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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
PIANO CONTEST MOVING
WITH A RUSH.
About Sixty Young Ladies Out
After The Five Piano Prizes

The Adair County News and Russell
& Co., joint prize offer of $1,000 90
Five Standard 1910 Krause Pianos, for
the five most popular young ladies in
Adair and adjoining counties is now in
full swing and votes are coming in at
rate that speaks well for the value of
the prizes offered.
Right now is the time to name your
candidates for popularity honors, and
incidently put her in line for standard
1910 Krause Piano. Absolutely no cost
to either yourself or the young lady you
nominate. Coupon 'B" appears else
where in this issue will put the lady of
your choice in line with 1000 votes to
her credit. Suppose you do it now
There are 200 young ladies in Adair
and adjoining counties possessing ex-
ceptional musical talent and must re-
main undeveloped because they lack a
pood piano. Don't this give you an
idea? You can put some friend of yours
in line by writing her name on Coupon
"B' and mailing it to this office, and
you can keep her in line by clipping
the coupons that will appear in every
issue of the The News. Watch for
them and get your friends to do like
wise.
Every candidate entered has five
chances of winning piano prize. Each
prize offered represents an elegant 1910
Arause Instrument.
Ballot box now open and prize on
view at Russell & Co.'S. store. Your
inspection and criticism invited. Votes
will be counted every Monday night by
the following committee:
J. w. Flowers, cashier Bank of Co.
lumbia; Robt. Reed, of Reed Hardware
Co, Bruce Montgomery, Asst. cashier
lst National Bank.
Candidates names and their standing
~ill appear every Tuesday in this publ
cation.
Russell & Co., are offering bonus
votes to candidates bringing business to
their store. 200 votes will be given for
each dollar purchase made from this
general stock and 1000 votes for each
dollar purchase from their newly estab-
lished Jewelry department. Candi-
dates will learn something to their ad-
vantage by calling at the store and con-
ferring personally with the Contest
MANAGER He has three nlans of svS
tematic vote collecting which will be of
great advantage to the young lady can.
didates who mean business.
Watch for the list of candidates to
appear in next Tuesdays issue of the
News. If the young lady of your
choice is not entered, see to it that she
is nominated. Better be sure and use
Coupon ''B" today-Now!.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
Why kick Your Congressman?

A young millionaire officer in
the New York National Guard.
home from abroad and bringing
back fear of Japanese invasion
of the United States. advocated
in an interview a system of COM
pulsory military service of three
years for every ablebodied Amer
lean citizen To bring this about
he advised every one to kick
his Congressman. That, he
said, was the only way to get
anything out of him. The young
man is the son and heir of the
late H. H. Rogers, of the Stan
dard Oil Company. If young
Mr.. Rogers will consult the part
ner of his father, Mr. Archibald,
he will learn of a more peaceful
and effective method of handling
Congressman and Senators. =
Chicago Tribune.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21

they were not prohibited by the
rules. He had a night shirt and
some other articles of wearing
in the case. When he
went inside he was given the
same treatment that all other
prisoners receive. He was shaved
had his hair cut, given a bath,
measured naked by the Bertillon
system and photographed Then
a suit of clothes, plain gray with
a gray cap, was fitted on him,
and he was assigned to cell No 7
on walk B., which is the same
cell that was given Judge Booze
when he first went to .prison and
is on the same floor with Curt
Jett, Beech Hargis and other
celebrities of the prison. Frank
fort News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
Mixing His Dates.

There is a story of a man who
was so transported with joy as
he stood up at the altar rail to
be married, that his thoughts re-
verted to a day when he stood
up at the prisoners bar in a
court of justice to plead guilty"
or mot guilty" to q criminal
charge. So powerfully did that,
the most painful event of his
life. obtrude itself upon his mind,
that when the clergyman put the
question, wilt thou have this
woman to be thy welded wife?"
and so on, the poor distracted
bridegroom answered with start
ling distinctness, mot guilty, so
help me Godw From Tucker
mans Personal Recollections ("
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21

And up to this time we have seen
no snow, while we have had some
cool weather we have only had a
few heavy frosts.
We have lots of Kentuckians
in this section Of Oklahoma and
only wish we had many more,
for a better people you can not
find any where. Since / have
been here have visited a num-
Der of their homes and invari-
ably find them all prospecting and
surrounded by everything that
is needed to make them com
Portable and in nearly every in
stance they own the farms on
which they live. The greatest
drawback and about the only
is the Indian or the redman, as
he is sometimes called, but they
are being crowded out very fast.
To-day there are millions of acres
of Indian lands being sold under
the Supervision of the Govern
ment and in many instances the
allotted lands of 160 acres are
being divided and one-half, sold
and the proceeds derived there
from expended under the super
vision of the national Govern.
ment for the improving of the
remaining 80 acres which will
put many good buildings and
homes in the country, which
would be an impossibility so long
as the land are under the con-
troll of the Indians. All this
means a new era of rapid growth
for this already wonderfully rap
id growing state which makes it
the wonder of the age in build
ing of new states.
Thinking perhaps l have taken
enough of your space, will close
with best wishes for a Merry
Xmas and Happy New Year for
all of my Kentucky friends.
Respt, Robt. E. Lloyd.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
Fad Warnings.

Drink water and get typhoid
fever. Drink milk and get tu-
berculosis. Drink whisky and
get jimjams. Drink soup and
fat. Eat meat and encourage
cancer, apoplexy, and appendi-
citis. Eat oysters and absorb
typhoid gastric poison germs.
Eat vegetables and give the sys-
TEN Asiatic thin blooded weak
ness. Eat dessert and die with
paresis or something else. Smoke
cigarettes and die too soon.
Drink coffee and fall into insom-
MIA and nervous prostration.
Drink tea and get weak heart.
Drink wine and so drink govt.
Blame it all, if you want to keep
we'll quit eating and drinking,
smoking. and loving, and before
breathing or touching anything
see that the air and everything
is perfectly sterilized. The New
York Press.
There is, however, no little
consolation in rejecting that ma
ture provides US with a more or
less effective armor against germs
so that We may carry many
thousands of them about with us
and not contract the various dis
eases they represent. We can
also most of us-stop smoking
when it hurts our health, and
some of us can smoke and live to
be 100 or so. And those of US
who get paresis nearly always
imagine we are Sultans, Kings or
millionaires. for that feeling is
symptom of the disease.
Boil your drinking water if the
supply is bad, and raise the deuce
with your town if it is its fault
that it is bad. Eat, and drink
other things in moderation, and
let the germophobes and health
cranks follow their own advice,
because it is worse to be hipped
about your health than to be
really sick. You may get over
being sick, or you may die, but if
you get hipped you are likely to
go through life that way, and
live long time in misery.
Frankfort News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
Rat.KiIIins In Bombay.

The bubonic plague has killed
1859, 900 people in the last fourteen
years in the city of Bombay
alone, the highest mortality
being 10000 in 1903 and the low
est 5000 during the past year
The reduction of the mortality
can be traced very largely to the
number of rats killed in the city,
who are the Industrious carriers
of the disease. A half million
rats were killed last year in that
city alone, of which number co.
600 were examined by the bac-
teriologists of the health depart
ment and 5000 of them were
found to be infected with the
plague. The wholesale destruc-
ton of these rodents was &C
complished by the most careful
municipal plan and cooperation
of health and police departments,
which scattered bread smeared
with poison and furnished thou
sands of disinfected traps to the
inhabitants, who caught tens of
thousands of them. The plague
could not be driven out of San
Francisco and some other West
ern cities until they had learned
what subtle and deadly carrier
of disease the rat is, and until
the public had been aroused to
the necessity and task of his des-
trustion. This method Of pre-
venting physical disease suggests
the spiritual health which comes
to those who are obedient to
Gods commandments:
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21

The sub committee of the Sem
ate committee on privileges and
elections completed its investiga-
ton of the scandal arising from
the recent election of William
Lorimer as United States Sena-
tor from Illinois. A report is ex-
pected within two weeks.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
Prison Doors Close on August
Ropke.

In a light, airy and fairly COM
modious cell, with Curt Jett on
one side of him and Beach Hargis
a close neighbor, August Ropke,
once wealthy and trusted, hold
ing a responsible position with a
big trust company in Louisville,
now has begun services of the
long sentence imposed upon him
by the Jefferson Circuit court.
Ropke has been given one of the
best cells in the prison, on the
ground floor. 1t was occupied
until recently by Judge C. E.
Booze, former claim clerk of the
Auditors office. Booze has moved
but is still on the same tier of
cells with Ropke. Henry Yout-
sey, Jett and Hargis all have
cells along that tier and Ropke
is in the company of the most
noted men in the prison. The
cell is intsthe new house and
opens on a wide walk, with
plenty of windows, to admit
light and air, opening on it. =
After his admission TO the
prison Rope was measured for
suit of blue clothes, such as all
the second grade convicts wear
and was given a gray CAP. If he
is good for sixty days he will be
given a blue cap, which will
make him in the first grade and
he will have some privileges not
accorded to the other cOnvicts.
Only the worst convicts in the
prison wear stripes. All who are
admitted start in the gray and
their conduct later determines
any changes that are n ade.
Ropke was measured under the
Bertlllion system and his picture
taken. In fact he was treated
just as any other convict who
comes to the penitentiary.
August Rope arrived in Frank
fort on the C. & o. train at H.
55 Monday morning in charge of
Deputy Sheriff Robert Kalten-
hacker. He was dressed nicely
but modestly, wearing a well
fitting dark overcoat which he
was required to take off in the
Office of the penitentiary before
he went inside the walls.
He walked to the prison with
Kaltenbacher from the train in
an easy unconcerned way, but he
was evidently laboring under the
effort to appear calm. On the
way from the station to the peni- |
Tertiary office he conversed in a |
low tone with Kaltenbacher and !
took something out of his pocket,
to be a knife. keys and
possibly some other trinket,
which he gave to the deputy
sheriff.
When thew went into the prison
office, Deputy Warden Thomas
took the commitment papers and |
Clerk Adams wrote out the
necessary statement on a type
writer, just as is done with any
other prisoner. When asked to
state his age, Ropke said he was
forty-one, and in answer to the
quest ion as whether he had any
money, he said he had not. He
went through his pockets and
pulled out a spectacle case which
ne held up. He was told he
would be allowed to keep it. De-
putty Thomas then quoted to him
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
Binesr. Okla.


Not having seen anything from
this section of the country for
some time and thinking perhaps
someone might enjoy reading a
short letter | thought | womld
write and tel the readers of your
paper something about this won
derful new state of ours. know
it is true they have heard a great
deal but the half has not yet been
told and will not be for decades
to come, for the country is only
in its infancy as well as its many
thriving industries which are
springing up all over the state
and particularly in the larger
towns and cities of which might
mention, Oklahoma City as the
leader which has a population of
$1,000 people and is only in its
beginning of a great city and
promises to be within the next
few years the commercial center,
not only Of Oklahoma but of the
entire Southwest as we'll. Okla
homa has the greatest variety of
occupations of any State most in
the union. therefore her doors
are thrown open to people of all
trades and occupations which is
causing a great tide of immigra-
ton to come to this new State.
And consequently its possibilities
are being developed more rapid
ly than that of any other state,
and in particular along the lines
of agriculture, for it possesses
soil that will grow any crop aid
ed by wonderful climatic condi-
tons.
Oklahoma bids fair to outstrip
both her sister agricultural and
mineral states within the very
mar future. When one stops to
think that during the current
year of 1910, the value of Okla
homa's crops was almost quar-
ter Of d billion dollars, that
small percentage of her entire
tillable land is under cultivation,
and that the per capita value of
this years crops was 500. We
wonder with establishment what
the result will be when advan-
tage is taken of all the magnifi-
cent opportunities offered by the
new state and which may be had
for the asking. oklahoma con-
tains in round numbers forty-six
million acres of land Of this
total area less than one-third is
under cultivation.
In the year 1908, 10, 1894
acres were being cultivated; in
1909 the cultivated acreage was
increased to 10, 1877, 943 acres, or
an increase of seven per cent,
and it may be readily seen that
at this rate the entire available
area will soon be under cultiva-
ton. When we take into consid
Grafton that the rental value to
the land owner this year is over
ten per cent on his investment,
or a greater rate than any other
state which is evidence of the
splendid value of Oklahoma lands,
and one very noticeable feature
of this country is its great abili-
ty to endure dry weather and
produce a fair crop. 1t some
times happens that a crop is
grown here on bottom lands with
out any rains practically from
the time it is planted until it is
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21

Don't expect to satisfy your
heart with gold even though it
can be had by setting your heart
on it.
Don't overlook the fact that
much more is lost through daily
indifference than death can take
from us at the end.
Don't forget that virtue is the
Joy of the upward way.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1910-12-21
Most Beautiful Win Ever Written.


Lounsburg, an inmate of the
Cook county asylum at Dunning,
ILL.,, died, he left a will.
Lounsburg had nothing to be-
queath which is known to law"
as he says, but he distributes a
vast and wonderful property in
this beautiful testament:
Il, Charles Lounsburg, being
OF sound mind and disposing
memory, do hereby make and
publish this, my last will and tes-
lament, in order as justly as may
be to distribute my interest in
the world among succeeding men.
That part of my interest
which is known in law and rec
ognized in the sheep-bound vol
umes as my property, being in
considerable and of no account |
make no disposal of it in this, my
will.
My right to live being but a
life estate, is not at my disposal,
but, these things excepted, all
else in the world | now proceed
to devise and bequeath:
Item: / give to good fathers
and mothers, in trust for their
children, all good little words of
praise and encouragement, and
all quaint pet names and endear-
ments, and | charge said parents
to use them justly and generous
ly, as the needs of their children
may require.
Item: / leave to children in
clusively. but only for the term
of their childhood, all and every,
the flowers of the fields and the
blossoms of the woods, with the
right to play among them freely
according to the customs of child
rem, warning them the same time
against thistles and thorns. And
| devise to children the banks of
brooks and the golden sands be-
meath the waters Thereof, and the
odorS of the willows that dip
therein, and the white clouds
that float high over the giant
trees. And | leave the children
the long, long days to be merry
in, thousand ways, and the
night and the moon and the train
of the Milky Way to wonder at,
but subject, nevertheless to the
rights hereinafter given to low
ers.
Item: | devise to boys jointly
all the useful idle fields and COM
mon where ball may be played;
all pleasant waters where one
may swim; all snow clad hills
where one may coast, and all the
streams and ponds where one
may fish, or where, when grim
winter comes one may skate; to
have and to hold the same for
the period Of their boyhood. And
all meadows with the clover bios
SONS and butterflies thereof, the
woods and their appurtenances,
the squirrels and birds, and
echoes of strange noises, and all
distant places which may be Wis
tied, together with the advent
ures to be found there. And |
give to said boys each his own
place at the fireside at night,
with all pictures that may be
seen in the burning wood to en-
JOY let or hinderance and with
out any incumberance or care.
Item: To lovers | devise their
The Glenwood post., 1910-10-08
Proposed Indian Museum.

ity. At present Indian geological ex-
hibits are stored in one part of Lon
don, the vegetable products in another
and the antiquities at the British mu-
scum
Some Indians want the palatial
building to be erected in Calcutta, but
others support the British proposal
Alongside this Oriental palace of ma
tional interest the London county
council is building huge county hall,
so before long the south side of the
Thames will lose its present sordid
appearance and rival the Victoria en-
bankment side, with its parliamentary
buildings and great hotels.
To make the building stand out un-
mistakably, it is proposed by ex-Gov-
ernment Architect Chisholm Of Ma
dras to cover the domes and minarets
of the museum with white tiles.
There are some financial difficulties
to be met, for the British taxpayer is
to be called on to buy the site, find
fresh accommodation for the present
occupier, and to pay an annual sub
sidy. But as the scheme is backed by
Lord Cursor, Lord Roberts, Sir Man
cherjee Bhownagree and a host of
others notable it is sure to materialize.
The Glenwood post., 1910-10-08
FLY PAPER STOPS CRITICISM
Hoosier Daughter-ln-Law Is Fined $40
for Use of Novel
Gag.

lndianapolis.-Mrs. Clara Brandon.
who used fly paper to close the mouth
Of her mother-in-law. was fined SO.
but lost her mother-in-law as a mem
ber of the family. Mrs. Lavina Bran
don, the mother-in-law, admitted in
court that she was very tedious old
person." and told Of the pastinR of
the fly paper across her mouth,
Judge, Just couldn't stand it. She
criticised my hair and my dress.
did use the fly paper, but she de-
served it." said Mrs. Clara Brandon.
She said Alondon, son and husband
promised to find q new home for his
mother. The wife has appealed to the
higher courts to determine whether
she is guilty.
The Glenwood post., 1910-10-08
A NOTE OF SYMPATHY

Immediately on knowing of a death In the
family of friend should show formal recog-
milton OF the fact, though the acquaintance
be slight. Only if one is really old friend does
send note go to the house, but unless
some attention is paid to the affiiction those who
are undergoing it have no way of knowing
whether the others from whom they have not
heard of it,
To post ones visiting card, or, better still, to
leave at the house in person is the most formal
way one may do. Something may be written on
the card or not chooses but, generally
speaking If writes at all the form should
take that of note and not line a card.
which may always be considered casual, saving
the bother of note. The card. which should be
accompanied also by that of the husband when
a woman is married, is addressed to the widow
widower the case may be, or to the parents
when the death has been that of child
Flowers which may be sent are addressed to
the head of the house and visiting cards are
placed in the box. 1t is not good form to send
them when funeral notices request that flowers
shall be omitted. II one is keenly desirous of ex
pressing a sympathy which is felt one may wait
until after the funeral services and send flowers
to the person most deeply bereaved, as the wife,
or widow. Only at that time are blossoms
ceived by an individual; that is, any sent before
funeral supposed to be for use at the
vices and are not retained in the house. Those
sent several days afterward are undoubtedly
meant for the use of the individual to whom they
are addressed.
It is a very pretty thought to show such an
attention week or 80 after a funeral, for those
In afaiction are more than apt to feel that their
grief is quickly forgotten by their friends who
are all sympathy at first It is not necessary that
any note shall accompany the box, but the recipi-
ent 10 required to send a note of thanks written
either by herself or another member Of the fam.
tly q . friend for her.
The Glenwood post., 1910-10-08
NOW THE HUMANITARIAN HAT
New French Models Now Being Shown
Initiate the Plumage of Birds
In Ribbons.

New York.-The vogue of ribbon
plumage now extensively seen in Paris
millinery will appeal irresistibly to
the humanitarian woman. All kinds
of birds are initiated in shaded rib
bon, silk and velvet, the colors and
form of the most beautiful plumage
being carried out to perfection.
A striking instance of the humani
tartan hat is one on which the plu-
mage of the owl, bird that is one of
the latest fads for millinery decora-
ton, is initiated in ribbon in the nat
ural tones. Two cardboard discs, COW
cred with velvet and set with cabochon
glass that has the CLEAN of jewels,
are used to initiate the eyes and
make effective pieces of display.
AS a model for the woman who
loves the tones of bird plumage but
who will not sacrifice any form of