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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-02

WdltcT aTbln, OF TdfSnnS, wal
: here Sunday en- route for New
Mexico where that branch Of the
Partin family own land.
After one trip to Jackson Mon.
day to set cases on the Madison
county docket, Judge N. R. Bar.
ham has spent the whole week
at home.
Dan Helms and wife, Of War
ren's Bluff, were here last Sat.
urday to attend the funeral Of
Mrs. j. w. Rosson, who was a
sister of Mrs. Helms.
Presiding Elder Cleanthe
Brooks went to Jackson Wednes-
day to attend the funeral service
of Rev. w. g. Hefley, who died
at 4 o'clock p. m. Tuesday.
M. FL. Stewart says that IN
breaking an egg to cook q few
days ago, his daughter found in
side another and smaller egg
with a hard she'll thereon.
Mrs. q. L. Barry made a trip
to Memphis from Saturday till
Monday, leaving her little daugh-
ter, Mary Elizabeth, with the
venerable editor of the Progress.
Regular services will be held
at the Baptist church Sunday
morning. Subject: THE Cos
pei Flowers" No service at
night on account of the Metho-
dist church.
Mrs. j. D. Franklin was quite
seriously i'll the last half Of last
week and her confinement kept
the town marshal at home for
several days. She began to i'm
prove several days ago.
DR.. w. U. Mckenzie, who
sells goods and practices medi-
cihe near old Center Point and
gets mail on route 3 out of Rea.
gan, was in town Monday and
made the Progress happy.
Rev. f e e twood Ball will
preach Sunday afternoon at 2
O'Clock in the Union church,
| S 0 D tn Lexington, on 'Life's
G r eatest Quotation" Every.
body invited to be present.
Will A. Lawler and his moth
err, Mrs. Lizzie Lawler are proud
Of the fact that their home made
new since the storm Of March ID,
very much improved, will be
one of the best residences in the
town.
LOST-In Lexington on May
l, bunch of Keystone office key
two post-office box keys, cork
screw and metal key tag with
number thereon. Finder please
return to this Office or Office of
Clerk & Master.
County Judge W. F. Appleby
has been away from town lately
a large part of the time and
when he comes in occasionally
with story of fighting the
earth" his friends politely re-
frain from contradictory re-
marks.
Uncle Henry Davis, of the
Chesterfield vicinity, has been
here this week visiting his
daughter Mrs. John L. Sullivan,
and having the dentist put him
in good shape for mastication-
and to incidentally improve his
looks.
Hugh Long, a well-known citi.
zen of Parsons, aged about 90
years, did last Sunday at ii
o'clock a. m, leaving q wife and
son. The remains were in
tered in Parsons cemetery Mon-'
day afternoon with Masonic hon.
Ors.
Mrs. Clarence johnson who has
been here for several weeks |
with her mother, Mrs. Vesta
Melton, left Sunday for Nerd.
ian, Miss, where she and Mr..
Johnson will make ther home,
Mr.. johnson retaining his posi-
ton on the road as Knight of
the Grip.
Wilhelm A. Lawler, the drug
gist, tried to persuade us a day
or two ago to state in these
columns that he had bought a
ticket for the State of Matri-
mony-but the knot has first to
be tied, and that by an expert,
before we publish Billie under
that accusation.
We are requested to state that
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-02
Return Sacks.

All persons who have carried
out cement to build the county
cattle dipping watts, must return
the sacks at once in order that
the county may get credi for
them. -THREADaILL Bros.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1913-05-02

All kind Of wall paper-from
&c to 15c per roll:
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Westermer's False Teeth Proved His Umdoimg

all frazzled. stalked Indignantly upstairs
to the room Of the delinquent one-and u
moment later. precipitately returned in a
highly nervous state, exclaiming that. in
reply to her rappings, there had come
from within merely a confused splutter-
ing OF jumbled incoherence which put her
to flight
eve all few upstairs at the heels of
the anxious bride and beat q quadruple
tattoo on the condemned mans door.
only to be answered by babbling. un-
couth sounds that pushed the bride
to the brink Of mysteries. Snatchfng
q chair, ahe mounted 1t. gazed a mo-
ment In fascination over the transoui--
and then, with a. wiifnny OF horror, fell
back in dead faint.
"Leaping upon the chair, / looked over
into the foomAand there / saw that
westeruer. very much in sdishabilie,
blazing on the hearth. trying to thaw
out. a double set, of false teeth frozen
fast in a glass OF water. and making
vain efforts to swear through his tooth
.Wsu, We toted the bride back to the
parlor and snapped on the pafson for
\ .doctor. He had to work over her FOR.
.nea rly- an hour before she could sit up
and ask whore was the party OF; the
second part.
.Where was he !? Why, while We We're
down the back stairs and caught that
s. O'Clock train, wiring back to send
his teeth by mail to the agency on
the Ute reservation. He didn't say q
word about sending the bride!
"And / never have been just dead
certain In my mind whether that balk
of his was accideptalf'
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The Old Armory.


THAT severe rectangular building
with the old-fashioned roof standing
at the corner of 9th and b streets
southwest, which a relatively small
number Of persons still call the armory
out which is generally called the fish
commission building and which for a
long time has been occupied by the
bureau of fisheries. actually was an
armory Looking at it closely, a man
Will probably note that the lines fol-
low rather faithfully those of orthodox
military architecture despite a. number
or changes that have been made in the
building. 1t is a grim-looking struc-
ture of brick, red now. but it has been
other eolors. 1t is three windows wide
on the east front, and there is a good
Miath or wall outside the first and
lniru WINDOWS. On the ground floor is
wide door. On the north side the
Duliding Is seven windows wide. and on
the ground floor are three wide donble
t toors. inside are many things of in
lerest connected with the fisheries m
dustry of the world in general and IF
.ne onlted States in particular, and the
aquarium Is one Of the show places Of
the capital But the old armory in
title. ~ i'S
Back in 1888 the fact that the fish
commission building was generally
called by old residents "the armory."
suggested to Gen. Ordway, then in com
mand of the National Guard of the
District of Columbia, that it might be
profitable to examine into the history
OF the building. He found that it,
was erected under a provision of the
sCndry civil appropriation act of 1873
For the care and preservation of the
ordnance, arms and accouterments of
the United States required for the use
of the volunteers and militia of the Dis
tr1ct or Columbia, the building to be
used by the volunteers and militia of
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SIDES or her family she peiohss " ''o
old south and has all the conservatism
of that class. Being highly educated
woman. she is also one Of advanced ideas
and was among the very first or the
daughters OF the Lone Star state to be-
come a convert to equal suffrage. She
can present an academic argument on this
subject which would make rhe most stub
born and we'll informed opponent look up
his books 10 answer. She is thoroughly
domestic, attends to her home and her
family herself answers her own letters
and is one OF the most punctilious about
her social obligations. 1t was predicted
that the Wilson regime would present a
less pretentious social appearance than
the last. and that those with whom the
first lady would be surrounded during
the coming four years would be repre-
sentative of the more serious aspects OF
life. In Mrs. Burleson this prediction Is
literally fulfilled.
Il should like" she said. shortly before
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costa river and fats from the Anacostia
bridge northeast to the District line, to
be expended under the supervision Of the
to be prepared under the direction OF and
to be approved by a board OF engineers
to consist Of the Engineer Commissioner
OF the District. OF. Columbia, the officer in
charge OF public buildings and grounds
and the engineer ofacer in charge. Of the
Improvement Of the Potomac river. An
additional appropriation has been asked
in the estimates for the fiscal year 1913
and good deal OF the preliminary. work
Of reclamation has been done. West of
the Anacostia bridge, where the work Of
dredging and flats reclamation has been
in progress since the first substantial APP
preparation of 1902. the improvement is
appropriation acts. ,-----.-
The question OF riparian rights was q
dimcult one for years. Col. Hams called
attention to this phase OF the matter in
Of Congress In 1898 called for certain
Information in regard to the ownership
Of the flats and the cost Of acquiring
any lands owned by private parties" In
1908 report was made by a special COM
mittee-John R. Sutton. w. J. Douglass
and Daniel e. Garges-appointed by the
District Commissioners. to make q thor
ough investigation Of the conditions Of
the harbor front on the Potomac and
Anacostia rivers. This committee said
entire commercial river frontage of the
District 1t would be necessary to pur-
chase approximately 43 900 linear feet, in
GLIDING at least SUFFICIENT width for an
adjacent Water street. or about IS per
cent of the entire commercial frontage
1t was recommended that the Commits
sioners be authorized to determine the
ownership OF the water front on the right
bank of the Anacostia, from Washington
barracks to the city farm. ''as 1t IL be-
Neved that this frontage belongs to the
United States, although now largely in
the hands OF squatters." This called forth
from the river and harbor Improvement
committee OF the Board OF Trade the re-
joinder that "the assertion is absolutely
unfounded, as the tax books Of the Dis
trict will clearly demonstrate. The con-
dftions along the Anacostia river, 50 far
as ownership is concerned. rest on DIFF
ferent basis from those on the Potomac;
the overwhelming majority OF the lots
are owned by private parties, with unas-
sailable titles, as will be confirmed by
the local title companies, and are unaf-
fected by the legal decision Of the IA
nous Kidwell fats case. Hugh T. Tag
CART, special counsel to Investigate the
title OF the United States to land along
the Anacostia river. returned interesting
reports on this question. which were
printed as Senate document No. 10, Sixty
second Congress, first session, and Sem
ate document No. 402, Sixty-first Con-
gress, second session.
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Waugh, Presley Jacobs. Thomas Preston
and Daniel Cawood. Many negroes emit
tied under the law to freedom were lib
Grated through the work of this society.
1t is recorded that Francis Scott Key OF
Georgetown. author Of THE Star Span
gled Banner" lent valuable aid to the
society.
Anti-slavery agitation started early in
the District Of Columbia. Not long after
the organization of the society referred
to a petition for the abolition Of slavery
in the District of Columbia was present
ed Congress. the petition being signed by
nearly all the judges Of the courts and
ministers Of the gospel In Alexandra,
Georgetown and Washington and by nf-
teen hundred voters in the District OF Co
lumbia.
Between 1912 and 1s46 the HaIlowell
School was conducted by BENJAMIN Hal
lowelrs nephews. Caleb Hallowell and
James s. Hallowell. while the founder
was in retirement at Rockland. a farm
near Sandy Spring, Md. In 1854 BenJa.
min Hallowell was Joined in the conduct
Of the school by his son. Henry c. Hal
lowell. and his son-in-law, Francis Mil
Ter. BENJAMIN Hallowell died at Sandy
Spring in 1877.
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bounds the Naval Hospital or the old
observatory grounds on the east-23d
street-are high banks that tower above
the streets. Trees and weeds grow on
the top of these bits Of highland. left
when the streets were cut through. and
a number OF small frame houses are
perched there. Now. at the southeast
corner Of New York avenue and I'd
these cliffs of clay, and trains Of wagons
have been hauling and depositing the
spoil on the south slope of the old OBJ
servatory Hill. Soon the clods Will be
beaten up, a top dressing OF rich earth
will be laid on ana green lawn VIII
In all. this new-filled land there remains
one depression. In the middle of this Is
a bricked-up pit, at the bottom OF which
is big gray bowlder. This. stone is what
has been left of the Braddock rock. a
stone which once stood on the Maryland
shore Of the Potomac and close TO one
channel Of that river. 1t seems to have
been an old custom for FLYER men TO
moor boats there. It is history or tradi-
ton that when some OF Braddock's troops
the regiment OF Sir Peter Halket-came
up from Alexandra In the boats OF the
warships Sea Horse and Nightingale In
April, 1855. they landed at this rock and
encamped on the hill above.
Because Of the filling in OF the ground
when the f1ats were reclaimed the his
toric or legendary rock was left at the
bottom OF a hole. Later this hole was
bricked up flush with the top of the sur
rounding new-made land This work was
done under the auspices Of the National
Society Of the Colonial Danes Of the
District Of Columbia. A willow tree, OF
rather detected appearance. grows close
by and tin cans, broken crockery and
other debris have been heaped around.
The new filling Of the ground has been
carried on all around the Braddock rock
pit, and the coping of the brickwork is
considerably below the surrounding
grade. The bricked pit has no railing
around It, and it would be an easy mat
ter for q man to tumble into It.
The part OF the city in which the clin
cutting is going on is not one OF the
beauty sections Of Washington, but 1t
may have future. Who knows7 Where
New York avenue and G. street converge,
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yates of the University Of Texas, a col
lege established less than thirty years
ago at the capital Of the state. Austin.
His devotion to his alma mater is shared
Laura, now Mrs Richard Van Wick Neg
ley, graduated with honors, taking the
A B. degree in June 1911. and the two
younger girls are preparing for the uni
versity at Roanoke College. Virginia.
II
Mrs. Burleson was educated partly by
governesses in her home in Austin after
going to New York for special courses
and finished her training by two years
abroad. When her eldest daughter was
studying In the Texas University, and
having for various reasons to spend part
OF the winter in Austin, she took course
Of English and literature and she antici-
pates at some future time finishing this
course and standing for a degree. Mr.. and
Mrs. Burleson are stanch advocates.of the
higher intellectual training and 1t was by
their counsel that their eldest daughter
continued her studies instead Of making
her debut. Last spring, when President
Wilson's nomination was still problemat-
ical, they determined that the younger
daughters, Lucy Kyle and Adele Sid
ney, who are seventeen and fourteen re-
spectvely, should, regardless Of political
exigencies. continue their studies and take
full university course. Both young
ladies. however enjoy occasional visits
to Washington during the holidays. They
have just returned to Roanoke after
spending a week here to attend the In
auguratfon ceremonies.
Mrs. Burleson Is best known to WASH
fngton generally through her clever nttie
dramas and monOlogues on social mat
tiers. One sketch called 1.-THE Congress-
mans Secretary has been produced on
the vaudeville stage and also by several
amateurs. She began about two years
ago q more pretentious play Of three acts.
but events have been moving too rapidly
in her family for her to give much at
tention to the drama. Following her eld-
est daughters graduation and debut the
latter was married In April Of last year
to Richard Van Wyck Negley Of San An.
tonic The wedding was very quiet and
only . few very close friends and most
OF the members Of the Texas delegation
were present. The ceremony occurred on
Easter morning, April Z. l912, at st.
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The Gray Squirrels.

THE gray squirrels in the Soldiers
Home grounds are happy and Well
fed. Perhaps it may be that they are the
most carefree and the best fed squirrels
in the District. There is a strong friend
ship between many Of the veterans and
these frisky little creatures. o. course.
they are tame. very tame. Th,s Is Eo-
peculiar to the Soldiers Home squirrels.
because the squirrels in the Capitol
grounds. in the Smithsonian grounds. IL
the Monument lot. in Franklin Park anu
in other of the city squares are extreme
ly tame. But these Soldiers Home SOUR
rels when they see man In blue and feel
the want Of a hickory nut or f1lbert or
q peanut do not hesitate to walk riseS
up to him or climb right up on him and
ask in the squirrel language for wnae
they want.
West OF the main building, Scott Hall.
is tree whose summer shade is dense.
Under 1t is a rectangle of brick pave. On
as they would be in han, that Is, ths.
rows are as close together as they can
be for the comfort of the occupants
Many men sit there on warm and genial
days and on soft and balmy evenings.
1t Is q squirrel playground. But in win
ter the benches are removed and the vet
Grams do not linger there. Neither do
the squirrels.
In the rear Of the Anderson cottage
the cottage from which President Lincoln
troops on the northern line OF Washing
tons defenses ut Fort Stevens. and which
has been occupied as a summer home by
other Presidents-is an oval around which
ten elms are growing. This oval
is bisected east and west by a brick walk.
On the trunk Of each of these trees about
six feet from the ground Is nailed an old
grape basket, and each of these baskets Is
kept nearly filled with nuts and acorns-
1t is the principal dining room of the Sol
diers' Home squirrels-the squirrels
mess hall. These little baskets of acorns
may be seen on trees In other parts of
the Soldiers Home grounds, but here they
are close together.
The Anderson cottage is pebble-dash-
that is, the walls are. Squirrels climb
these walls and scamper UP and down as
nfmbly as they do the trunks of trees. IL
seemed to the Rambler that number OF
the squirrels have built their homes some
where back under the caves of this cot
tage.
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Later he taught in q school a. West
Town near Burlington, N. j., and in 1924,
after vicissitudes of which he told in an
autobiography written for his children. he
opened on his account school in Alexan-
dria. The house he first rented in Alex
andria was next door to the home Of the
widow Of Gen. Harry Lee, the mother Of
Robert e. Lee. and Mr.. HallOwell has
that lady and of the call which Lafayette
made upon her when he visited Alexan-
dria.
The names of Hallowell's first four day
scholars were Thomas Schofield, Joseph
Miller, Richard Janney and Thomas Page.
Cassius Lee son of Edmond I. Lee. was
enrolled as a pupil soon after the opening
of the school, In the second month of
1925 there came to study mathematics q
youth whose name was Robert E. Lee.
The friendship between Hallowell and Lee
endured till the death of the great chief
tain Of the Confederacy, though the teach
er never sympathized with the cause for
which Lee fought. In 1880 Mr.. Hallowell
began the instruction in private lessons of
Angela Lewis, daughter Of Mrs. Lawrence
Lewis, born Nellie Gusts, and then living
at Woodlawn. Mrs. Lewis always accom-
panied her daughter to the school and re-
mained with her during the lessons. SUD
sequently Mrs. Lewis sons. Fisher Ames
Lewis Charles, John III. B., Magnus M.
and William HI. T. Lewis. went to school
to Mr. HalloWell.
Mr. HalloweIl. being Friend, opposed
the institution of slavery and abhorred
war. In 1927 there was organized In Alex
andria, then part OF the District Of Co
lumbia, an association called the Benevo.
lent Society of Alexandria,, the object or
which was ito render assistance to such
persons as were slaves and willed to be
free at certain time, in which case II
they were hired out of the state or away
from the District of Columbia they were
at once entitled to be free on that fact
being established"
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March 4, ito see the old-fashioned Vir-
tues revived, and / think that all tnls
agitation will have that desirable resuI,
Women are clamoring about the niSn
price of living, with the result that they
are looking into matters themselves ana
finding out where to locate the reneoy.
1t means going to market for tnousanos
who never dreamed or such 2 tnanS .
few years ago, and 1t means awakening
to the fact that economy demands stflcl
personal attention. This sense or respon-
sibility is alone worth untold Weann III
the material sense, and for the happiness
of homes and the increased prosperity OF
the small householder is inestimable. In
my list OF old-fashioned virtues 1nciuoe
that of supervising the needs OF the noHe
every morning. not through malu or
even a housekeeper. but by the WiIe her-
self This is possible unless one is very
much occupied with very grave things,
and it means to simplify life and add TO
the comfort of every member Of the fam
lily. I believe in the gentle art OF needle-
work, and even in the exceedingly obso-
lete occupation of darning the family
hosiery.
Il find no study more entertaining than
that of the varied life of the woman or
today compared with that of her grand
mother. I feel very grateful indeed that
the horizon has expanded so and that
having attended faithfully to the home
there is so much to inspire and encour-
age. There are the clubs, for instance.
especially the patriotic ones, where we
breathe an atmosphere of history in its
best sense and where we can do little
missionary work for those not so well
environed. The social side OF patriotic
and literary clubs is one OF the genuine
pleasures Of my home city, as 1t is here.
But these are mere diversions and !
should deplore very much should any sort
of club prevent q woman from attending
to. the real work Of life which pertains
to her home and her family. This
opinion is voiced by all those who
are urging a larger share of mu-
nicipal responsibility for women. If
i thought such privileges would make
women restless or unfit for domestic re-
iations, I should cease to sympathize. |
believe 1t will have just an opposite eff
feet and that after ten years OF voting
the result will be as encouraging al the
experiment Of higher education FOR wom-
en- has proven"
Mr.. Burleson was among the Afst grad
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to appreciate the opportunity, she spent
q summer in Switzerland and went to
Zurich and Winterhoff, where the old
schIoss Of the Steiners still stands. and
where the Lutheran Church attended by
generations Of the family Is intact.
Mrs. Burleson belongs to the Thankful
Hubbard Chapter Of Texas. and she is a.
member Of the Colonial Danes. Her
fathers branch Of the family intermarried
with the Colegates, Murrays and schleys
Of Maryland. and her mothers kindred
were equally prominent in the colonial
history OF Maryland and Pennsylvania.