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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29
At The Opera House.

Opening of the season Sept. D.,
with Mr.. Oscar Graham supported by
a splendid company of high class en-
tertainers. Free concert by Orches-
ira.
Oscar Graham will appear at the
Opera House on Sept. 8. in one OF
his specially dramatised plays that
has gained for him unusual distinc-
ton as one OF the younger stars on
the American stage. This will be the
opening number OF the season OF
l9I3-14 Others will follow from time
10 time OF which the public will be
given due notice. The management
has secured some strong theatrical
attractions for the season, and In
addition thereto have placed AN order
Cor new motion picture machine
and will present each might special
~ selected pictures. the very best
that can be had An orchestra is now
IN training and the best music. In
itself worth the price OF admission.
will be a part Of each nights pro
gram.
Mr.. l.. ID. Grantham has been elect
ed manager and will give his full
time to the business. Everything will
be done that will add to the comfort
and pleasure OF the patrons. II you
wish a more convincing demonstra-
ton Of the facts as stated above come
out 10 the opening number, THE
Higher Law" and let us show you.
Tickets now on sale at Snyder Drug
Company.
Remember the Free Concert by the
Snyder Orchestra. followed by two
and a half hours Of solid amusement
Admission use. soc and 75c.
Snyder Opera House.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

The election OF Andy Anderson as
vice president OF the National Au-
tomobile Association is a deserved
compliment Mr.. Anderson has been
active in public highway matters. and
has done more than perhaps any
other one man to secure the location
OF the Southern National Highway
through Snyder and scurry county.
We are proud that his worth has
been recognized abroad The people
at home know that his efforts have
not stopped there. He is always onto
the job for general advancement.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29
W. G. T. L. Program.

Music
Bible reading LIST John, LIST chap
ter
Roll call. who saw my badge this
summer.
Reports from members who have
been away on vacation.
Paper. Medical In spection In
schools. Mrs Ward.
Discussion. School Hygiene
Benedlction
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

f. H. Burdett and NJ. c. Burdett
have returned from a pleasure trip
TO Galveston. They saw many inter
esting sights. took boat ride on the
briny deep. visited the soldiers bar
racks and took a plunge In the surf
They report a case OF a girl and a
young man going in together for a
bath and the man failed 20 return.
The girl was held for investigation.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

The public school Is one OF the
greatest factors in our country.
when reinforced by good. whole
some. reliable newspapers. It gives
the American child a practical edu-
cation without the aid OF newspa-
pers. the public school can not give a
boy or girl that degree of leneral in
telligence that you wish your chill
Snyder Signal and the Dallas Semi
Weekly Farm News for one year.
three papers a week. for s1.75. We
accept and receipt for subscriptions
at this office. DO the ordering and
take all the risk. S-tf.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

Mr.. w. n. dug Davis died at
five o'clock Wednesday evening at
his home at Arab after an illness ex-
tending through more than a'year
He formerly resided in Snyder. He
was an honorable citizen and held the
respect and confidence of all who
knew him.
He leaves a wife and several chill
dren to mourn his taking off. He was
consistent member of the Baptist
church and a Woodman of the World.
The Woodmen had charge of the flu
neral Thursday evening.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

J. J. Koonsman recently built a
new silo on his farm and filled Il
with silage. Then he started recent
ly to build another and the high wind
OF last Tuesday blew II down.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29
Samples of Fine Corn.

Mr.. ID. l. Rho Is was here Sat
urday from his farm five miles
southeast OF Snyder. He brought In
four as fine stalks Of corn as any
body ever raised and each bore two
ears OF corn. Mr.. Rhodes has an
acre of this corn on overflow land
and says he will get IS bushels, He
also has two acres OF fine June corn.
The result of overflow is an object
lesson in irrigation and there are
thousands of acres OF farm land in
Scurry county that could be irrigat-
ed at no very great expense,
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

Uriah Jones. Hezekiah Brown and
John Peter Smith all say that Hunts
Lightning OIL stops neuralgia. Rheu-
matism and other pains. Just try a
soc or Csc bottle from your drug
gist. 3tf
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29
Royal Arch Masons.

Are requested to meet at Lodge
Hall at 6:15 p. m. Saturday. Aug.
80, for work In the NJ. Il. NJ. and
Royal Arch degrees. Refreshments
will be served.
Il. B. Barnes, II. p.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29
SCHOOL BOOKS FOR CASH
ONLY. at Grayum Drug Company.

An observant citizen said "Our
country Is in pretty good shape
Every fellow says he Is hardup and
therefore no one Ia ashamed TO say
busted" Lots OF feed Is made and
the country and the people are not
as much in debt as they we're two
years ago"
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

Mrs. r. L. Bell and daughter, Miss
Vela, left Thursday for San Marcos,
where Miss Vela will resume her
work as teacher in the schools at
that place.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

The Domino Coal will give more
heat than any other coal on the mar
ket. Phone 272.
s-tf JIM DAWSON
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

The Scurry County Abstract Com
pany would be glad to abstract your
land titles. and II needed. assist in
perfectlng same. lit
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

Send your friend or relatives
POST CARD with n PHOTO VIEW OF
SNYDER SCENES.
Grayum Drug Company.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

Carmen true. valued Ieproduc-
ton OF the movies-an excellent
drama at Dreamland Friday Aug
ust 29th.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1913-08-29

Mrs. Bert Sneed at Balllnger was
burned to death as result of explo-
sion OF a can of OIL.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01
Notice

Pension to Daughters of Revo-
lutionary Soldiers.
Any real Daughter of the
American Revolution, Chat is, a
daughter of a Revolutionary SOL
der, } by applying to the under
signed, will receive a handsome
souvenir free of charge; and
where need is proven, a pension
from the National Society,
Daughters Of the American Rev.
olution.
MRS. ]. r. JONES,
Chairman Committee on Real
Daughters in Mississippi, N. S.
d. A.. R.
(Ali Papers in State, Please Copy
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01
CLARK & COMPANY

Bride of the Wind-was enabled,
with Panton, Leslie and Compa
ny, to establish a system of COM
merce in these then far-of wilds
that has since interested and fas-
cinated many students of eco
nomics. Over the dim pathways
that, as Lorenzo Dow tells US in
his diary, wound like a network
through the forests. the natives
bore peltries on their backs to
the storehouses of Panton, Leslie
and Company, farther south, and
exchanged them for commodities
-gewgaws and what-not which
the willy European found best
suited to the tastes of the red
men.
How useful in times of dire
need these paths of the red men
sometimes proved to the white
strangers seeking foothold in the
wilderness, is shown in the story
of the Tory pioneer, Anthony
Hutchins. In 1773, when war
between the colonies and the
motherland threatened, Colonel
Hutchins, with a small company
of those who, like himself, were
unwilling to be drawn into the
conflict came with their families
from their homes in Georgia by
way of the watercourses-the
Holston. Tennessee, Ohio and
Mississippi Rivers-to the Nat
chez District. The adjoining
territory being included in the
English Dominion of West Flori-
da. he planted a colony there and
awaited his opportunity to aid in
driving tn e Spanish intruder
from the soil that he held sacred
to King George. He thought
that this had come, in the strug-
gle that broke out in 1881, in
which he took a brave part; but
just on the eve of the final en-
counter, the news came of Great
Britain's surrender to Spain Of
the entire area Of West Florida.
The only thing for these pioneers
to do was to make precipitate re-
treat for the Atlantic coast.
They took to the woods, and,
striking the Indian trail, fol-
lowed it through the tangled
growth of the lonely forest. The
tale of their journey is one of un-
speakable hardships and suffer
ing. but the trail did not fail
them, and at last brought them
to their friends on the coast.
But of all the trails that served
the purposes Of that now distant
day, the one that has come down
to us through the vicissitudes of
change, with most distinct reali-
ty, is the one now known as the
("Old Natchez Trace" A con-
tributor to the Mississippi ency-
clopedia says of this road:
Down it passed a steady
stream of travellers, often men Of
wealth journeying to the South
in search of land and other profit
able investment: up it passed
traders, supercargoes and boat
men from New Orleans, who
would take the long return jour-
ney overland to their homes,
1000 miles away. They travelled
on foot or on horseback in small
companies for mutual protectien.
and frequently carried with them
rich treasure of specific pro-
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01

Evidence of this lavish splend-
or of naturestill remains, though
man, in the first stages of estab-
fishing a civilization, becomes a
natural foe of the forest, and
many of these rare Towering
trees have almost become extinct
as a spontaneous growth, and are
now rarely seen except as they
greet the eye Unexpectedly IN
some hidden nook or glen, or ap-
pear as cultivated shrubs in the
gardens of the city.
But in the early days, when
the old Natchez Trace was a Trail
and for many years after, they
lined it's wandering course as far
north as the climate would per-
nit them to live and bloom.
sometimes greeting the traveller
along the Trail in what is now
Tennessee, for this earliest and
most famous of public highways
traversed the State of MISSISSIPPI
pi. touched the Western border
of Alabama about ten miles be-
llow Iuka, and had its northern
extremity in the City of Nash
vile, where it connected with
the great national road leading to
the east. From below Natchez
it followed the river to New Or
leans. 1t conducted immigration
all that the watercourse did not
bring, to the entire lower South.
DeSoto fought the battle of Chi
caca, with the Chickasaw In
dians, near the extinct town OF
Redland, a short distance from
the great Trail, and history tells
US that he travelled over the In
dian trails in and arouud Ponto.
toe.
What infinite relief he must
have found in these beaten paths,
after stumbling through the will
derness with his weary army for
weeks at a time! Many years
after that first invasion of the
dim interior of the vast CONT
nent by those gallant heralds of
a new civilization of the West,
the French, British and Spanish,
in turn, explored and pre-empt-
ed the country, and during these
years much of the travel from
place to place was done over the
main watercourses. But while
the white man depended upon
the rivers and streams to reach
isolated settlements, the native
Americans-the devout Natchez,
the pastoral Cherokees, the rest
less Choctaws, the warlike Chick
asaws and t h blood-thirsty
Creeks with soft moccaslned
feet and the instinct of a people
who had dwelt long in the un-
broken forest, were marking
trails by three-notch signs upon
the trees, and with that tricksi-
ness characteristic of primitive
races, keeping along the ridge
ways in order to have compare
lively dry footing during the
food tides. These same dim
trails, be it noted, long after
wards were converted into dur
able wagon roads for a better civ
ilization.
Doubtless it was due to these
paths through h e Southern
woods that McGillivray, son of
the canny Scotchman of that
name, and his wife, Sehoy-
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01
MARKING THE
TRACE
An Historic Highway of the
Lower South
By Mrs. Dunbar Rowland

By Mrs. Dunbar Rowland
(, My Dear Mrs. jones'
In reply to your letter of July
18th, requesting the use of my
article on the Natchez Trace. |
shall be glad to have you use it
as it will give me pleasure to
know that | have been of some
service to the Daughters of the
American Revolution at Tupelo.
Cordially and sincerely yours.
MRS. DUNBAR ROWLAND.
Jackson, Miss, July %, 1913.
Very recent years have Wit
messed a brilliant renaissance If
Southern history within many
fields, and among the numerous
effests to preserve the historic
landmarks of the country is that
me made by the Mississippi So
sety of the Daughters Of the
American Revolution to mark
the Natchez Trace-the oldest
historic highway of the lower
South.
Taking the initiative, perhaps.
from the movement by the same
organization of marking the old
Santa Fe Trail through the great
West, they have worked with
might and main to reclaim this
shalf-forgotten record of an ear
lier civilization, and as a part of
an elaborate scheme to indicate
the entire route, have had a
white bowlder made, ready to
place in the City of Natchez, the
FIRST territorial capital of what is
now the State of Mississippi.
1t was from this same city that
the Trace received its name,
after it had ceased to do service
as a Trail for primitive races and
such adventurous sons of Euro
oean races as preferred the un.
known interior to the more fire.
luented passage by water course.
But it must be remembered that
che city itself-long before it was
/ part of the United States had
been named in honor Of the In
dian tribe, the Natchez, who in
nabited the country surrounding
&. And according to Bartram,
who visited the country in 1870,
IN the interest of the Botanical
Society, of London, no more
beautiful country could be found
On the earth than this famous
Natchez region, whose great for
ssts of live oak and beech were
shickly studded with magnificent
blooming trees and shrubs such
as the Magnolia, Bay, Japonica,
Cape Jasmine and Grand Duke.
Besides these royal representa-
lives of the American forests,
she country also bounded in long
and. short leaf pine, white oak,
red oak, live oak. pecan, hickory,
and poplar trees, and occasional
y a magnificent sassafras. Most
sof these trees. especially in the
most southern district, were en-
geloped in streamers of the long
fray moss which today possesses
"A profitable commercial value.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01
HOT SPRINGS,
Remedy Ends Constipation

Don't worry and don't take
calomel.
Put your sluggish liver in fine
condition and get rid of sick
headache, biliousness and dizzi-
ness.
Get q box Of the famous HOT
SPRINGS LIVER BUTTONS of
any worthy druggist today, %
cents.
Gentle, blissful, wonderful
workers they surely are; take
one tonight and free the bowels
from poisonous waste and gas.
You'll feel bright and happy to-
morrow.
There's nothing on earth so
good for constipation and stub
born liver.
Free sample of HOT SPRINGS
LIVER BUTTONS from Hot
springs Chemical Co., Hot
Springs, Ark.
ST. Clair Drug Co., special
agents in Tupelo.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01

ducts of their cargoes-packed
on mules or horses-these found
it more profitable to sell their
boats, which could not be pro-
PEELED upstream, and take this
route home"
Concluded Next Week.
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01
How We Hurt Ourselves
pefsonau'

If you have anything to sell in
this COMMUNICATION, crops or
material-the people here must
have money with which to buy
it.
If you keep sending your mon
ey away from home it will be a
long time getting back; it may
never get back at all.
If all of it were sent away and
none of it came back, how long
would this town last?
The Tupelo journal., 1913-08-01
For Weakness and Loss Of Appetite

rhe Old standard general strengthening tonic.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives OIL
Malaria and builds mp the system. A true TOM
and sure Appetizer. For adults and Children. coc
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
WHAT ABOUT FRUIT?
Recent Warm weather May Be
ImperiliHg 1t.

The man 20 first predict O COM
plete failure Of all kinds Of fruit in
this section has not yet been heard
from. We must, however, ask him
to withhold his information for a
while. The danger is not over yet.
Though peaches, in recent years
have oftener been killed by the mild
weather just preceding Christmas,
the weather conditions last year
were different. We have not yet,
probably. had enough warm weather
to cause the buds to swell to be kill
ed by February and March billiards,
SHOWS and freezes. The whole mat
ter may be reduced to one propo-
'ition: If the fruit is not killed next
month or in March. we will have
plenty or fruit of every kind-maybe.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS
Will Be Realized For DOrmitOry
For Bethel Female College.

During the February term of Cir.
cult Court it is expected that Judge
j. T. Hanbery will order the Master
Commissioner to sell a farm of 213
acres, near Kelly, in this county, The
proceeds TO be handed over to the
Trustees Of Bethel Female College,
and the same TO be added to a
fund to build a domitory for the
College. The farm was left to
Bethel Baptist Association after the
death Of the widow of Jesse ?. Ford,
who died about thirty y ar5 ago.
Mrs. Ford died last suhEler and the
Association last August transferred
is right to Bethel Female College
Two or three thousand dollars will
thus come into the hands Of the
trustees and they viii use it as part
Of q fund to build the d0mitory.
Prof. BrowneIi stands in great need
Of more room for students and the
bequsst Of Mr.. Ford comes at 9 most
time.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
ANNUAL CONTEST
Western Kentucky High School
Association to Be Held At
Henderson.

The Western Kentucky Hig h
School 0ratorical Association will
hold its annual contest February 28.
in henderson. Pupils Of the schools
that belong to the association are
preparing for the preliminary de-
bates that will eliminate all but
those who are to be in the final.
The schools that belong to the asso-
ciatio1 are Hopkinsville. Paducah.
jacksonville. Henderson and Owens
boro. This annual contest is looked
forward TO by the pupils with keen
interest. A large number Of Hop
kinsville boys are preparing to enter
the preliminary contest.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
Caused Death of DR.. W. D.
Brown Yesterday Morn
ing.
HAD CANCER OF THE T,giAT
Died In Three or Four Hours
After Taking the
Acid.

DR.. w. D. Brown. who lived at
209 East 23rd street, died yesterday
morning from taking an overdose Of
The particulars, as we
we're able to secure them, are that
the Doctor was afflicted with cancer
of the throat and at times was a
great sufferer. Yesterday morning,
about 7 o'clock, he took a dose Of
morphine to relieve the intense pain
and afterwards went to the stable to
feed the stock. Returning from the
stable he lay down as he felt little
weak. 1t was soon evident that he
had taken too large dose, as his
heart action was deeply involved.
In about three or four hours he was
dead.
DR.. Brown came here from Julien
about seven years ago. He kept
store at Julien for a number of years
and after coming here kept a gro
Gerry and practiced his profession.
His last wife survives him.
Funeral arrangements had not
been completed when we went to
press.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
SKELETON OF }. C. BUNNELL
Remains Found In Montgomery
County Identified By Lee
Orrell.

Clarksville, Tenn, January 81
Lee Orrell, in company with others,
went TO examine the skeleton Of the
man near Antioch Friday. A vest
left at the home Of Mr.. Orrell was
taken and proved to be the same
goods and buttons as found. Dr..
examined the arm and found
the broken bone as described, and
with other evidences all were con-
WINGED the remains were those Of j.
c. BunneH, an uncle of Mr.. Ocrel.
The bones were buried in the c-me-
terry at Antioch. No cause is assign
ed for the death.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
WAS AT GETTYSBURG
And Rescued His Young Master
Shot Down In PiCkett'S
Charge.

Plans are on foot to celebrate the
50th anniversary of the battle of
Gettysburg. on the battlefield next
July.
Peter Morgan. a we'll known COL
ored man of this city. was in the
battle as a body servant Of Austin
Morgan. a confederate soldier OF
Pickett's division. third brigade.
In the desperate charge of Gen.
Pickett young Morgan was shot in
the leg and two Of his fingers shot
off. Peter entered the lines during
a cessation of the firing and was
bearing his young master from the
battlefield onhis shoulderwhen firing
Yves resumed and he sought refuge
in a deep gully until II was safe to
proceed. Austin Morgan recovered
from his wounds and returned to
army.
Peter Morgan is anxious to visit
the scenes OF the terrible conflict Of
half . century ago. when the cele.
bration Il held.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
Court of Appeals Holds That
Is Per Cent. Of Voters
Are Required.
IN THE WHOLE TERRITORY.
All Prohibition Counties Are
Now Open To New
Contests.

A Frankfort dispatch says: That
a number of local option elections
will follow the decision of the Court
of Appeals in the Lebanon case is
the general opinion about the Cap
itol, judging from requests made
for information about the opinion.
The point decided, that a petition
for local option election requires
only the names Of 25 per cent. of the
voters residing within the territory +,
and not 25 per cent. of all the voters
in each precinct, is of great import
ance. In many places the "wets"
have been unable to secure the sig
natures of Is per cent. of the voters
in every precinct; but now that the
court says this is not necessary the
way is open for them to put the
question to an issue wherever they
want it."
There are a few counties-Chris-
tian being one of them where the
decision gives an advantage to the
"drys." who have been unable to
get rs per cent in many precincts Of
the county.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
HOmOphOnOus.

A country newspaper editor once
noticed in an exchange the proud
announcement that "GradyviIle has
a girl who kneads bread with her
gloves on, Commenting on the
announcement the editor said.
That's nothing, we need bread with
our gloves on and our gloves off.
In fact if some of our subscribers
don't pay up pretty soon Wen need
bread without a thing on. "-Ex,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-01-28
Short Term Senator in Ten
neSSee is BellbuCkle
Professor.
SUCCEEDS SANDERS 5 WEEKS
Prof. W. R. Webb Wins by
70 to So Over v. T.
Bryan.

Nashville, Jan. 27.-Prof. W. R
Webb. of Bellbuckle, Tenn Inde-
pendent Democrat, was elected
United States Senator Friday for the
term ending March 4. He defeated
M. 7. Bryan, of Nashville, Democrat,
70 to SO.
Prof. Webb's election came on the
eighth joint ballot taken by the leg
stature, his votes coming from the
Republican and Independent Demo
cratic ranks, reinforced by the elev-
envotes from Shelby comfy. M
I. Bryan, practically his only COM
petitor, received one Republican
vote. Four members did not vote,
the total vote cast being 128. Two
members cast complimentary votes.
Prof. Webb succeeds Senator New
ell Sanders, who was filling out the
unexpired term of Senator Robert
L.. Taylor, deceased.
The Senator-elect is a native Of
Person county, North Carolina, /;
graduate of the University of NORTH
Carolina and 20 years old. He wa
a captain in the Confederate arm.
and has been conducting a widel,
known preparatory school for boy
in Tennessee for more than fort,
years.