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The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18
Death Of William j. McSWeen

proach. AS we journey along
life's road we must pause again
and again to bid farewell to some
fellow traveller. In the course OF
nature the father andlthe mother
die, then brothers and sisters fol-
low, and finally the children and
the children's children cross to
the unknown world beyond-one
by one from loves shining circle
the gems drop away until the
King of terrors loses his power to
alright us and the increasing
company on the farther shore
make us first willing and then
anxious to join them. 1t is Gods
way, it is Gods way"
ONE WHO KNEW HIM.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18
YOUNG MEMPHIS TENOR
TO GIVE RECITAL
Will be Assisted by Mrs. H. c.
Bubble and Miss Reva Stuart
Thursday Night.

Newport people are to be greet
ed again with a talented trio of
musicians, such as theolarge cities
seldom have an opportunity to
hear. To say that our music low
ing public will be pleased when
they see the above headlines does
hot begin to express the feeling
we know will prevail. Those who
have been fortunate enough to
hear Mr.. Pellonari sing and also
to hear Miss Stuarts violin and
Mrs. Ruble's piano will be delight
ed to again have an opportunity
Of hearing them, and especially
when three musicians with such
rare accomplishments are heard at
the same time all who have an op-
portunity should not fail to grasp
it.
Only once in a life time do some
of us have such an opportunity and
the program which has been ar
ranged for Thursday night is one
that it is believed will be very
pleasing to our people. Young
Mr.. Pellonari has been doing con-
cert work in New York City since
his visit to Newport some months
ago and has met with wonderful
success. He has been under the
care of Prof. Frederick E. Bristol,
metropolitan coach, said to be one
|Of the finest voice culturists in the
world. He has prescribed a
special course Of diet for Mr.. Pei
lonari and advised the things he
should studiously avoid. Among
the things Mr.. Pellonari is advised
to avoid is all kinds of sweets.
Miss Annie Holland who heard
Mr.. Pellonari while here a few
months ago, says his voice has
improved wonderfully and she is
very anxious to have our people
hear him. While in the city Mr..
Pellonari is the guest of Miss Hol-
land.
The concert will be given in the
hall over the post office and the
small sum of SOC and 25c will be
charged.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18
Pigeon River Dam Near Com
pletiOn.

The dam across Pigeon River,
near Hartford, which is being
constructed by the Pigeon River
Power Company, is nearing COM
pletion, and it is expected that
the electric power will be ready
for use in Newport within a
couple of months, A bond issue
Of twenty-five thousand dollars
was recently voted by the citizens
of Newport for the purpose of
equipping the town with electric
lighting apparatus. At the pres.
ent the town is being lighted by
the Newport Mill Company, the
company owning the poles and
wires. When the demand fol-
light and power in Newport is
supplied the new company antic'
Iipates furnishing electricity tc
nearby towns. Optimists predic'
great things for Newport after
day current is secured. Alraed!
a knitting mill is being erected
and eighteen machines have beer
ordered by w. j. Kyker. HI
: hopes to have his mill ready fol
operation by the time the powel
is here.-Cor. Nashville Banner
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18
It's the Knocks that Help

Get them to realize that they h
the chance of a lifetime to m
good money on their crops.
A paper can do a vast ar
of good in a community, or
do the other thing, and asl
now that this election business
all over with, let it go and q
right down to building up and u
proving your country.
You ought not to feel the bl1S
ness depression there as keen
as it is felt here. Cotton is brin
ing 7 lac here today. A va
ago it was 15c; that tells the stoI|
But they are planting more whe&
oats, etc., than was ever plant
here before, and it may be 4
lesson in disguise"
AS no cotton is grown thef
that section ought to be in fair
good shape. Horses, mules, CO
tie and hogs are going to brin
fancy prices. Pump these fac
into the people and you will |
serving your section WE'LL
l hope you get this as it
meant. That old burg has a war
place in my memory, and an,
thing that pertains to her advanc
ment holds a deep interest for M
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18

Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Mcsween
have returned from "a two weeks
trip to Shivar Springs, Columbia
and other points in S. c.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18
Automobile to be Given Away

On June 7th, 1915. the one
holding the lucky number will be
given a 5000 automobile. Tickets
will be given with every cash pur-
chase or every dollar paid on &C.
count at the following business
houses: Ruble Bros, w. B. Rob.
inson, j. R. Seehorn & Co., MINIS
Drug Co., w. C. Anderson, Dris'
kill & Parrot, Rowe Bros,
Stokely & Jones, M. j. Easley, c
Mac Boyer. & Co., Flint Ray.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18

O'HeartS

The most stupendo us,
thrilling, interesting
moving picture play OF
the times.
Cost 100000 to pro
duce the first set Of films.
Intense dramatic
action in every foot Of
the reels.
A feature that will set
this whole community
guessing.
See it in weekly install
mentS at
This story will be run in
Plain Talk, the first i'm
stallment appearing next
week. The pictuaes will
be shown at The Gay
Theatre.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18

Can | Jo?" IF | 10. don't
want any change" young man
was saying in a crap game few
nights ago when surprised by
Policeman Joe Cureton walking
into the room. Mr.. Cureton very
generously assisted the young man
to Joe" and his change was ap-
piled on the fine and cost of $3.50
There was only. eleven other fell
lows in the game and each Of
them contributed the same
amount to the corporation treas
ury.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18

Its about as easy to throw bou-
quets as brickbats, and lots more
pleasant.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18


port, Sunday evening, November
18th, 1914, $50, aged &c years, 6
months and IL days. He was the
only son of VIM. and Catherine
Allen McSween. His entire life
was spent in his native county
and he was familiar with the al
fairs of this county for more than
a half century. He was educated
in the common schools of this
county and later attended Emory
and Henry College where he num-
bered among his schoolmates, the
late Col. John B. Stokely, Bishop
James Adkins, Judge John A.
Buchanan of the Supreme Court
of Virginia, and many others who
have gained distinction in life.
His father before him was a law
yer and in early manhood the
son determined to be lawyer
and graduated in the law school
at Cumberland University, the
distinguished Judge Nathan
Green, being his teacher. After
his graduation at Lebanon he be-
gan the active practice of law and
kept it up until only a short time
before his death. He was twice
happily married and five children
survive. He was devoted hus-
band and worked untiringly to
make those dependent upon HIM
happy. He loved his children
and no man ever desired more
sincerely to see them succeed
than did he. He never sought
political honors to any great ex-
tent, but in 1885 was elected to
the Legislature from this county,
and at one time made the race for
Congress in this district and polled
a very large vote. The late Sen
ator E. w. Carmack was a mem
Der of the Legislature of 1885 and
a warm friendship between them
was formed which lasted through
all the years that followed.
In addition to the practice Of
law he enjoyed farm life and con
tinued to engage in farming unit
a year or so before his death
He believed in the Bible and gave
much thought and study to thu
contents of that wonderful book
He enjoyed literary works ant
owned at the time of his death ,
fine library. He was a man o
strong convictions and championet
whatever he favored with unusua
zeal. He was known to NOR
people Of this county than an
man in it, and had rendered legs
assistance to more clients tha
perhaps any lawyer now at tn
Bar in East Tennessee. He wa
what might be we'll called nat
ural born lawyer. He seemed t
grasp at a glance what was in
lawsuit and when he went wit
the case before the jury he usual
obtained the result for which h
contended. He was especial
strong as jury lawyer. H
knew and understood men an
knew how to reach them. H
was connected, on one side or ii
other, with ever criminal case
Importance which was tried
the courts Of this county, durir
his practice of the law. He a
peared in other cases of impo
lance in other counties and w
always the equal Of opposir
,o,,ncol Ha uoc lOyal RI
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18

clients and believed in fighting
every inch of the ground. He
knew how to pick jury and then
knew full we'll how to argue the
facts to them. He drew his law
and the clients to him with hooks
of steel, and they trusted him with
implicit faith. His mind grasped
what may be termed the ordinary,
every day affairs Of life, and with
apt illustration he was always able
to make plain the point he wished
to establish. He made a great
fight for Wynn and Upton in the
celebrated White Cap cases in
Sewer county, and the services
therein rendered marked him as
the equal, if not the superior, of
any criminal lawyer in East Ten
nessee.
His last argument was made in
the prosecution of Andy Hixson
for the murder Of Jesse Huff,
which resulted in a death sentence.
From that time. on his health be-
gan to fail and he was never again
able to fight with his old time
vigor. He took life easy and tried
bravely to regain his former
health, but all was in vain, death
had marked him as a victim. He
suffered for nearly two years, and
even until a short time before his
death, felt that he might recover.
He took a deep interest in the his
tory of his native county, and
some years ago, at different times,
wrote articles of interest which
were published and highly praised.
Many had expressed the desire
that he might write a full history
of the county, as he was more ia
miliar with its affairs than any
other man. But God Willed ii
otherwise and this work was left
for some other pen. He had
made peace with God and felt that
He was ready to receive him into
His kingdom where he might
strike hands with loved ones long
gone on. He felt perfectly sure
the way was clear and often SC
expressed himself. He had seer
the town in which he died, found
ed-saw it grow and prosper I'm
til it reached its present size ane
importance. He saw improv
ments and upbuilding come which
he longed for, and to the very las
he held on to his friends ant
|. loved to see them, hear then
speak, and TO look upon familia
faces. He was delightee for rela
tives to be about him, and >thos
who had rendered him favors AM
extended the helping hand, h
never forgot. He met deaf
bravely and is at rest, far removes
from the trials, difficulties, sol
rows and disapoointments of thi
life. His funeral was largely al
tended. Tears were freely she
and the floral offerings were beat
tiful. He sleeps in the Unto
> Cemetery, near loved ones gon
;, on before. For him there is a re!
. direction morn, it cannot +
! otherwise. And now we sc
> death about us, it rides on almo
. every passing breeze, and "
g fully realize the truths spoken
= VIM. ]. Bryan, at the grave sic
r. of a departed friend, when |
said:
ITO the young, death is an a
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18

friend in another state is a pretty
severe indictment and we repro
duce it for the matter it contains
which will be of value to our
readers, and at the same time
agree with every sentence con-
tanned therein. However, while
we know the course pursued by
us in the recent election was OBJ
jectionable, we have no apologies to
make, for we did and said the right
thing as we saw it. The belief is
strong with us that a mans own
opinion of himself and his actions
should outweigh that of others.
We could not have said and done
less and retained our own self
respect.
The letter follows:
This is merely a friendly letter
and not for publication-do you
get me?
Now that you fellows are through
with the paroxyisms Cor words
to that effect of the election, |
hope you will get right down to
brass tacks, and give your people
some of the dope they ought to
have. | have not seen many
copies Of your paper recently, but
you know the other one is coming
to me, and honestly, some of the
stuff have seen therein was the
worst | have ever read.
l thought the "Sandflippers"
over this way went crazier on
politics than any other people, but
the good old county of Cooke
out classes anything ever started
in these diggins. | am presuming
of course that you are practically
as deep in the mire as the Iother
fellows in the mud.
The point am making is this:
In real value to the people, it is
nit. At the present time a paper
can be of great service to its peo-
people, for If there ever was a
time when the farmer ought to
get busy it is now. Yours is a
farming country, and thelchances
are that all food crops will bring
very high prices on accounted the
war.
Give them the stuff right oil
the bat, and urge them to plant
every acre available. Crops in al
the warning countries will be cut
more than half next .year-any
one can see what that means.
What want to say to you is
that presume there are people
all through there who take M
other paper; such being the case
what are you doing to post then
as to conditions and the outlook
That political stuff isn't worth
a tinker's dame to them. / be
lieve that, at heart, you1want t.
, see your section thrive and pros
per. If that is correct hand then
: news that is valuable. You cal
easily fill your paper every ISSUE
with news items and information
: that is worth something to them
Post them as to what is goini
: on in the outside world, and wha
the future has in store. Whea
: will probably be higher next sea
son than the present generation
: has ever seen it. You have
wheat growing country there
have you told them this? Don
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-11-18

For the news of Cooke county
one is forced to real Plain Talk.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
Character.

Robert J., Burdette in National Mag
azine: Someone has said: "CnaracteT
is what a man is in the dark" What
he is without an audience. His reputa-
ton may be grandstand play; a safe,
senseless slide to second with the bail
a quarter of a mile away-a cloud OF
dust and thunders OF cheers from pao-
pie who don't know h game: His
character may be the sacrifice hit that
brings him. Kisses from the same class
of ~people-and advances the team.
What you wish you were, that's your
ideal. What people think you are,
that's your reputation. What you know
you are, that's our character. To
paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, you may
fool some other people all OF the time,
but you can't fool yourself one little
bit of the time.
depending not upon what people know
about you but upon their guesses,
made from what they see of you. we
have lived together for. fifty years."
said the Left Hand, "and l never saw
him do one charitable action" That's
reputation. But all that time the gem
erous Right Hand was the almoner OF
God, working in loving and secret fell
lowship- with Him. That's character.
You will not drink wine, not even
for politeness' sake, and at the table Of
an esteemed friend, and our Best So
ciety" says you are a fanatical, bigot-
ed prohibitionist. You refuse to en-
courage a vile story with a smile. Some
people say you are a cold-blooded hypo-
critic. You will not permit yourself to
laugh at a funny story, we'll told, in
which all the laugh" Is in it's pro-
family. And folk say you are self
righteous. And you carry your Bible
in your hand when you walk to church.
And they say a "canting Pharisee."
Yet all the while your character is that
of a sober, ure-minded, reVerent, God
fearing mana christian. Four repu-
tations-all bad, and n character
which outweighs and o%utlasts the going
into eternity with you.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
Rediseoverv of the Soul.

Golfers: Bergson's election to the
French academy gave opportunity for
the repetition of the fine phrase that
the greatest Of recent discoveries is
radium or flying, but the redis-
covery of the soul. All honor to Prof.
Henri Bcrgson, and any number of
green coats he likes-but he is not the
only discoverer Of the soul. In a thou
sand places on the habitable globe men
Of late have been making precisely
that discovery. A quarter Of a century
ago, when the great ave Of German
materialism was at it's height, ideal
ism seemed overwhelmingly buried,
hardly showing a vestige above the
flood. Souls were a dead and outWorn
fashion, a. grotesque fancy of poets,
fanatics and divines. Our lives under
the sun were merely g matter of cell
growth, osmosis, and a set of chemic-
al reactions. Haeckel, that master
mind, OF fact, still lives to. deny recog-
milton to anything like an immortal
soul, in the name of nineteenth cen
fury science. But for all that, the wave
has broken into an infinity Of frag-
ments. A thousand watchers in a
thousand places have rediscovered the
soul and heard its voice in their own
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
Small Town RuiIdinn Code.

Engineering Record: Outside of the
city of Chicago. not more than three
or four communities in Illinois have
building codes. The consequence is
that the factory conditions, particu-
larly as regards fire hazard, are de-
plorable.
The difficulty in providing adequate
protection is that when the proposed
Legislation is called a building CODE"
it will run into great detail, as in the
proposed Ohio code, and by its minute
ness defeat its end. The code must be
quite general, laying details for the
architect, subject, of course, to the ap-
prevail Of the proper officials.
The National Board Of Fire Under
writer's has realized that code writing
for smaller cities has been sadly ne
elected. Accordingly. it has drawn up
a code especially adapted for the small
err town. Its adoption where there IS
no enactment at present, or where the
existing ordinance Is inadequate, is
highly desirable.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
CorraIine Sabbath Breakers.

London Chronicle: That sixteenth
century practice of the elders in Scot
land of going the rounds to pick up
offenders against Sunday rules sur
vived until the eighteenth century.
Mr.. Thomson, in his Weavcrs' Craft,
gives details of the bag: The min
lister himself would make the rounds,
to spy with his own eyes the sins of
the a~bsentees. Here m man is found
ronlping with his BARNS; another de-
tected in kissing his wife; two men
were found drinking ale, n one was
found with his coat off, as if he We're
going to work, and still another was
seen eating a hearty dinner. All were
pulled up before the session or the
kirk n repentance enforced upon
each"
And now one can understand the
wherefore of the drawn blind on Sun
day, which struck James Payn as
astonishing. in the Edinburgh of the
sixties.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
HILL TEAM wins
FROM SCIENTISTS

In an e~rratic, .freaky game, Fargo
college won 35 to 25 from Wahpeton
Science last night.
The locals showed the effects of the
recent F. CA. C. game, and it was
not until the last five minutes that
Coach Watkins quint got together and
did things, making twelve points in
that period. .
The Scientists got away for several
minutes, leading in the scoring. Far
go college came to, and ended the
first half Is to 8 in their favor. The
second half Wahpeton plugged along
until the score was even, 10 to 10.
Wahpeton made the next basket,
again leading the scoring, 81 to 10. The
game ended 20 to %, incidentally be-
ing the thirteenth on the schedule.
g.. The game was continued five min
utes to choose the victors. Fargo
frightened up and everybody tossed
them in. Sim pushed in the first, fol-
lowed by Boise, who slipped in three.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
FIRST TO USE SEWING MACHINE
Miss Elizabeth KiIbourn Operated Elias
HoweFs invention,

New York Sun: Miss Elizabeth M.
kilbourn, now over so. and lying i'll in
the Litchfield county hospital in Win
sted, Conn.,. was the first woman to
take a stitch or a sewing machine. In
the early fifties she was a teacher in a.
private school in New Hartford, when
Elias Howe was experimenting with
his invention in a dingy shop in a. base
ment on the present site Of the New
Hartford house. She became interested
in his invention, and was finally per-
mitted to operate it.
There, you are the first woman in
this world who ever took a stitch on a
sewing. machine" Howe said to Miss
kilbourne, when at his invitation she
tried the machine.
At that time there was no pedal~ar-
rangement, and the operator had to
turn the wheel by hand. Two needles
We're inserted in the machine, as Miss
kllbourne remembers it. 3
Elias Howe was very poor in those
days, and sharpened knives and did
odd jobs for a living in his basement
shop. When he had perfected his sew
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
The Louise,

The little steamboat Louise, which
made the first passage of the Panama
canal, was first used in Panama wat
ers 20 years ago, when she conveyed
Ferdinand de &Lesseps, his son, and a
distinguished committee Of Frenchmen,
to the mouth Of the Rio Grande. The
place where she anchored is near the
point where, the works of the port of
Balboa are in progress. The arrival of
the Louise with the distinguished en-
gineer was acclaimed by a large force
Of negro workmen. The vessel re-
turned to Panama and for years was
used by the agents of the French Pan
anna Canal company in crossing the
bay. When, the French company failed
the Louise was for a time abandoned.
When the United States took owe the
project the Louise became the property
Of Uncle Sam, and was reftted and
refurnished. A movement has been
tsarted in Paris to raise a fund for the
purchase of the Louise, that she may
be kept as d souvenir.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-03-05
THE BOWLERS
HARVEsTERs BEAT CYCLE TEAM,

HARVESTERS BEAT CYCLE TEAM.
The International Harvester Co.
team took two out OF three from the
johnson Cycle Co. last night at the
tSestor alleys: The feature, OF the
evening was the tie score Of the third
game, both cams rolling 9S4.
Fitzgerald rolled last in the extra in
ming to, decide the tie, and, had it not
been for his double, the game would
have gone to the Johnson team. Fitz-
gerald saved the game for the Har-
vesters in the first place by doubling
in the last frame, bringing the score
of his team exactly even with that of
the other team. Thompson's score of
as was high for the evening, Fitz-
gerald following closely with his 2G6
in the last game.