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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-05

great wealth and a tax dodger, who
owed the same as Mrs. Rankin and
Mr.. Potts e cents to the state and
10 cents to the county, yet when the
revenue agent had finished with him
his total was $1O.0S, or nearly thirty.
nine times the original tax.
These examples are taken at ran.
dom, and there are dozens of similar
cases in Maury county. and what is
true Of Maury county will be more
or less true in every county in the
state.
"The defenders of these "back-tax
laws" have again and again urged
that only the rich taxpayers were
ever burdened, but this measure af-
fects particularly the small taxpay-
er. The Columbia Herald, in expos
ing the iniquities of this law, COM
ments as follows:
"Isasmuch as a large proportion
of these delinquencies were brought
about by poverty, this multiplied
cost is severe"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-05

leaders" may harmonic to their
hearts content these patriotic citi-
zens propose to do their own voting.
They will support those candidates
who represent in their professions
and lives their views upon govern
mental issues without reference to
the party label they may wear.
Frankly The Herald does not be-
lieve that the primary called for
April 30 will ever be held. The
whole thing appears to us to be
more of laughing farce than SER
ious and disinterested effort to set
tie matters in the State and party.
1t is a play between the captains"
and generals" without any army.
If there are enough of the 1000 in
dependent democrats in Maury coun-
ty who are really concerned about
the success of the Barton-William-
sou PRIMARY w lui uioi IiC oii'SSi u
necessary to hold legal primary In
this county, diligent search has thus
for failed to reveal them. The same
thing is true of the regulars" We
seriously doubt if there are enough
of the old Patterson following in
this county who are in sympathy
with Williamson ct ais to furnish
material for the county primary
board" At least upon one thing
the independents and Pattersonites
of this county are agreed and that
is that the so-called April 80 primary
is destined to take its place in his
tory along side the Paterson June
primary of 1910.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-05

ing Is ample to show the lamentable
record of unpublished crime In this
country made possible, of course, by
a shamefully complacent public
sentiment In the face of widespread
and all too common disregard OF
legal restraints.
Probably If each individual in this
community, for instance, would ex-
anime his own inclinations and his
own record he would find the clue to
this frightful condition. Ii he should
find-and few of us would not-in-
stances wherein he has evaded or
violated some law he regards as in
conseauentaial or made for the other
fellow and not for him, he will prob
ably understand why there are some
who regard all laws as inconsequent-
ial and only made to restrict their
liberties.
1--WE have too many dead-ietter,
uncomfortable laws. What we need
is a purging of the statute books OF
such laws and then an impartial and
uncompfomising enforcement OF
those that remain"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-05
PUBLIC ROADS.

This is the time of the year when
the people are thinking most OF pub
lie roads. They make good resolu-
tions to do more for the roads during
the coming summer than they have
ever done. 1t Is easy to arouse en-
thusiasm at this season when the
work cannot be done. But when the
hot sun of summer dries out even
the worst mud holes and makes a
fairly good highway of the sections
that are now almost impossible, the
enthusiasm of the people to work the
roads, to contribute time and money
to their improvement, wanes. They
are not nearly so public spirited as
they were few months before.
There Is really no excuse why this
section should not have better roads
than it has. The cross roads of the
county should be as good as the
pixies are now and the latter should
be very much better than they are
Good roads are about the cheapest
thing imaginable. If people would
only look upon their contributions to
road building in the proper light, as
investments and not as donations,
there would be first class highways
in every section of Maury county.
The mud tax is an enormous one.
There is not a farmer in Maury coun-
ty who has occasion to go to mill or
market once a week during the next
three months who will not pay
enough in the wear and tear on his
team and wagons and harness and
In loss of time to build or renlake
from an eighth to quarter of a mile
of road. And the worry and vexa-
ton of spirit will add considerably
to the cost.
There is no good excuse for the
bad roads of fthe county. The people
are >abundantly able to build good
roads. They have prospered, peace
and plenty abounds and a sense Of
civic pride as well as one of self
interest should prompt them to i'm
prove the highways. It is to be hop
ed that the good resolutions that are
being made now will not be forgot
ten when road working time comes
around but that on the contrary
they will bear good fruit and that
when another winters frosts are
upon the ground navigation in Maury
county will be easier and cheaper.
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OUR CRIMINAL RECORD.

1t is a gratifying sign when the
newspapers of the country devote
columns of space to a crusade for a
better enforcement of the laws
against murder. The very fact that
the press, the great moudler of pub
lie opinion, is aroused over this ques-
ton is of itself significant The
newspapers Of this country can do
no better work than to educate the
people to a higher sense of their
responsibility for our woeful failure
to enforce the laws. The laws
against murder will be enforced
when public sentiment becomes suffi-
GENTLY enlightened on the subject.
No one who believes in Christianity
and civilization, who has decent re-
gard for the sancitity of human life,
can contemplate our murder record
for the past decade without shud-
der and deep sense of humiliation
We are the most blood-thirsty peo-
nile In the world. Our murder record
is our greatest reproach as a nation.
In no other land upon the globe do
.the people kill anything like so many
of their fellow being as they annual
ly slay in this country. And in no
country is so small a proportion OF
the ymurderers punished.
The following well considered edi-
torial from the Chattanooga Times Is
worthy of the careful thought OF
every patriotic citizen.
"a comparison made by the Louis
vile Evening Post will make
thoughtful men of this country won
der If we are thoroughly civilized
after all. In st. Louis, city OF
100000 people, there were from Jan.
l to Dec. 8, 1911, eighty-six trials
for murder. In only twenty cases
were convictions returned, and In
not a single case was the death pen
atty imposed. The current report OF
the city authorities of London, Eng
land, shows that in city of some
thing like 100000 population, or
about ten times that of st. Louis,
there were in the last twelve months
exactly fourteen murder trials. OF
the fourteen defendants eight were
sentenced to death and duly hanged.
There others we're given long terms
at penal servitude. Three were ac-
quilted.
Many such comparisons between
the record of London and American
cities could be made, but the forego-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-05
MISSION SOCIETIES
ELECT OFFICERS

The Missionary Societies of the
First Methodist church, after uniting
the two societies (the home and the
foreign) held their annual election OF
officers yesterday with the following
results:
President, Mrs. H. P. Figuers: first
vice president, Mrs. H. L. Hendley;
second vice president, Mrs. w. P.
Boyd; third vice president, Mrs. r.
c. Church; fourth vice president, Miss
Lulie Figuers; Recording secretary.
Mrs. ]. R. Martin; treasurer. Mrs.
John Fraser for home, and Mrs. Ben
Fly, foreign; corresponding secreta.
~, Mrs. Jene Baugus.
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BRIDGE MEANS
NEW TOWN
ADDITION TO MEMPHIS ON THE
ARKANSAS SIDE OF
RIVER.

MEMPHIS, Jan. 4.-Some of these
days Memphis may awaken to find a
real, full-fedged city on the Arkan-
sas side of the Mississippi river, and
now occupied by a couple of shanties
and decorated with signboards.
If the plans of the bureau of public
ity and development Of the Business
Mems club materialize, there will be
a city there. 1t will be what Cosing-
ton, KY, is to Cincinnati, O., or East
st. Louis is to st. Louis-just across
the river, the home of thousands OF
persons doing business in one State
and residing in another.
The entire question of the new
town hangs with the erection of the
Rock Island bridge. The officials of
that railroad company can start a
city there in minute, it is said.
President S. M. Nicely, of the BUS
mess Mems club made this statement
known Tuesday just before the pub
licity and development bureau con-
vened.
The question of urging the Rock
Island railroad company to provide
for public travel, vehicles, ETC.. was
to be threshed out before the clubs
boosters.
The matter, too, of urging the rail-
road to heed their plan for a city, by
revising the plans of the big bridge,
and make it available four public
travel and use, was to have been TAX
en- up.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1912-01-05
HAIR MONY ~

At last we have harmony" in Zen
nessee. A regular" member of the
State committee has been found who
will undertake with Chairman Ear
ton, of the Independent Committee,
the task of harmonizing the Demo
cratic party. Three regulars" have
consented to serve with three inde-
pandents on the primary hOa The
plan is fair, it is admirable and ii
Vertrees and the real regular or
Patterson leaders had sincerely de-
sired harmony they would have
promptly accepted the Barton pro-
position. But they would have none
it. Confident of their ability to
elect the liquor candidate for Gov
ernor next year without the aid of
the temperance democrat they have
spurned every proposition for an am
icable adjustment of party differ
ences.
The kind of harmony" that we
have at last secured is more apparent
than real 1t is simply the shadow
without the substance The ''regu-
lars" in Shelby county may follow
Williamson and others named by
him into the April 80 primary, but
outside of that county the number
n the state will be inconsequential,
The great mass of the regulars"
viii remain with Vertrees and the
genuine liquor leaders. They do NOT
oara a rap for harmony. And they
are no more concerned about the
welfare Of the Democratic party
approved the election of a republi-
can as state treasurer they have
ceased to be regular except in their
irregularity and their obedience to
the mandates of the liquor machine.
And we believe that the great
bulk of the Independents are indif-
ferent to the Barton-Wiliamson har-
mony plan. They are taking no in
.erest whatever in the so-called prim-
airy of April 30. If that primary Is
ever held, the vote in it will not be
any larger than that of the late Ia
mented Junebug primary which like
the illfated campaign of the great
Napoleon into the SHOWS of Russia
proved the beginning of the end of
Patterson's dynasty in Tennessee.
Independents realize that there are
differences between them and the
Regulars upon vital issues of
government about which it will
be exceedingly difficult if not
impossible to reach an agreement.
And they have reached that point
where they propose to vote their hon.
est sentiments upon these and other
issues of government regardless of
the effect of their vote upon the for
tunes of any machine, organization
or individual. In other words there
are thousands of independent citi-
zens in Tennessee who have come
to the parting of the ways political
ly. In the future they propose to
vote less for the machine and more
often for themselves. They are go
ing to be better citizens if their
party standing does suffer as a con-
sequence.
To these thousands of independent
God fearing citizens who ask no
favors from party machines, or party
bosses the comical efforts of the
party leaders" to secure the semb-
lance or shadow of harmony only
provoke a smile. Their minds are
made up already and while party
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$23,s26 %
LIABILITIES

State of Tennessee, County of Maury
l, G. A Ross, Cashier of the above
named Bank, do solemnly swear that the
alb We statement is true to the best OF my
knowledge and belief.
G. A. ROSS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this January the Bird, 1912.
(SEAL) j. j. POGUE,
Notary Public.
We are pleased to present to the pub
lie our first statement after having done
business six months and are very CRATE
full to the people for their patronage and
solicit continuance of the same.
Directors Directors
Jno. T Akin A. M. Thompson
V. A. McClanahan w. S. Parks
j. j.. Savage DIR. HI. B. Hughes
J. A. Delk c. a. Ross.
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The ex-sultan 0f Morocco. Mu'nI Ha. Cd. has made himself very popular in MarselUcs hy thc truIy royal fashion in which be has been HinEIug hls money about If he does not learn the value of money in the uegr future it is cer tain that the S75.u1O which Che French government allowed him as his annual civil list will not last very long Ills first visit was Co the cathedral and on leaving be handed ihe cure SGo.' says a Paris correspondent of the London Express "A blind bCrEar Dc met out side received so 40 the Church Of Notre Dame do Ia G6rde another blind bergar rcrpircd S5"
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Oh. men and women, turn with
 hearts Of pity To help the animals, whose word
 less cry Goes up from country lane and
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 their obedience, They toll for us from dawn tilI
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 compassion For an things living underneath
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 fields Elysian, But taste their sweetness when
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 our blindness. They do not need so much of
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Ei,h In ts, Sea ef esIlI.s.

Bible students may le interested Co know that there is stiII good fishing in the sen of GaIHce pr Ernest W. Cur. nev Masterman. who has practiced medicine In Galilec, made @ special study of thc fishes found there and In a recent book says that he found forty. three varieties. twice as many as can be found in thc British lsIes The 1sh. ermen are taxed a fftb 0f the value of the ish caught. the revenue going part ly to the sultan and n7rt'v Co a pasha ln Damascus
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

Services tomorrow at the Method ist Episcopal church win bo con ducted by Rev w. w. Bateheller Of Seattle. who arrived in skagway this morning
 Morning service at 1f o'clock. subject, "pauls Boast" sunday school at t2 M Evrnuine service at D m talk to men, subject, "A Mans Job.
 Everybody Invited
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Little Bob H." the fox terrier belonging to Mir E. J. Shaw, has won for himself most enviable reputation as a hero and a dog Of remarkable intelligence. Last week when Mrs. Shaw was indisposed and confined 10 her room, Bob or "Buttinsky' as he is known to his friends. came Co the bedside barking and whining; thinking the little fellow wanted some tidbit or his daily betting Mrs. shaw order ed him from the room; but this he refused to do and became more persistent, jumping up on the side Of the bed and scratching her hands until she arose and went in- Co the parlor; here the large base burner was found at white heat and had it not been for the un- usual intelligence of "Robs" tho Shaw residence might have been consumed. Calling for help the temperature Of the stove was soon subdued and after a great amount of praise and betting and a lump Of sugar as reward for his bravery the little dog gave a sigh Of content ment. and went Co his cushion for nap iu safety.
 "Thc misery of keeping a dog is his dying SO soon; but Co be sure. if he lived for fifty years, and then died. what would become Of me"
 Sir Walter Scott
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The hop given by the D. P. O. Elks on Friday evening was a most delightful affair and we'll attended. All the rooms were opened Co thc Elzs and their guests and bowling dancing and cards were the pleas. ures ndulced In during the even ing. A number Of out of town guests were present among whom were Judge Royal A. Gunnison ol Juneau, Mir. Sherwood Ruffner of Discovery, B. C.. and Mir A. D. Hughes Of Atlin, B. c.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Christian science service win be held Sunday at 7.aO D. no. in the Alaskan building
 subiect. "Mortals and Tmmort- als"
 The pubic is welcome.
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Bonded whi5kses-Glbs5n. Noun Vernon and Belmont The best Of Beer-Blue Ribbon. Budweiser and Pale Rainier. ai the Mascot Teie- phone 67. u
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SKAGWAY SOCIETY
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Mir. and Mrs E. J. White and their little son Albert, visited the weekend in sksgway the guests Of Mir. and Mrs Claud H. Dech and returned to Whitehorse on Monday morning.
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Lieutenant and Mrs. Parker and Lieutenant Parker's mother Of the Post were round trip passengers to Skagway, and luncheon guests at the Pack Train restaurant on Tues- day.
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Mrs. Frank II. Bold, Miss Mae McIlravie and Neal Bold were guests at dinner on Sunday of Mir. and Mrs. Bert Howdeshell and Miss Aleta Robson.
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Mrs. L.. A. Harrison returned on the Jefferson from a visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Shorthil and her daughter Miss Nora Harrison of Tacoma.
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Mir. and Mrs. Charles Brockmil- Ter have bought the Clyde Hover ton property on the corner of 1lth Avenue and Broadway and will make it their home.
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Mrs. Martin Conway is entertain ing a number of small folk this at- ternoou in honor of her daughter Bessie's birthday.
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Mrs. P. n. Ganty was hostess at auction bridge on Saturday even. ing After cards Mrs. Ganty serv- cd a delicious supper. Mrs N. F Black took first honors, a box Of candy and Mrs. F. Fl. Bold receiv- ed a pretty measuring cup as sec ond prize. The invited guests were Mrs. r. J. Van de Wall, Mrs V l. Hahn. Mrs. N. E. Black, Mrs. A, E. Kindeu. Mrs. D. W. Mckay Mrs. F. II. Bold, Mrs Martin Con- way. Mrs. F. F. W. Lowle and Mrs. II. J. Lynch
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Mrs. p. II. Ganty took first honors among the women for good bowling the past week with a score Of 1SS.
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Judge Royal A. Guunison of Ju- neau and Mr. Robert A. Carroll were asked Co dine with Mir and Mrs. V. |. Hahn on Thursday.
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An Irishmau when asked What is a critic2" replied, "A critic is one who is most down on what he is least up on"
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Miss Myrtle Fonzo who visited with her father during the sum mer and faT has gone to Seattle for the winter
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Mrs. George Dedman was a pas senger south on the Jefferson and win spend the winter visiting in the Coast States.
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On Tuesday, Mrs. (Lieut. Col) Sage, Lieutenant and Mrs. Good rich, Captain Brook and Mrs. (Dr) Porter Of Fort W. H. Seward were luncheon guests at the PGlien house.
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Dr. and Mrs. L 8 Keller were guests of Mir. and Mrs Bert How deshel and Miss Aleta Robison on Thursday evening, the occasion be- ing Mir. Howdesholls birthday How old was Ann?
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NIT. and Mrs. John McBrien will occupy the LeFevre cottage on Fifth Avenue for the winter.
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Mr. and Mrs Fl. F. Taylor re- turned home on the Humboldt from a trip to Seattle
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Mr. and Mrs Walter McBrien have taken rooms at the Golden North hotel for the winter
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Mrs. Byron olson of Glacier visited in town this week the guest of Mrs. Roy Gault
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Mr. c. Kane and Mir. James Ha- gan were visitors at Elks club on Wednesday evening
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Mir W. l.. Spear is confined to his home with illness.
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The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-06
BIRTHDAY CLUB.

A business meeting of the Birthday Club was held Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. D.. J. Smith, on Benton street. Officers were elected and plans for the coming year discuss ed, after which refreshments were served and very pleasant social hour spent.
 The members present were: Mes danes Afford, Brooks, Creson, Greer; Mann, Merritt, Jesse Murphy, Roy Murphy, Warren Murphy, Oeders. Rigs bee. Spears. D. J. Smith, P II Smith, Weir. Wilson and Miss Car rie Smith.
 The club will he entertained by each member upon her birthday and the usual delightful times are anti cipated as have been enjoyed in the past. | ,xA
The Sentinel=record., 1912-01-06
NOTICE. RECEIVERS SALE.

Notice b hereby given that pur- suant to an order of the Garland Chancery Court made and entered the IIth day of December, 1911, the un- dersigned as Receiver of the F. J. Green Company will sell at public out cry to the highest and best bidder on the 18th day of January, 1912 at F o'clock m. all of the assets of the said F. ]. Green Company, compris- ing Bulletin Boards and contracts for advertising and all of the office furniture and fixtures. paints and brushes, of the said F. J. Green Com pany located at No Central avenue. in the Bijou Rink building in the city of Hot Springs. Garland County, Arkansas, said sale to be conducted at the front door Of the Garland County Court House.
 The sale to be made upon a credit of three months. the person or per sons purchasing at said ssale 10 ex- ecute note or notes for the purchase money. Said note or notes to be approved by said Receiver and the Chancery court.
 Any person wishing to inspect the assets Of said Company to be sold can do so by calling upon the Receiver at the office of Circuit Clerk in the Court House in Hot Springs, Arkan- sas. 1FnTs lB-rE-TTw Witness my hand and seal as such Receiver this. the 22nd of December 1911. s. ]. ERICKSON.
 sbHs Receiver.