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Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-07-27

The assembly of the Kentucky
and Tennessee Nazarine Church
convened in Monterey last week.
Quite number of ministers, dele
gates and Christian workers from
Louisville, Glasgow, Newport,
and Highway. KY; also from diff
ferent points in Tennessee were
present.
Mrs. Mary Troglin of Sparta
visited relatives in Monterey last
week and attended our Assembly.
Miss Pearl Peek of Pleasant
Hill has been in Monterey for the
past week having some dental
work done, and is the guest of
the writer. She is a sweet girl
and we have enjoyed her stay
with us very much.
Mrs. Laura McGuffey of Rock
wood is spending the summer
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. w. Mcclellan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert King and
children visited the writer Sun
day.
BERTHE West, Scion Davis and
Mel Stone Of. Cookeville, Route 2
were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Philander Maxwell one night last
week.
Rev. Robert McGowen of Glas-
gov, KY, and E. Chambers of
Smith County We're our guests
during the assembly.
Bro. Baker, editor of the White
County Favorite, was a visitor to
the Holiness Assembly for a
few days last week.
Some time back someone asked
who Lola Lee West was or who
her father was. She is daugh-
ter of Fletcher West, a grand
laughter of Burr West. and a
great rand-daughter of Uncle
John West. Fletcher's mother
vas a daughter of Rev. Stephen
Davis, and Lola Lees mother
vas Samantha Knight, or rather
hat was her maiden name.
MOLLIE DAHUFF.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-07-27

~~NS - OS~AA @6OOe WIN AAhA0 0OCl
visiting in Cookeville for SOM
time, returned home last week
Miss Jennie Cope of Ravens
croft was the guest of Miss Pear
Cliff last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burr Peek at
tended meeting at Claysville Sun
day.
Mrs. Mary Clark and Mrs. Hat
tie Stanley spent Sunday with
Mrs. James Cooley.
Miss Mary Saylors visited
friends at Clarktown recently.
Miss Pearl Peek is spending {
few days at Monterey this week.
Mamie Lee is visiting her sis.
ter, Mrs. Hattie Cooper, in White
County.
Bart Matlock of White County
was in town a few days last
week.
Mrs. Matte Greenlee and son,
j. T., are visiting friends and re-
latives here.
Aunt Jennie Brown of Brown
town visited her sister, Mrs.
Nancy Harris, at Walden's Ridge
last week. She found her very
sick and she died soon after Aunt
Jennie arrived.
Last Thursday Mr.. Isaac Clark
took his Sunday school class on a
picnic and all reported a nice
time.
Saturday the Rebekahs spent
the day at the river, and all pres
ent spent an enjoyable day.
Edgar Henegar is spending a
few weeks in McMinnyille.
Sam Willard was in town Sun
day.
G. Hedgecoth and sons, Theo-
dore and Clarence, and daughter.
Miss Ethel, went to Monterey
Sunday.
The people of Pleasant Hill
were saddened to hear Of the
death of Ed Mercer, a young man
who attended school here some
few years ago. His home was
at Illwill, KY, but he had been
working at Carthage for some
time. He was taken with ty-
phoid fever while there and was
unable to be removed to his home.
He was a Christian young man
and made many friends where
ever he went. He leaves a faith
err, mother, sister. brother, and a
host of friends and relatives who
will ever miss him very much.
PAULINE.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-07-27

Generally debilitated for years. Had
sick headaches, lacked ambition, was
worn out and all rundown. Burriuck
Blood Bitters made me wellwoman.
Mrs. Chas. Freitoy, Moosuy, Conn.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

ELECTORAL COLAEGH Nv AWAA'
Estimates OF the presidential cleo
ton results are nearly always In
terestIng, especially where reason
able freedom from partisan bias has
marked their preparation. To OBJ
tain an estimate wholly uninfluenc-
ed by the political sympathies Of
the person making It would, per-
haps, be impossible. Among the
earliest to challenge attention Is one
prepared by a writer in Leslies'
Weekly. According to this nine new
electoral votes gained by Alabama,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, okla
homa and Texas will go to the Demo-
cratic candidate in 1912, whoever
he may be; while the twenty-three
new votes gained by California, Ore
gon, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Is
land, South Dakota, Utah, 1daha'
illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Minnesota, North Dakota, Washing
ton and West Virginia will go to
the Republican candidate. The ten
new electoral votes going to Col
orado, Montana, New York and New
Jersey are counted doubtful.
The conclusion is reached from
the reasoning that justifies this es-
innate that 1912 will be a Repubii-
can year. Because Mr.. Taft had a
majority Of 159 in the electoral col
lege of 1908, 1t is assumed that ne
will have a safe margin in 1912 even
If the Republicans should In that
wear meet defeat in states which they
carried four years previously. It is
deemed likely that the Republicans
will meet with some losses, "but,
It is held, "if a reasonable degree
of intelligence and public spirit is
shown by them, between now and
voting day next year, there is a fair
prospect that they will hold the
presidency and regain the House.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

Harry sticher, private secretary
Ia CONGRESSMAN Rees, in his weekly
letter to his newspaper, the Belle
Vile Telescope, has the following
To say about reciprocity: Kansas
land values are sure to suffer under
this pact with Canada. It will be
agreed that under this agreement .
steady stream OF immigration VIII
set in for Canada to the detriment
Of the development of our LANDS at
home and our own production" This
Is not necessarily 4 result. the
emigration to Canada and the west
has been going on for years yet lands
in Illinois and Ohio are worth more
now than 10 years ago. Over 1000
families are landing In Canada daily
from the states. yet western lands are
not injured. Reciprocity may not
Be what We need but there = little
reed Of worrying about land values.
Land viii never Be a drus on the
market IN Kansas.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
lAVyTODiOBTIT,IE 1FTGUREs,,

Canada leads all other countries
as q market for American automo-
biles. the total exports to that coun-
try in the nine months Of the current
fiscal year having been $3,SS4,447,
compared with $1,657.99O to the
United Kingdom, $345,222 to France.
,$lS5,699 to Germany, $546,641 to
Mexico and $9,s37,1s1 to all for
eign countries. During the month
of March alone, an even larger pro-
portion Of the exports went to Can
ada-$77S,443 out of total of ST.
.638,947.
France is the worlds leading ex-
porter OF automobiles, the figures
of the five leading countries being
for the calendar year 1910, the latest
period for which comparative fig
ures are available; from France, $685.
466, 900; United States, second in
rank, $13,19O.296; United Kingdom,
$12, 1884 900; Germany, $7,55S,0O0
and Italy, $4,347,000.
The United Kingdom ranks first
in the importation of automobiles,
the figures for the calendar year
1910 being $24,989. 900, against ST.
TS7,2OS for the United States, ST.
$4,000 for Germany, $1,S64,O00 for
France and $t,024,000 for Italy.
Imports of automobiles into the
United States are decreasing the to-
toll for March, 1911, having been but
$120,S29, against $301,236 in March
of the preceding year; and for the
nine months ending March, l?11,
$1,583,218, compared with $2,979,-
S24 in 1909, corresponding period
of 1910, and $2,622,S24 in 1909.
Most of the automobiles imported
into the United States come from
France, that country being credited
in the calendar year 1910 with ST.,
O66,356 worth out of a total i'm
portation of $2,OB0,555, exclusive
of parts of automobiles. The next
largest importation was from Ger
many, $S14,577, followed by $S12,-
Ats from Italy, $212,969 from the
United Kingdom and Stats from
all other countries.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

In an article IN Science on the re-
clamation of the arid west, DR.. F. H.
Newell, to whom the success of the
reclamation service is in large meas
ure due, states that over a million
acres have been reclaimed and a.
900 families are receiving water from
works built or controlled by the gov
eminent under the terms of the Re-
clamation Act. Reservoirs have been
built having a capacity Of nearly 5
million acre-feet; that Is to say the
water would cover 5 million acres
To a depth of one foot. Canals Of
large size, carrying over 500 cubic
feet a second, have been built fol
total length of 900 miles, and
somewhat smaller canals constructed
with length Of a thousand miles
including the bitches.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
AdrsrtIssd Man.

For the week ending June 9Th:
Letters: Abilene Music Co.. J..
o. Alexander, Mrs. N. G. Garfield,
James Lyon, Mrs. F, B. Mard.. Alec
Taylor. C. c. Thompson, Ira Wilson.
A. n. Winkler.
Cards; Coy Chambers. Mrs. VIM.
Feeney. Robert Gray. Miss Cora
HAN. Miss Ida HOughton. DR.. v. 8.
King. Miss Burnics MeNeel. George
Porter. Willie Renalds, MrA R. L.
RAYMOND. Miss Mildred sesley. Al
s. smith. Marion Wilson. Mia Alpha
Woods. Miss AlsorA Wright.
R. wARRG. P. ".
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
PUBLIC TOWELS TO GO.

1t is probable that DR.. s. j. Crum-
bine, secretary of the State Board
Of Health, will recommend to the
board at its next meeting, that the
public towel in hotels and restau-
rants be abolished the same as was
done with the common drinking cup.
Investigations have been conducted
with towels taken from public places
and while the results have not been
compiled it has been pretty we'll
demonstrated that the public towel
is a carrier of disease. In several
instances typhoid germs have been
found on towels. In other cases
worse diseases have been carried.
1t is possible hat the board will order
the abolition of the common towel
not only in hotels and restaurants,
but in depots and railroad trains as
we'll.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
A Missionary Jubilee.

Ninety women are at work on a
dozen committees preparing for the
Missionary Jubilee to be held in Man
haitian June 16.
Fifty years ago Mrs. Thomas
Dorens organized the Women's Mis-
sionary society, the beginning of the
modern missionary movement. To-
day there are 73,433 women's mis-
sionary societies in America. Last
year these societies collected and
contributed $S,S2S,S4O to missions
and supported 471O missionaries.
The leaders of the Jubilee Move
ment" are Mrs. Henry W. Peabody
Of Boston and Mrs. Helen Barrett
Montgomery of Rochester, Visitors
from the surrounding counties are
expected.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

Over $4,000 900 annually is pour
ed into the Golfers Of those who ex-
plot and advertise fake consump"
tion cures, according to a statement
issued today by the National Asso-
citation for the study and preven-
ton Of tuberculosis; and for this
vast sum the victims receive nothing
in return, but are often permanently
4njured and in the majority Of cases
cheated out of the chance for real
cure. Worse still, most Of this mon
ey Is paid by those who can least
afford It. The National Association
has investigated several hundred So
called cures and treatments" for
tuberculosis now being advertised
throughout the country, and finds
that more than sS,OOO,00O a yeal
is being spent iii soliciting the pat
ronage Of the public. On examlna'
ton It has been found that the great
majority of these cures" contain
harmful and habit-forming drugs
such as morphine, opium and chlOro
form. None Of them will cure con
sumption. The only cure for THU
disease that has ever been discov
cred Is the combination Of fresh air
rest and wholesome food. All tn
cures" that attempt to destroy th'
tubercls bacillus without these or t
stop the progress Of the disease 4
some mysterious way are branded q
frauds and imDositlonH.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08


The Pacific express company, 1t
is said, will go out Of existence just
forty years to a day after 1t came
into the world. The Pacific has
been somewhat of an anomala, AS
a matter Of fact, like the noted Mr..
Harris there hasn't been any such
thing. All of whatever stock there
was belonged to the Gould family,
only a few shares being issued to
superintendent and others in order
that they might act on the board
Of directors. Three roads, all be-
longing to the Gold interests, had
control Of the company, Two Of
these held forty per cent each Of
the stock. and another twenty per
cent. At the bend Of the year these
roads took whatever profits had
accrued, and divided them, leaving
no dividends for the Pacific com.
pany. The Gould family created
the Pacific, and the Gould family
has destroyed II; blessed be the
name Of the Gold famiIy.-Lawrencs
Gazette.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

I'd
"What is petroleum to me-" asks
an Iowa farmer. With this question
still troubling his mind, he proceeds
10 oil his automobile with q Stand
ard Or lubricant and to fiji the
tank with STANDARD Oil" gasolene.
He walks to the barn and tells
the hired man to rub Standard on
hoof oil on the bay pony to soften
the new horse collar with STANDARD
Oil" harness oil, and to put Standard
or axle grease on the wagon.
Then he returns to the house,
where he finds his wife cleaning q
dress with STANDARD OH benzine
and STANDARD OH parowax. After
washing his hands with standard
Or naptha soap and rubbing q little
STANDARD OIL" vaseline upon his sore
thumb, he lights a STANDARD or
Rayo lamp, filled with STANDARD
OIL" kerosene, and goes to the cellar
for a pot of jam, which is sealed
with STANDARD Oil" paraffin'
His wife boils some water on a
STANDARD Or cookstove and opens
a box of biscuits that have been kept
fresh in STANDARD Or wax paper.
After lunch they ride to town over
a road that is dressed with STANDARD
or road oil, to order a five-gallon
can of standard Or form oil for
the concrete milk house that he Is
planning to start next week.
"That is what I'd like to know
he says, as he makes a note with
a STANDARD OH carbon pencil
"What is petroleum or Standard OIL
70 me?"-Wall Street Journal.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
nN REING A "sPORT."

You may remember his mOther-a
pretty girl who went to the hign
school twenty-five years ago-an I'M
usually pretty girl, who married a
gay young fellow to reform him. sne
reformed him all right. He settled
down. but he had lost the confidence
of the town, and when he died ten
or a dozen years ago, he had a 1op
but that was all, and she had a
houseful of children. She buekled to
her work and reared them-kept
them all in school, kept them dressed
decently, wholesomely fed, and gave
them every advantage that this town
affords. But it took hard work, ana
Il took the beauty out of her eyes,
but a stoop in her shoulders, ana
nut lines in her face that never VIII
come out Hundreds OF people
watched the struggle; and all OF
them were proud of her. The little
girls are doing we'll; they seem to
know what it cost their mother.
But that boyle seems to have
an ambition to be a sport. His moth
err sees it and it is breaking her
heart. Her sisters see it and they
are ashamed.
They often wonder what's the use
of trying of trying to keep up ana
be somebody and If it was not for
the blood of their mother In them
thew would slump. But the boy
has to be a sport. He has to sneak
through a blind door and up a stair
way on East Sixth avenue and get
whiskey and he has to loaf around
the shacks with breath that would
sour a cement sidewalk, and he mas
to wear the loudest clothes and the
brashest hat he can get in town
and mother pays for it all, by Hea-
ven knows what hard grinding work.
All for the boy to be q sport.
What loafer he is! How worth
less he is becoming. Does he think
any merchant wants him? They all
know about him. The whole town
knows that he is "mooching" on MS
mother. They GOULD stand his
drinking, they might stand his LOAF
ing, and his general cussedness :
but sponging it-whiskey' cussed-
ness and all-that is too much.
What a miserable foundation ne
is putting under his life. How 1t Will
crumble when the rains fall and the
winds blow upon that house.-Em'
poria Gazette.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
Lawrence Journal:

Lawrence Journal: Not much
has been said in the newspapers
about Victor Murdoch who has not
been creating much of a stir re-
Gently. There is reason and Vic
tor has gone to Battle Creek to find
it. He has a nervous breakdown
and when he RECEIVERS he win see
that something is doing every min
ute. Two of the Kansas congress-
men are disabled and Kansas is anD
iously hoping that they may soon
be in their places again.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
II sesms that IN addition !

II seems that In addition to di-
viding with the joints, the COM
mission form Of government at Lea
yenworth has been guilty Of some
other things. The Times says with
emphasis that Il Is not true that
the commission form Of government
has paid old debts for the city. but
asserts that Il has piled up an IN
creased debt OF $4,000. What is
the matter with this angelic eOmmis-
sion form Of government anyvayi-
Lawrence Gazette. Nothing the mat
ter With It. Like any other form Of
government i,s success depends On
the Kind q meo elected. compered
With noms others 20 insfiieient Or
dlshonosi offiesr can % greatsr
harm.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
THURSDAY. JUNE s, 1911.
INVESTING AT HOME.

The tangled affairs OF great
wireless telegraph combination are
being sorted out in court and the
officials are headed towards jail on
the charge Of running q deliberate
game Of bunco on the innocent ana
enthusiastic subscribers of more than
$4,000, 900 OF capital stock, all OF
which has been made away with In
one way or another.
Some of these victims live In Kan
sas where a part Of the campaign
was conducted with great blast OF
trumphets some time ago. While
these people were rushing into the
office of the promoter with perfectly
good money to change to perfectly
worthless stock in a concern which
they hadn't and couldn't investigate
home institutions that would pay
could not get money to do business
This is only sample OF the fool
ishness of investors. The amount
Of money poured into outside in
vestments Of a doubtful character
by Kansas people is appalling. Gold
mines in Honduras, rubber forests
insiam and magazines which are pay
ing big dividends out of their capital
stock can reap a rich harvest any
time.
The distrust Of home Investments
is as remarkable as the blind faith
in outside deals. Men willingly buy
land which they have never seen,
taking the word of strangers for its
excellence and as willingly refuse TO
consider an investment in a home
institution. This is largely because
the man whose game IL thousand
miles away can lie wonderfully about
its success, while home industries
stick to the truth and offer only
legitimate returns. But 1t should
be understood by investors that any
investment promising IL to 100 per
cent dividends Is of necessity gam
BILE and that in this sort Of gambling
stacked decks are the rule and not
the exception.
Investing In a home industry does
two things: 1t puts mans money
in a place where he can watch 1t
and It puts this money in place
where 1t can benefit its owner in
two ways--by returning dividends
and by building up the town. The
merchant who makes 100000 and
planks 1t into land in Lower Callfor-
mia or Senegambia is his own enemy.
Using that money to bring another
Industry to Kansas or enlarge one
already here would be using 1t to
bring more customers to his store,
and increase the value of his busi-
ness and his home. When you In
vest money at home you invest 1t
not only in some Kansas concern
but in Kansas itself-and each part
Of this investment pays Its dividend.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
ELEMENTARY TEACHERS MEET.
Discussed Methods of Sunday School
Work.

The meeting of the elementary
graded union of Sunday school
teachers was held at the Lutheran
church Monday evening. All of the
Sunday schools were represented and
a very interesting program given as
follows: Reading of scripture les
son, Maggie Frohm; model songs
for the children, Mrs. Cole! Review
of Second Chapter of "Stories and
Story Telling" by Edward st. John,
Mrs. Harry Taylor; Primary song,
Mildred oliver. The model class
was conducted by Miss Eyer. Mrs.
]. e. Keel gave a report on primary
work at state convention. She made
an especial appeal for missionary
work among the children. The next
regular meeting will be held June
26th,
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
Building Gets a Bath.

1t is not every day that a brick
block gets bath but the new build
ing of the Abilene National bank Is
having that experience. 1t is being
washed from top to bottom with a
solution Of muriatic acid, cleaning
the handsome cream brick and terra
Gotta. A flag pole, the highest in
town, was placed in position yester-
day.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08
STICKING TO KANSAS.

The usual vigilance of the Tele-
gram slipped cog and we failed to
note until today the offer by the
Gillian government Of a job to Dr.
schoenleber, veterinarian OF Kansas.
Chile wants a bureau OF animal IN
dustry all its own and asked Dr..
schoenleber If he would come down
and run it for $4,000 a year, says
the Drover's Telegram. Nit, not, no,
ouoth the good doctor. Il would
rather be a doorkeeper in the house
Of the Lord than to dwell In the
tents of wickedness forever" or words
to that effect. What is $4,000 and
the honor of being at the head OF
such a department in Chill, to being
a citizen and servant of the great
state of Kansas? Didn't Coburn
turn down the job of United States
senator to stay here and serve KAN
sas? Wasn't 1t the bane OF Jerry
Simpsons last years that he would
have to leave the golden prairies OF
the Sunflower state to reside In the
new Jerusalem? And there's the half
dozen Kansas congressman who gave
up their jobs in Washington, and are
no longer compelled to stay away
schoenleber Is on to his job all right.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

A woman at Pittsburg, Kansas,
went to Kansas City to shop and re-
turning home found her HUSBAND
dead. He had worked SO hard get
ting money for her to spend in Kan
sas City that it broke his health and
he committed suicide. Great Moral
in this--trade at home where you
can watch your husband.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

Jesse Napier, representative from
Harvey county, according to W. R.
Kercher, tells of an incident that
happened in Topeka last winter. A
crowd of legislators sat down at a
table in the National dining room
where a travelling man was eating
dinner, and the stately manner af-
fected by the legislators rather graf
ed on the nerves of the drummer. 1t
was "Will the gentleman from Sedg-
wick order first?" and again "Will
the gentleman from Doniphan be SO
kind, ETC." The disguised look on
the face Of the knight Of the grip
grew expressive more and more. Fin
ally he could stand it no longer and
brawled out, "Will the gentleman
from Ethiopia please pass the but
teri"
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-06-08

Lawrence Gazette: The returns
show that the people of Kansas have
deposited in the banks $114,S7 for
every man, woman and child in the
state. If your SHAFT isn't there
then some one else has it. and it
is up to you to become. a socialist
and demand that he give 1t up.