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The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-05

DR.. Patrie and K. P. Brown, CT the
Blackfoot Optimist.
The map to be prepared by the en-
gineers will be large enough to show
the relative position Of the "sa nd
road and such points cf interest as
the Yellowstone National park, the
great hunting and fishing grounds
of Custer and Lemhi counties, the
famour outing places of Blaine coun-
ty and the Wood river region, Boise
Poc-tello, Blackfoot, Idaho Falls and
the magnificent Snake river valley,
and other points of interest in this
region.
Pocatello and Blackfoot are on the
main auto highway through this
region. Annually hundreds of cars
from all parts Of the middle west,
particularly from Utah, pass through
here on their way to the pleasure
places of the upper valley of the
Snake. Thousands of other cars
would make the journey were it not
that the fame, or rather the ipfame
, of the Ross Fork sand road" has
spread throughout the nation. Auto
mobile guide books, showing the var
icus routes of travel in America, con
tain invariably a warning against the
heart-breaking sand road above Poe
tello. Warnings are given that only
the most powerful cars can negotiate
this six miles of mercury-likc sand
Even then the advice is given to de
flate the rear tires before entering
the sand belt. and the statement il
made that low gear, Or at best the
intermediate, will be required thr,
the six miles of the badroad.
If by amy means possible this stig
ma could be removed from the name
of idaho, and an automobile highwa.
opened through the Gate City to thu
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-05
Residence Property For Sale

After the completion of my new
residence, my. property at the corner
of Francis and Fisher streets, will
be for sale, 1t consists of nine rool1
house, all modern conveniences, good
basement, barn, coal and wood house,
hen house, buggy shed,. 10 fruit
trees all good varieties. Terms to
suit purchaser. R. E. Hansen, Red
Barn, Blackfoot, Idaho. tt
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-05
Fell From Horse.

Roy Randall, while driving to town
from his dairy ranch north of town
Tuesday evening, had an accident
which has disabled him. The horse
he was riding slipped on the ice
and fell. throwing Mr.. Randall in
such way as to iniure him quite
badly. His injuries preclude the pos
sibility of his attending to his work
in the dairy and his brother, Ray.
Is looking after his interests.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-05
Will Establish Feed Barn.

R. E. Hansen, of the Red Barn,
contemplates erecting mammoth
feed shed in the rear of the Red
Barn, and will conduct a feeding
yard, where the farmers can bring
their own feed, and for a. nominal SUI
stand their teams in the yard, hav-
ing their goods protected, and their
horses will not be exposed to the
weather. This is something that has
long been needed in Blackfoot and
the arrangements of Mr.. Hansen are
highly commendable.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-05

Mr.. and Mrs. John Briggs return
ed Tuesday from Rigby, where they
spent the holiday season.
The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-05
JANUARY

magnificent upper valley of the Snak'
finest possible advertisements, but
would attract to this region thousand
Of auto tourists headed for the north
west, for the Yellowstone park, for
Shoshone. Falls, Twin Falls, Thousan
Springs, for the great Island Park
country in northern Fremont county
(rerhaps the most beautiful summer
resort in the west), and to the innu-
merable other pleasure places of the
Gem State
Representative Johnston will have
the hearty support of the Banncck
county delegation, who. while all
Democrats and therefore members of
the minority party, will still have
considerable Influence in encourag,-
ing the support of other Democrats
for the good road proposition.-Poca-
tello Tribune.
Blackfoot, Idaho, Dec. 80, 1910.
To the Hon. Peter G. Johnston,
Boise, Idaho. =
Dear SIR
We, the undersigned, engineers Of
Bingham county, beg leave to report
that we have made a thorough exam
ination and investigation in regard to
the present condition of the main
wagon read across the heavy sards
between this city and Ross Fork,
with view to estimating the cost
of IA permanent improvement i'm the
condition Of the same, said road at
the present time being in an almost
| impossible condition. In our opin-
ion, al substantial macadamized high
way for the distance of five (5)
miles is the only permanent solution
of the difficulty, necessitatin,g, little
if any repairs for a considerable time
to come. The estimated cost of ,Ich
a roadway would be as follows: For
18 feet wide, $1O0 per lineal foot, $5,-
28O. 90 per mile, or SIG, 10000 for the
total five miles. For 20 feet width,
$1.1O per lineal foot, $5808.00 per
mile, or $29, $4,000 for the five miles.
An additional sum CT $500 for pur'
poses of clearing, grading and other
incidental expenses. Said road woul
have an underfilling of stone, well
lrolled. and covered with crushed
stcne one foot thick at center and
six inches at outer edges, the whole
to be covered with a. layer of clay
to fill all vcids
Very respectfully submitted,
O. e. Peterson
Walter A. Funk
A. e. Christensen
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
HUCKRUM.

Eugene Wyatt spent last Sunday
with homefolks.
billiard Pierce made his regular
trip to Cuba Sunday,
Mrs. Dock Wyatt is very sick
this week with the grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Davis spent
Sunday with Mr.. Douglas.
Mrs. Orma johnson of Camden
is visiting her father, G. M. McGill
E. G. Haynes of Sandy Hill was
here to see E. g. Flowers Saturday
Misses Arvin and Sophia Hern.
don have returned from a visit to
their aunt near Eva.
w. II. Pierce, who is at work on
a new church and Masonic Hall in
Springville, came home Saturday
Farmers are active. Some have
planted corn, and others will plant
next week. A large acreage will
be put in cotton this year.
The good roads question is still
a popular theme with us. GOOD
roads are not only necessary, but
they advance our property and
speak well for community.
Sheriff Howe was in this locality
last week rounding up some Of the
boys charged with "bootlegging.'
This seems to be about the only
way to break up such business. II
the law abiding people will put
their heads together they can make
it impossible for our boys to be
debauched with whisky.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
BRENTW WOOD.

Otto Phifer says he prefers an
owl to any other kind of pet.
Crop time is at hand, and every
body is busy who resides on farm.
d. Benton is going to move to
Claud and work in blacksmith
shop.
Misses Eta and Sudie Phifer
visited the family of John Phifer
last Sunday.
Say, by the way, while you are
talking about good roads, we need
few of 'em down this way.
Mrs. Martha Melton is going in
to the poultry industry with the
determination to succeed. Well,
there's good money in it.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
CENTER HILL.

Would you let me come in anc
chat a little, for [ am an old sub.
scriber to The Chronicle and [ am
always glad to read the letters from
every locality in the county.
A. o. Medlin says he likes corn
bread since he got his mill back,
Mrs. Ellen Moore, who has stom-
ach trouble, is improving slowly
r. l.. Moore and daughter, little
Miss Blanche, were in Camden last
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Guynn visit
tied the family of Newton Wright
last Sunday.
Uncle Newt Howe says he "sure
did" want to swap horses. How
about it, Cordus?
A goodly number of the young
folks attended pea hulling given
by Miss Sadie Cole Saturday even.
ing, and all report a good time.
Its rather cool back ward weather
for farmers, but they are hustling
Just the same. Some have already
planted corn. Better lookout, Un.
Gle Newt; winter has not broken,
if we are any Judge of weather.
In answer to the writer at Bethel
Ark, will say |, too, am a farmers
wife and belong to the union, and
| esteem both an honor. Yes, old
Center Hill is on a boom; our local
meets every first and third Satur-
day night. Come on, boys, and get
your biscuit, sugar and coffee; how
is that, V. T.?
eve are glad to have you join
our band of news gatherers, and
feel sure that your letters will be
as highly enjoyed by our readers
as they are by us.-ED.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
PROMPT WORK
is NECESSARY
TO THE PkANS NOW IN HAND
All Who Have Blanks Requested
to Send Them in.

Those who have subscription
blanks will please send them in by
April Is at the outside. The COM
missoners will meet on or before
the 25th of this month, and we
must have these reports.
Send in your list, whether you
have anything on it or not. We
need them for other parties if you
can't get them filled. But remem-
Der what you are going to do must
be done at once in order to enable
ps to frame our proposition for
presentation to the committee.
Respectfully yours,
r. l.. STOCKARD,
President Benton County Good
Roads Association.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
To Correspondents.

Kindly mail your letters SO as to
reach us on Tuesday of each week.
By doing this you greatly facilitate
the prompt delivery of the Chron-
icle on time and also avoid the,pos-
sibiliy of your items being crowd
ed out. We want the news of ev-
cry locality in the county and al
ways appreciate your efforts to fur
nish us with the happenings of
your community.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
CEDAR HILL.

J. A. Bray spent Sunday with
A. e. Crossnoe.
j. Fl. Richards visited DR.. j. T
Bray last week.
Mrs. S. M. Brooks visited Mrs
Hattie Bray Friday.
Mrs. j. T. Bray visited Mrs. M
G. Harris Saturday.
Willie Barnes WAS at Chaseville
on business Thursday.
j. W. Byrd of Coxburg was here
on business last week.
Miss Mary Oxford visited W. Ell
Crabb's family Tuesday.
J. M. Oxford and DR.. j. T. Bray
were in Camden Monday.
B. Smothers and wife were in
Holiday Saturday trading.
L. A. Robinson went to Buena
Vista Saturday on business.
Miss May Barker has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Julia Flowers.
W. II. Hyatt is making new i'm
provements on A. L. Nowells dwell
ling.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07

Mrs. b. ID. Furr visited Mrs +.
Y. Bray one afternoon last week.
Eugene and Johnnie Bray visit
ed at Camden the latter part of last
week.
Misses Lizzie Bray and Kate
Brooks visited Mrs. Sarah Pierce
Monday.
Rev. John w. Carnall of Hollow
Rock, spent Saturday night with
W. j. Barnes and family.
p. W. Harris and family of Hol-
laday spent Saturday and Sunday
with the family of w. FL. carp.
Miss Dora Harris visited her
sister, Mrs. Dixie Oxford, Wednes-
day.
Miss Cora Pierce visited her
sister, Mrs. Ephram Barnes, near
NOles last week.
Mr.. and Mrs Johnnie Smothers
of Devider visited the formers pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs Jordan Smoth-
ers last Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Jordan of
Cross Roads visited the latters pa
rents Mr.. and Mrs. Laten Pierce
Saturday and Sunday.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07

smaller streams, bitches or gullies
and thereby aid, encourage, assist
and approve the plans, efforts and
undertakings now about to be
launched to remedy this our great
est drawback; therefore, be it
"Resolved, by this good roads
mass convention that we express it
rs our desire and wish that the
Quarterly Court of Benton County
take such action as will stimulate,
encourage, aid and assist the effort
now being put forth to locate and
build the said Memphis to- Bristol
highway in and across Benton
County; and not only this high
way, but also the building of the
road from the north end to the
south border of the county, and
not this alone, but also good roads
throughout the entire county.
"Second-That a committee be
appointed by this convention to
present this matter to the said hon.
orable court and request and urge
said court to lend its aid in this
great movement by appropriating
a sufficient amount of the funds of
the county to buy sufficient and
suitable tools and implements for
road building to be used by it's
citizens in the building of the con-
templated roads throughout the
county.
"Third-That committee be
appointed by the honorable court
empowered to purchase said tools
and implements, and that the same
be paid for out of the funds of the
county as appropriated by the said
court; and that thiscommittee also
be empowered to purchase piping
or tiling to be kept and used in
erecting culverts in small streams
and bitches. and that the said tools
and implements be kept by the
county for the use of its citizens in
building not only the Memphls-to-
Bristol highway but all other high
ways in the county.
"Fourth-That our representa-
tives in the General Assembly of
the State be requested and urged
to support the general road law in
troduced by the committee provid-
ing for the building and maintain
ing Of good roads throughout the
State.
"Fifth-Tbat in view of the fact
that the quarterly term of the
County Court has adjourned its
April session, we, therefore, urge
that the Judge of said court asso-
ciate with himself two Justices of
the Peace and that they make an
investigation of the question of
tools, implements and tiling or
piping and report to the July term
of said court the cost, etc, of the
same, SO that said court may be en-
abled to intelligently and econom-
ically consider the same"
Chairman Stockard, Judge L. E.
Davis and Justices A. N. Presson,
f. d.. Cuff, Ira Presson, Orlando p.
Lsshlee and others will 60 to Jack
son shortly to inspect the roads of
Madison County and to secure in
formation concerning tools used
on roads and method of construc-
tion.
Entertainment at Holiday.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
Entertainment at HOIladay.

The following very interesting
program will be presented by stu
dents of the Holladay High School
at Holiday Saturday, April s.:
Recitation (selected).
Burlesque (full of fun), "The
Spellin' Skewl." /"
Drama, AFTER Ten Years; or
the Maniac Wife,"
Farce, "Pomp's Franks
The program will be intersperc-
ed with music, and is one of the
best ever undertaken by amateurs.
Send The Chronicle the happen
ings in yonr community.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07

Any intelligent person may earn
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Empire Press Syndicate, Middle.
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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
GOOD ROADS
CONVENTION
MASS MEETING IN CAMDEN
~ Large and Enthusiastic Crowd
at the Court House.

The mass meeting at the court
house Monday was attended by an
enthusiastic gathering of citizens
representing every section of the
county. Many ladies were pres
sent, and the seating capacity of
che circuit court room would not
accommodate the crowd, and many
were forced to stand in the main
aisle throughout the meeting. r..
u. Stockard, chairman of the Ben
ton County Good Roads Associa-
tion, presided over the meeting,
which was entirely harmonious and
IN perfect accord.
There was some disappointment
owing to the fact that George A..
Gowan, president of the Memphis
Go-Bristol Highway Association,
found it impossible to be present,
but he was represented by James
Palmer Of Nashville, who discussed
the highway proposition from
many standpoints. He also offer
ed some good advice by urging the
young men to stay on the farm in
stead of seeking employment in
the crowded and congested cities,
where there is more competition
and where the opportunities for
climbing up grow less year by year
After Mr.. Palmer's address the
following resolutions were unani-
anously adopted:
"Whereas, the citizens of Benton
County are now engaged in an eff
for to to secure the location of the
great Memphis to- Bristol highway
through and across the county, and
in this effort a large amount of
money and labor has been sub
scribed by citizens of the county
adjacent and near to the proposed
route thereof for the purpose of
building the same; and
Whereas, the principle and
greatest object in the building of
said road by it's promoters is to
stimulate and encourage by exam
pie the sentiment now existing in
the State for good roads and to
crystalize the same into plans and
action by which good roads may,
can and will be built in the place
of the miserable makeshifts we
now call roads; and
"Whereas, there is now a healthy
sentiment in Benton County for
ske building of better roads, which
sentiment needs only to be fostered
and encouraged to the extent that
the whole county may become so
Interested that it will take hold of
the movement and effort with de-
Termination to build such roads,
make their plans and carry same
into execution; and
"Whereas, we, large part of the
citizens of Benton County, in
good roads mass convention as
sembled, at the court house in
Camden, on this the 3rd day of
April, 1871, believe that in this eff
fort to locate the said Memphis-to-
Bristol highway in Benton County,
and not only for this, but also in
the effort and undertaking of the
citizens of said county to improve
the road conditions by building
good roads across the county in
each way and also to extend the
system all over and throughout the
borders of the county, that the
honorable County Court should
and will assist in this movement,
at least to the extent of furnishing
sufficient and suitable tools and
implements not now in the county,
bridging the larger streams and
furnishing piping or tiling for the
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1911-04-07
MRS. LASHLEE
PASSED AWAY
A CHRISTIAN MOTHER GONE
Succumbs to Disease Following
Brief Illness.

On the 30th day Of March, last,
Mrs. Mary Ann { (Hawley } Lashlee
of Camden was taken from the
home of her loved ones here to the
great beyond. She was born in
Shelby County, Tenn, March 19,
l849, and at the age of 3 came to
Benton County, where she grew to
womanhood and where she spent
practically the remainder of her
life. On March Is, 1869, she was
married to Oscar w. Lashlee, who,
with seven children, Minnie, James
A., Connie A., Claude O., Lula,
Norma, and Cecil Ell. Lashlee, sur.
vive her.
Mrs. Lashlee many years age
professed faith in Christ and soon
after joined the Cumberland Pres
byterian Church, in which she liv-
ed consecrated Christian life
until her death. One of the great
characteristics of her life was her
devotion to Benton County and
Benton Countians. She was per-
mitted to live and die among peo-
pie she loved SO we'll.
She met the responsibilities Of
life with confidence. She died
without fear. Hers was an abid-
ing faith, and when the words II
am ready to go" died on her lips,
as the spark of life went out, who
would say that it was but the OPEN
ing of the door to wider world, a .
grander life?
After all, Mrs. Lashlee has reach
ed the place where every path Of
life must end. She has walked the
wry of all the world; she has cross
ed that unknown, silent, shoreless,
sunless sea of death whose motion
less bosom has never yet been
shadowed by returning sail; she
has passed the sunset gates that
stood ajar to let her in; she has
said farewell to those she left be-
hind-no, not farewell, but that
better word, goodbye"
The loved ones will wait in vain
for the sound of her returning foot
steps. Never again will her hus-
band meet her around the genial
freside of his happy home. When
the evening shadows gather and
the long days work is done the
children will gather at the bedside
anxious to thrown their ivory arms
about her neck, but she does not
come. Friends will visit her home
again only to find a vacant chair.
In charge of the pail bearers, j.
P. and A. w. Lashlee, w. T. Nor
ris, f. e. McElyea, G. W. Arnold
and G. B. Holiday, the remaids Of
Mrs. Lashlee was laid to rest in
Camden Cemetery in the presence
of her many friends and relatives.
We extend our deepest sympathy
to the bereaved, but beg them to
look to Him above all others who
can comfort in the hour of sorrow.
| can not say, / will not say
That she is dead; she's Just away
With cherry smile and wave of
the hand,
She has gone before to better
land,
And we must set and dream how
fair
That land must be since she lin
gers there.
Any intelligent person may earn
a good income corresponding for
uewsDapers. experience unneces-
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-07-04
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-07-04
Lightning Kills Few.

In 1906 lightning killed only 169 peo-
pie in this whole country. Ones
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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-07-04
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