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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10

OF its Lomirees on the Repblican
ticket.
He is former school teacher,
havirg successfully taught 10 the
county Tor twelve years, Tut at
present he is successful farmer.
The editor has known Mr..
Weaver. Tor number oil years
and having attended the State
Normal at Carbondale. with him
and in some OF the same classes
we found him to be fair and Just
in his dealings with US, ior which
we give him Gre dit. We ask
that the voters consider his clam
when coming to the polls Sept.
9th.
He will call on as many as he
can before the Primary election
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10
fine at his home wher. has been
suffering with Lung Troubles.
St Paul Baptist Church.
MT. VERNON

Brother Editor, Please print
the following in your newsy sheet
We had great s. S. Lonven-
ton in our city Much good
was accomplished. an abun caroe
OF good seed was sown, and frcms
we look for great harvest in the
future. The Convention thru
out was charming sight to be-
hold. Our present memory can
only recall one thing that we SO
much regret. We had two bright
in eIlectual ladies from a certain
city s. s. in this district who
played very conspicous part in
our convention. in fact, they
made a wonderful pressie
upon my people for good but 10
my sorrow and utter surprise. al
ter the close OF the Convention,
these two ladies remained over
in the city until Thurday morning
and on Wednesday night and tie
COW like that gave a pail OF good
milk then kicked the pail over.
These girls went up 10 the hall
and destroyed every good i'm
preston they had made in the
convention by da. cling Shame
on them +! | shall recommend 10
our Convention ard Association
as well, that any person or per-
sons that bring reproach and dis
grace on our Christian bodies.
That between their sitting that
the Executive Board shall have
the power to remove them and
till their place with better mater.
ial.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10

ion Co. OF Kansas City, was a
warded the contract ard work
is TO begin at once. ] here are
several forces OF men alrt ady at
work grading, laying side tracks
unloading lumber. steel rails and
many other things connected to
the construction Ct this great
bridge. Paducah has begun 70
sit up and take notice while the
big things are in actual operation
IN Nj Metropolis
According to report in Paducah
Sun a contract has been given to
a Pad.cah Milling Co. by the
M opois and Illinois railroad
bridge at Metropolis, for 3.778.
o45 feet of lumber. which will
rcqulre about 400 cars TO haul ii
to Metropolis Thus we are in
the midst OF prosperity in our
city while the Faducah sun con-
tinues TO make faces at US, Why
should we care SO long as We We
got the bridg and the shops while
the Sun got the wind.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10
Announcement.

Rev and Mrs, A. Chavis. an
nounces the engagement OF their
daughter Lizzie to Capt. Arthur
Williams OF Metropolis. III.
Wednesday July ~. 1914.
The ceremony will be perform
ed at the Antioch Baptist church
and reception a. Odd Fellows
Hall.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10
Geo. c. Schneeman.

In this issue Of the Gazette will
be found the announcement oil
Geo. { Schneeman, as candi-
date for denomination TO the
Office of County Clerk on the Re-
publican ticket. A write-up will
follow next week.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10
Gard of THANKS.

We wish TO thank the many
friends who so kindly assisted us
during the last Illness and death
% Mrs. Annie Smith, our beloved
daughter, affcetionate wife and
devoted sister. Your kindness
and sympathy to US during the
hours OF need shall ever be re-
membered by us
Respectfully yous.
Mks. MILE GkIGGs, Mother,
Nix. Chas. GRIGGs, Father
Mr.. HARMON SMITH, Husband
MRs. CHAs. BLAKEMoRE. Sist.
MRS. L. WRIGHT. Mother-in-
law.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10

The contract has been let for 7
piers Tor the big bridge that is to
span the Ohio River at Meiropo-
lis, the Union Bridge Constructs
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10
Col. Bill Scott, Has Nightmares

Col Bill" Scott, Editor OF
what he claims TO be De mo-
cratic sheet, The Springfield
Leader" has had nightmare
and he would have US believe that
there are 20. 900 Negroes in the
State who will be iells enough
this fall to vote lp the Democrat
ic primary If Col. Bill can
get any consolation out OF this
hallucinatlon, we are willing that
ne should have it, but when he
fully RECEIVERS from his dream OF
imagination he will find that the
democrats will be turnen out on
the cold charities Of this world to
explain how it all happened
The Democratic Party is a
Party OF broken promises and OF
unfulltilled pledges.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10

Bsookpsz I'll. NJ. a6 "a
To whom this may eoncern.
Greetings:
This is 10 certify that |. A. c
Crider have been appointed Dist
Deputy. Grand Master Of the 9Th
Dist. oil +. a. II OF Illinois.
will visit all lodges in my dis.
trict this year.
A. c Crider
Box i7z
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1914-07-10
|. c r. r. Time Card

You are cordially invited to
come in and look at our Ladies.
Misses and Children's trimmed
hats and you viii be convinced Of
their splendid value. Get ready
for spring weather.
MRS. vALLEE.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

letter to the Chattanooga Times,
an alleged Democratic paper
which has frankly admitted that
it will bolt the Democratic par
ty in the State when the party
platform declares for prohibition
makes reference to several in
stances of political shifting"
which have occurred in Tennes.
see in recent years-but the ex-
senator omits recalling one piece
of shifting" which has been to
himself of more importance than
all the rest. In the case refer
red to Ham Patterson got credit
for being the "shifter" and Dan.
cy Fort,the "shiftee." Fort was
openly, avowedly aud Instructed
for statewide" when he was
sent to the Senate of the Legis-
lature of 1909. He went one day
into the gubernatorial mansion
/ at Nashville almost too wide"
to get through the front door.
He was seen" by King Hamuel
and came out a traitor to his own
expressed convictions as we'll as
his constltuents-and the Incl.
dent caused Frank Lewis, then
running the Political, column
in the Tennessean to write his
famous article under the caption
"Oh, Dancy, What Made You
Dc It?"
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

For the first time in the histo-
ry Of that city, a Roman Catho.
lie mission, conducted by a ne.
gro priest, the Rev.. Father II.
T. Dorsey, began in the church
Of st. Anthony, in Memphis,
last Sunday. The negro Catho.
lie congregation in Memphis, es-
tablished in 1908 with a single
member and has grown to more
than two hundred active COM
municants, with a parish school,
in charge of the Sisters of Chart
ty, a pretty church and substan-
tial parsonage.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

The disease called smallpox,
reduced by vaccination to a min.
imum of danger and robbed al.
most completely of the horrors
by which it was in olden times
always attended, seems to be
pretty well scattered over the
country. The disease is still dis
agreeable and a matter of incon-
venience, but as a matter of dan,
ger does not compare with meas
les which is also in the country
dong business with it's unpop-
ular partner, the humps, anoth.
err temporary deauty destroyer.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

A commission in New Hamp.
shire, appointed by a Federal
judge, has declared that Harry
X. Thaw, who killed Stanford
White, if set at liberty would
not be a menace to public safety
in other words, this commits
sion declares Thaw to be a sane
man. Thaw. has never been any
thing but a sane man, but up
where he lived il an outraged
husband did the commendable
act of killing the brute who had
debauched his wife when an un-
married girl and again tried to
lead her back into vice after her
marriage, such an avenger must
be either a criminal or crazy
Thaw ought to come South,
where, to a greater extent, de-
Tense of honor and the home are
a test of manhood.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

Judge Sam @. Williams, Of
the Supreme court Of Tennessee i,
born and reared in West Tenn,
but for several years q resident
of Johnson City, Washington
county, East Tenn, has announc-
ed for re election. Judge Will
liams was appointed to the Su-
preme bench, by Governor Hoop.
er to succeed Judge John X.
Shields when he was elected to
the United States Senate. Judge
Williams is a high class man
and has made good on the bench
If the votes are counted as cast,
Judge Williams will be a hard
man to beat, regardless of the
opposition he may have.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16


The suit before the railroad
commission on the part of the
State TO force the railroads to
reduce the passenger fare from 8
to q cents per mile, began last
Monday in Nashville and may
continue for months. If the
State succeeds in putting down
the price Of the only thing that
can be bought as cheap as ten or
fifteen years ago, an attempt
might next be made to reduce
che general cost of living.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

The Department of hgricul-
ture at Washington, on last Sat-
urday issued a statement in
which it is said that housewives
waste valuable food and increase
the cost of living when they
throw away suet or use it in
soap making. Does this mean
mutton suet or beef tallow, or
both--in which, if you please
we want none of our grub fried.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16
Special Election Notice.

We, the undersigned C0mmiss oners
of Election for Henderson county,
Tennessee, hereby order a special
election to be held on
SATURDAY, JANUARY "a, 1914.
for the election of Justice of the
Peace for the First civil district of
Henderson county, Tennessee, to fill
out the unexpired term of w. V.
league, resigned.
Elections will be held at the vari-
GUS voting precincts of the said first
civil districts, to-wit The voting
precincts of the old lst, 8th, 9th, 18th
and 18th districts.
Said election will be held according
to law, between the hours Of 8 o'clock
a. M, and 4 o'clock p. M, and sealed
returns of same will be delived to w.
". Barry, Chairman, at his Office In
Lexington, Tennessee, not later than
noon on Monday after said election.
The following Officers, Judges,
Clerks and Registrars, are hereby
appointed to hold said election:
Blackwell, old LIST district--Oflcer,
Preacher Coffman; Judges, Fl. II.
Mckee, ]. H. Gately, X. d. Smith;
Clerks, Leonard Stanford, Y. Y. Ut
ley; Registrars, G. w. Stanford, +.
T. James.
y Union Cross, old 9Th precinct-Ofi
Ger, Sam Mccoy; Judges, j. |. Pear.
son, g. w. Jordon, w. A. Douglass;
Clerks, Joe Coffman, w. A. Gr0gan,
Registrars, A. 4. Skies, j. M. Milan;
Wildersyille, old 9th precinct On
Ger, J. I. R0sser: Judges, L. +. Cor.
don, Sam Gordon, w. K. Bolen;
Clerks, B. w. Walker, M. c. Carnal;
Registrars, Sam Murphy, Frank Todd.
Long Sought, old 18th precinct
Officer, r. E. Lee: Joe Boswell q. r.
Adams, j. L. Fuller; Clerks. Tim
Smith, w. r. Wilson; Registrars.
J. ID. Timherlake, Frank Rhodes.
Center Ridge, old 7th precinct
Officer, 7. z. Sellers; Judges u. II.
Cason, G. B. Bell, J. w. Fesmire:
Clerks, X. H. league, J. e. GINNING.
ham; Registrars, w. H.. Scott, IL. b.
Hays.
Candidates must make application
to have their names placed on the Of
fetal ballot at least ten days before
the date of the election. M ,.
Witness our signatures, this the 9th
DAY of January. 1914. s77Il3
w. ". BARRY, CHM. !.
t w. III. DENTsoN.
HOMER JOYNER.
Election Commission Henderson Co.
W IN"
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

After three weeks of rest al
Pass Christian, Mississippi, Pres.
ident Wilson left that place last
Sunday to return to Washington
The President expressed his
thanks to the people of the Pass
Christian vicinity for the seclus.
ion they have permitted him tc
enjoy and without which his alb
sence frcm Washington would
not have brought the needed
rest.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

Mayor John Purroy Mitchell
of the big city Of New York,
declared war last Saturday on or
ganized gangs of the city and
caused emphatic orders to be
given the police that bands of
drug fends, murderers aud
thieves must be broken up,
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

Elk President Professor Will
liam II. Taft, has lost eighty
pounds in weight and has sent
thirty five suits of clothes to the
tailor to be cut down to 48 inches
waist measure. We did not
think that any sensible man in
the world cared to own so many
suits Of clothes.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

DR.. A. B, Kelly, the famous
Baltimore physician, is treating
Congressman Bremner, of New
Jersey, for cancer, by the radi-
UNI process. DR.. Kelly claims
that his patient is improving,
but does not assert that radium
is a specific or universal cure for
the dread cancer. He believes,
however, that the precious and
elusive metal is the best known
cure for that ailment which picks
for its victims the very flower Of
the human race. In his treat
ment of Congressman Bremner,
DR.. Kelley is using a speck Of
radium which cost him $500, 600;
and in addition to that sum, DR..
Belly has given the government
$4,000 with which to have ex-
ports prosecute the seaEh for
the most precious known COM
modify. The people should be-
ware Of quacks aud nostrums,
claiming to cure cancer BY the
use Of radium contained in the
compound. as some fakir has al
ready put on the market prep.
aration of the kind. -
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

date develops such tendencie 8
we shall consider the primary
pledge not binding.
We have twice supported Gov.
Hooper and now regard him as
the best executive the State
ever had, but being reared a
Democrat, believing yet in tie
real principles of Democracy
we would naturally prefer to cast
our vote for Newt. White.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

The colossal task of valuiug
the railroads of the United
States was begun in Atlanta,
Georgia, last Monday, on the At
lanta, Birmingham & Atlantic,
and with Howard M. Jones, of
Nashville, in charge OF the work
which will take years to CON-
plete and will cost millions OF
dollars.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

Let it be told..in passing, that
the instinct to make money is
j lat the hog instinct Humanity
expressed, aud in nowise implies
either brains or soul fineness.
Money is so much like water that
it commonly collects in lowest
places. ALFRED Henry Lewis.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16
Our Choice.

There is much talk Of Demo.
cratic harmony in Tennessee,
with some honest opposition
thereto, on the part of men who
are afraid to break the combina-
tion by virtue of which the VIC
tory was won over the horles of
whisky, anarchy and graft
The Progress will not reject
harmony on terms which will al
low the independent Dem ocrat
to retain his self-respect and in
the matter Of q leader to carry
the anti.whisky, Democratic
banner to victory in the guber-
Material election of next Novem-
ber,~ this paper has its first
choice-the Hon. Newton II.
White, of Giles county, Speaker
Of the Senate. Mr.. White may
be classed as among the broad
est, cleanest, most practical men
in the State--a man too honest
to do injustice to an enemy, too
completely swayed by principle
to vary therefrom even at the
behest Of his best friend. Newt.
White is our first choice for Gov.
ernor Of Tennessee. Nominate
him-and we. will fight to the last
Itch for his election. Turn him
we will consider the
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

! l.. M. Ewing, a travelling sales
man, of Knoxville, has been
raising a row because he claimed
that a railroad agent charged
him Al cents too much on his ex.
cess baggage. Yet, he would
doubtless consider it a shrewd
trick if he could hand a cynduc.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16
Mighty Good Test.

Now that we Democrats are
talking Of harmonizing, all com
ing back together and dwelling
together in harmony, as brethren
should, each and every newspap
er man has his plan OF harmon
izing the hitherto discordant fac
tions. while CORE pondents of the
daily papers are offering mnl-
tiplicity of tests to which may
be subjected candidates for the
Legislature and other offices con.
nected with the conduct of the
State government, as we'll as the
making and administration of
laws. Our neighbor, the Jack
--sonian, has already adopted
the slogan, Put none but Dem
ocrats on Guard" (meaning all
the Offices from President to
constable) and in the political
dictionary of the regular" Jack !
son paper. Democrat" lie dein,
ed: Amy old hulk, who stands
for liquor as local optionisC, re-
gardless of looks and smell. "
The Chattanooga Times is braz
emily chattel of the liquor in
terests, while the News of the
same city, is for maintenance and
enforcement Of the present laws.
Both Memphis papers are liquor
papers--and, of course, all that
goes with such ownership. The
Nashville Tennessean aud Amer
lean and the Nashville Banner,
while differing on the subjects
OF fusion and harmony, are both
for prohibition. The Knoxville
Journal and Tribune, the one
great Republican daily paper Of
the state stands fllatfooted for
prohibition. THE LEXINGTON
PROGRESS, naming itself last
among the great papers Of the
State, suggests the matter Of the
election laws-the old, and the
one now in the hands of the Su-
preme court-as the test for men
for whom we hall vote, not only
as Democrats but as men of the
commonest and simplest kind Of
honesty. The present, or old
law, recognizes fairly the Repub.
lican party, in the holding Of
elections and the counting OF
votes, but naturally keeps the
balance of power IN the hands
of the normally dominant party
the Democratic party. The
so-called new Jaw was conceived
in the lust Of Office by plant
tools of the liquor traffic anG
was passed" and"re passed" il
the House OF the 5Sth Genera
Assembly, at the instance o.
JohnI. COX and his kind, il
theft and violation of everything
.thata white man ought to hole
sacred Let US adopt the matter
Of the election law and the late
attempted outrage under the
same name, as the test of meI
who may aspire to run for office
in Tennessee--with the under
standing that no politically
honest man will desire to claim
politicsl kinship with that which
was conceived in drunken lust
and born in political iniquity.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

Conditions at the close of bus
mess last week were favorable
to better prices and are said to
Indicate a smaller cotton crop
than has recently been predict
ed. Some have been guessing the
cropover the IA, $780, 900 mark.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

FREE-We will give absolute
ly free a handsome Webster's
Dictionary of over 300 pages,
aud will send it postpaid, for
just a little information which
you can furnish us without any
trouble. Write for particulars.
Address, The New Era Co.,, High
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

tor a dollar and get three dollars
worth of riding for the money
just like getting a drygoods clerk
to sell SO worth of goods for one
dollar. AS the railroads are con.
sidered common and legitimate
prey for everybody, it is no won
der if they try to get even.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

Eight Tennessee County courts
voted the High School tax on the
first Monday, Decatur being the
only one in West Tennessee.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

Mrs. Sylvia Pankhurst has
just pulled off another successful
hunger strike of weeks dura-
ton in an English jail and was
released in a collaped condition.
just for a change she might have
tried thatstunt in this country.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

By the eruption of a volcano
iu Japan, a vast number Of lives
have been lost and at least one
city covered in ashes.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

The chairman says that the
prohibition law must be main.
tanned until defiance to it has
ceased, and when the present
law is changed, it must be by
the friends of the law and only
modified to secure a measure
that more effectively accom-,
plishes the ends of temperance
He says men must be nominated
who can be trusted absolutely
Chattanooga News.
Friends of the prohibition law
will never change it, but, wits
ky men, in the guise of local OPP
tion hypocrites will attempt il
when they have enough of theil
kind in the Legislature. Mex
we want the Removal Bill in
stead of the fake Liquor Ship
ment Law by which Count,
Court Clerks and express agents
are now bothered. Morton won
do for any anti-liquor man to de
pend on.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

The exceedingly Honorable
Dancey Fort, Of Clarkaville,
Montgomery county, in . recent
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-01-16

The Cow Brewer seems to
be making things hop down in
Mississippi.