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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Trap Nests.

is one that Is not laying. 1t remained
for a man by the name of Albert
Angel, Jr, to strike the proper idea
in this direction.
Briefly stated, this system consists
of house and yard divided into two
unequal parts. One side is large
enough for IL hens, and the smaller
side is for the cock. In the house are
trap nests with two openings. Every
night the hens are put in the larger
house. The cock stays permanently
In his own quarters. Every hen that
lays an egg or enters trap nest
goes out into the apartment with the
male When night comes, the laying
hens are all with the male and they
then are returned to their own side Of
the house and yard, to go through the
same process each day. In the morn
ing the male bird is alone. The trap
nest is made by simply fashioning
two light doors, using one-inch mesh
wire nettings The door to the nest
which the hen enters to lay is hinged
iAOh tHC iHpiuo, anu 10 pupuCu OpOn
by the hen, and closes behing her.
The door in the rear of the nest open
ing out into the cocks yard, Is hinged
from the outside. When the hen en-
tiers the cocks pen she can not re-
turn, as will readily be seen. These
doors. or gates, are light. and work
easily, and should be the size of the
entrance of the next box and hinged
to the top
The illustration, popular make OF
trap nests, such as Is used on many Of
the large poultry farms. A shows
trap nest turned to open nest.
B shows nest closed after hen
has entered. G shows trap set.
When hen is through laying she
will stick her head out OF the nest
and cackle. and should then be re-
leased
On the leg Of each hen is placed
an aluminium band on which is stamp
ed number Upon opening the door
of the trap the hen is picked up and
her number ascertained. This is then
written on the egg. and at night .
record is made of these numbers.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
State Banking Staff.

State Bank Examiner, j. 0. Hutton
has announced his completed state bank
terminating staff as follows:
A. j. Williams, cashier of the First
National Bank, Savannah; John j.
Joyner, cashier of the Broadway Ma
tional Bank, Nashville; D. G. Borden,
cashier of the Halston National Bank,
Knoxville; N. B. Gentry, cashier of the
Farmers and Merchants Bank, New
bern; /. L. Emerson, former cashier
Athens Bank and Trust Company,
Athens; John B. Helm, Nashville, as
sistant to the state bank examiner, and
Miss Jennie Turrentine, Nashville, ste
nographer.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
apRYr STATISTICS.

Two-thirds of the geographical
area of the United States is dry ter.
,ritory. In 1868 there were S,500,O 900
people living in territory where the
drink traffic had been outlawed; in
1900 that number had increased to
1s,0O0,000; In 1908 the number had
doubled; and today there are 46,029,-
$50 persons, or fraction over one
half of the population of the country.
living in dry territory. In the last
FIVE years the no-license population
has increased little over 100000
which is more than ten per cent. OF
the total population of the nation and
thirty per cent. increase in the num-
Der living in dry districts. Since
1868 the population of the country has
doubled, while the number of inhab-
itants of drJ territory has increased
over thirteenfold.
OF the nine total abstinence states,
four have constitutional and five have
statutory lava. sOf the remaining
thirty-nine states. thirty-six are under
some form of local option.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Leases Old Bank Building.

W. w, Dillon & Co., real estate agents,
announce the lease of the old Broadway
National Bank building at the corner
of Third avenue and Broadway, by H.
G. Hill & Co. The grocery company will
open an up-to-date store at the begin
ming Of the year. Remodeiing of the
building to suit the needs of the new
store will begin at once. The lease is
for term OF five years, extending from
January l, 1911. The lease of the Broad
way National Bank Company expires at
that time.
Another important deal announced is
the sale of the old Nashville Sanitarium
building, three miles out on the Muir
freesboro pike.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Soldiers Are Fewer.

The meeting at Washington of the Ma
tional Home Board for Disabled Soldiers,
attended by former Representative 2. d.
Massey as the Tennessee member, de-
veloped the fact that none of the ! Ten
nessee homes over the country are taxed
to more than one-half their capacity.
Reports submitted showed attendance is
gradually decreasing; for instance, the
institution at johnson City, Tenn, has
a capacity of $500 but for the past year
the number of soldiers in the institution
has fallen far below 1000 and reports
further show that the majority of the sol.
diers who are given shelter in homes
spend much of their going from one of
the homes to another, being enabled to
travel by securing pensions from thu
government.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
POLICE COMMISSIONER ON Il.

While police commissioner in San
Francisco in 1903, it was my custom
to examine the records In the city
prison frequently, showing all the
crimes and other particulars attend
ing arrests that numbered about 200
daily, and my conclusion was that
fully ninety per cent. were due d.
rectly or indirectly to the use of
liquors" says A. D. Cutler, former
commissioner Of police of San Fran
cisco. "All saloons In San Francisco
ne continues, were closed for thirty
days, following the great fire in April,
1905, the result being that there was
SO little police duty necessary in spite
Of the great confusion growing out of
the fire, that one-half the police force
were given vacations for periods Of
from ten to thirty days. When the
saloons were again opened the Off
GERS on vacation were recalled as it
was deemed necessary to place the
entire force on duty because of the
increased crime and disorder"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Russian Singers at Nashville.

At the Art Associations free organ
recital at Christ Church on Tuesday,
Frederick Arthur Henkel was assisted by
Else Hartham-Arendt. Madame Arends
has filled engagements as soloist in
concerts abroad and in America and the
critics have spoken only in highest praise
of her work. A German critic speaks of
her marvellous, gold-clear voice." Mad.
anne Arendt is by birth Russian.
Through her marriage she made her
home in America and at present lives in
Chicago.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Appreciate Board of Trade.

Secretary Shannon. Of the Board Of
Trade is in receipt of letter from the
Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce, ask
ing for information as to the plans of
work of the Nashville Boosters Club. The
Atlantic City boosters are planning a
trip and desire to get some ideas from
the local club, which has wide reput:,,
ton for having live wires in this kind of
work. Another letter was received from
the Chamber of Commerce and Amster.
dam, expressing appreciation of courte-
sizes and asking to be retained on the list
for 1914.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Filed Petition in Bankruptcy.

The Nashville Photo Engraving Com
pany filed voluntary petition in bank.
ruptcy in the Federal court. E. R. Neu
houser is the president of the company
and he also filed an individual petition
in bankruptcy. The liabilities and
available assets of the company are
small, the liabilities being about $1,000
with assets probably as much.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
|DOUITM NJTF(|
n NsSsssSSSSSSS aAxAjUI

The buster the hens the better they
will be.
Guineas are in great demand. Why
not buy few?.
Never expose fowls in blustery'
snowy weather.
Sunshine should have large place
in the ration of every hen.
The age of vigor and productive
ness in duck is about double that of
the hen. Ducks have been successful
ly bred UP until seven years Of age.
Roots Of all kinds can be fed cooked
or raw. but they should be chopped
fine.
Grit and shells are cheap, neverthe
less very important In the proper care
Of poultry.
oOA I'll 90 ~ eReahNAc ttAkf0 w
drop boards, not too much, for II IL
hard on the chickens feet.
The poultry houses must be scene
of constant effort to prevent lice and
vermin from this time until spring.
When wood ashes are strewn over
the hen house floor the manure viii
lose much of the ammonia by the fniy
ture.
It is better to have few good
breeders than a yard full of culls. A
pure bred fowl will eat no more thar
a mongrel or a scrub. Keep the best
An English journal says that when
they have a look at the average
English farmers egg basket, and a
continental egg box. there is much to
be scan and learned therefrom.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
To Run Demonstration Train.

Capt. I. F. Peck, state commissioned
of agriculture, announced that the state
agricultural demonstration train would
be run in Tennessee next summer. He
said he had heard from all the railroads
operating in Tennessee, and they were
willing to operate the train. The train
was not run last year because of lack OF
funds. The train win consist of nine
cars, filled with exhibits of agricultural
products, live stock, dairy, orchard,
apiary, home, school and health exhibits.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Declare Nominees.

The canvass of the vote in last Thurs.
days Democratic county primary was
made. The totals varied very little from
the published returns made last Friday
There were no contests, but the vote of
the Fourteenth ward was excluded be-
cause the poll books were not returned
The county executive committee at noon
accepted the report Of the primary con
mittee and declared the nominees.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Oh ampions Off for Capital.

Miss Virginia Pearl Moore, state agent
of Girls Canning Clubs, left for Wash
ington with Miss Myrtle Harlin of Cam.
dem, the states champion tomato grow
er, and Clarence Nave of Elizabethton,
champion corn grower of the state. The
trip cost the young woman and young
man nothing.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Nashville Very Dry.

Nashville is as dry as the proverbial
Sahara. Judge Neil's act of sentencing
trio Of saloonists to the county rock
pile for ninety days on their conviction
of violating the courts mandate in re-
gard to the sale of liquor in Nashville
automatically closed the saloons over the
city, whose proprietors had apparently
been figuring that they could override
the order of the court in regard to keep
ing open.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Check for Fire Department.

The Firemen's Benefit Association Of
Nashville is the recipient of a check for
$50 from the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad as a token Of gratitude for
the services Of the department in send
ing men and apparatus to the scene Of
the recent wreck in Franklin.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Election Case Put Of.

!. The suit involving the validity of the
election law, passed at the last session
Of the legislature, came up in the SUI
premc court, but the hearing was post
poned till alter or until Davidson conn
ty case involving the same question is
heard. In the Maury county case The
lower court held against validity of tbs
law.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
IDEAL LAND.

Our ideal is a land where no drunk
ard may be seen staggering down the
road to his certain doom: land where
there are no slums for humanity to
rot In; land with two-thirds of It's
prison cells empty, with its work
houses abolished. with its children
well born, well fed. well sheltered.
well clothed. well trained; where the
merry laughter Of children may be
heard in the street: land where the
curse of strong drink has been driven
from every single hearth. Hon
Lloyd George.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Tax Office Busy Place.

Both the office of the County Trustee
and of the City Revenue Collector are
busy places these days when citizens
are hurrying to pay taxes before penal
ties accrue. The penalty for the county
and state tax does not 60 on until the
last day of February, but Trustee Bar.
thell is seeking to have as many as
possible call for their statements early
SO as to avoid the rush of the last month
when many are unable on account Of it
to get their statement in time TO avoid
the penalty.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Lighting Expert Gives Services.

Announcement is made by the Nash
vile Railway & Light Co. that n. R.
Chase, an expert on lighting, will be in
the city for ten days and during that
time will be at the service of the mer.
chants and business men of Nashville.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
nEcIINE OF SALOON.

That the saloon is going, Uncle
Sans figures prove. There we're near
ly $4,000 fewer saloons in the United
States the last fiscal year than in the
previous year. A saloon was abol.
ished every "a minutes, day and night.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Will Give Entertainment.

An interesting meeting of the Nash
vile Branch of the American Pharma-
ceutical Association was held at Fur.
man Hall Thursday afternoon, with DR..
j. o. Burge presiding. A committee was
appointed to make the necessary ar.
rangements for giving an entertai nment
to the local druggists and their wives
some time in January.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
School Data.

The state department of education is
sued the following information:
There are III high schools in SO coun-
ties in Tennessee. Under the law the
county board has the right to employ
supervisors. The following counties have
taken advantage Of this act Bradley,
Carter, Claiborne, Davidson, Greene,
Knox, Lawrence, Jefferson, Marshall,
Loudon, Montgomery, Rutherford, Wash
ington, Hardin, Fayette and Blount.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Revenue Men After EN-.

1t was intimated at the internal reve-
enue office that the federal authorities
were preparing to 60 after liquor sellers
here who are charged with selling liquor
after surrendering their license. Several
new licenses have been issued this month
and under the holding of Judge A. B.
Neil the holders are likely to be jerked
up.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Juvenile Law Is Upheld.

The Juvenile Court law was upheld by
Judge A. B. Neil of the criminal court,
when he dismissed the petition for ha.
beas corpus filed by Mr.. L. d. Miller, an
attorney of Chattanooga, who sought to
obtain the release of two Hamilton coun-
ty boys from the state reformatory.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Fire Destroys Building.

The produce store of Alaway Mum,
las Second avenue, South, was burned,
causing loss of about $1,000, partly
covered by insurance The fire is thought
to have originated in a pile Of combusti-
ties at the rear of the b.;lding.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
New Military Company.

A new military company, to become
part of the state guard, will be mustered
in here January 5. Over so names Of
prospective soldiers have been signed to
the membership rolls.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

II. w. Lewis submitted to the city
commissioners plan whereby he pro
poses to publish monthly magazine
showing the work of the commission
form of government.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
LIQUOR DEALERS PREPARING.

The Wholesale Liquor Dealers as
sociation at its convention in LOUIS
vile, Ky. voted In executive session.
to appropriate s50.ooo.O0O for CANT
paign purposes than $1,ooo.0oo
for each state In the union.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Postpone Election Law Case.

The supreme court took up the David
son county docket and reaching the new
election law case, postponed the hearing
until after the holidays.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19
Rev. Forte Called.

First Baptist Church, this city, has
called Rev. Allen Forte, pastor of the
First Church at Chattanooga, to its pas
torate. 1t is thought he win accept.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Three persons were killed and two
probably fatally injured when an
automobile in which they were riding
collided with an interurban train near
Dallas, Tex. The dead are: Miss
Jessie Wilson, 90; Miss Willie Stew
art, 16, and negro nurse.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Guerilla warfare, which ragged in
the South Range district of the cop.
per miners strike zone, in Michigan,
was ended when force of deputy
sheriffs invaded several towns there
and made 80 arrests.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

In recognition of the distinguished
services Of the late Lieut.. Col. David
Du B. Gaillard, U. S. A., as a member
OF the isthmian canal commission, the
house passed bill to appropriate
$4,000, the equivalent of a years sal
airy of a commissioner, for Mrs. Gail
lard.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

It is better to have a few good
breeders than a yard full of culls. A
pure bred fowl will eat no more thar
mongrel or scrub. Keep the best
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Arthur and Harry James, brothers.
and Thomas Daily, strike-breakers,
were killed and Mary Nicholson seri-
ously injured by rifle bullets fired
into the apartment house in which
they lived at Calumet, Mich.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Announcement was made by Score.
tary Garrison that on April 20 next
Maj, Gen. Leonard Wood would cease
to be chief of staff of the United
States army. On that date Gen
Woods four-year detail expires.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union)
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Figures made public by the general
manager Of the Armour Packing COM
pany at Omaha show that the pack
ers are selling beef ribs and loins to
retailers at a reduction of rs per cent
from last years prices.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Protection to travellers who fall vic
Tins to the wiles of large cities was
furnished by the Central Passenger
association when 1t adopted rule
abolishing stop-over privileges on
homeseekers' tickets.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Admiral Enrique Howard, president
of the supreme council Of war and
marine of Argentine, died at Buenos
Ayres.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

When wood ashes are strewn over
the hen house floor the manure viii
lose much Of the ammonia by the fniy
ture.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

A robber held up the Sunset ex
press on the Southern Pacific at New
Orleans, knocked the express messen.
ger in the head, injuring him fatally,
and escaped with sum estimated at
many thousands of dollars. The pas,
sengers were not molested.
Frank Selser, former travelling
salesman, amazed the police of Gin
cinnati by voluntarily confessing to
having robbed ~ churches during the
last year. Selser estimated he had
obtained about $500 from contribution
boxes.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

After an unbroken record of 40
years as a dividend payer, the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road company has finally been forced
TO the necessity of srspending further
disbursements on its sl57,ooo.e0o
stock.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

William Hintze. county road over.
seer and Sunday school superintend-
ent Of Davenport, Neb,, was arrested
at Los Angeles on a telegraphic war
rant accusing him of having embez-
zled $3.50 of public funds and with VIC.
lation Of the Mann white slave act.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Reorganization Of the department
of agriculture is foreshadowed in Sec
rotary Houston's first annual report
presented to President Wilson,
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Principal in bundle of bills Of
fered in the house by Representative
Murray of Oklahoma was measure
to close the mails to the transmission
of quotations on stocks dealt in on
margins. 1t adds one more to the list
OF bills hitting at the stock exchanges.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

The poultry houses must be a scene
OF constant effort to prevent lice and
vermin from this time until spring.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

The resignation of five members OF
the Chicago school board, all OF whom
are said to have voted against the re
election of Mrs. Ella Flagg Young as
superintendent, we're accepted by
Mayor Harrison, to take effect at
once.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Dispatches received from Ciudad
Porfirio Diaz. opposite Eagle Pass,
Tex, indicate that the Carranzita
movement has completely paralyzed
coal mining in the northern part Of
Coahuila. All this immense coal min
ing district is deserted and not a
pound of coal has been extracted
since last February.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

The declination of Judge Lands to
accept jurisdiction in the suit of Elsie
De Wolfe designed to test the consti-
nationality of the income tax law is
regarded by Chicago attorneys con-
cerned as tending to expedite decision
by the supreme court of the United
States.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-12-19

Packey Mcfarland outpointed his
old enemy, Jack Britton, both of Chi
cago, in an unsatisfactory 1O-round
no-decision boxing contest before
$500 spectators in Milwaukee.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1913-11-13
FIGHT NOT OVER, SAYS
CONNECTING RAILWAY

Topeka, Nov. 11.-Following the
refusal of the Kansas public utilities
commission to grant the Kansas
City Connecting railway permission
to issue $1,0OO,OOO of capital stock,
attorneys withdrew from the COM
mission their application for the
Connecting railway to do business
as common carrier. That abrupt
ly terminated the hearing.
The fight is not yet over, how
ever, according to M. w. Borders,
one of the Connecting railway COM
pany's attorneys. He announced
that further action would be taken
and declared the railway will be
built and that "the stock shippers
Of Kansas won't pay for it, either"