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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-01-10

The Presto Bill. !
Something Of the ReverllsF
Measure Prepared BY
the State Tax Comfnis-
sion. Y

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The Preston tax assessment
bill prepared by the State Tax
Commission, of which II. r..
/ Preston, President Of the Ham.
ilton National Bank, is Chairs
man, and intended to be intro
| duced at the coming session Of
the General Assembly, amend.
ing Chapter 206 of the Acts Of
| 1907, entitled IAN Act to pro-.
wide more just and equitable
laws for the assessment and col
lection of revenue for state,
county and municirol purposes,
has been drafted and is now be-.
ing printed in pamphlet form for
distribution.
/ The bill covers fifty typewrit-
ten pages of legal cap paper and
shows in its provisions a careful
and exhaustive study of the en-.
tire tax system of the state.
The new bill amends the exist
ling law in many particulars. 1t
provides for county boards Of
equalization and a state board
of tax commissioners. 1t repeals
the provision creating revenue
agents and the present State
Board of Equalization.
| 1t requires the assessors to
make their report to the County
Trustee instead Of County Court
lClerk. The first amendment OF
| the old law is in section 10 and
the new law requires all assesi-
ors to turn their tax books when,
compiled, over 70 the County
Trustee instead of lists" as
now turned over to the County
Court Clerks. The county aS.,
SCISSORS shall give bond in the
sum of $4,000 for the faithful
performance Of their duties 'as
prescribed under this act, and
to take an oath which is pre-.
scribed that they will assess all
property both real and personal,
lat it's actual cash value, aud
makes them liable for a failure
to properly assess, omit or neg.
lect to assess any property viii
fully or knowingly.
The bill has many other. i'm.
portant provisions, such as re.
quiring the county assessor in.
stead of the county court clerk
to make out the tax book. The
assessor is required to see in
person every tax payer, his
agent or attorney and to take
his personal statement of all
property, real, personal or. mix.
ed. The assessor is required to
furnish the District Attorney
with list Of all taxpayers who
shall have refused or failed to
fill out and return tax schedule
to the assessor, and it is made
perjury to swear falsely as to
property.
Articles manufactured from
the produce of the state are de.
clared not taxable. :
The bill repeals the section Of
the old law providing for back
assessment, provides for the
election Of County Board OF
Equalizers, creates Board Of
State Tax Commissioners, with
extensive authority for equaliz-
ing taxes, one member for eacf,
of :the three divisions of the
state, the State Tax Commission
being authorized to appoint All
auditor, who with the commits
sion shall have the right to ex-
anime the books and records Of
any officer who collects and dis
Iburses state revenue. Ss
y Srne sprt ts0f. rsssnae bllIrwill
fIbe passed BY the iptSMhigLe
4 Nature, and it:ntsy 'bt tijs one---
hut possibIe Sspr dfaeldeA that
" Daddy Preston VIII nat rcvI
lognize his chiidiblIe meets it il,
Ithe big road. y
t4 ~ f 1.Nt " VIZ.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-01-10
January Quart
erly Court
Important Session Which
Rushed Business to
Completion in half day.

Twelve Of the seventeen JUS
tices present, the great rain pre-
venting-fuller attendance
J. E. SeQerson, 4th district,
reelected notary.
w. h. Mcbride, J. M. Johnson
and w. II. Rice appointed as
committee to let contract to
build bridge over Hurrlcan
creek.
W. Il. Dennison reelected
Supt. County Schools at salary
Of $500 per annum paid by coun-
ty. Same amount paid by state.
J. w. Ballard, Of second dis
trict, and j. A. Deere, of third
district, were elected members
of County High School Board to
succeed w. r. Wilson and j. 5.
league, expired.
The following Road Commits
sioners for the various districts
were elected: /. Frank Rhodes
2. R. H. Gunter; 3. A. D. John
son: 4. W.T.. White; 5. Hubert
Brown; 6. j. O. Davis; z. J. M.
Austin. 81
The following District Live
stock Inspectors elected. the
work to begin April /, or earlier
il ordered and the pay to be
$500 per day:1 n. j. Tate; 2,
X. H. Gunter; 3, T. r.. Sisson
s, L. r. Newman; 5, M. ii,
Stewart; 6, J. q. Davis; Z,
George Medlin.
Justices H. E. Graper and @.
O. Davis and Sheriff j.. +. Mar
tin were appointed asscolnlhittee
i to have closets and city Wetel
nut in the courthouse and n
put city water in the jail. & II II
N tsss Ass4--.-. afs VI fkst "a M ssN
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-01-10

W. II. Dennison reelected
Supt. County Schools at salary
Of $500 per annum paid by coun-
ty. Same amount paid by state.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
Want Young Men
Who Know Shorthand

Executive officers of big institutions 8
railroads and manufacturing estab-
lishments-have been making recently
what might seem to be a strange com.
plant. They cannot find capable young
men who are stenographers and type
writers.
Young men just leaving school or
college, they say. scorn shorthand and
typewriting machines in these days.
They look upon that as girls work. So
when a corporation manager or presi-
dent promotes one confidential man to
a higher post he cannot find capable
youngster equipped to take his place.
The higherups in the big institutions
regard that as shortsightedness upon
the part of the young men who are just
starting out.
Many of the great men of the country
began their careers as stenographers.
AS confidential men of the higherups
they got their intimate knowledge Of
the businesses they were later to control
And the young men just preparing for
business life lose a great many oppor-
tunities for lack of an easily acquired
skill in typewriting and stenography.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
Nevada State News

Mrs Walter Hobart has received
divorce at San Francisco from the fa-
nous clubmsn, who is well known in
Nevada, where his father accumulated
the fortune that has made all the trouble.
Frank Baker, the thief caught in the
act OF robbing the cash drawer at the
Rhyolite railway station on the Tide
water line, pleaded guilty at Tonopsh on
Tuesday and was sentenced to a year in
the penitentiary.
James McCleary died at the Southern
Pacific hospital Monday in Sacramento
after arriving from Wadsworth, where
he was severely scalded by steam. He
died from injuries received at the Wads.
worth roundhouse.
The Southern Pacific has issued q
bulletin to the effect that any employe
caught frequenting saloons or places
where liquors are dispensed, no matter
whether said employe is on or off duty.
will be dismissed from the service.
The hanging OF Mirkovicb. the Tono-
pah murderer. which was billed for
April 4, has gone over pending the re-
sentence OF the condemned man. He
will have to wait for the Nye County
Judge to fix the day and date for the
execution.
Alex Strachan, for a number OF years
employed at the Nevada State prison as
overseer, but who has been i'll in Califor-
MIA for months, shot and killed himself
in the Overland hotel at Reno Saturday.
Strachan fired three shots into his breast
with a revolver.
l.. +. Adamson, formerly State License
and Bullion Tax agent has been appoint
ed secretary Of the Tax Commission, and
assumed his position at the first meeting
OF the commission April l. The Office
OF License and Bullion Tax agent was
abolished by the Act that created the Tax
Commission.
All the papers chronicle the bringing
forth of the stored slot machines in diff
ferent sections OF Nevada. During the
shining process the various District At
torneys are figuring out the new gamb-
ling law and it's real meaning. There
seems to be wide difference Of the read
ing Of the law and its application as 70
license and what may be played ios.
Probably the first arrests made under
the new anti-gambling law we're made
At Deeth, Elko County, last Saturday
night when seven prominent citizens
were arrested while playing seven up
for two bits throw. The Justice OF the
Peace held the evidence was not suffi-
cient to convict, but warned the culprits
not to get caught again.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
Elixir of Youth Discovered

London, April 10.-That radium can
restore the hardened arteries of middle
aged persons to a healthy condition and
so prolong life was the claim made by
DIR. Saubermann of Berlin, in lecture
here before the Roentgen Society yester.
day.
The apparatus which will man ufacture
this "elixir of youth" consists of an
earthenware receptacle containing q
minute amount of radium. which is
placed at the bottom of a glass bottle.
The bottle is filed with water. In time
the water becomes charged with radium
emanations.
The radium remains active for hun.
dreds of years. so it is only necessary
to renew the water in order to get any
number of doses.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
SAYS MEAT FAMINE is DUE
Colonel Cody Tells Why Cattle Are
Becoming Scarcer in United States

Becoming Scsrcer in United States
Chicago. April civilian +. (Buf-
falo BilD Cody, rivalling the fair Lii.
lian Russell for the secret of keeping
young, stepped from a train in Chicago
and gave an Indian whoop of joy.
Being an old cattlemaD, the first
question Colonel Cody was asked was
about the sensational statement Of Pres
ident Leonard of the Union Stock
Yards Company that the country faced
q meat shortage.
1T is worse than that" declared Col.
onel Cody. UNLESS something is done
within the next ten years, this country
will face q meat famine. We eat too
much meat. We force cattlemen to- kill
their calves too early. That and the
cutting up of range lands into farms
are responsible for the present high
prices and for the shortage"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
Lillian Russell Retires

New York. April 7.-Broadway buz-
zed to. night with the sudden announce
ment that Lillian Russell, who. while
off the stage is Mrs. Alexander P.
Moore. wife of the Pitssburg publisher.
had "closed" for the last time and will
retire to her home in Pittsburg. The
fair Lillian has been on an extended
beauty lecture tour. headlined as How
to Live 60 Be 100 Years Old" A mes.
sage from her husband Cancelled her en-.
gagements.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
Last Pony Rider Passes

Information from San Francisco re-
cords the death in that city last week
of Louis Dean, who was one of the
makers of Nevada history. Dean is
said to be the last Of the pony express
riders who made the West famous in
early days. He was rs years of age.
Dean acquired property in Reno for a
mere song in 1866 and later sold it for q
fortune. He also constructed the Dean
block on Virginia street in Reno.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
PLANS HUGE CHAIN
OF CANDY STORES
To Be for Wage Earning Girls
What Linked Cigar Stores
Are for Men

New York. April 8-Mrs. J. Borden
Hartman, whose civic activities have
been manifold, is soon TO launch chain
of candy stores throughout the country.
They are intended to be for women
what chains of cigar stores are for men
Mrs. Hartman said that she is in.
tensely anxious to see the venture sue
coed, as she believes il will be of eco.
nomical advantage to women wage
earners. Sizzling soda and tempting
confections are to be put at as moderate
prices as possible.
The candy store chain is regarded by
Mrs. Hartman in the light of AN ex-
pertinent related to the minimum living
wage. II the candy store succeeds she
believes esta ADJUSTMENTS of other kinds
may be launched TO deal with neces.
stiles of life.
For years Mrs. Hartman has de.
voted herself to helping to solve econo-
mic problems. She affiliated herself
with a movement to increase the system
of milk depots for the babies OF the
poor. Last Fall she urged the city
authorities to appropriate more money
for this purpose.
2. Compton Miller, whose Office is in
the Hudson Terminal building. is in
terested, Mrs. Hartman says, in the
new candy store chain.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
CONTROL OF THE FLOODS
Plan to Transfer Panama Canal
Forces to Ohio and Mississippi
Valleys Is Advocated

''Strike while the iron is hot ~ has
been the battle cry of men Of action
throughout the world.
And to-day. while the iron of adver.
sity is hot in the bosom OF the republic
is the time to strike upon the ideas that
are to make the heroic surgery of heal
ing.
What is the remedy for these mighty
floods that are sweeping and running the
interior country? Beyond the supreme
consideration of the loss of life they are
the financial tragedies Of the century.
They occur at rare intervals in Ohio
and Indiana and in New York. But in
the valley of the Mississippi and in the
Ohio valley they are almost an animal
or bi-annual scourge Of waters. terrific
in suffering and appalling in cost.
No expenditure Of public money is too
great that will strengthen the defenses
of the people against the giant forces of
destruction in the Mississippi and Ohio
rivers. No cost in national expenditure
for permanent defense in levees straight.
ening would approximate the cost in q
single decade TO the pockets Of the
people. not to speak of the uncountable
value OF human life.
Governor Cox of Ohio estimates that
the damage in Ohio alone by the recent
foods will be more than $500, 900. 600
nearly as much as the cost of the Pana-
ma canal. The total cost of the present
food will be greater than that Of the
Panama canal.
The American Government can no
longer stop to consider money in dealing
with the problems of internal economy
and Of elemental humanity. The foods
create an emergency as definite and i'm
perative as war.
Among other suggestions 1.-The Amer
icau" presents this: Our stupendous
enterprise of the Panama canal will
soon be completed. Its vast equipment
of the worlds newest and best ma
ohinery for digging sad q. ,ng will be
unemployed.
Ii is time now-ln the coming Con.
gress-whatever its special purpose OF
Assem- bly-to start some movement for
the relief Of the flooded republic. Every
expert that has sounded keynote upon
this question should be summoned be-
fore Congress. and the best ideas of all
Of them assimilated into vigorous ac-
tion.
A beginning should be made in the
extra session of Congress
The world greatest engineer. Colonel
Goethals, will also be at leisure.
Why not, then. provide now by this
Congress for the transfer Of all the
wonderful machinery at Panama, under
personal charge aud direction Of Ool
onel Goethals. TO the supreme necessi-
ties of the Mississippi and Ohio valleys!
Let the present Congress do a great
thing in great way by doing it prompt
ly. and send cheer to the fiood-ravsged
regions of our country by the assurance
that this great man and this incompar-
able equipment will soon be conseorated
to tasic relief.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12

Washington. April 7.-More than l50.'
900. 900 parcel post packages were mailed
during the first three months the sys-
tenn was in operation. according to COM
putations announced to-day by postal
experts and based upon reports from the
90 largest postoffices.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
Drain and Reuse Underground Waters

Drain ana Reuse Onoergrouno waters
With the irrigation system for large
portion of Churchill County, under the
Truckee. Carson Irrigation project, prao-
tically com pleted. the Reclamation Ser
vice is arranging to drain the land of
underground water. It is having tiles
laid from five to ten feet below the sur
face to drain the surplus water away
into large trench. From there the
water will be pumped by electricity,
generated at Lahontan Dam. into the
old canal of the Carson river. where 1t
will be carried to the land in the vicini.
ty of Saltwater to be used over again
for irrigation purposes. Approximately
s25. 900 will be expended in this work
this year. At least $20O, 1000 will be
spent in drainage work.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12

The jury trying the second case Of
Giovanni Agnes against the Pittsburg
Silver Peak Mining Company brought
in verdict giving the plaintiff $1,000.
Agnes sued for 500. 900 damages for in.
juries received while working in the
mines of the company at Blair, Nevada.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
Wins "Mona Lisa Smile" Girl

Miss Marian Wise, niece of Senator
and Mrs. Francis Newlands, ''the girl
with the Mona Lisa smile," will become
the bride of Charles Carroll Glover. heir
to millions and at one time reputed to
be engaged to Miss Ethel Roosevelt.
The ceremony will take place in the
late Spring,
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12

The Elko Free Press says man just
back from New York saw Diamondfield
Jack Davis alive and W oil in the Hotel
Breslin q short time ago and this man
does not believe Jack was killed in
Mexico. He says Davis told him he
was going back to South America,
where he was doing well.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12
PARCEL POST

II had tough time delivering the
mail yesterday" declared the postman.
"How was that?'
Had a bulldog and a chunk of liver
in the same delivery. louisville Cour'
ier Journal.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1913-04-12

Smallpox has appeared in Virginia
City in light form, the patient being
Lawrence Pearl who resides on the Di.
vide. The home has been quarantined.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
Why the "Old OIL MIII!"

The Sentinel gives space this week
again to an ad of the Mississippi Cot
ton Oil Co.," generally referred to as
the "Old Oil Mill" of Grenada. II
what the management of tnat oil mill
says be true, and it is safe to say that
nobody will undertake to disprove it,
good reasons can be given by the farm
ers for preferring to sell to the Old OIL
Mill. There is not much sentiment
about business-it is where the mar
ketable product will bring the most
and where the dollar has the greatest
purchasing power. The Old Oil Mill
SAYS its gin makes the best sample
and that it pays more taxes into the
county than "all other seed buying
agencies combined" This is some-
thing for the citizens to consider.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
An Old Lady Dies.

Mrs. NJ. A. Monday of Carroll coun-
ty, after long illness, died at her
home in that county Sept. 26. She and
family for number of years in their
early life were residents of this county.
Her, husband, John T. Monday, to
whom she was married in 1855, died SO
years ago, leaving her with seven chill
dren to care for and maintain. With
what success she met her responsible
tiles and difficult task, let the high
character and devotion to duty and
right of her sons and daughters attest
She was a kind. patient, self sacrificing
mother, helpful and sympathetic
neighbor and friend, and the cry Of
need or distress was never by her ig-
nored.
All of her children, one of whom is
Mrs. M. G. Dubard of Bews Springs,
and many grandchildren, survive her
to all of whom sincere sympathy is ex-
teuded.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
Mothers Club to Meet.

The Mothers Club will meet Wednes-
day, Oct 8, at $50, in the chapel of
the school building. All mothers are in
vited to attend.
Subject: Education Through Play.
Questions To Whist extent can
children be educated through play? 2
What playground facilities have our
townspeople provided for the children
to indulge in play in lawful manner,
8 Why is playing on the streets a
menace to the children's proper regard
for law? What plays are charac-
teristic of the different periods of
childhood? How does play serve as
an index of the child's growing tenden-
cies? How do you account for so
many boys being cured of the smoking
habit through athletics? What eff
feet does proper play have on the false
motives and sentimentality of the
girls? Program Committee.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
Important Notice.

As district of Grenada county is
quarantined against all cattle that have
not been dipped, and it is a violation of
the law to bring any cattle that have
not been dipped, into said district. Any
person intending to bring cattle to the
fair for the purpose OF exhibition, will
have to dip them. This is not an order
of the Fair Association, but the law OF
the Federal Government, and we only
insert this notice to save intended ex-
hibitors trouble and annoyance.
Central Fair Association.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
The Weather and Cotton.

The weather for the past several
days has been rather disquieting to the
farmers who have cotton in the fields.
There was an awfully heavy rain Sum-
day afternoon and it has been raining
every day this week up to this writing.
The weather ought to boost the price
of cotton. The reports Of all qualities
show q very great depreciation in the
cotton crop during the past 60 days and
the farmers have every reason to de-
mand and expect good prices. Cotton
seed 10 selling now for SOC per bushel.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
New YOrk's Latest
Now at Duncan's

Elsewhere in a half-page ad in this
paper Duncan & Co. make an an
nouncement about wraps for misses and
young ladies'. which they state is the
latest thing in New York styles. These
garments are beauties, and besides
their attractiveness. they are exceed
ingly durable and will give excellent
service. This wide-awake firm also has
a full stock of ladies' ready-to-wear
suits, made by the best people, and
they are selling them at exceedingly
attractive prices. Style, quality and
durability is their motto and they ask
IN inspection of their stock.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
Died at IS.

The Sentinel has just learned that
Mrs. S. A. Martin, sister of 7. G.
Bowles of this county, died in Tillatoba
Sept. %. She was IS years, 6 months
and 81 days old. She was an exempla-
ry character and the years had but
sweetened her life. Besides her two
brothers in this county, she is survived
by one son, two daughters and num-
ber Of grandchildren.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
Three Dollars in Circulation.

The statement in the ad of the "Old
Oil Mill" in this issue, that every ad-
ditional ton of cottonseed crushed in
this county puts % into circulation, is
worthy of consideration by farmers
about to sell to those who buy seed for
the outsiders. Read the ad.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
Thev Make You Feel Good

The pleasant purgative effect pre-
duced by Chamberlain Tablets and
the healthy condition of the body and
mind which they create make one feel
joyful. For sale by all dealers.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
The Recital,

The faculty of Grenada College gave
their initial recital last Monday even
ing in the college chapel. A splendid
audience was on hand and it is need
less to say that each and every member
of the faculty that appeared on the pro-
gram acquitted herself with unusual
credit.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1913-10-03
For Sale

Amoor River Privet, strong. healthy
nlants for sale at $4 per hundred; the
finest hedge growth Of all.
Mrs. Fred Keeton,
o.ot-tf Grenada.