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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04
To II. D. Harris, Emmet Blasens game,
Charles Utley ct al.


Q. E. Utley In the chancery
Lacy Whitaker etal Tennessee
I. In this cause it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to that the defend
ants, Charles Utley, Pearl Utley, Ella
Utley; also Emmett Blasengame are
hon-residents of the State, and that the
defendant H. D. Harris is of unknown
residence and that his residence cannot
be ascertained by diligentinquiry which
has been duly made, so that the ordi-
nary process of law cannot be served
on said parties, it is therefore ordered
by me, o. v. Erwin, &. & M. of the
Chancery Court at Selmer, Tenn, that
the said defendants to-wit; Charles Ut
ley, Pearl Utley, Ella Utley. Emmett
Blasengame and II. D. Harris enter
their appearance herein before the
Clerk & Master of the Chancery Court
at Selmer on or before the
:. FIRST MONDAY IN JULY, 1918,
and make defense to the bill filed in this
cause or the same will be taken for con-
fessed and set for hearing ex parte as
to them.
1t is further ordered That this notice
be published for four consecutive weeks
In the McNairy County Independent, a.
weekly newspaper published at Selmer
Tenn.
o. V. ERWIN. G &. Nj.
This June 5, 1918.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04
For Cuts, Burns and. Bruises

In every home there should be a
bottle of Bucklen's Arnica Salve,
ready to apply in every case Of burns,
cuts, wounds or scalds. J, H. Polan-
co, Delvalle, Tex, R. No. 2, writes:
"Bucklen's Arnica Salye saved my
little girls cut foot. No one believed
it could be cured" The worlds best
salve. Only Csc. Recommended by
B. L. Browder of Selmer, DR.. T. S.
Davis of Bethel Springs. adv
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04
Resolutions

Whereas, we, the teachers of the
various counties of West Tennessee,
in attendance at the State Institute
in Selmer, McNairy county, Tonnes
see, June %, 1918, having spent our
time so pleasantly and proftably
here, and realizing the great respon-
sibility resting on the teacher, do
here and now resolve ourselves into a
committee and offer the following
resolutions, to-wit:
Resolved. first, That we extend to
the City School Board of Selmer our
grateful thanks for the courtesy of
their school building.
Resolved. second, That we extend
to the good. citizens of Selmer our
most sincere thanks for that generous
hospitality with which they welcomed
our coming and have made pleasant
our stay. .
Resolved, further, that we thank
the county superintendent, Aaron
Brooks, for that most earnest and
faithful effort which he has at all
times put forth for our happiness and
welfare.
Resolved, further, That we express
in our most earnest and sincere way
our thanks and words Of highest COM
mendation to our able and efficient
Faculty for that scholarly and en-
thusiastic manner in which they have
at all times performed the very re-
sponsible and sacred duties reposed
in them by our worthy State Superin-
tendent. And do we especially thank
our worthy and gentlemanly conduc-
tor, Prof. r. E. L. Bynum, for that
fair and liberal way in which he has
ever held himself before this body of
teachers. And be it
Resolved, further, That we express
our deepest appreciation to our
worthy State Supt. Prof. J. W. Brister
for that earnest and able address de-
livered to this body of teachers. and
do we further bid him and all his CO.
workers God speed in all their under
takings for the betterment of the
schools of the state.
This June %, 1918.
MARENE ALLEN,
H. F. BYNUM,
R. G. SHULTz.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04
PERSONALS

+. F. Hendrix the first time for
several moons came Saturday to see
home people and visit few days.
r. 7. DeBerry, commissioner of
agriculture, of Humboldt. spent Sat-
urday in Selmer and addressed both
institutes. He is an earnest worker
in the interest OF the farmer and
withal nice gentleman.
J. + Powers. John McAlpin, HUI
bert Spencer and V. H. Morris in
VIII Hockady's auto visited Shiloh
Park Sunday.
James Elan, Of Stantonville, sent
the first bloom" on the 2Sth of
June.
Lee Hendrix and wife and B. W.
Hendrix and family of Bethel Springs
and Duke Hendrix spent Sunday as
the guest Of E. F. Hendrix and fam
lily.
J. H. Moss was in Tuesday and sold
some Poland China hams as high as
$500 each. They brought zoe a
pound. Better get busy and buy
some thoroughbred pigs.
]. J. Swain, of McNairy, called
Tuesday while in Selmer. He has
recently been visiting daughter at
Success, Ark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Merrill and son
Hendrix, Of Lodonia, Texas. spent
Sunday and Mondaysthe guests of E.
F. Hendrix and family. They will
spend quite while in Tennessee.
Miss Bertha Christopher, of Stan
tonville, is spending the week at the
institute. She has just returned from
Ruskin, where she has been in school
for the past three years. She is a
very estimable young lady.
Misses Allen and Warren, Mrs.
Ward and Charlie Alexander visited
Pittsburg in McCullar's auto Sunday.
Misses May and Bette Cool, of
Jackson, attended the Institute as the
guests Of E. F. Hendrix.
Summer Tourist rates M. & D. Rail
road now on sale at principal stations
to all the leading Summer Resorts,
North, South, East and West. Call
on Agents for full particulars. a29
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04
UnsightIy Face Spots

Are cured by DR.. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment. which heals all skin erup-
tions. No matter how long you have
been troubled by itching, burning. or
scaly skin humors, just put a little of
that soothing antiseptic, DR.. Hobson's
Eczema Ointment on the sores and
suffering stops instantly. Healing
begins that very minute. Doctors
use it in their practice and recon-
mend it. Mr.. Alleman, of Littleton,
Pa, says: Had eczema on forehead;
DR.. Hobson's Eczema Ointment cured
it in two weeks" Guaranteed to re-
lieve or money refunded. All drug
gists, or by mail. Price SOC. Pfeiffer
Chemical Co.. Philadelphia and st.
Louis. B. l.. Browder Of Selmer, DR..
T. s. Davis Of Bethel Springs. adv
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04

Business meeting Of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union was held
Thursday, June &c.
A COMMITTEES Of three consisting of
Mechanics Hendrix and Smith and
Miss Cordie Brown was appointed to
confer with q committee from the
Aid Society Of the NJ. E. church to
secure seats and create an interest in
identifying the cemetery. The Bap-
fist Aid Society and the Christian
Bible School will be asked is appoint
similar committees.
The Press Superintendent read q
communication from the National
Supt. OF Press Work in which she
urged that publicity be given to
Temperance items. The local Super
intendent Of Press Work volunteered
to see the editor of the Independent
regarding temperance column to be
printed on patent side Of paper.
The President reported the State
Normal Institute visited in the inter-
eat Of Scientific Temperance Instruc.
tion. 1t was decided to present the
5. 7. |. work at the negro Institute.
The time of meeting was changed
TO 4 o'clock.
The next meeting will be held July
10, the topic. Advantages of Prohi-
bition." I
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04
The King Of All Laxatives

For constipation, headaches, indi-
gestion and dyspepsia. use DIR. Kings
New Life Pills. Paul Mathulka, Of
Buffalo, N. Y, says they are the
king of all laxatives. They are a
blessing to all my family and | al
ways keep box at home" Get a
box and get well. Price 25c. Re-
commended by B. L. Browder of Sci.
mer and DR., I. S, Davis of Bethel
Springs, adv
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1913-07-04
Better Than Spanking!
Spanking will not cure children Of
wetting the bed, because it is not Ia
habit, hnt dangerous disease. The
C. H. ROWAN DRUG CO. Is
Chicago. Illinois,

u. ii. RUWAN DRUG CO. r.
Chicago. Illinois.
have discovered a strictly harmless
remedy for this distressing disease
and to make known its merits they
will send a SOC package to any read
er of the Independent. This remedy
also cures frequent desire to urinate
and inability to control urine during
the night or day In old or young.
The c. H. Rowan Drug Co., are IN
old reliable house,
WRITE TO THEM TODAY
FOR THE FREE MEDICINE
Cure the afflicted members of your
family. then tell your neighbors and
friends about this remedy.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
The Cold Snap

The cold weather which prevailed
the first of the week was not local
in its effects-it was country wide
The coolest indicated here was %
above on Sunday morning, but cold
enough to freeze pumps. exposed
pipes, etc. In lower California the
thermometer registered as low as
Is degrees, and the orange crop is
reported in a bad way. Other por-
tions of the country report extreme
cold weather.
The snowstorm the first of the
week gave fine opportunity for
coasting and snowballing. and the
younger people certainly enjoyed it..
The snowballing Monday was car
ried to extremes. it being unsafe
for older people to be on the
streets. as the boys did not discrim-
mate. One or two business win
dows were broken, but no one was
injured.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
No Milk After Meaning

/ have successfully raised pigs
and kept them in fine condition af-
ter weaving without any milk.
They were first taught to eat before
being weaned. Dry feed saves both
time and labor. / used self-feeders
and water fountains and fed the fol
lowing mixture: Corn meal. bran,
shorts, and tankage.
The other method was to mix the
feed into slop. fresh each day. II
convenient, it is good plan to pour
boiling water over the feed. then
thin to proper consistency. A clo-
yer pasture is great aid in the
proper development of pigs. In
warm weather good shape is a ne
cessity-Farn1 and Home.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
Americas Greatest Weekly
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No Wbiskey Advertising.
The seventy-eighth year of its ex-
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its long and successful career. It is
read each week by more than mil
lion people. The Blades field is
national. and it goes into every state
and territory in the United States.
thereby giving it an unquestion-
able right of claiming to be the
greatest national weekly newspaper
published in America.
The Weekly Blade is distinctly a
family newspaper. The one object
of its publishers has always been to
make it fit for the American home,
for the freside, and Of interest to
every member of the family. To
fulfill this purpose it is kept clean
and wholesome. The news Of the
world is handled in a comprehensive
manner, and the various depart
ments Of The Blade are edited with
painstaking care. The Household
page is delight to the women and
children; current affairs are treated
editorially without prejudice; the
serial stories are selected with the
idea Of pleasing the greatest num-
Der Of fiction lovers: the Question
Bureau Is q scrap-book of informa-
ton; the Farmstead columns are
conducted with the purpose of Civ
ing the patrons medium for the
exchange of ideas and information
on farm topics. No department is
neglected. but every feature is
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the price Of subscription one dollar
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Sample copies mailed free. Ad-
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10

Hannibal Hamlin's First Try For the
United States Senate.

Hannibal HamIin's First Try For the
United States Senate.
When Hannibal Hamlin was
speaker Of the Maine house of rep
resentatives, away back in the for
ties of the last century, there was
in that body certain gentleman of
faultless attire, pleasing manners,
good address and some reputation,
but he had one foible. His hair was
very thin, and he was highly sensi-
tive in regard to it.
To hide his approaching badness
he had habit of carefully stroking
with bandoline or other preparation
each particular hair in its place.
One day while in the chair as speak
er Mr.. Hamlin, in the innocence Of
a good and joke loving nature. sent
for this gentleman and, looking fi1-
edly ct his smooth and polished
pate, said with q chuckle:
Blank, old fellow, just wanted
to tell you that you've got one OF
the hairs Of your head crossed over
the other"
~You insult me, siri You insult
mel" replied the member, with un-
expected and altogether unneces-
sary indignation, and then. refusing
to listen either to reason or ex-
PLANTATION, he left the speakers desk
and returned to his seat.
When Mr.. Hamlin became I can
didate for the United States senate
this gentleman was a member Of
the upper house Of the Maine legis-
lature. Although a member Of the
same party and only one more vote
was needed to secure Mr.. Hamlin'l
election, he positively refused to
vote for the man by whom he be.
ieved he had been insulted.
He was defeated for a seat in the
senate-by a hair-but when the
next vacancy occurred he was elect.
ed.-'Iives of Twelve Illustrioul
= Nan
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10

studies at Seattle the last of the
week. after spending the holidays
with his parents.
A little gathering was held in the
hall last Saturday evening.
T. Barker returned home from
trip to Bellingham last Monday.
Miss Winnie Lightheart returned
to Friday Harbor Sunday, to re.
sumo her studies there.
Mr.. G.. o. French has been quite
sick, but is improving slowly.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Wotton spen,
Saturday and Sunday at the Jones
home.
Miss Nellie Jones spent Sunday
with Miss lone Smith at Roche Har'
Dor.
Mrs. w. A. Bridges had the mis-
fortune to run a nail in her foot
Saturday.
Messrs. Harry and Grover Flynn
and Mr.. Peterson visited at the
Jones home Tuesday evening.
The snow did not last long
enough for the people to have
sleigh rides.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
Our Clubbing Offer

The most attractive offers in the
way of paper combinations are
made this year Of almost any time
in newspaper experience. 7 h e
greater periodicals are after circu-
lation at any cost, and we are Civ
ing our patrons the benefit of their
offers to us. For instance you
may have McCall's Magazine year
and the Islander a year. both for
the price of the Islander, $3.50.
See the McCall's advertisement on
another page.
Or you may get the Toledo Blade
and the Islander, both for one year
for $3.50.
Another remarkable offer is the
Weekly Inter-Ocean. one year. Farm
and Home one year, together with
the Weekly Islander. all for S1.60.
This is the greatest combination we
have ever had in all our experience.
In each of the foregoing offers an
old subscriber who renews. is reck-
oned the same as a new subscriber,
and is entitled to rates given. Get
your subscription or renewals in
soon-help US, and at the same time
help yourself.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
Phosphorus and Life.

Everything that lives draws the
elements necessary to its life from
what surrounds it or envelopes it.
These elements are found in free
state-as, for instance, oxygen-or
in mineral forms or water. Two Of
the fundamental elements are car
bon and nitrogen. These, with
phosphorus, are indispensable to
the maintenance of life. Phos-
phorus Il found everywhere in plant
and animal tissues. In organic
matter it is found in the state Of
phosphoric acid, combined with diff
ferent metallic elements. In arable
ground its common form If phos-
plate of calcium.-Exchange.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10

why did you inquire 90 particu-
larry into the wardrobe Of that girl
you Just hired?" asked one Of two
women who were leaving IN en-
ployment agency.
eTo find out how carefully she
will guard against burglars" said
the other. "My experience has been
that girl who has nice things Of
her own will lock up more securely
at night and keep sharper eye ont
for sneak thieves in the daytime
than one who has nothing Of value
to lose. New York Times.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
MITCHELL BAY

Grover Flynn has been quite i'll
with a bad cold this week.
Miss Pearl Flynn has returned
home from visit with relatives at
Friday Harbor.
Miss Eta L ghtheart has return
ed to Friday Harbor. from visit
with relatives here.
Emmett Coghlan, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. c. Coghlan, returned to his
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10

The local lodge of Oddfellows at
their last meeting installed the fol-
lowing officers: A. D. Conway. N.
g.: c. Q. Reed, V. g.; F. E. Kirby,
Treas; B. o. Cahail. Secy.: Cecil
Carter. Fin. Secy.; Leslie Douglas
r. S. N. G.: Chas. Baker. L. S. N
g.; v. w. Frits, r. s. v. G.: Geo
Maclom. L. S. v. G.; Ross Tulloch
Chap: ]. W. Frits. Cond.: Loya
Larson, Warden; Cecil Carter. r. s
s.; V. w. Frits. L. S. s.; Geo. Ran.
dies, l. G.: Thos. Williams, o. G.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
BUILDING AN iGLOo.
How the Eskimos Rear Their Spiral
Houses of Snow.

Hew the Eskimos Resr Their Spiral
Houses of Snow.
Only one thing, the assurance OF
nights shelter of comparative
comfort, makes a winters sledge#
Journey across the desolate, inter-
minable wastes of Labrador bear
able. The method of securing this
shelter is described by DR.. S. &.
Hutton in among the Eskimos OF
Labrador"
"What will you do if We cannot
reach home ?" / asked Johannes one
afternoon, as we labored through
the drifting snow in the teeth OF an
arctic storm. :.
"Stop and build a snow house,
said he.
When the afternoon light began
to grow dull he pulled out one OF
the big snow knives, an appalling
weapon, with bone handle and
blade yard long. Brandishing this,
he trotted from side to side, prod
ding here and jabbing there. He
was finding snow"
When the place was chosen-it
was a gently sloping hillside, for
there the snow hardens the best
nv drivers were soon at work.
Each man armed himself with his
huge snow knife, and between them
they marked out a circle in the
snow. Then Johannes retired to the
middle and began to dig. He first
made wedge shaped hole, to give
himself start, and then from the
sides of the hole he carved great
slabs of the frozen snow. | judged
them to be about six or eight inches
thick, two or three feet long and
eighteen inches high, and they were
nearly as heavy as stone.
Johannes just tumbled them out
of his hole as fast as he could cut
them, and as the hole grew | saw
that the slabs were all slightly curv-
ed. Julius seized each slab as it top
pied out and carried it gingerly to
the edge of the circle. He set the
slabs on edge, side by side, and
Clipped them little from the top,
so that they leaned inward. He
pared away the first few with his
knife, so that the lowest ring
formed the beginning of spiral.
He followed the spiral up, propping
each slab against its neighbor and
chipping its edge SO that it leaned
well inward.
Meanwhile Johannes got nearer
and nearer the wall with his dig
ging, and his work got harder and
harder, for instead of tumbling the
slabs out he had to pick them up
and hand them to Julius over the
leaning wall. | thought the wall
looked frail and unsafe, but Julius
seemed to think otherwise, for he
crawled up on it and leaned over to
see how Johannes was getting onsin-
side. AS a matter if fact, his weight
only pressed the slabs together bit
more firmly.
At last the spiral was finished, all
but the keystone" Julius sprawled
on the side of the house, while Jo-
names hands showed a big slab
through the opening that still re-
manned at the top. Julius laid it
over the hole and Clipped the edges
away with his knife until it gently
dropped into place.
A scraping and tramping noise
was next heard inside the house;
that was Johannes smoothing the
floor. Meanwhile julius was filing
all the crevices with snow to keep
the wind out.
Soon Johannes was ready to come
out. His sword poked out suddenly
and slashed a doorway in the wall,
and then the man himself crawled
out. The house was finished.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
The Islands

LIIC IStOubuS
Natures own fair paradise,
These islands of the Sound;
See beyond the misty waters
The mountains white, snow
crowned.
Far stretch the fields of clover.
Green grow the forests there;
In all the eastern countries
They do not grow more fair.
We have our rocky canyons.
Whitley our lime hills shine:
Their rocky, moss-gr own crevices
Hide many wealthy mine.
Fair in the autumn sunshine
Our golden orchards lay;
And far the fields of waving grain
Stretch in the sunny May.
From other MAINLAND counties
Come men to hunt for game:
From where the Chinese pheasant
Has not grown up so tame.
From out or growing forests
The mill man takes his toll;
Tho in the distant future
Well all be burning coal.
But here's to our island county.
We think it best of all
In products and in commerce;
But best our forests tall.
Winnie Lightheart
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
Officers Installed

On New Years night the Masonic
lodge installed officers as follows:
Gene G. Gould, W. M: Jos. GroIl
S. W.: Frank Christensen. J. w.;
E. H. Nash, S. D.; C.. M. Tucker, j.
D.; Albert Jensen, Secy.; L. B.
Douglas. Treas.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
nEsSIAH,S GLORY
IS DRAWING NIGH
The Stones Announce the Signs
Of His Presence

p...o- RUSSELL at Washington Temple.
The Beginning OF His Pastorate.
Text. For Three Diseourses Found
an the Front Of the Union Depot.
-. M..,oa Of tho Hour-Not the
Burning of the World, but tho Holt
inc Away of the Curse and tho oP''f'
az Humanity Will Result From Mes
sial,'s Kingdom.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10
The Soft Answsr.

"Johnny." said the stern parent,
emy father used to whip me when
i behaved at the table as badly as
you are doing"
WELL" reioined the precocious
youngster, q hope I'll never have
to make a confession like that to
nv little boys. Chicago News.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10

Washington. DC.
Jan. 5.-Pastor Rus
sell Of Brooklyn last
week accepted q call
from the Washing
ton Temple Congre-
CATION. New YORK
Avenue and Thlr-
teenth Street. After
some appropriate re-
marks re Washing
ton as the only CEN
ter Of influence su-
perior to Brooklyn
and on an equality
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-01-10

Last Wednesday evening the East
ern Star Lodge, No. 124, installed
the following: Mrs. C. E. Hackett,
w. NJ; Mrs. Van E. Sargent, A.
M; Mrs. Alvia Paxon. Secy.; Jos.
Groll, Treas; Mrs. E. H. Nash.
Ccnductress.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1913-08-09

Has )eer trying for years 10 lird
on: The secret Of colored people Civ.
ing railroads barrels Of money 30.
nually, and ihere eeems 10 be one
prevailing cauee-"to see our friends
and loved ones" Why nos be truer
10 your home friends end loved one,?
Charity h.gins OF bone, as does the
growth Of everything Doble-morsl-
i.y, c'esnilnseo, industry, economy
and the religion toat las'o and bless.
ce Tie world. The home is the place
where good schools, good churches,
good governments anG good coursa
are m4dc-for oil Of which the whole
world 10 autf-rin2.