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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

day. Rev. Birch Shields was ordained
Mr.. Emory Schroeder, of Hartford
was in town one day last week max
ing pictures.
]. S. Arbuckle is in Hartford this
week visiting his brother, Mr.. George
Arbuckle.
]. ]. Stewart and family visited
in Cromwell Sunday.
Mr.. Tom Cox, of Rosine, was in
town one day last week assessing
property.
Rev. NJ. ]. Embry filled his ap-
pointment at Baizetown Sunday.
Mr.. b. w. Stewart and wife Wis
tied Mr.. C. F. Miller and family
Sunday.
Mr.. T. c. Hosey, who has been
with a surveying party on the Ohio
river since June u, will be at home
soon.
Mr. Wood Shultz and family re-
turned to-day from a weeks visit
az Narrows.
Mr.. Earl Smith attended the de-
bate at Warren's Mill Sunday.
Mr.. John W. Keown delivered a
drove of cattle Monday.
Several attended the debate here
last Wednesday night. The subject
discussed was the Tariff question.
Messrs. ID. b. Trout and George
Dennis, of Cromwell, was in town
Tuesday on business.
Little Miss Gertie White, of Baize-
town, has pneumonia.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Foreigners Sell More in This
Country.

Changes in imports for September
this year as compared with the same
month last year do not show any par
ocular loss in the United States mar
kets by foreign competitors as a re-
suit of the new tariff. The value of
hides imported increased $1,000, 900;
coffee, rubber, wool, cotton laces.
diamonds, tin, leaf tobacco, burlaps,
linens, boards and planks, wool cloths
and dress goods, furs dressed, cotton
cloths, wood pulp, cotton knit goods,
champagne, toys, cheese, pulp wood,
hats Of straw, macaroni, cigars, tin
plates. and many other articles all
show increased imports, as compared
with September of las year.
The decrease were in sugar, silk
cocoa, silk dress goods, art works,
copper ore, olive oil, lemons, mating
and automobiles. The large declines
were in articles unaffected by the
Tariff. Three times as much cham
payne was imported as in September
of 190S,while diamonds increased from
$l,7OO,OOO to s3,SOO,OOO. There is
certainly no ground for complaint on
the part of foreigners. The complaint
should come from Americans because
of the importation of articles that
could he nrOdupad iuSf "a. u,all In Tho
United States, and which would be pre-
duced here with sufficient Protection.
Some things were not needed, such
as diamonds and champagne.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
SALEM.

Nov. 23.-7Rev. G. H. Lawrence fill
ed his regular appointment at Cane
Run Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.. Ira Wilson and Miss Clemmie
Christian We're married at the home
Of the bride, Mr.. and Mrs. G. j.
lChristian near Cane Run, Saturday
night, Nov. 20. They both have the
best wishes OF their many friends.
Mrs. John Jamison Is visiting fler
daughter near Matanzas.
Miss Emma Axton of Horse Branch
visited Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Christian,
Saturday night.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

The Breckenridge County Democrats
evidently failed to see any good which
could come from their contest for the
county officers and last week with
drew their suit which had been filed
in the Breckenridge Circuit Court.
This county has heretofore had a
solid Democratic set of Officers and
and while other counties were going
TO the bad, at the recent election,
Breckenridge County showed up with
a majority for all the Republican tick-
Of
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
C0oper.Ineram.

Cards are out announcing the Sc
cret marriage of Miss Dona Cooper
and Mr.. Granville Ingram. Miss Coop
er is the youngest daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Z. @. Cooper. Mr. Ingram is the
eldest son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Ingram.
This young couple were married in
Hartford the second day of October,
keeping the matter secret until No
vember goth. Everyone. while ex-
pecting their marriage at some future
date, was surprised to hear of it ut
that time. May they live long. be
prosperous and happy, is the wish of
their many friends.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Minutes Of School Improvement
League.

School Improvement League met in
regular session at West Nocreek Fri
day evening, Nov. II, 1909, with Pres
ident j. Z. Foster in the chair. Sec
rotary being absent, Filydia Foster
was elected secretary pro TEN for
said meeting.
Roll-call showed officers present,
twenty, absent nine. .f,-
Minutes read and approved Under
old business, the committee appointed
to reset trees, made report and was
continued.
The quartet rendered by Misses Bet
tie Ward, Maude Ellis, Messrs. S. p.
Sanderfhr and Curry Wallace was
very enjoyable.
Master Carroll Ward is to be con-
graduated in behalf of his whistling
song
This meeting closed a successful
years work of the league, it having
missed only three meetings during The
past year, and the prospects are
bright for the coming year.
Officers elected for the ensuing year
are as follows: ]. p. Foster re-elect-
ed president; w. r. Stevens, vice
president; Filydia Foster, secretary;
Lula Ward, asst. secretary; L. NJ.
Ward, sargeant-at-arms; Malissa Fos-
ter, critic; Bertha Ward, editor of the
Nocreek Up-To-Date; Dudley Wester-
field, associate editor; Sherman Chap
berlin, janitor.
League adjourned to meet Friday
evening, Nov. 26, 1908.
FILYDIA FOSTER, Sec'y.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

We are asked by the Hartford
Herald this week to explain the Re
publican defeat in various counties
of the State in view Of our cOnten-
ton that unpopularity of Democratic
principles caused the defeat Of thac
party in Ohio county. In a number Of
counties, as in Muhlenburg for in
stance, local issues caused the Repub-
lican defeat. The same is true Of
Christian county,where the Republican
had nominated Democrats for Circuit
Judge and Commonwealth Attorney
and We're making Law and Order
fight which was doubtless taken by
many of the farmers TO mean, not
only a law and order campaign, but
that unfriendliness to the organization
as well. Republicans made this mis-
take in a number of places IN Wes,-
ern Kentucky and we trust they will
learn by sad experience that it is
to their interest to sand by the
farmer and laborer. The same is true
of Fayette county, where the Dem
ocrats lost after having held power
for years. The reversal was caused
by local conditions. In Ohio county it
was straight out and out fight be-
tween the Republicans and Democrats
No side issues were involved.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

The Republicans down in the Chris
tian Circuit Court District nominated
Democrats for Circuit Judge and Com
monwealths Attorney and announced
that they were running a LAW and
Order Ticket" The law and order part
of 1t is alright and there could
have been no special objection to the
election of competent Democrats to
these positions, but somehow the idea
prevailed that il was not so much
IN the interest OF law and order as
1T was a campaign against the tobacco
growers and poolers generally in the
interest of the trust. In other words
these Flaw and order" fellows stood
80 straight that they leaned back
a Ettle, and they fooled nobody. Re
suit, Christian county with $500 Re-
publican majority went 200 Democrat
&c and elected an entire Democratic
county ticket. How long Will Repub-
1icans be fooled into this sort OF
combination. The great leaders OF
the Republican party in the past have
boosted that this party OF all Others
stood by the poor man, the laboring
man and the great common people, and
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

Later returns from the recent cleo
ton, in the final count made by the
State Board of Commissioners, re-
veals the fact that the Amendment
70 the Constitution in the interest
of good roads in Kentucky was carried
1t was supposed all along TO have been
defeated and this will be good news
TO those who have been pushing this
measure as a means of aiding in a
good cause
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

II it be a fact that five miners out
of every thousand employed in the
United States are killed annually, It
is high time that our law makers
were devising some method to pro-
tect these men who make it possible
for every wheel Of industry 10 turn
IN our land. Often poorly paid and
without work many months in the
year, they assume this great hazard
that the trains may move, the factor
les run, the school houses and homes
be warmed through the winter months
and the food cooked for everybody.
Next TO the farmer, the miner is
the most important factor in secur-
ing and maintaining prosperity in this
country. He deserves all the proJSc-
ton which can be thrown around
him in his dangerous avocation.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

1t has done 50 as no other party
which ever had an existance in the
history Of this government WheRev-
er 1t ceases to stand by the common
people it will get what It deserves at
the hands of the common people
through the ballot box. Ninsty per
cent Of the people of this common
wealth are farmers. They produce the
wealth, without which this territory
would be a bowling wilderness and
the man or set OF men who will not
stand by the interests Of the farmers
Is unworthy to hold any position of
trust, either in the county or State.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
SELECT.

Mrs. Blanche Allen Of Herrin, H.,
arrived in town to-day to be the
guest of relatives for few days.
Rev. A. B. Gardner, of Beaver
Dam is ccnductig a revival at Green
River this week. '
Mr.. ]. J. Stewart and family at
tended church at Green River Tues
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Patton-Ellis.

Mr.. Clarence Patton and Miss Maude
Ellis. were married yesterday after
boon at four o'clock at the brides
home on lower No Creek, Rev. Viz
gu Elgin officiating. The groom IL
a prosperous young farmer of Max
welb> this county, and the bride a
bright and popular young lady with
many friends in her community.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Notice.

The December payment for the
Ohio county teachers will be mad on
December the Is, 1909. No incidental
expenses will be paid until Deem
Der 10. shall be out Of my office
until after the 18th, of December
hense the above announcement.
Respectfully,
j. M. DEWEESE, S. C.S. -.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Oldest Man In Western Kentucky.

Rosine, Ohio county, claims for one
of its residents the Oldest living man
in Western Kentucky. He is William
Holiday, aged 102 years, who is ap-
parently we'll and hearty despite his
great age. The aged man reads the
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Ladies Take Notice.

We can clean and press your coat
suits, skirts, jackets. cloaks or wraps.
also clean your kid gloves and muffs.
All work guaranteed. Prices reason
able. Hartford Pressing Club.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

The Republicans in Muhlenburg
county will have four years in which
TO feel sorry over the thrashing which
they gave themselves at the Novembe
election.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

1t is hoped that the coming ses-
sion of Congress will so amend the
Sherman Antitrust Law as TO make
It clear that it is not TO be operated
against those whom it was intended
~ DrOtact
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Notice..

The trustees who took the CEN
sus last April, can now receive
their compensation for their work
by calling at the County Clerks Of
flee. Respectfully,
j. NJ. DEWEESE, S. c. s.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

The Standard Oil Company received
another knock last week when the
United States Court in Iowa declared
Il to be a combination in restraint
of trade
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
Notice..

Persons having express packages
must call at office and pay for same
before they can go out.
COOPER e. co.
Black G. Birkhead's old stand.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
ANNOUNCEMENT.

We are now ready for bust
ness and extend to you a spe-
cial invitation to visit us when
in need of anything in our
line. We will keep a full line
of Staple and Fancy Grocer
les and can fill your orders at
all times. We appreciate
small as we'll as large orders
and all will have our prompt
and careful attention. Re-
member the place.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26

Bible without glasses and was never
int, xicated. He has voted for every
Democratic candidate for President
from Andrew Jackson down to Bryan.
He has resided on farm, his presen
home, for many years, and cuts kind
ling and regularly feeds the stock.
His wife, now dead, was a relative
of Gen r. Z. Lee.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1909-11-26
For Rent

Dwelling house and store room. See
]. w. Ford, Hartford. Ky.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
cnIlsotors of Specimens.

Students of the crustacea often find the cod useful assistant collector. Thus the circular crab seems to be favorite food of cods and rays. and it was chiefly from the stomachs of these fish that some of the older naturalists obtained specimens.
 Another hunting ground of the naturalist is the sailing ship which has been in foreign parts. In this way Dr. Clark has been able to add a tiny Chilian crab to the Cornish .rustacea. It was obtained by Vallcn- tin on the sides of a bark from Pata- gonia in coating of seaweed and barnacles.
 The crab itself may become col lector of specimens for the zcologist, for it is often covered with various species of sponges. hydroids and bry- ozoa. Sometimes the species found thus are such as are not easily ob- tainable otherwise. One species of crab, indeed tmala sqninado), is re- garded in Cornwall as the provider of material for the natura.ist-TheZ Zo- ologist.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
SAYS STANBARD WOULD
 CONTROL A CENTRAL BANK
Leslie M. Shaw Talks to Indianapolis Business Men Regarding the
 Aidrich Plan.


 Indianapolis, Dec 1e.-Leslie M. Shaw, ex-secretary of the treasurer speaking to about 400 business men at the board of trade, declared there is no doubt in the minds of those who have studied the proposed central bank that such an institution would be owned or at least controlled by the standard Oil company. Mir. Shaw throughout his address opposed the proposed central bank He said:
 T do not believe there can be any doabt in the mind of anyone who studies the question in the light of admitted conditions, that if central bank is esta0pshed in this company it will be owned or al least controlled by the Standard Oil company.
 T am frank to say that 1t seems to me quite un-Amerlcan to place with any group of men the power to con tract or expand our currency at will and to grant or withhold credit to any bank, to any merchant and to any cor pcration at pleasure
 But lest 1t be charged that l am appealing to popular prejudice, l am willing to go on record that if we are 70 have a central bank shall welcome control by the Standard oil company or by the Unltea States Steel corpora ton, through preferably both com bined, hut it is based wholly on the question of fitness for inc task"
 Senator Nelson w. Aldrich of Rhode Island, whose particular interest, now hat the tariff Is safely out of the way fov time, is the proposed central bank, is the fatherin-aw of John D. Rockefeller, jr., and generally is recog- nized as the representative Of Stand ard Oil and other "big business in the senate.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
Marie AntoInette,s Clock.

Among the clocks at Versailles is one of great interest historically. as it belonged to the hapless consort of Louis XVI. It is a musical clock. For many years it has been out of orde', but on the initiative of Comte ds Beauchamp 1t has been restored by NJ, Leroy. descendant of the constructo; of the timepiece.
 Nj. Dujardin Besumetz, under secre. tary of the University of Fine Arts, and M de Nolhac, curator of the mu- sAeurl have had the satisfaction of hearing the clock after so many years of silence produce the popular airs of the end of the eighteenth century, with fragments of Gluck and Rameau, which delighted in her days of hap piness Marie Antoinette. In few days the clock will be replaced in one of the apartments of the unfortunate queen.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
THEY BLAME NORTON
STARTLING STATEMENT ISSUED BY oFFlcERs OF FAILED
 BANK AT TULSA, OK.
STATE TOOK THE SECURITIES
President BIaIse Declares His Bank Held Norton's Paper to the Amount Of 0o0-Taken to Apply on His Columbia Obligations.

Tulsa. Ok, Dec. 17.--That W. L. Nor. ton, president of the defunct Columbia Bank and Trust company of Oklahoma City, owed his bank, either directly or indirectly, slO0,000, that the failure of the Oklahoma City institution was the downfall of the Tulsa bank, and that the state officials took the bulk of Nor toms securities from the Tulsa bank to apply to his Columbia obligations, is the astounding statement made by President E. F. Blaise of the failed Farmers National Bank of Tulsa.
 This is in answer to Norton's state ment that he did not owe the Tulsa bank cent, was not in any way re sponsible for It's downfall, and shat the Tulsa bank was debtor to consider able extent to the Columbia Bank and Trust company.
 "The story that Mir. Norton is not in- debted to the Farmers National bank is an utter falsehood" said MT. Blaise Notes to the extent of s100.000 be- longing to him or indorsed by him are now in the bank and have been seen by the members of the Tulsa Clearing House association, Bank Examiner Bryant and directors of the Farmers National
 Morton is responsible for the failure and the action is a direct result of the crash of the Columbia for the state of ficials took the bulk of Norton's securi- ties to apply to his Columbia obiga- tions and left his notes in the Farm CTS National unprotected.
 ''I will force Mr. Norton into bank ruptcy; he is worth $500,000 and must pay these obligations"
 The depositors of the Farmers Ma tional will be paid in full State Com missioner Young stated that he had taken over the First State bank of Kiefer and it, being protected by the state guaranty fund, would pay all de- positors in full The Kiefer bank was depostor in the Farmers National to the extent of s30,000.
 The failure of the Farmers National has had very little effect upon the re- maining two national banks and five state banks in Tulsa, and except in the cases of individual depositors in the defunct bank, business interests in general showed no effects of the fail ure.
 Mayor Mitchell of Tulsa appointed a committee of three, of which he is a member. to look after the city's de- posits in the defunct bank, which total upwards of s40,000.
 That all the national banks in Okla homa will be required shortly to fur nish a satisfactory bond covering all deposits made by the state banks of Oklahoma except in cases where na- tional banks are subject to clearing house examinations, was authoratively announced. This is due to the fact that state banks of Oklahoma have been heavy losers in failures in na- tiOnal banks
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
NapoIeon and the Canal.

The steadily increasing estimates as to the final cost of the Panama canal serves to keep that projected waterway very much in the public eye. But probably very few know that if an ambition which had been cherished by the late Emperor Napo leon III. had ever reached fruition, there probably would never have been any attempt to cut canal across the Panama isthmus.
 It was after Prussia had defeated FraDse that Napoleon conceived the projtrs cf opening canal through the Nicaraguan route. It seems that the idea first occurred to Napoleon while he was a prisoner in the fortress of Ham. At that period he filled his time with schemes for great under. takings, and to a friendly navy off, cer who visited him in his cell he re- vealed his plan for a Nicaragua canal On reaching England after his release he printed his plans, calcula- tions. and surveys, together with A map, which eventually came into the possession of a Mir. Haynes of Man chester street, Manchester square. Jerrold's Life of Napoleon" makes brief reference to this ambition of Ma. poleon, and says that political events put a rtop to the enterprise.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
Al the Mllliner,s

An Atchison woman who has a sin cere desire to the economical, says the
 Kansas City Journal, took blue feather, some velvet, and rose to n
 milliner. asking the milliner to fur nish the shape and trim 1t. The woman was proud of the feather, the
 velvet, and the rose. as they were as good as new, but the milliner cast just one glance at them. and then the wom- an began to apologize. Apologies are not necessary" said the milliner jelly. You surely don't expect me to use anything like that!" And the wom- an didn't. Another woman said to her milliner. brayeiy: q want a hat that doesn't cost a cent over five dol lars" What" screamed the mil liner. q mean stammered the wom- an." that doesn't cost over s15." "Oh, well, that's better" said the milliner.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
4 WIRELESS RECORD
HUMAN VOICE HEARD DISTINCT LyAT A DISTANCE OF 800
 MILES AT SEA.
DISCOVERY MADE BY ACCIDENT
While Talking in New York, voice or Wireless Telephone Inventor was Heard on Liner on the Atlantic Ocean.

New York. Dec. 16.-The longest wireless telephone message has been received over a distance of 800 miles, according to Lee DeForest, inventor or the system. Telephoning one way at that distance is an accomplished facb he said. and he is ready to make con tracts with liners to guarantee than communication at distance or zVV miles from New York.
 We have not signed contracts be- cause a certain wireless telegraph company has exclusive rights on most of the liners, and 1t won't let us put the system in," said MT. DeForest. But we are making arrangements to put the telephone on coastwise vessels and hope to have it in use on them generally within a year"
 MT. DeForest learned in an unusual manner that he could telephone for 500 miles.
 T was talking from the station on the Metropolitan tower to my office some time ago. he said. q was mak- ing sort of stump speech for those on the receiving end, and l got off several jokes about the election. Two or three days later the Marconi operator on an Atlantic liner called on me and said that when his ship was 800 miles out of New York-that is, when she was off Sable Island-he had the receiver at his ear watching for the clicks of the telegraph instru- ment, when he heard me talking.
 "He repeated so much of the sub stance of my conversation that there could have been no mistake about it. That could be done easily with the re- ceiver he held. It would convey the sound of the human voice just as it would the clicks of the telegraph. The news encouraged us so much that we went to work with more energy on the telephone scheme.
The Mena weekly star., 1909-12-23
A Ceremony Denied.

A Vienna merchant who had spent the summer vacation at AItenberg, af ter reaching home sent an oil paint ing of the Madonna to the authorities of the vacation resort, with the IT. quest that it be placed in the spring house. He asked also that a priest be requested to ofIiclate when the painting was unveiled Father Steidt of St. Andrews was selected to carry out the request, but sent word that he would not bless the picture until he had the assurance that the wife of the painter, and no other woman, !" had served as model As it was iin- possible to secure this statement, the authorities had to dispense with the religious ceremony.