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Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

The Crittendeu Record-Press OF
Marion, which by the way is one OF
Kentusky's best weekly papers, has
changed hands, aud with y. f.
Gaines as its new editor and pub
Usher. il is safe to say that many
improvements will be readily aud
persistently noticed with much inter
est every issue. Mr.. Gaines is one
Of the States best and most versatile
writer's, aud with natural get-up.
aod-hustle proclivities, We bespeak
for the Record Press q bright and
rosy future. Mr.. Gaines vas FORM
erly editor and publisher Of the
Sturgis News Democrat, aud We are
glad he is again -iu the newspaper
field. With Eve full page ads. ig
this weeks issue, We are quite sure
Of his being we'll pleased with his
new field Of labor. Luck to you and
your liberal patronage Brother. CAL
mes. Mr.. Marshal jenkins, the re.
firing editor aud publisher of the
Record Press will devote his time
and talent to his valuable business
Interests. We, who know him to be
one Of our best. newspaper friend Is,
regret his retirement from the news.
paper field, but his choice, is our
will, and We wish HIM unbounded
success in his future business pur-
suits. -Princetol Leader.
A Compliment like the above, from
one OF the best twice-a-week papers
in Kentucky makes the editor in his
new home, feel good. Thank you
Bros. Catlett. We shall try God
helping us to hold the old Record
Press to the highest standard Of
Kentucky journalism that our friends
may never regret the many nice
things they have said about US.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05
SetWOn Uiley Ordered 10 Ap-
pear 10 Federal Court.

Former State senator Newton
Utley, Of Lyon county, has been
summoned to appear tomorrow in the
federal court here and show cause
why persist, in trying hi. damage
suit against Henry Bennett, ct al, in
the circuit court of Lyon county,
after it had been ordered transferred
to the UJited States court.
Utley was sued among others by
Henry Bennett, now Of Illinois, on
account Of night rider outrage at
Dycusburg, Crittenden county, IN
February, 1909, when Bennett was
whipped aud his barn burned. Utey
declared he had no connection with
night riders or the raid, aud there
was no intimAtion that he had done
more than participate in a general
night rider conspiracy. Utley brought
suit against Bennett and his attor-
neys PleIuer 4 Campbell and G go.
DuBelle, Louisville; Campbell &
Cambell, Paducah; aud Carl Hen
'dersOu. Marion, for ESQ, 600 damages,
alleging the fact that be was samed
among the alleged night riders for
the purpose Of eItorting money from
him.
Bennett, being now = citizen Of
Illinois, moved TO transfer the suit
to federal court, and 40 order was
entered by Judge Evans. Recently
Utley uotised the defendants thai he
would have the case. called At the
August term o. the Lyon circuit
court. and Injunction proceedings
we're instituted in federal court TO
restrain the prosecution.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

people, over there, and our word for
it, he will do the rest. He is
an affable gentleman, versant, and
converseut aud being fluent, talent.
ed writes, should please any commu-
nifty. The one fault with him is,
too good for his own good, financial
ly. For he will divide his last dol
lar with the needy even though he
may need 1t himself. Hardin Era.
Thank you Bro. Jackson for this
nice compliment Knowing your
reputation to be that Of thorough,
honest Christian gentleman, the
compliment is the more appreciated.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05
Len Foo Louisville.

Mr. and Mrs. j. h. Wright left
Friday morning for their home 10
Louisville. Mr.. Wright IL . praeu.
cal mine engiseer, representing .
large amount Of Louisville capital
invested in the lead. zine and huor
spar mines in CnttsbdsB county, 10
which he is himself . stockholder.
hr. and Mrs. Wugh, we're . popular
couple With the people Of Marion.
Who Hrssorry indeed to part with them
for even the short penOd they uill
reside 10 Louisville.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05
Resolutions Of Respec

Baker Lodge No. 1862 7. r. & @.
U. Of A., Weston, Ky. July %, 90.
Whereas God, in his in6 mite pow
er and wisdom, has called from our
midst our beloved Brother Charles
Walker, who was born March go,
1854 married March |, 1905; died
June 10, 1909. Therefore be it
Resolved; That in the death Of
Bro. Walker this lodge loses one Of
ITS best and most attentive members
his family kind and loving husband
aud brother, aud the community a
law abiding citizen.
Resolved, That this lodge extend
It's deepest sympathy to the bercayed
family ana commend then to the
Father of the fatherlcss.
Resolved, further, That copy
Of these resolutions be recorded on
the book Of records of tins lodge and
copy be sent to the Record Press
and the Union New, for publication
and copy be sent 10 the ooreayed
family
Peac. 20 che ,lum5,uuc body AID
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

The heart Of Mrs. J. +. Fianary was
made glad Monday morning when pre-
scented with a fine baby boy. Wise.
thoughtful old stork indeed in making
the selection Of boy that the fond
mother and wife named for her late
departed husband. j. +. Flanary. The
sweet little fellows advent proved
happy occasion Tor the numbcrless
friends OF the late departed sheriff Of
Crittendcn county. May the God who
saw nj TO take away his good father
lead the little one in the path Of right
eousncss for Has names sake and al
low his good mother the happiness Of
seeing him grow and develop into
noble manhood.
The home Of Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Moore was made bright by the advent
Monday Of a bright boy. .
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05
LEvIEs o. LAND.

Under direction Of attorneys 70:
the negroes, who secured ESQ. 600
damages against night riders, who
raided Birmingham, Marshall county,
Deputy United States Marshal FL
wood Noel levied on Alfred Chaudet s
undivided interest in 100 acres OF
land near Birmingham. IL is re.
ported the men around Birmiug ham
appeared in an ugly mood, and talk
Of shotgun law was INDUCED in
Paducah Sun.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05
ALarge Tomato.

Senator p. S. Maxwell brought a
very fine tomato to this Office Thurs.
day. Of the tree variety, that meas.
ured II! inches 10 circumference and
weighed 81 ounces, or in one ounce
Of two pounds. Surely this Is a fine
specimen to have been grown by a
bachelor. The largest one, Senator
Maxwell said, fell from the stem
before maturity aud would, he thinks,
have weighed three pounds.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05
FOR SALE.

One Is months short horn male. one
8 months short horn male. both entitled
to registry. three ? year old shrop-
shire Bucks, ten excellent Buck Lambs.
twenty-five Eve lambs that are top
notchers, thirty-fve and 2 year old
Ewes. hard to excel. This entire
flock is Of Shropshire breeding. having
used registered Bucks for sixteen years.
One Registered Shropshire. 2 year old.
VIII sell any number to suit purchaser.
P. c. male Pigs. Inspection invited.
J. r. SUMMERS.
Salem. Ky.
Phone Pauper's Ranch. S4t.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

The Crittenden Record Press ha:
changed hands, N. +. Gaines now
having control. We say it without
fear of successful contradiction, Mr..
Gaines is one Of the best newspaper
men in Western Kentucky and in
order that you may be sure that we
are right in this assertion, we advise
you 20 notice the Record Press for a
few weeks. He will make her hum
and don't you forget it. Dixon
Journal.
Thank you, Bro. Rakes. 1t is
nice to to receive such compliments
and We appreciate it from you the
more because Of your stand against
whisky aud the dissertation of the
Sabbath. Your paper is clean and
the people of your grand old county
should be proud Of 1t.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

Waterman what Of the night?
Taking the past tweHty years as an
example, what may we expect in the
next twenty yearsI Industries have
arisen and developments made that
has brought the county Of Critten.
den to the front IN the lead, zinc and
suOrsPar industry, but not by any
means what it should be. The peo-
pie are resting on their ears instead
Of boldly aud brayelY Pulling through
the breakers and establishing Light
House, from the tower Of which the
enemy can be seen at q sufficient dis
lance to protect the good county from
danger. The wealth Of Critteudeu is
untold, Just enough having been de-
developed to give but the faintest
idea OF what is really hidden under
her hills and valleys. Are the peo-
pie of the county using their "tAlents"
wisely? Are they putting them
out to the best advantageH They,
for instance would like to anotherIsee
railroad running through her richest
mineral lands. But would it not be
wiser to advocate the building Of
turnpike through these principal
districts instead? Railroads have
been known to prove a curse instead
and to make wrecks of some of the
best towns in the state, when . turn.
pike or a gravel road would be enjoy
ed By the whole county. No rail-
road corporation is going to build q
road without 6rst counting the cost,
and when built it will be for their
benefit and not for the people. First
they will know approximately how
many tons Of ore would or could be
mined along Its line, and if the guam
tity proved sufficient. the road would
be built and doubtless the one dol
lar per ton paid Cnttenden county
teams for hauling to Marion, would
be expected by the railroad, which
would take about enough money out
Of the county to build gravel road
on which the ore could be brought to
or some other railroad or riv-
er point at half the price aud keep
our money ia home. A good sug-
gestion would be, to invite capitalists
to the county who are able to develop
their mineral lands, advocate turn
p kes, gravel or train roads and they
will help build them o. a good .
gravel road the whole county can en-.
10y and reap a harvest from it. /
where a railroad would prove
.'bleedcr" instead Of feeder /
Let the people Of Cutteuden county
,uild a gravel road through the couu-
y as a test and B, would pay the in
.estment, we venture, in but a few
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

years aud the money kept within
its borders. Things more difficult,
and at greater risk have been done.
Cnttenden has il in her power t.
double her wealth in the next ten
years. Will she doit?
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

Miss Mabel Kevil brought to US
beautiful specimen Of her crop Of
tomatoes, two Of them, and from the
same stem, They were extramoly
large and perfect in shape.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

Editor y. +. Gaines, formerly Of
the Sturgis News Democrat, haa
leased the Crittendcu Record Press as
published at Marion Ky, for Que
year and will give the people Of the
Kentucky county a good
live home paper, just give Bro
Gaines your unsunted support gool
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

preachers aud Newspaper Editors
and Correspondents are not the only
fools in the world. Did you ever
think Of that? There are others
And someti mes they talk out on the
street. overheard two Of them the
other day taking about Masons and
Dlxons line. Both of them had
"Bug House qualities that made
them eligible to membership in the
Gimlet Club. They thought shat
Mason and Slidell was a misprint
Should have been Mason and Dixon,
and they thought of Charlie Mason
as an old man with Horace Greedy
whiskers and brace Of Andrew Jack
Sous horse pistols standing on one
side Of the line Nhile Jeremiah Dixon
with horse tail mustache and a
Spanish Machette stood on the other
side. Both showing their teeth. 1t
was a red line, drawn directly from
Cape May to the mouth of the ella
river, with cuckle burrs growing on
one sides aud Canada Thistles on the
other and the underbrush along, on
both side alive with scorpions, snakes,
lizards and ella monsters. These
fellows that | overheard we're the
kiad that take out their whet rock 5
ID U'"' up their rszors regularly
att - alter folks with blood In their
eyes. Bad men from Body, as it
we're
Hearing them talk put me to won
dering what the rest of US know bout
the imaginary line to which John
Randolph gave the celebrity is still
retains, for this line is really ina
ginary. The real Mason and Dixons
Line is the boundary that separates
Pennsylvania and Maryland and 1t was
surveyed by Charles Masen and Jere.
miah Dixon, English Surveyors be-
tween the years 1853 and 1867, ex.
cept % miles surveyed later by Nc
Glenn. When Mason and Dixon
came to Dunkards Greek, at . spot
now in Green County Pennsylvania
the Indians shined their tomahaws in
their faces and said, We've got all
this Mason and Dixon business we
want, and the surveyors had to hike
for tall timber. Later MCLEAN hn.
ished the job, as far as it went, and
then John Randolph extended the
thing indefinitely without compass
or chain carrier. What a pity that
these Indians did not scalp a lot of
other fellows who afterwards stirred
up gehema, about Mason and Dixons
and McCleans and the imaginary line
that grew out of it.
The compasses used in these sur.
veys were made by David Rittonhouse
Philadelphia, who made three copies
and went into liquidation. One Of
these compasses was used by George
Washington, "a young surveyor Of the
time, another was used by MCLEAN
and the other by Mason and Dixon.
The Washington Compass is IN
the museum at Washington and pos !
.lbly the one used by Mason and
p con.
Though / have an impression that it
5 in the British Museum, London. ,
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1909-08-05

THURSDAY Aug, 3, 1909
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
SCHI4VONE'S 4IRSHIP.
Hoo an italian Says He Has ,SOlUed
the Riddle of the dir.

Announcing his belief that the cylindrical shape
OF gas bags with taperng ogiva ends is the scien-
tifcally correct for lighter than air dirgible
machine, DR.. Mario Schiavone Of Ferrandina, Italy,
who is a member of the Permanent International
Aeronautical Committee. has perfected a balloon
which seems go the Zeppelin craft one better, In
that Il consists Of two long gas filled cylinders
rigidly connected, with the propusive power and
the operator suspended between them Each aero
stat IS divided into three compartments. a large
central one 10 Zoe flied with hydrogen gas and the
two ends which be filled with compressed
air separated from the gas by an impervious yet
flexible material permitting the expansion OF the
gas or its compression under increased pressure OF
air I'm the end compartments. The shells OF the
aerostats are Of aluminium, and the gas and COM
dressed air are contained in a flexible envelope
which perfectly fits the metallic shell obviating
any waste OF space.
The motions Of the machine. both lateral and
vertical are regulated by governing the quantity
Of compressed air in the ends OF the cylinders
through valves the supply being kept up by
small compression pump carried on the PLATFORM
and DR. Schiayone has advanced a new theory that
the injection OF compressed air into the compart-
rent on the side toward which ii is desired to turn
the airship OF expelled from the compartment on
the other side will the craft in the direction
desired. thus taking advantage of what he calls
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01

doing better work in its line than man with
A goat will eat with the sole idea of consuming
quantity and with an indifference that is absolute
yer TO sagebrush and from parsnps to tree tops it
Is all one with the goat, says writer in "The
Armed with this capacity to, eat. flock of three
thoGssbd goats may be hqdd e toggher and LED
ests. The men in charge hold back the mock as It
Complete Its Grant appetite wanders from dry dry
leaves on the ground to the rank weeds growing
chaparraI
AS the abundance is exhausted the sweep is made
chaparraI are attacked The goat stands on its
hind legs and reaches for its food; it gets astride
the branches and rides them down. eating as It
goes.
Finally II falls on the bark of the larger bushes
and eats their bodies bare. There is no Vestge OF
life left in its track. The frebreak is as clean as
a ballroom floor.
have spoiled for cultivation millions of acres else
where. The chaparral is smothering out all other
originally prairies unwound themselves for hun
dreds OF miles and were kept clean by oft recur-
Al such the goat Is found to t., the IS sayoT
were men to do the work The goat will do it for
nothing In fact. 1t will perform the task and in
p af roat venisoh and furnish grade Of
milk that entirely outranks that of the cow.
task of eating up oak brush fields in Iowa, broom
Louisiana. sunhowers in Kansas, sagebrush in
Nevada lantana in Hawaii, chaparral and an I'M
limited miscellany everywhere.
1t is the Angora goat. the aristOcrat of all the
tribe. that is doing the work. This because of
the existence OF great herds maintained for their
wool before the duties were laid down. and
because there are more profitable by-products in
these than in other Varieties
These great herds in the West. particularly
in New Mexico. They becoming migratory n
der the call of their usefulness. AS they go
about seeking what they may devour they~will
continue to give up the fleece that makes such
dress goods as mohair, such commercially valuable
material as the plush that the seats in all
railway trains and such quantity amusing articles
the wigs with which the members Of the theat-
rical profession wont to make sport
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
VARIETY THEATRES.

sss, :, .o1eated monkey, makes his American
sas sS,. hasmmerstein's tomorrow night He
II % ~ with the applause OF Paris and Lon
f.sr CO.. Prolonged tour on this side OF the
lie b.r Nuaae hoffman, is announced TO con-
u reDa., sSeiiormsnce and Annette Yellermann
". exhibitions Of expert water feats.
20 with H. ""o mas amused audiences in Eng
Gee vho - ..nohologues. viii entertain this week
~ Cam =, !" ne cool Roof Garden and Adiron-
Ga. The -. lle American Music Hall. A new
''-sa Elr,s boulevard Glide, viii also be shown.
20, wa continue his impersonations.
,sr viii b.ss . one act play by George Broad
.'saus To- 'he bin at Keith & Proctor.s Fifth
"Brsxs,e-rsse tfis week. Edward lbelea. late
!. -sa mute Millions" takes the part OF an
~'es by Ber, reno'her feature is the pantomime
s,s.e'ons. wb,cs has novelty Of it's own in the
:. sacsl iepfoGuces orchestra. song and
n'a'iOn al at once with telling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01

the driven centripetai forcs." BY this same means
the ends OF the craft may be raised or lowered at
the will Of tho operator. a vertical movement be-
ing obtained by filling or emptying the ends Of
both aerostats at the same time and to the same
degree. this being governed by some ingenious al
though not complicated mechanism.
There are propeller screws at either end of the
space between the aerostats and midway between
the aerostats and the propelers 10 a platform de-
signed to hold persons, engines, instruments for
observation, power generating apparatus, air COM
pressors and reservoir for supplying air under
pressure to the end compartments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
STAGE AFFAIRS
Laar" and Billy" Reopen
T,ro Manhattan Theatres.

o-,v Law" II seems. is the law OF loyalty.
-, - the square with pal" in the shady
=. r.- n the city. So at least It is set forth
y. -lsy Of that title which opens the Hackett
- ,o-morrow night. The piece is the joint
- a william Miner and George Bronson How
rL
p,.su.s who are variously unconventional as TO
,,ls Vrestle with the old wrong OF woman's
80 and mans betrayal Two young women ''of
!, Casino" Spider, of many Places Mac, ''Of
Tr.swsy." and Bannister. "of Wall street." are
n central figures
1,s Of the young women from the Casino is
r.vously vronged by the man she loves. and
Sser. whom the world judges evil starts out to
J. things right. The gil hears and passes on
q, evidence IN the case without knowing that the
-try is against herself. and the verdict is that
IN breaking, even OF the only law, IS fatal even
% love" As ''The Only Law is the only thor
vshy serious play to open during the summer
sst its career viii be watched with especial IN
pNst
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01
THE GLUTTONOUS GOAT.
Ability to Eat Many Things Makes Him
Dear to Uncle Sam.

The goat has never been social favorite. In
days gone by it accused of the assorted sins of
the community and assisted to hit the long trail
More recently tin have been its tit bits and
the joke column its hall of fame.
AT last. however. II is being taken seriously.
In the Western national forests the goat has been
set to eating wide swaths through trackess thick
cts, which munched off paths to act roads
and fire breaks Further east the capacity Of the
goat to eat Is being utilized for the clearing OF
brush land. In each tho despised creature is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-01

nights in August. Maurice Levy and his band
head the bill at the New Brighton Theatre,
The Palisades Amusement Park has a hair raiser
in Mile. Bergerat, who rides automobile down
a Steep slide and is spun over headlong when
the car catches on a horizontal bar at the bottom
There are plenty OF other exciting things that
bring patronage and applause.