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Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27
SHE

She can read page of Latin, "a
She can tell the weight of satin,
She can mention all the funny jibes
OF Jerold and of Hook;
She can tell the tunes of Verdi !,
On creaking hurdy-gurdy;
But, alas; with all her learning
She has never learned to cook
-Kalomazoo Gazette
She can read a poem of Browning
And at Sanskrit there's no frowning;
She can play a great work through
OF Mendelssohn or Bach
She knows ancient Guilds art
Of love and other books by heart,
But with all her erudition
She can never darn a sock.
Birmingham Age-Herald
She can dance the hesitation,
Tango nightly with elation
She can bunnyhug and grizaybear
And do the walrus slide;
She can dip and glide and wiggle
She can goo-goo eye and giggle
But she couldn't navigate
Carpet sweeper if she tried.
Springfield Union.
She can do some great contortions;
She is fine in telling fortunes;
You should hear her recite "The
Boy Stood on the Burning Deck!"
She can run and jump and tussle,
Has control Of every muscle,
But can't hook her gown up the back
To save her blooming neck
Houston Post.
She can play all kinds of card games
Auction, bridge and other big games;
She can deal just like gambler
From the bottom of the pack.
She knows how to "Malse" or Double
But she never took the trouble
To learn to sew button on
FIR poor, kng-suffering Jack.
Memphis Cmmercial Appeal.
She can drive an Automobile
And can even dance a quadrine
She can get upon the stage and
Flirt with any duffer.
She can powder, paint and puff;
She is nothing but a bluff
Cause when hubby comes in home he
Has to cook his supper.
"A. H. Lewallen.
A good s. ow at the HIPP all day
Friday and Saturday. 5 and 10c.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27
REPUBLICANS MEET

Republicans of the Fourth Congress
sional district met in Cookeville last
Friday and decided to make no nomi-
nation for Congressman, empowering
the committee to do so later on if it
saw fit. Judge Hull, can't be defeat
ed, so what's the use.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27
cooKEvlLEE ROUTE e

We are having some very pretty
weather at present
Hello, cousin Mollie Dahnff I sure
was glad to see letter in the Herald
from you.
Com again Argo Davis, with your
etters they are fine.
Zella Farley looked lonesome Sun.
Louiza and velma Randolph spent
Saturday night and Sunday with their
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27
HIGH SCHOOL OPENING

The High School pupils will come
TO Dixie College Monday, Aug. 81, at
not later thar 8 O'Clock for the pur
pose of organization and classification.
Pupils will be admitted who have
the seventh grade in any
school,
T. X. SISK, Principal.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27
PILE NOMINATED

The Democratic senatorial conven-
tion met at Livingston today and ac-
cording to word just received from
there Mr.. O. P. Pile, the only announc-
ed candidate, was nominated.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27

Mt. View Lodge No. 179, |. o. o. F.
held a splendid meeting Aug. %, 1914,
w. H. Barr, N. G. presiding, with
good attendance Quite lot of rou-
tine business was disposed of. Bro.
j. M. Judd has ujst returned from Red
Boiling Springs and says Bro. d. L.
Lansden is improving satisfactorily.
Bro. ]. H. York and Dank Garrison
are still improving.
The End degree was conferred upon
one applicant in good style. The 3rd
degree will be given two brothers at
next meeting.
At the inst'gation of Bro. G. w.
Stephens, this lodge now has in its
keeping key to the secret work.
The brothers who think they know all
about the order and for that reason
only visit the lodge occasionally, are
invited to attend the lodge and demon
strate unlocking the work for the edi-
fication of the less informed brothers
who are anxious to learn more of this
grand order
More money will be asked for by
the trustees of the |. o. o. F. Home,
at next grand lodge. Our representa-
tive wants instruction as to what the
lodge thinks proper. Come and give
the benefit of your counsel.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27

When baby suffers with Group, ap-
ply and give DR.. Thomas Eclectic Oil
at once. Safe for children. A little
goes a long way 25c and SOC. At all
drug stores.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27

Read the Herald-it costs only Csc.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27

Sylvan Rebekah Lodge No. 58 had
meeting on the NIGHT of Aug. 21,
1914, with good attendance
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1914-08-27

A good s. ow at the HIPP all day
Friday and Saturday. and 10c.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Courts Against Them.
Public Pests.

From the New York Evening World.
The man who knows the only things
worth knowing.
There is a type of more or less-usually
less-traveled person. who thinks nobody
csc has either eyes or intelligence.
Whether you have just returned from
Washington or the West Indies or Hin
dustan, this man is always ready with
his:
We'll. did you see SO and so? No?
Why, you missed the whole thing!
could have told you, etc, etc.
Ten to one it is only some back-alley
cafe he discovered or some paltry hill he
climbed, but his one idea is to convince
you that whatever you saw and did was
nothing to what he saw and did. And
the latter is all he wants to ia about.
This individual is trial to his friends
and an insufferable nuisance in general
conversation. He belongs in the same
class with the man who always greets
another mans story with: Yes, that's
old. Let me tell you good one"
It's pestiferous species,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
BOUGHT AS INVESTMENT
Footer's Dye Works Acquires Prop.
erty at 1917 G Street
Northwest.

A deed has been placed on record trans
1errlng the ownership Of the one-story
building at 1917 street northwest from
woodward & Lothrop to the Footer DYE
ing Company. The consideration has not
been made public
The property transferred is one Of three
one-story stores owned by Woodward &.
Lothrop. The other properties are 1913
and 1221 G street 1t is understood that
negotiations also are under way for their
sale.
The building acquired by the dyeing
concern, which is reported to have been
purchased as an investment is at pres
emit leased to an art firm. The other
buildings are occupied as a dining room
and as an express company office.
Announcement has been made that the
Footer establishment has renewed its
lease on the property which it now Occur
pies at the northeast corner of 18th and
G streets northwest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

many motion picture houses-the Gran
dali Theater-at the southeast corner Of
9th and E streets northwest. For sew
eral months a large force of workmen
has been engaged in its construction
and now everything is in readiness for
the initial photoplay performance.
The Crandall Theater has been built
by an Incorporated company, of which
H. NJ. Crandall is president. Plans for
the structure were prepared by W. S.
PLACER, architect. and the. work has been
done by A. H. Aylor. builder. The work
involved approximately $4,000.
Exterior Appearance Changed.
The construction of the theater has re-
suited in the complete remodeling of the
four-story structure at the southeast
corner Of 9th ard e streets, which for
merly was utilized for store and ONCE
purposes. The exterior appearance of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

lecture. planned by T. j. Morgan.
The houses contain from five to seven
rooms and all modern improvements, and
occupy large lots. The beauty of the
neghborhood is enhanced by many large
oak and chestnut trees. Before the de-
yelopmeEt of the tract was begun it was
thickly wooded. but sufficient number
of trees have been left standing to pro-
vide plenty of shade.
Among the recent purchasers of houses
in the neighborhood are Harris w. Bar
mum, Daniel A. Darroch, Johnston v.
Best, c. w. kincheloe, A. T. King, jr.;
Edwin L. Powell, Clara ID. Gilbert, ]. w.
Shade and Miss S. S. Beach. The prices
of the dwellings acquired by them aver
aged from $1,000 to $4,000. Morgan
Bros, real estate brokers and agents,
who have been responsible for the de-
velopment OF the tract, also report the
sale of lots as follows: To A e. Whit
taker, three lots, averaging $3.50 each;
to Andrew Jordan, one lot; to John X.
Jenkins, one lot, and TO Clara D. Gilbert.
one lot 1t is reported that plans for
number of additional homes to sbe built
in the neighborhood now are in the
course of preparation and that extensive
building operations are to be started in
the early spring
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

Takoma Park which are close to the
tracks Of the car line to be electrified
have been the scene Of considerable
building activity during the past few
months In the section comprising sew
eral squares a short distance north OF
the administration and printing office
buildings OF the Seventh day Adventists
in Takoma the development has been
UNIQUE. The tract is divided by the
MARYLAND District of Columbia line.
Improvement Was Rapid.
Although surrounded by squares in
which there had been considerable home
building. this tract was III rough state
last May when steps first were taken
TO improve it. Now streets have been
laid out. sidewalks built, gas. water and
sewer mains installed and number OF
attractive dwellings erected
Included in the homes which have been
built art several attractive structures
Of the California bungalow type Of archi-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Eugenics a Failure /?
From the New York Telegram

From the New York Telegram.
Innate delicacy and common sense are
causing a revulsion of feeling touching
eugenics. The idea that two young per-
sons cannot get married unless they SUBJ
NIT to cross-questioning by a committee
of allegedly superior souls is repugnant
Besides that. the utility of this latest fad
is doubted. Lecturing in milwaukee,. Prof.
John NJ Coulter of Chicago University
declared that eugenics is practically a
failure.
voluntary selection PLAYS Inn
portant part in the laws OF heredity than
anything eugenIcS has olea...u ne
says. "a consonance of sympa. hies TAX .
ing precedence in importance over other
acknowledged abilities and determining
factors. There are some things in life
the time is not vet ripe for tampering
with and human nature is one Of them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
UPPER-DWELLING BUILT FOR
j. w. SHADLE.
LOWER-NEW HOME OF o. w.
KING.

has been left between the first row OF
seats, and the screen on which the pic
lures are to be displayed. The screen,
which measures twelve by sixteen feet,
is of the latest gold" type. A large room
for the picture-projecting machines has
been provided at the rear of the theater.
eTn appliances.
The building of the Crandall Theater
has attracted considerable attention in
building and architectural circles. The
construction of the auditorium necess-
tated the removal of a number of pillars
and dividing walls, and In order to sup
port the upper floors massive steel grid
ers were employed. Three girders fifty
one feet long and seven feet high were
used. They are said to be the largest
single piece Orders ever utilized in build
ing construction in Washington. Each
girder weighs between ten and eleven
TONS
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
High Finance.

From Pearsons Weekly.
An amusing story comes from Paris in
connection with NJ. Jules Claretie, the
famous manager of the national theater,
the Coincide Franchise.
+ One of The ''supers'' failed to appear at
a performance of "Phedre" the other
evening. He had only to walk on with
the crowd, but NJ. Claretie keeps an eye
on all these details, and next morning
the super received letter signed by
NJ. Claretie saying that he would be fined
Is Sd for having been absent from his
place without leave.
The resourcef1l super promptly went
to an autograph collector and sold NJ
Clareties letter for half-a crown, thus
making profit out of his own negli-
gence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

panies was at its height A broker would
ascertain that some farm was for SAFE.
say for $4,000. He would go among his
friends and induce them to go into a
syndicate to buy the farm, but usually
he would represent to them that the farm
would cost. say. $4,000, and, OF course,
that was very. very cheap, and he was
doing them big favor by letting them
in on the ground floor"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
ADVANCES NOVEL IDEA
TO BEAUTY CITIES
Writer Believes Architect Should
Superintend Construction
in Each Ward.

The proposition to reduce city archi-
lecture to political subdivisions within
the municipality comes as a novel, If not
a practical, suggestion from well
known architect, whose name for OBJ
vious reasons is withheld. He says in the
Pacific Builder and Engineer:
I'VE read Of civic beautification-and
the civic beauty experts hope to beautify
our American cities by means of insert.
ing an expensive, yet insignificant, So
called civic center into each city. For
the sake of this article we shall abandon
their ideas, except their banner, civic
Identification.
Architecture is practiced in this coun-
try on the same general governing
scheme - government Is practiced among
the head hunters Of Luzon.' Every archi-
tect is out for himself. either to line his
belt with the heads of the other fellows
or lose his own.
Total Compensation $4,000.
From building statistics may be learned
the amount OF business going to the aver
age architect. In the United States at
present it Is about $4,000 a year, and
granting that he shall receive commits
sion Of per cent. which is the average
HASoioiAs hO 6Houiu, Ia all equity, re-
celve a total compensation of $4,000
One-third of this is spent sketchins.
advertising and entertaining. In an effort
to plan dozen buildings before the con-
tract is signed to do one building; and
the expenses incidental to the making of
plans. rent and superintendent will
consume easily another third Conse-
quently 1T can be shown that the remu-
neratlve balance, above business ex-
penses, is $500 per annum for the aver
age architect: more for the most popular
rev and less for the majority.
Within given area Of one of our
cities there are, let us say. twenty build
Ings, each planned by different archi-
tect and each architect attempting des-
perately to make his building stand out
IN distinct relief above the tumult of
other designs. The general result, or
the ensemble needs no comment
The reason for this is that architects
imagine that their profession should be
run along the same lines as medicine and
law, not realizing that their work re-
mains piled up before the public In an
orderless head. as a permanent eyesore
The other above-named professions are
guilty of no such nuisance. The men
who really do most toward the ruination
OF city's ensemble beauty are the very
ones who allege that they are improving
matters
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

the structure has been changed entirely.
An elaborate base of stucco and orna-
mental plaster construction has been
built up to the level of the second floor
been painted a soft gray tone. which
forms pleasing contrast with the pias-
ter cornice and panel work which has
been given an old ivory finish.
Five entrances and exits have been
provided for the new place OF amuse-
ment. There will be three wide en-
frances on the E street side Of the struc-
ture. An exit has been provided on the
9th street side Of the building and an
other on the opposite side leading to q
wide public alley The latter is intended
primarily as safety exit
Many Novel Features.
Many novel features have been pro-
vided within the theater, which has
seating capacity of approximately 500 per-
sons. The auditorium is about fifty feet
wide and seyenty-five feet in depth. Inc
floor, which is constructed Of red-col-
ored concrete composition, has oecideu
SLOPE the rear of the auditorium being
about five feet higher than the front por-
ton. BY this arrangement an unobstruct-
ed view of the screen may be obtained
from every one of the 800 seats.
The walls of the auditorium have been
finished in green, with plaster panels and
pilasters of an old ivory color. The cell
ing. which is constructed of stamped
metal, has been painted a soft cream
color. illumination is provided by large
kettle lights suspended from the ceiling
and by wall brackets.
An elaborate ventilation system has
been provided. There are two large cleo
tricaIly operated exhaust fans in the CELL
ing and q twenty-six-inch intake fan
which will insure plenty of fresh air at
all times Smaller yentilators have been
provided in the 9th and Z street walls.
The theater is heated by the hot-water
system, the radiators being placed in re-
cesses in the walls. Retiring rooms for
ladies and gentlemen have been provided.
Ticket-Selling Machine.
The ticket office is located on the Z
street side close to the main entrance
at the corner of the building. An auto
matte ticket-selling machine has been in
stalled. 1t is so arranged that the tick
cts are elected from a device set in the
ticket sellers booth, which is within easy
reach of the purchaser This apparatus
is operated by pedal on the floor within
the booth, and its use permits the ticket
seller to devote both hands to the receive
ing of the money and the making of
change. 1t is believed the use of the ma
chine will greatly expedite the sale OF
tickets.
AT the front Of the theater a wide space
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
COMPLETION OF LINE
WILL BENEFIT TAKOMA
Railway to Be Electrified Passes
Through Eastern Section
of Suburb.
Divides Tract in Which Home
Building Has Been
Rapid.

Arrangements are being made for
the overhead electrification of the car
line which has it's southern terminus
near the end Of the. 18th street line
at 14th and Kennedy streets and
passes through southern and eastern
portions of Takoma Park. With the
completion Of the work and the es-
Establishment of regular running
schedule certain sections of Takoma
Park will be greatly benefited.
For some time negotiations have
been under way, it is said. to place the
company owning the line on a sound
financial basis. Permission has been
granted for the erection of trolley
poles, and within the past two months
considerable money has been spent in
repairing and improving the roadbed.
Gasoline motor and storage battery
cars formerly We're operated on the
line, but the service never was regu
lar, and eventually was suspended en-
tirely.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Will Connect Systems.

A spur of square or more in length
which will connect the line with the
Brightwood system has been COM
pleted The spur is located on Aspen
street, and the tracks occupy a por-
ton of the roadbed of the old Wild
wood line. Arrangements also are
being made for the extension of the
tracks as far as the Washington SAM
tarium in the eastern section of Ia
koma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Principle Called Elemental.

In the recent case of HecksheI against
Edenborn the New York court OF appeals
said: The principle that person oc-
cupying a position of agent to purchase
may not sell his own property to his
principal is so elementary that il need
only be stated. 1t must be quite as ele-
mentary and true if one by misrepre-
sentation or suppression of facts, when
he ought to speak, induces another ig-
norantly to make a contract appointing
the first his agent TO buy and comforting
upon him discretionary power to pur-
voidable, and even IL executed may be re-
Scinded and the money recovered back
on restoration Of what has been re-
ceived. -
While we are on this subject it might
be well to refer to another phase of il
which has been worked with considerable
success. especially prior to 1908, when the
craze for organizing suburban land COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
NEW MOVIE" THEATER
READY FOR OPENING
Structure at 9th and E Streets
Northwest Has Large Seat
ing Capacity.
Built by Crandall Amusement Com
pany From Plans of
w. s. PLACER.

Arrangements have been completed for
the opening within the next few days
of the latest addition to Washington's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03
Gets Secret Profit.

Ii he was successful in thus deceiving
mis- friends and forming them into a cor
poration to buy the tract at that price, he
would pocket a secret profit of $4,000,
besides collecting Il commission from the
seller.
If it was impracticable to pull out his
profit in cash, he would take il out in
stock. manipulating the transaction SO as
to make it appear perhaps that he was
actually contributing with his friends to
buy the tract mere statement of the
transaction carries with it its own con-
domination
Courts have gone far to upset such deal
ings. and in one case ii was held that
where real estate broker having a con-
tract emitting him to half of a fiveshun-
dred-dollar commission to be received by
the broker of a vendor of lands, organized
a corporation to purchase the lands and
falsely represented to the incorporators
that the lands could be purchased for
$4,000, subject to a mortgage of $1,000,
when in fact the purchase price was
$4,000 and ne only paid $500 in cash on
the lands, which was the amount contrib
uted by his fellow incorporators, and had
stock issued to himself for the difference
between the real and the represented
price, the transaction comes within the
rule prohibiting broker from making
any secret profit out of his principal
Must Be on Level"
Now, it must not be assumed that it is
wrong for a broker to make money. Or
that there is any vice in organizing
syndicate 20 buy tract of land If the
thing is done on the level there is moth
ing wrong about it. While it is I'M
doubtedly true that broker must often
work in a secretive way to protect him.
self from being done" out of his COM
mission. and that consequently it is often
advisable not TO permit the buyer and
seller to meet until all the details have
been practically agreed upon, yet some
brokers carry this method to the extreme
and imagine that they must conceal sub
stantial information which their custom
eTS are entitled to know.
When a syndicate is being formed,
everybody who goes into ii suspects that
the broker getting it up has some pecu-
mary interest in doing So because fnteili-
gent men know that broker would not
be doing all the work just for the fun OF
1t. Consequently, if the broker comes
right out and tells how much he expects,
or what share he expects in the syndi-
cate, those who are willing to go In Will
go in just the same, and perhaps with
less hesitancy if they know exactly what
the promoters share is to be. Allowable |
limits of space prevent any discussion of
the details of such transactions.
Courts Against Them.
Promoters of corporations have so fire. |
quently taken such terribly big bites that |
the courts are against them in their |
in consequence of which the |
real estate broker who has first-class |
acreage proposition in which to interest |
others, and in which he ought to receive /
for any successful efforts, I
finds it necessary to be quite discreet in |
order TO keep a legal hold on mis- share of |
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-03

IL YOU want work, read the want col
umns Of The Star.