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Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23
Jere Whitson Hardware Co. succee ds
Whitsou & Barnes Hardware Co.
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Mt. View Lodge, No. 179, l. O. 0. F..
held splendid meeting on the 18th
inst. ]. M. Haynes, N. G., presiding.
Quite lot of routine business was dis
posed of. The sick and ailing brothers
were reported as follows: R. F. Pip
pin is much worse, being entirely help
less E. D. Staley is worse and very
feeble. John Chaffin is thought to be
some better. C. M. Ballard has recov-
cred and gone to work. D. C. Gossage
was much better when heard from.
One petition for initiation was pre-
sentsd, read and referred to investigat.
ing committee.
The call meeting for March 1st with
a view of recognizing the Rebekah
lodge will likely be largely attended by
eligibles, as the Grand Master will be
invited to be with US on the occasion,
and as he is a fluent speaker and an ar
dent Rebekah great opportunity is Of
fered all who desire to be posted as to
the working, aims and objects of the
Rebekahs. Everyone who is eligible
should be sure to come and be enlight-
ened in regard to the order. Unmar-
ried females 18 years Of age, without
kinship in the order, are eligible.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23
To Officers Of Election

The officers of election heretofore appointed to
hold the County Bond election will secure the poll
books from R. E. L. Proffitt, Circuit Court Clerk.
The returns of this election, in accordance with
the requirement of the act of the legislature con-
trolling same, will be made to the County Judge,
Instead of to the Election Commissioners, as in
other elections Officers holding the election will
file the returns, consisting of the poll books tick
cts and poll lists, with Judge Edwards as soon as
possible afaer the election.
SPECIAL ELECTION
A apecal election is hereby ordered to be held
at the regular voting precinct in the Tenth Civil
District of Putnam County, Tennessee. on Satur-
day, February 25th, 1911 for the purpose of elect
ing a Justice of tha Peace, to fill the unexpired
term of John l.. Sadler, who has resigned. T.:
The following officers are appointed to open and
hold said election nd proper returns make of the
same as required by law.
Officer-Joe Whitaker. Clerks-Tom Lee,
John Flatt. Judges-John McBroom, Sr, P. S.
Cole, w. E Richardson.
This election will be held in separate ballot box
from the one in which the bond election is held.
This Feb. 10, 1911.
E. H. BOYD, Chairman
w. r. CARLEN, Secretary.
S. D. Davis,
Board of Election Commissioners fer Putnam
County.
Buy your Burt oats from Jere Whit
son Hardware Co.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23
Pierian Club
this issue.

With the mercury registering uncom-
fortably near the zeros, and some cases
of illness within our ranks, we con-
graduated ourselves when, on the af-
tcrnoon of the 22nd inst. almost fifty
per cent. of the entire membership an
swered to roll call in the library at the
home of our president, Mrs. Baxter,
who was hostess of the day.
In the absence of Mrs. Guthrie, chair
mall of the committee on resolutions
appointed last week, Mrs. Ford was
called upon for a report, to which she
responded by submitting copy OF the
resolutions, which met with the sincere
approval and hearty Endorsement of ev-
eryone present.
Mrs. Jellicorse was asked to lead the
magazine lesson, and spirited inter-
change of ideas followed, on The Prob
lem of Old Age, by Percy Alden, Mp,
in the January Chautauquan. Mrs.
Ford led the discussion of Dickens, the
Traveller, and it was interesting to see
that circle Of women-housekeepers,
mothers, teachers become so absorbed
in that character, unique among au-
thcrs.
Little Miss Baxter graciously pre-
sented each one with small hatchet,
souvenir of the birthday anniversary of
the Father of His Country, while our
hostess served refreshments. The Road
to Providence and other late books by
some of our Southern writers, were
commented on, and the time passed
pleasantly.
Mrs. Hugh Rout, former Pierian,
was guest Of the Club. REPORTER.
RESOLUTIONS
Whereas, For the third time in the
history OF our Club, the solemn chime
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23

Accidents will happen, but the best
regulated families keep DR.. Thomas
Electric Oil for such emergencies. 1t
subdues the pain and heals the hurts.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23

You can get the best field seeds that
money can buy at Jere Whitson Hard
ware Co.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23

Be sure you read the big advertise
ment of Jere Whitson Hardware Co. in
this issue.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23

Just received two big carloads OF the
best fieli seeds. Jere Viii son Hard
ware Co. ~
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23

Eastern Division Commissioners.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1911-02-23

Buy your Burt oats from Jere Whit
son Hardware Co.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
ANOTHER POISON CASE.
G. VI. Strobaker, Pittsburg Man, Ill
From Strychnine.

Pittsburg (SpeciaD. - Pittsburg
has developed a case of poisoning
which may become sensational.
While her husband, G. NJ. Strobaker,
Superintendent of the Morton Grain
and Hay Company, is lying in the
South Side Hospital i'll from strych-
nine poisoning, Mrs. Mary Strobak-
er, his wife, was Sunday evening
detained by the police and orders
given that no one, not even counsel,
be permitted to see her.
Chief of Police McQuaid says the
department has enough evidence to
show an attempt at poisoning. That
enough strychnine was placed in the
food of Strobaker Saturday to kill
% men, is the assertion of physi-
clans who have been called in on the
case and the question now to be
answered is, "Who put the poison in
the food?"
Mrs. Strobaker before being de-
tanned by the police asserted that her
husband had enemies among the
foreigners who worked in the eleva-
tors with him, and that some of the
more spiteful had evidently put the
poison in his food.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
New and Old Governors Declare for Reforms

N Massachusetts, DemocraFor direct nohl-
nations; initiative and eferendum for employers aby III
disabled the removal OF
living LOT
prohibition of holding companies LOT
the abolition OF other Doards lo
for Federal income
tax. prohibiting the of money at elections
Frederick w Pased, OF Maine Democra-for dF9c pr
Senator's for fedeal
Robert o Hampshire Progressive Republican
politics;
ton monopoe such railroads. companies
corporations for pup
lie regulate rates service and
capitalization
Kchin, of North Carolina Democat-For State
Federal income reduction OF the
mie placing all the
the control commission
Thomas R. Indiana Democrat-Fo regulating the
corporations State control OF
combination either of railroads other
companies: and for direct primaries
S Michigan, Republication initiative ref
income for corporations for placing
the the State Railroads
mi lion; for a of 212 cents mile.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
DUE TO FREIGHT RATES
1t is Responsible For the High
Cost of Living.
Millionaire Says That the People Are
Bled to Pay Dividends on Nine
Billions of Watered Stock.

Akron, O.-Declaring that eX
cessive freight rates are responsible
for the high cost of living, Ohio C.
Barber, the millionaire match mag
nate, has sent letter to every men,
Der of Congress demanding reforms.
In addition to the regulation of
freight rates, he demands that laws
be passed that will effectually limit
railroad and industrial capitaliza
ton.
He declares the freight business
of the railroads costs each family
$S7 a year. This latter, coupled
with the other earnings of the rail-
roads. he asserts, has boosted the
average railroad cost per family to
1927 annually.
Barber starts his letter to the
Congressman with these three de-
mands:
What is the matter with Ameri-
ca?
What is the matter with Con
gress?
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
NEWMASTRONOMI

About when will that happen, pro-
fessor?"
20 say in twenty or thirty million
years. 1t isn't anything new for
sun to go out. The sky is full of ex-
tinct suns
rs it true that the moon came out
of the Pacific ocean? People out in
California say you can see the edges
where it was broken off"
We'll, it's possible, but more likely
the moon, the earth and all the planets
were born of tremendous collision be-
tween our sun and another sun. You
can see that there would be sparks fly
ing in such smash. Well, our earth
IS one of the sparks"
Gould such a collision happen
again."
1T could, if the other sun were big
enough to stand the heat. Otherwise it
would be consumed before it reached
our luminary. If a column of ice 40
miles in diameter and as many million
miles long, as you choose to make it
were projected at our sun at velocity
of two hundred thousand miles a Sec
ond, it never would get there-the sun
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13

"Why has the seat of government
been transferred to Wall street,
Continuing he says: Personal
ly, | appreciate fully the Importance
of stability of vested rights in prop
erty, corporate or personal.
But | vigorously contend that
the commission of eXcesses in the
capitalization of corporate compan-
les forfeits instantly the right to
claim face value for such capltallza-
ton in the levying of tax upon
the American public for the payment
of dividends upon this watered
stock. And in this offense the rail-
roads always have set the pace.
Conceived in the master minds
of Huntington, Morgan, Hill and
Hartman, this policy has been
worked out to nicely. These
clothed the scheme in the pretty
catch phrase of community of in
terests' and cleverly set about to
grab all the through trunk lines OF
railroad from coast to coast,
"They argued plausibly, and with
truth. that these trunk lines were
the great arteries which maintained
the life of commerce; that they were
a necessity for quick transportation,
Approximately nine billions of
this IS billions of railroad capitali-
cation is fictitious; purely and sim
ply watered stock, upon which the
people of the United States are tax
ed in railroad rates to maintain the
annual dividends.
Despite this tremendous stock
watering, the railway net earnings
have advanced steadily and the av-
erage dividend rate has more than
doubled in the last Is years.
I'm 1894 the dividend rate was
1.66 per cent. Last year it averag-
ed 3.6S per cent, and the railroads
earned a net income of 1852, 1884,
ESQ.
And the people paid the freight!
Railroad presidents Indignantly
deny that trelSnt rates aKeot the
cost of existence. James ]. Hill and
w. C. Browne declare low acreage
production by the farmer is respon-
sible for high prices.
This one problem of railroad
freight rates is the great economic
question of the age. Were it fairly
solved all other lines of commerce
and trade would soon adjust them
selves and more equitable distribu-
ton of the products of business
would result.
What are you going to do about
it?
Yours in militant sincerity,
(Signed) o. c. BARBER"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13

the government since the revolt in
the navy was put down makes it i'm
possible to confirm officially the
rumors of recent rioting at Para and
elsewhere in the republic. The CEN
sorship includes the newspapers here
and extends to press dispatches
cabled to other countries
Nictheroy, the capital of the State
of Rio Janeiro, and situated across
the harbor from the Federal capital,
is under martial law. The presidents
and two legislatures claim office at
Nictheroy and troops occupy all the
public buildings.
Rioting At Para.
When the latter of the two recent
naval revolts in Brazil was put down,
three weeks ago, it was announced
that the mutinous sailors had been
sent to states remote from Rio
Janeiro, where they would be employ
ed in the construction of highways
and railroads. The mutineers had
surrendered, and it was officially an
nounced that the disorders were at
an end.
Since that time comparatively lit
tie news has been gotten out of the
Brazilian capital but there have been
persistent rumors of disturbance in
the State of Para, on the north coast,
due to political dissatisfaction. Riot
ing is said to have occurred at Para
but confirmation or a denial from
the government are lacking.
Recently there have been two re-
volts in Brazil-one in the navy and
the other by the naval battalion in
barracks on Cobras Island, a short
distance from Rio Janeiro.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13

would melt it. So you see anybody
that reaches the sun must be able to
stand the racket, so to speak.
This collision theory is the basia
of the new hypothesis of the creation
of our universe, that is displacins the
nebular theory. According to the new
theory the earth never was a motion
mass. 1t was built cold. In the begin
ning-I am talking humanity now in
astronomy there is no beginning and
no end-in the beginning the earth
was relatively small fragment. and
its growth has been due to the accra.
lions of ;neteoric matter. For millions
OF years this matter has been falling
on the earth, and is falling today The
heat in the center of the earth Sim
ply is caused by the compression of
the outer mass which sets up fric,
ton"
IF there is no end to matter wbv
should the sun go out?"
THE sun is nothing except a. reser.
voir OF energy, and it is sending il ont
and taking none in. | do not say that
this energy is ending, it still will be
in the universe, but no longer in the
sun, and when it ceases to come from
the sun that will be the end of the
earth so far as life is concerned The
universe will keep on, only we won't
be here"
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13

viterbo, Italy Especially .-Detacn-
ments of police heavily armed ana
carbineers surrounded the station
here Saturday at the arrival OF 81
members OF the Camorra, who are to
stand trial for the murder OF james
Cuocolo, a leading member OF the
band, who had incurred the venge-
ance of the Camorrists for alleged
acts of treachery. Cuocolo.s oouy
was found on the seashore near
Naples in June, 1906, and the mutt
lated body of his wife was discover
ed shortly afterward in house near
by.
Extraordinary precautions were
taken to guard the prisoners and to
prevent any attempt at their release.
They have been in close confinement
for more than three years, and hun
dreds of their friends and relatives
gathered at the station here Satur-
day. Police detachments were sta
toned at various points, and when
the train arrived from Naples there
was a scene of riot and disorder.
1t was known that nothing would
be left undone to effect rescue, and
stringent orders had been issued to
the police and carbineers to put down
any such attempt by whatever means
necessary.
The prisoners descended from the
car in groups of five chained togeth-
err. They comprised all varieties in
the social scale, from dandy to laz-
zarone. Chief among them was En-
rico Alfano, better known as Erri-
cone, head of the Camorra, who was
arrested in New York in April, 1907,
by Detective Petrosini. He was wrap
ped up in heavy furs and seemed
hardly able to stand.
The prisoners shook their
manacled fists and raised their voices
almost as loudly as their protesting
friends and relatives. The wife OF
Mandriere, known also as DeMarinis,
the most prominent Camorrist after
Erricone, struck at the Carabineers,
shouting:
May you all be killed! May you
all go to the dissecting table OF the
hospital"
Erricone protested earnestly, say
ing: I'VE are murdered innocents.
The Viterbo jury will take revenge on
us. Thus Italy will be disgraced be-
fore the world"
1t is believed that evidence will be
brought out at the trial of these men
which will throw light upon the muir
der of Detective Petrosini at Paler-
mo in March, 1909, whittier he was
sent by the New York Police Depart
ment to secure information on Italian
criminals.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
Sisters Find Animal Asleep on Limb
of Tree and Wrap 1t in Com
mon Sweater.

Milford, PA big gray fox that
had its home in the woods near Eu-
gene Raitts, who lives back in the
Silver lake country, in Pike county,
one recent bright sunny day chose to
take its midday nap in comfortable
spot on big limb well up in slant
ing tree, the gray fox, as all woods
men know. being an adept tree-climb-
er. Raitt's two little daughters. Bes-
sic and Jessie, were strolling through
the woods with their dog and discov-
cred the fox asleep in the tree.
Well get that fox" said Jessie
quietly to her sister. land get it alive.
too"
While her sister was just as quietly
and positively expressing her doubt of
the possibility of getting the fox, eth.
er alive or dead. Jessie removed the
sweater she wore, told Bessie to stand
under the limb on which the fox was
lying SO that she might grab it if it
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
WHOLESALE MURDER CHARGE
Twenty-Five indictments Return
ed in Times Explosion.
Names of Accused Not 10 Be Maie
Pub .ic Tn il Arrests.

Los Angeles Especially The grand
jury in the Los Angeles Times ex'
plosion case returned % indictments
Thursday. All of the indictments
charge murder in connection with
that crime. 1t is not likely that the
names of any of the indicted will be
made public until after the arrests
have been made, 1t is believed a
large number of San Franciscoans
have been indicted.
Wholesale murder, the outcome OF
dynamite plot, is understood to be
the charges set forth in all the indict'
ments, but it is believed that not
more than three or four men are
named in the true bills.
The return of the indictments was
a sequel of a disaster that excited the
people of Los Angeles to degree
that for few days bordered upon
panic, and resulted in the offering OF
rewards aggregating almost $780,
600
Union labor, which the Times and
its proprietors had opposed, was in.
jected into the situation, and when
the special grand jury was impaneled
on October 25 it was Immediately
confronted with two conflicting
theories.
One of these, supported by the
findings of an investigating commit
tee appointed by Mayor Alexander,
that the Times plant had been blown
up by dynamite through conspiracy.
The other, presented by committee
named by the State Building Trade
Convention, then in session here, was
that gas explosion had caused the
wreck.
More than 40 witnesses, the ma
jority of them identified with the
union labor movement, were sum-
moned from San Francisco and 9th
er cities. Many labor union officials
were heard In all, the grand jury
examined more than 200 persons
who, in the opinion of detectives
working here and in San Francisco,
might throw some light on the alleg-
ed murder plot.
Among the labor leaders summon
ed from San Francisco were Olaf E.
Tveitmoe and Anton Johanssen, who
were supposed to have been acquaint-
ed with ]. B. Bryce, w. A. Schmidt
and David Kaplan, three suspects in
the case, who were in this city for
few hours after the explosion, but
subsequently disappeared.
According to the detectives, Bryce,
Schmidt and Kaplan were the three
who purchased from a San Francisco
dealer in powder dynamite later used
to destroy the Times. More powder
dynamite was found later in a bomb
planted under the residence of Felix
J. Zeehandlaar, secretary of the Mer
chants and Manufacturers Associa-
ton. This organization had opposed
the extension of labor unions in this
city.
Two days ago an additional re-
ward of $25, 900 was formally offered
by the county board of supervisors
for the capture of the trio.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
Friendship Snaps Over Squabbles
About Pinochle and Flock of An
noYne Guinea Fowls.

New York.-Two deacons sat on a
their smiles forlorn, and the words of
grace on their fevered lips were
drowned by the clash of the dwin-
ding chips. for the words of grace
that the deacons use are the same as
those of the men who lose. And this,
though known some decades back.
has caused surprise in Hackensack.
To think that the man who can
pass the plate, with a scowling face
if his brothers late, and can even
quote what the preachers say, would
open pot on the Sabbath day and
start raid on his neighbours stack,
is most too much for Hackensack.
A careful study of the foregoing
tensity of Hackensack's amazement,
when John v. Roscoe, a deacon, ap-
peared in the Bergen county court to
sue John H. Demarest, another dea-
con, for $4,000 damages, because of
harsh words uttered by the latter
when their friendship snapped in the
Dutch Reformed church, Mr.. Roscoe
being superintendent of the Sunday
school, Yet some time ago, Mr..
Demarest became displeased at Mr..
Roscoe's guinea fowl and told the
department of health about them.
since when there have been cool
words, which shocked Mr.. Roscoe's
sensibilities $4,000 worth.
But when Mr.. Demarest was taken
into court he became angered and
gave the whole snap away. He said
that he and his brother deacon we're
in the habit of playing pinochle for
money until far into Sunday morning
until the guinea fowl came between
them. Mr.. Roscoe declared that they
quit at half-past eleven always. but
Mr.. Demarest said that that was only
when Mr.. Roscoe was winner
The jury in Judge Blacks court
looked Mr.. Demarest over and failed
to see how he could utter $4,000
worth of biting English, but they did
think that Mr.. Roscoe had been dam
aged about six cents worth, which
was awarded. This will make up for
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1911-01-13
MAKE HER HATS SUIT FEET
London Modiste Tells How to Buy
Headgear for Best Effect-Proper
Line Needed.

London.-"Watch your feet while
buying your hat
This is the advice now given to
women, who generally when choosing
a hat are content to see the effect in
mirror that reflects merely the head
and shoulders.
Women should not buy hat mere
ly because it is pretty or smart and
becoming to the face" a west end
modiste said. 1T may be all that is
charming from that point of view. and
yet quite out of harmony with a wom-
ans general outline.
When choosing hats one should try
them on facing long mirror that re-
fleets the figure from top to toe.
THE very tall woman may fancy
herself in a very tall hat when she
sees the effect in looking glass show
ing only the top part of her body, but
she will not buy the too tall hat when
she views the fact that from toe to the
top of her headgear she has the ap-
pearance of a long post if she be thin,
or clumsily big if she be heavily built.
I'm these days of colored footwear
and narrow dresses, it is most neces-
sary to keep the proper line in making
a toilette. Color in hat must har-
monte with the shoes and stockings.
"As for the tight dresses, many
little women who have not thought of
their appearance from the waist down
ward with regard to their hats have
recently, with their narrow skirts and
wide hats, presented the appearance
of mushrooms"