
utilize proftably, waste food
products Of every variety if
properly prepared.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

The COW is wonderful milk
ing machine and she often trans
forms some pretty poor stuff into
milk, but if she is given nothing
but dirty, staggnant pond water
all her powers of alchemy can
not turn it into fluid fit for chill
dren to drink.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01
Perryman at MaysyilIe, Mo-.
Chautauque.

Last Saturday and Sunday Au-
gust Fl and 22nd, DR.. Geo. W.
Perryman, formerly of old Rus
sell county, KY, but now OF Nor
fork, Va, appeared on the plat
form of the old mother Chautau-
qua of Missouri. He came here
practically a stranger, possibly
not more than a dozen knew
him.
He was driven from the train
to the platform, a few hundred
yards away. He took his seat on
the platform but not a single
had clasp greeted him.
His first remarks were the u.s.
ual congratulations, the beauti-
full grounds management, etc.
Then his subject,
''The Man Behind The Cum"
He poured out his most wonder
full talent with that magnificent
voice of his on hundreds of list
eners. Evidently such impress
sions were never before made on
many of his hearers as he made.
He was told by the manager,
Hit, not to get discouraged at
people leaving the tent while he
was speaking as many did not go
to Chautauqua's for the good
there was in it, but to be amused.
The writer had a good position
and / declare / did not see a sin
gle person leave the tent during
the service. At the close of his
lecture Saturday the wires got
busy, telling the people all over
the country that Perryman would
preach Sunday morning. Be-
tween four and five thousand
people gathered to hear him Sun
day morning. | tell you it would
remind you Of old time camp
meetings. A good old time hand
shake such as we have not ex-
perienced since we left our old
Kentucky home. While here DR..
Perryman was the guest of his
old friend from his boyhood, u.
IS. Haynes, Clarksdale, Mo-, who
was instrumental in his coming.
DR.. Perryman had hundreds of
congratulations and invitations
to return again next year.
He left for his home in Nor
fork, Va, $50 Sunday p. m.
u. S. H.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01
Stray Hogs.

There are five unmarked hogs on my
premises. Three black shoats, will
weigh about 100 pounds each. A black
sow will weigh about 100 pounds and
spotted shoat will weigh about rs
pounds. Ed Coomer, Gradyville, KY.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01
Southern Life Insurance.
Courier Journal)

-
the South's financial progress.
Development is word constant
ly increasing in usage in our
vocabulary. Opportunities that
were once permitted to come and
go unheeded are now caught and
nailed down. Languid indiffer-
ence more frequently than form
erly gets a jolt from aggressive
ness and the Southern business
world profits as a result of the
encounter.
A striking illustration of this
latter day tendency to curb SUI :
picion of enterprise and welcome
Southern progress came recently
with the announcement that
plans are under way for the or
ganization of a great life insur-
ance company for the South,
with headquarters in Kentucky.
1t is significant that the propo-
sition has been received by the
many as seriously as it was
launched by the few sincerely.
Twenty, ten, or even five years
ago the announcement would
have met with scant welcome.
To-day it seems to have been re-
ceived with a cordiality not I'M
mixed with enthusiasm. Men
recognize in it an agency of
benefit for both Kentucky and
the South and consequently a
personal friend.
The moment the sWaddling
clothes were ripped off the Citi-
zens National Life Insurance
Company-an organization which
is to have $6,OOO,0O0 of capital
stock and 100000 of surplus
people began to lift up their
heads and take notice. Since
then, it is declared, letters and
kilograms have poured in on the
promoters from every section Of
the South actully wishing God
speed to the enterprise. That
the interest has not been limited
to merely verbose sentiment, is
demonstrated by the substantial
financial support proffered with
every arrival of the mail.
The man who is even more
than a casual student of current
events is impressed when intro
duced to the magnitude of the
life insurance business in the
United States. Out of apparent
ly bewildering volumes of stats
tics he can readily gain, how
ever, a conception, dazzling in
impressiveness and particularly
useful in an understandable con-
temptation of the real meaning
to the territory south of the
Mason and Dixon line of the es-
Enlistment therein of the pro-
posed Citizens National Life.
1t is we'll to bear in mind that
the East in particular has until
most recent years enjoyed what
may almost be described as a
monopoly of the life-insurance
business. While Fasteners have
drawn with tremedous profit to
themselves the money fro m
Southern policy holders, they
must also be credited with pos
sessing increasing faith in life
insurance.
In 1873 the total amount in
policies reported to the New
York Insurance Department was
$2,O86, O27,1 78. This total had
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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01


convey their full significance
until contrasted with Louisville's
aggregate life insurance assets in
1903 of about $2,OOO,OOO with a
population Of about $3.50, 1000.
There is no end to the evidence
that life insurance business is
profitable for a community. We
are wont to turn eternally to
New York when we study things
financial. One prominent New
York company twenty years ago
had a little over $6,000,00 of
assets. It's statement showed
assets in 1908 of 1926, 900, 900,
and the assets have probably in
creased to about quarter of a
billion of dollars to-day. Four
prominent metropolitan life in
surance companies in 1909 had a
total income Of 1897, 1927, 188.
Allowing three hundred business
days for the year, this means that
these four companies alone pump
ed through the arteries of New
York City's financial and bust
ness system last year upwards
of 81, 126, 900 every day. India
napolis, which is only a little
over 100 miles from from Louis
vile has something like twenty
life insurance companies, and
the business in Indiana has been
growing very fast.
The amount paid for life insur-
ance premiums in Kentucky last
year was $7,273,8 1922, and the
South is now paying out for life
insurance about sixty millions of
dollars annually.
Kentucky should have a big
life insurance company. It is
the first Southern State to offer
to policyholders the guarantee of
a compulsory reserve deposit
law. The statute now in effect
was enacted March "a, 1906. 1t
provides that every domestic life
insurance company must deposit
with the State Treasurer for the
security and benefit of all its
policyholders, an amount equal
to or greater than the ascertain
ed net cash value of all such COM
pany's policies in force. 1t is
worthy of note that the men who
fought for this law were the
managers of the Citizens Life
Insurance Company and the
same gentlemen who are now
promoting the Citizens National
Life.
The plan in brief of the Citi-
zens National Life Insurance
Company is first to merge into it
the Citizens Life Insurance Com
pany. AS already indicated, the
same men who during the past
five years have made life insur-
ance history through the excep-
tional development of the latter
company and the guiding spirits
of the new organization. The
further purposes of the new COM
pany is to take over other COM
paies of the South and elsewhere
which may decide to discon-
tinue business or may find
more profitable to consolidate
with company of great
strength. There seems to be
nothing impracticable about the
plan, nor does it appear where
anything but advantage can
come to the polieyholders and
| ~ + n
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

big company that the consoli-
dation will mean to them insur-
ance in one of the strongest COM
panies in the country, and for
that matter, in the world.
There are purchasers Of life in
surance who do not care particu-
larly for a big company. Som
on the other hand will insure in
no other kind, but no one objects
specially to a big company when
seeking life insurance protection.
Thus the new company will not
only secure business from those
who are content to buy insur-
ance from a small company, but
to those who want to purchase
very large or even small policies
and demand great financial
strength, it will stand the sever
est test. But there is a deep in
terest and significance to the
general public in the organiza-
ton of a ten million dollar insur-
ance company in the South and
an added local interest when it is
considered that Kentucky will be
the home Office of the company.
Mr.. w. H. Gregory, president of
the Citizens Life and one of the
guiding geniuses in the advance
ment Of the new company, has
in recent letter to the policy
holders of bis own company call
ed particular attention to what
might be styled the Southern
phase of the situation. The points
cannot be we'll stated more clear
ly, and we quote from his letter:
1.-The tremendous power gain
ed by Southern people in the or
ganization Of this company is the
check it will put on the flow of
millions of dollars annually in life
insurance premiums from the
South to the North and East. |
believe confidently that this will
be one of the greatest things
ever done financially for the
South.
"The South is coming to the
front. 1t is making more prog
ress than any other section of
the country. Southern people
have been awakened to the great
power they have, once they band
together. Take other lines of
business the cotton mills, for
instance. The South once sent
its cotton to New England. There
it was manufactured and sent
back and sold at a goodly profit.
The South paid the freight to
New England on the raw mater
ial, paid the freight back on the
finished product and paid the
manufactures in New England a
profit on the goods handled and
capital invested, to say nothing
of the millions of dollars left
there to pay Northern labor.
But it is changing the order of
things. The capital of twenty
one millions once invested in cot
ton mills in the South has in re-
cent years increased to three
hundred millions. The people of
the South at one time did not ap-
preciate just what the cotton
crop amounted to, snd / dare say
some do not yet appreciate just
what it means. Some proba bly,
do not know that every panic
this country has experienced in
years has been checked and stop
r,oI bxy t1o cotton o7.ov1 Tho
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-09-01

My Rubber tire Phaeton for sale, i n
good condition. Mrs. w. F. Hancock,
Columbia, KY.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14
Baked Men.

Workers IL porcelain factories are
literally baked. but by some miracle OF
use and wont they remain Sufficiently
UNDERGONE to 1.-Two. At least If they are
not quito baked they endure IA stronger
hent than that which browns the Sun
day sirlOin The furnaces Wherein
porcelain IS finished are kept at the
6ecest heat used in any industry. 4
chain of workmcn. their heads and
bodies swathed In freproof garments,
take the finished pieces from the fire
one at n time and pass them to the
cooling room The man at the head
Of this cha'l-he who stands. nearest
the furnace-can work tn only 1--WE
minute shifts. in his interims OF rest
he Hes on "a mattress drinking glass
utter glass OF fee water from the hando
Of small boy. 1T lunchumc all abou.
the chain of men steaks grill.-Cincin-
nati Enquirer
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14

Concerning "A certain time serving
Washington clergyman OF whom n vis-
ltor was one day expressing a harsh
estimate President Lincoln said.
think you IRE rather hard on Mr. -.
TIE reminds me OF wnu iu Illinois who
Was arrested for passing n counterfeit
bill Ig admitted that mo had taken It
20 a bans csghicr 90 know n 70 was n
GOOD bill We'll. what was tho reply OF
the cashier" asked his lawyer. why. "
tvusively answered tho prisoner "he said
It was pretty tgicrable. respectable sort
Of n bill"
Mr. Lincoln thought the clergyman
"a pretty tolcrUbie. respectable SORE Of
a clergyman"
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14
he WAS EXCITED.
md Yet Ho Was Making Only Very
Reasonable Request.

md Yet Ho Was Making Only Very
Reasonable Request.
II was n dramatic scene. pregnant
with the most tragic possibilities
Thus thought n witness to the meeting
OF three Italians near the big express
depot MT Fifteenth and Markct>streets
4 man and woman who were dclIvcr.
Ing trunk into the hands OF IL clerk
were suddenly confronted by another
man, who was highly excited He APP
pronched the woman. In voiuble itll-
han I've r0vCd nnd swore ana pleaded.
while she shFiilcd equally excited an
swerA The other man stood bucL
against the wall his arms folded def
ontly. hls head sunk on his chest. II
certainly looked Hs if daGgers were 10
be drawn. Tho Interested bystauGcv
asked OF some listeners who under
stood the rapidly spluttcrcd dialect
what the trouble was all about.
why" was the volunteered transla-
ton. this woman has run away from
her husband with this man." pointing
to the sulky individual
-Oh, and he IS begging her to re-
turn was the next query.
mot on your life" was the express
I've reply. she has packed up MI her
husbands clothes I'm her trunk. as we'll
ns her own, and no IS begging her to
give> bnek at least his Sunday suit
Philadelphia Record.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-08-14
GOT HIM CHEAP.
The Way Famous Surgeon Was Once
ClCVerly Trioked

Sir MOrcI Mackenzie once received a
wire from Antwerp asking him his
charges for certain operation He
replied $500 and was told 10 come at
once. When he stepped ,Hpon the dock
he was met by three men In mourning.
who Informed him sadly That hc had
come too late. the putlcnt had died
But" said the spokesman 81 the
party, 1--WE shall pay you your fun fec"
And they did. And now" said the
man, since you are here, what DO you
say 90 visiting the city hospital aud
giving clinic for the benefit Of our
local surgeons? II IS not often they
hnvo IN opportunity OF benclitlng 10y
such science as yours"
Sir Morel said he would gladly com
ply. He won't to the hospital and per
formed many operations. among which
were two or Il similar nature 10 that
for which hc had been called for.
When he had finished MI thanked him
profuscly. ON the steamer going home
he met friend. who had business
house I'm Antwerp.
"Prtty scrrvy trick they played on
you, Sir Morcl"
what do you meant" asked the sur
geon.
"Told YOU the patient died before
you arrived. didn't thcy"
''Yrs."
"Iics. You operated on Kim ana n
friend with the same trouble at the
clinic. Got two operations for one
PRICE"