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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

A resume Of the work done to
date on the Panama canal shows
chat there are 8,500.000 cubic
yards Of earth yet to be excavat
ed in the Oulebra cut. The lock
gates are over ninety per cent
completed, while the concrete
work on the locks is practically
finished. In April the force at
work on the canal, including
contractors, numbered 1912
men. This was ! slight rsduc.
tion from the, previous month.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23
The Hickman County Citiz'

The Hickman County Citizen
callsthat double.distilled loyal
to.liquor sheet, the Hickman
County News, She" The
News is simply an old-fashion-
ed waller dorg" Democrat
and that kind Of q canine is liza.
Bile to be of either sex, or per-
haps, a political homaphrodite,
when red Ticker in the big towns
Of Tom Taylor for Treasurer hap
pen to be in jeopardy.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

The 5Sth General Assembly
passed a bill creating county
Judge in Decatur county and
Governor Hooper has appointed
Atty. j. T.. White an indepen-
dent Democrat to fill the place
until the August election next
year.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

the latter won by just one
eighth. Celestia is entitled to
praise for as she worked as hard
as did the girl who won.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

Mr.. Arthur Bobbitt was the
fortunate winner of a gold med
al for showing first general aver
al average in. the High School,
which was given by the Ladies
Review Club and presented. by
Mrs. ]. III. Stewart. al history
Of the Periclean Society was CIV.
en- by Lnther Bobbitt and John
Enochs told of the Benefits |
have derived from the Periclean
Society " Ansorationo on True
Nobility ''by Cecil Fesmire was
excellent, as was the music with
the exercises were interpreted,
by Messrs. Chas., r. L., and w.
@. Brewer, Prof. o. e. Holmes,
Cecil White, John Enochs,
Misses Geraldine and Rebecca,
Scotland Misses u aeand Nadia
Austin. The invocation aud
,benediction was made by Elder
Ohas. Brewer. From every
viewpoint tale-evening was
creditable to all concerned.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23
GRADE LEADERS.

Primary Grade, John Bancroft.
Second Grade, Bernice Oonger.
Third Grade, Mary Sue San
ders.
Fourth Grade, Threadgill
Stewart.
Fifth Grade, Odell Oornwell.
Sixth Grade, Maxine Garner
and Celestial Barham.
Seventh Grade, Maude Odle.
Eighth Grade, Murray Britt.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23
PERICLEAN SOCIETY

Members. at close Of School:
Arthur Bobbitt, Luther Bobbitt,
Felix Davis John Davis, Joe
Davis. Richard Edwards, John
Enochs, Willard Fesmire, Cecil
Fesmire, Arthur Powers, Robert
Powers. Mel Scott, William Tot
ley, Murray Britt. Others who
were members until they stopped
school, Ethree -Blankenship,
Wilbur Hanilett, Roini9 Ham.
lett (deceased), David Harring,
ton. Emerson .McP cake, Ephrai-
ham McPeake, Ernest Reed,
Henry Scott, Gordon Turner, Ed.
Thomas
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

The Grammar School exercises
held on Wednesday night and
participated iii by the teachers
rs wellsas pupils, were full of in.
terest and would have done cred,
1t to any school, ,ss eha
rs The, several little serio. come
dies presented showed consider
able histricnic talent il the
teachers and. pupils--not at all
excepting s'Old Man jackson y
and Prof. @. e. Holmes.
The recitations ana, music
were we'll gotten up and the
number Of tfansfers from the
Grammar School Departm ent to
that'of the FL Ugh School made an
excellent showing. Prof. Holmes
delivering Che certificates with
words 81 praise for past work and
encouragement for the future.
The oration Of Miss Ina Lewis on
New Japan, Aandthat OF CHM
ton Gathings On Development
of our Navy" were entitled to
high praise. Miss Lewis, Mr..
Cuttings ana others were pre-,
scented lovely bouqneis by fellow
pupils, teachers and admirlng
friends, ia, 4. .se
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

Thefrace for highest honors in
Sflskth grade il the Lexington
TfAini1g School and the medal
presented by Snpt. j. 0. Brown,
was intesesting tosAll and doubt
! less exciting to those niast. near
nv concerned. Ii was meek and
neck \ between Misses Celestia
Barham aud Maxine Garner and
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

After our time ct going to
press Thursday there remains
two nights of thecommencement
week exerSises--the first devot-
ed to the four. High School grad
hates, Messfs. Melville r. Scott,
James al. Bobbitt, Joe O. Davis
,tand Felix NJ. Davis. Friday
might will be consumed III pre-.
sentation of the drama, "The
Fruit Of HE Folly and q pack
ed house ia aseured. Ass
Y The entire exercises incident
/ to e.closing Of the, terms Of the
Henderson County High School
and the Lexington Training
Y School have been Of q character
tos4 evoke most. favorable com !
mont ffbms the large crowds in
after Hhte..'
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23

Tuesday night the Periclean
Society held It's annual debate
and discussed the question Re-
solved that the United States
should relinqnish it's authority
over the PHILIPPINES. The at.
,firmative was represented by
Messrs- Arthur Powers and Will
liam Tolly; Negative by Messrs.
Willard Fesmire and Robert
Powers. Arthur Powers won as
the best speaker Of the four en-
gagged in the debate and was Civ
en- a gold medal by Supt. j. O.
Brown, which was presented by
Elder Charles Brewer.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-23
Commencement
Week.
Henderson County High
School and Lexington
(. Training School Closing
Successful Terms

This is commencement week
with the local schools, beginning
with d splendid sermon Oh Sun
day night BY Rev. r.. M. Walker,
which was both enjoyed and
complimented BY all who heard
it.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
The Human Price of Coal.

1t often takes some single drama
tic experience to awaken public in
terest in a good cause. The fact
that for the first seven months of
1913, 1,437 people were killed in
coal mine accidents in the United
States, an increase over the previ-
Gus year, is called by the forbid
ding word statistics. 1t doesn't
interest people much.
Meanwhile the graphic story OF
Thomas Toshosky, imprisoned eight
days or more, by a fall of coal in a
mine near WilkesBarre, Pa, gets
front page newspaper position
Perhaps it may arouse some people
to sense of the price in human
suffering paid for winNpr comfort
and for industrial fuel.
A year or two ago it was conf
IDENTIFY announced that Safety first
had become general slogan in the
mine fields. The West Virginia in
spector of mines declared, thai
through wetting mines and using
the safe explosives, there hadn
been a fatal mine explosion in thai
state for IL months. But the fig
ures quoted above show that the
safety campaign has hardly go
started yet.
For black horror no picture cal
exceed that of the crowd of sobbint
women around a mine entrance af
ter disaster. People who are no
easily moved by humanitarian con
siderations will at least reflect Oh
the cost of explosions and other &C
cidents.
When this dark hive of subterra
mean industry is turned into a chao
tic labyrinth of fallen walls AM
roofs, dead men and mules, wreck
ed cars and machinery, the bill fall
not on the mine owner. Eventual,
it comes on the industry or tn
home that uses the fuel.
Oxygen helmets, selected explo
sives, ETC., greatly reduce the acci
dent hazard. Curiously enough,
rescuing party is far safer if it car
ries along some Gagged canary birds
who show first the effects of deadl.
gas. Surely every consideration O
human sympathy and of bushes
economy urges the adoption of al
possible safety devices in this grea
industry.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
The Importance of Penmanship.

When doctors of philosophy send
out letters scarcely distinguishable
from bird tracks, it is not surpris-
ing that many children write badly.
Many people, however, still believe
that penmanship is worth the most
careful attention. The beginning of
the fall term of the schools is a
time when parents and others may
we'll express their feeling on this
matter.
Formerly seekers for work were
very commonly expected to apply in
their own handwriting, which was
carefully examined as expressive of
character and qualifications.
Now an applicant is likely to
have his letter typewriter. He
perhaps feels that penmanship is
more or less obsolete, useful to
bookkeepers, but not necessary for
success in larger fields.
Yet most of the memoranda OF
ordinary business is still a matter
of hand work. Scrawly writing sug-
gests inefficiency, lack of control
muscular and otherwise. You form
an impression of the writer as awk-
ward and laundering, and perhaps
conceive of him as humping uI
against people on the street.
The simpler a style of penman-
ship the better. Once the CONNER
cial schools taught an ornate script
with sweeping fiourishes. This
looks affected now. You might i'm
agine the writer thereof as plaster.
ing his locks to his forehead with
hair oil. Many college girls affect
bold and dashing style, artistic in
certain rough symmetry, but hor.
rible illegible. This discourages ar
correspondence, both of business
and friendship.
1t remains true that a clear and
shapely handwriting is the best pos
sible means by which to give g
stranger an impression of force Of
character, mental orderliness, sell
control, and capacity for skilled
work. 1t wins friendship by facili
tating the labor of all who mus
read it. The teacher who strives
patiently for this end is equipIiEa
her pupils with one of the most val
liable of the every day bushes.
gifts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
new INCOME TAX
HITS MANY PEOPLE
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Continued from first page.)
be prepared to show that the mo-
ney has paid its tax at its source.
In figuring up his net income for
the taxpayer, the American bust
ness man, after deducting $4,000
for himself or $4,000 if married,
will have the right to claim the fol-
lowing additional exemptions:
Necessary expenses of carrying on
tie business, not including person
al, living or family expenses.
Interest paid out on indebted
mess.
National, state, county, school or
municipal taxes paid within the
year.
Trades losses, or storm or fire
losses not covered by insurance.
Worthless debts charged off dur
| ing the year.
A reasonable allowance for the
, depreciation of property.
Dividends from company, income
of which has already been taxed
Interest from state, municipal OF
government bonds.
1t is a clear provision Of the law
however, that the taxable person
must make return to the internal
revenue collector for his entire
met income" and exemptions
claimed under the law must be sub
-mitted to the federal officers fol
them to determine upon their rea
sonableness or legality.
The amount of the income tax as
a finally agreed upon follows.
From $4,000 to $4,000, pei
cent; $4,000 to $4,000, 2 pei
cent; $4,000 to $4,000, pei
cent; $4,000 to 100000, 4 pei
cent; 100000 to s25O,OOO, 5 PEE
cent; $25O,OOO to 100000, pei
cent; above 100000, per cent.
A single man with an income O.
$4,000, for example, would pay
per cent on $4,000 and 2 per cen
on $4,000, total tax of $270. L
married, the first tax of / per cen
fwould apply to $4,000 of the in
come.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.
of Great Western Stock
Market at Kansas City, Report.
ed by Our Correspondent.

Kansas City Stock Yards, Oct. IA, ,
1913.-Dealers in stock cattle and
feeders counted on a heavy demand
from American Royal Show visitors
last week, but the demand was not
up to expectations and it required
heroic concessions, 20 to 25 cents,
to move the accumulated supplies
at the end of the week. Some
specialties sold as high as at any
time, fancy stockers bringing up to
$3.50, best panhandle yearlings
$500 to $S.15, and horned pan
handles at $7.75, but the rank and
file caught the decline indicated,
and good business stockers sold
around $6.75, meritorious feeders
at $500 to 1925. Exhibition stock
ers and feeders in the Show sold
Friday, and realized $7.65 to $3.50,
including the heifer stuff, and it
went to a wide range of territory at
all points of the compass. Receipts
today are $4,000 cattle, and prices
are steady to 10 lower, including a
sagging market .on stockers and
feeders. The market has the same
hesitating action it had late last
! last week having entirely disappear
ed. Outside buyers are scarce to-
day. and as the proportion of thin
grades is heavy, this week might
turn out to be a good week for buy
/ ers. If conditions continue adverse
to sellers this week, it is regarded
as improbable that the weakness
will be long lived, for the reason
that in a few weeks receipts of cat
tie will diminish perceptibly. Today
Colorado and the Panhandle are
very prominent in furnishing sup
plies, and loading in those sections
is reported heavy this week, for the
market next week. A feature last
week was the short supply of finish
ed beef cattle, and it was evident
that quality is fast becoming more
valuable asset. On the open market
heavy steers brought 1925, and
yearlings $40, top today 1920
Prime quality would bring more
Show steers in the fat classes SOLD
at $3.50 to $12.S5.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
SPECIAL WORK IN
The COUNTY SCHOOLS
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of Public Instruction shall prescribe
the extent of such instruction in the
public schools. And after this date
the aforesaid elementary agricul-
ture and domestic science shall be
included among the subjects re-
quired in the examinations of these
applicants for teachers certificates
who are required by the provisions
Of this act to teach agriculture and
domestic science.
The above law is published so
that the teachers may know that
they will be required to pass exam
nations in the above subjects by
July 1st, 1915. Teachers wishing
books or material on these subjects,
if they will write to the office l viii
be glad to suggest where they may
be obtained
Teachers Examinations.
The October teachers eXamina-
tions will be held in the Superin-
tendent's examination room the
29th, 30th and 31st of Oct.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

Three different walters at a
Southern hotel asked a prim little,
precise Harvard professor at dinner
in quick succession, if he would
have soup. A little annoyed, he
said to the last waiter who asked,
rs it compulsory" No, sah,' an
swered our friend and brother, "No,
sab, | think it am mock turtle"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
Bid For EpileDtic Home.

Mason City, Ia, Oct. 13.-Op-
tions have been secured on 500
acres of land lying five miles west
of the city on both sides of the in
terurban as site for the home for
the epileptic colony of Iowa. 1t is
offered the state as an inducement
to place the colony here.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
The changeable weathe

The changeable weather OF
early fall brings on coughs and
colds that have a weakening effect
ON the system, and may become
chronic. Use Foleys Honey and
Tar Compound. 1t has very sooth-
ing and healing effect en- the irri-
tated and inflamed air passages, and
will help very quickly. 1t is well
known family medicine that gives
results. Engbertson's Pharmacy
Adv.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
Only Nine Per Cent.

According to the latest counting
of pedagogical noses, there are onl!
nine men in every one hundred
teachers in Iowa. In this respect
Iowa seems to be little worse than
any of the other states. The fact
that teachers salaries are very low
in Iowa has something to do with
the case, but not everything. School
boards composed exclusively Of
men, seem bent upon forcing out OF
the schools the few men who still
teach in Iowa. The younger men
either break into another profes-
sion or go out of the state.
1t is conceded by the real teach
ers among the women that it is
really an injury and a detriment to
the schools to cut out the male
teachers, and that one of the great
needs of Iowa schools is to have
more men in the schools. But
leaving this fact out of the question
there are other points to consider.
When the last federal census was
taken, there was some surprise be-
cause the population of the state
had actually decreased. Iowa, the
richest state in the union, was los
ing population. 1t was generally
conceded, however, that little atten-
ton was to be given to this rather
unpleasant state of affairs, as it
was merely temporary slip and
the census of 1920 would again
show a very handsome increase for
the Hawkeye state. Unless some
thing more is done than simply TAX
ing it for granted that our popula-
ton will increase, the showing in
1920 is going to be worse than that
of 1910. Everybody is willing that
the fair sex should have chance,
but if the male sex is to have no
chance in Iowa then it is no Won
der if the emigration from this state
continues.-Bu Burlington Hawk Eye. !
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
Beautiful Hair, a JOY Forever.

If you have a beautiful head of
hair, try to keep it. If you have
not, try to get it. Meritol Hair
Tonic keeps the scalp clean, pro-
notes healthy growth of beautiful
hair, and keeps it soft and lustrous.
Try it. E. j. Parman, Exclusive
Agency.-Adv.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15
Notice..

All members and others wishing
to join the Choral Union are re-
quested to be present Monday eve
ming Oct. goth at the F. n. E. l..
church parlors. Bring copy of the
Seasons. BY order of Elk Com.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

Society people now days call 1t
the Tango" and the 'Turkey-trot, +"
but down in the red light districts
of our larger cities, where it origi-
mated, it still goes by the same old
name.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1913-10-15

The ffty-eighth anniversary and
town booster edition of the Knox
Vile Journal comes to our table, a
monster paper of forty pages, we'll
printed on good paper, splendidly
edited, filled with interesting and
valuable historical and statistical
facts, and illustrated with many
cuts of Knoxville scenes. 1t is a
credit to the Journal, one of the
very best of Iowa's many excellent
weeklies, and Curtis G. Gibson and
the city of Knoxville are jointly to
be congratulated upon such a stroke
of newspaper enterprise and such
boost for Knoxville.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-02
1000 coy SCOUTS.

One of the novel features an
nounced for the fourth international
congress on school hygiene to be held
at Buffalo is the attendance of 1000
boy scouts in full regalia. These
scouts will be seen throughout the
city the last week in August as
guides, interpreters, special messen-
gers, and specially appointed aides to
the guests and officials, not only from
this country. but from ali the leading
nations Of the earth.
AS the foreign delegates step off
the train at union station they will be
met by special scout guides wearing
badges, which, as the case may be,
will read 81 speak German" 4 speaiS
Polish" Il speak Spanish,' Il speak
Russian IL speak Italian" These
scouts speaking foreign tongues. II is
believed, will be OF great service to
the visitors from abroad.
Special guides will be appointed 20
conduct parties visiting points OF in
terest inside the city. and those
neighboring places such as the locks
al Lockport, and Niagara FAILS scouts
will be on speciai duty at the various
sessions of the congress serving as
aideg to the officials and to the gati-
Gus distinguished guests WHO arc ex.
pccted from day to day
The chairman of the Buffalo recep.
ito committee when is planiiing TO-
an elaborate reception TO the dele
gates is Mr. G. Ba.-e-. Rich Jr.,
scout commissioner sor Buffalo nader
whose direction scouts will serve in
their various roles.
In addition he boy scouts Of Amer
lica will be represented by the follow
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-02
Another Man With "Hurry-up' lde

Another Man With "Hurry-Up" Idea.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The Rev.
Paul Harris Drake, who preached at
Beverly when President Taft was a
summer visitor at that place, the 9TH
er day made the following startling
announcement of his views:
II am still socialist. l do not
blame the working people for not
going to church. A baseball game or
walk in the woods is far more bene-
fetal to most manual laborers than
an hour in stuffy old church, listen
ing to the average dry-as-dust SER
mon"
The trouble with Drake is that he
too is crazy in his own way. He goes
to the other extreme and in this world
we have constantly to combat those
who want to go to extremes. We are
all devotees Of the walk in the woods,
but we believe that 1t is possible 10
go to church first. And to say that
a walk in the woods is good for a
man does not mean to say that it -
mol gOOQ LOT Iudu 10 20 W CHuICu
also. Because we like the woods Is
no reason We should tear down our
churches God can be found in the
woods we doubt not, but great many
who walk in the woods are not look
Ing for God, but their God must be
pointed cut to them In some church
or Sunday school. for the young.
The great trouble with the present
times is that every time a man has
an idea he wants to remake the
world to fit his idea. instead OF lev
ting the world wag along pretty much
as 1t has been wagging for few
countless millions Of years. Every
up start thinker thinks he has the
secret of remaking the world and
making it at once both beautiful and
good. But we who have read history
know that the world is an evolution
airy institution and that 1t gets there
In It's own way and in its own time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-02

ing: John Sattertield. President Buff
falo Council; Hon Harry L. Taylor.
first vice president Buffalo Council;
William H. Walker Jr. secretary
Buffalo Council; Howard Bisseli,
treasurer Buffalo Council; G. Barrett
Rich. Jr.. scout commissioner, Buff
falo; Thomas F. Cook, Norman P.
Clement, q. D. Hofeller, Daniel Upton,
w w. Zubrick, Robert H. Tiff of
Buffalo; DR.. Luther H. Gulick, DR..
George J. Fisher, Lee F. Hanler, Wiz
liam D. Murray, James E. West, Of
New York; and Colin H. Livingston,
OF Washington. D. C.
The congress is held under the pat
ronage of President Wilson and will
consider various means of Improving
the health an deficiency of school
children not only in the United States
but also in all the leading nations in
the world.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-02

ing corn in morton as It will to the
days of the old apothecary shop. I'M
proved methods, the growth of popu.
lation with correspondingIy increas-
ed demand, have resulted IN improved
methods of manufacture and distribu-
ton, and patent" mericines repre-.
sent the most improved method OF
manufacturing and distributing med,
cal necessities. To try to block pro-
gress in this line is on par with
attempts to block any other develop.
ment which follows out economic
laws.