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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

Home life is the scource of ex.
quisite blessings. There is moth
ing more attractive, refining and
uplifting than its simple joys and
freside pleasures. The world has
pleasures gay and bright but moth.
ing exceeds the joy of home and
bliss of our own fireside- 1t is
the place of gladness where burns
the freight bright. We cross
the doorsill and enter it's thres-
hold to find the garden of para
disc. We cannot be Indifferent
to the sweet attractions, simple
pleasures, pleasant conversation
and sweet songs of the family
circle. None are more bright,
more pure and none more like
the love of highest heaven 1t is
more like heaven than any spot
on earth.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
Huge Engines of War.

The extraordinary advance in
science of warfare in recent years
is in no way better illustrated
than in the matter of seige guns,
such as were used by the Germans
TO subdue the Leige fortresses.
The medieval common was clumsy
made of iron bars hoped togeth-
er with iron rings and projecting
stones; this ineffective engine
was discarded in favor of bronze
"bom bards" and cast-iron corro-
nades.
Today, however, the seige gun
is a cumbrous mass of steel or
wrought iron, weighing anything
from 40 to $50 tons. The largest
are capable of firing a she'll weigh
ing practically one ton, and with
sufficient force to penetrate
wrought iron at distance of L.
900 yards to a depth of nearly 5
feet. While some are sighted
for range of five miles, and at
that distance may be relied upon
to strike an object ten feet high,
In actual battle fire would rarely
be opened at greater range than
about two miles, owing to atmos-
| pheric and other difficulties.
Even under the most favorable
conditions the bringing up of
seige guns and the placing of
them in position is task of trans
port and engineering.
The enormous engines of war
have to be hauled up steep noun
tains and placed on solid bed of
concrete. To labor such a step
requires is about equal to that of
erecting large machinery plant.
When in position the gun is hid
den by earthworks thrown up
around 1t and screened by brush.
wood. Adapted for high fire its
heavy shells can be thrown over
any outworks and directly upon
the place intended to be attacked.
All these preparations involve
immense trouble and often much
loss of life from the enemy's fire
but once a siege gun is in posi-
ton even the strongest fortified
place is bound to suffer severely.
| Nau YORK hse akOlichad ctripod
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
LESSONS FROM
RAINFALL RECORDS
Farmers of Tennessee Do
Not Take Advantage ef
Rainfall Received
PROPER SURFACE DRAINAGE
Win Proper Drainage the Farmer Can
Snap His Fingers at the Occasional
Comparatively Dry Periods Expert
enoed In Tennessee In Year.

The State Of Tennessee has just
passed through the dryest IL months
since rainfall records have been kept.
This would seem to be good time
to look at our farming methods and
find whether or not they are calcu-
lated to take advantage OF the many
variations In rainfall and rainfall dis
tribution to which this section of the
country is subject
During the first three months Of
1918 the rainfall was abundant,
amounting to 21.5S inches. This
amount of water properly conserved
would have insured bumper crop In
1913. This Is more rain than many sec.
tons Of the West receive In whole
year and they grow fully as big crops
as we do. After a large portion Of
this rain had run off, carrying some OF
the best part Of our land with II, the
weather turned dry and by June we
were needing rain. But instead of the
usual amount Of rain. We had for the
IL months beginning June /, 1913, the
dryest year ever experienced in Ten
nessee. The accompanying chart
shows graphically the state of AFFAIRS
The upper line represents the normal
or average rainfall while the lower
line shows the rainfall for the IL
months ending May 81, 1914. Only
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
Don't RidicuIe the Old Lady.

"Say, my young lady friend, !"
says Deacon Walker, of the Os
borne, Kan, Farmer" | noticed
that you took occasion to ridicule
that old ladv " no just passed YOU
on the street. 1t gave you lot
of pleasure, have no doubt, hut
let me tell you something about
her. She is old and wrinkled and
bent with age now. But once she
could skin you block for good
looks. She was married to man
she loved and happy home for
years. Three children came to
bless them. One night the hus-
band was brought home dead.
When grief had spent itself she
faced the world penniless, with
three little ones to feed. She
toiled with needle and over the
tub. She kept the wolf from the
door, but you see at what phvsi-
cal cost. Through the long hot
days and far into the night she
worked on. Amid her labors she
found time to teach the children
good add wholesome truths-tC
be honest and square and look
every msn in the eye. The chill
dren are grown now and mother
lives with them. Her eyes are
growing dim with the sweet con-
seriousness that not one of her
children ever brought the blush
of shame to her cheeks. When
you get old and can face the
world and hold up such blessed
fruits of your labors you will not
have to concern yourself about
the world to come"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
Talk Up Your Town.

If you live in town you should
believe in 1T. Ifyou don't believe
in your town, you should move
out of it. Like other places it
has advantages that other places
have not, andyour modesty should
not prevent you from making the
fact known whenever the oppor-
tunity presents itself. At home
or abroad, whether pursuing
pleasure or engaged in business,
do not neglect to give those with
whom you come in contact to I'M
derstand that you live IN a town,
populated by enterprising 60
ahead, progressive people and
one that is advancing instead of
retrograding.
Ii you can truthfully speak in
commentator of the ability of
your professional men, the square
dealing methods of your mer-
chants, the excellence OF your
mechanics, the superiority of
your churches, schools and pub
lie institutions, and the industry,
energy and sobriety of your citi-
zens generally, let nothing pre-
vent you from exercising that
privilege. You should learn to
believe, if you do not already,
that we have all these and in
addition the best located town,
the finest country surrounding it,
with the most fertile farms titled
by the most intelligent class of
farmers to be found in the United
States.
If there are drawbacks it will
not be necessary to mention them.
The people and newspapers of
the competing towns will relieve
you of that part of it themselves.
Strangers seeking a location
are always greatly influenced in
favor of any place whose citizens
are enthusiastic IN it's praise.
No city or town can expect to
attain prominence over its rivals
unless its inhabitants appreciate
the excellence and virtues Of each
other and will collectively spread
abroad their faith in the present
prosperity aud future greatness
of their own locality. Talk is
cheap commodity, but when
rightly utilized it can be made
effective in many directions and
this is one of them.-Ex.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

two months, September and October,
had more than the average rainfall.
These two months however, put our
soil in fine condition for fall sowing and
we have had splendid crop of wheat
although It was reduced somewhat
by the dry weather In May. We have
grown other crops too, but they have
not been up to standard and in many
cases have been considered failures.
Now let us see what caused all the
trouble. What Is the reason we are
discouraged? Is tt really because of
lack Of rainfall or have We failed to
do our part?
Our average rainfall for q year is
1885 inches. In the ~ months IN
question we fell short of that amount
by 1880 inches or little more than
~ per cent. Just think OF that. We
had less than three-fourths of the Az
erage rainfall Is II any wonder our
crops were poorf But let us look
little further The actual rainfall for
the IL dry months was 1858 inches.
That Is more than the average rain
fall for Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Iowa.
Oklahoma or Texas. and 1t is gener-
ally understood that they usually grow
very fair crops In those states. Il 10
more than twice the average rainfall
of some Of the great dry farming SEQ
tons Of the northwest. Are we SUI
fering then because nature has failed
to do her part? Not bit of it. We
are In trouble because we have not
used the rainfall we did get, but have
allowed large portion of 1t to run
off the surface carrying the finest Of
our soil with 1t. II anyone doubts
this let him look at our rivers which
have been yellow with mud during this
whole dry season.
When we learn TO farm in such a
way as to prevent the waste of valu-
able water by surface drainage, We
can snap our fingers at the occasional
comparatively dry periods experienced
here in Tennessee.--J, r. Voorhees,,
Consulting Meteorologist University
of Tennessee.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
APPLE CROP OF TENNESSEE
&C. A, Keffer. University Of Tennes'
see.)

see0
The United States Department OF
Agriculture estimates the apple crop
Of Tennessee for lola at 100000
bushels. It b safe to say that not
more than $4,000 bushels Of this great
crop would bring top prices in the
great market centers. Very few or
chards in Tennessee receive system
attic care-tillage, fertilizing, pruning
and spraying. Without regular care
there can be no substantial profits in
apple growing. The few commercial
orchards that receive Intelligent at,
tention are making money for their
owners. II Tennessee apple growers
would give their apple trees the care
that the orchards Of Oregon and Wash
ington get as q matter Of course. this
state would have a nationwide repu.
tation for producing high favored and
high colored fruit.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
LODGES.

Jr. 0. U. A, M.-Tracy City
Council, No. 277, meets every Mon
day night at the l. o. o. F. Lodge
room.
f. & A. M.-Sewanee Lodge,
4o5; meets second Thursday of each
month.
|. O. o. Piracy City Lodge
1873, meets second and fourth Satur.
day of each month.
r. A.-Mountain Council No.
ST., meets second and fourth Mon
days in each month.
X. of P.-Bryce Thompson Lodge
20, meets every Tuesday night.
". .. W.-Thomas camp No.
253, meets first and third Thursday
nights of each month over Grundy
Publishing Company office.
|. o. of Red Men. -Wampunola
Tribe No. 80, meets every Friday
night at X. P. building.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

Rev. Haskell DuBose will conduct
services here at the Episcopal
Church Sunday and also celebrate
Holy Communion.
Rev. and Mrs. VIM. Brown, of
near Murfreesboro, arrived here last
Thursday to spend few days with
relatives and friends.
John Simpson Jr., and Bill Geary,
who are with the Silica Roofing &
Construction Co., came in from
Manchester Monday night.
Ed. J. D. Northcut, of Tracy
City, sat Riverside, Christ Church,
in meeting this ek.-Warren
County Times, (McMinnville.)
Mary, the little daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. J. B. Brown, has been
very sick at her home here for the
past several days with erysipelas.
Lawrence O'Neil and Miss Daisy
King, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam King, were married here Satur-
day morning by Esq. 7. B. Roddy.
In the game of foot ball here at
the park Saturday evening between
Shook School and Decherd the latter
come out victorious with a score of
IS too.
Miss Louise Looney returned to
her home in Atlanta yesterday af-
ter several months spent with her
grandparents, Capt. and Mrs. w. E.
Byers, and family.
DR.. Z. B. Finney and Miss Sims
went to St. Andrews Sunday even
ing and were shown through all the
college, which they report as quite
interesting and enjoyable,
Ethredge Bearden, of Tullahoma,
who has been visiting relatives here
for Several days, left Sunday morn
ing and will go to Atlanta Dental
College to take up dentestry.
The Ladies Memorial Association
desire to express thanks for the fol-
lowing donations: Mr.. Spies, Nash
vile, S.; Mr.. Mosier, Chattanooga,
s.; Mrs. Kirk, Tracy City, 25cts.
Russell Finney, of Wartrrce, who
came up to Sewanee with the Bran
on Foot Ball Team of Shelbyville,
where he is in school, came up to
Tracy City Saturday evening and
spent a few hours with relatives.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

1t is we'll to begin with your
children and teach them the val.
ue of money. Don't let them
fling their pennies away for tri-
fles, but teach them to save until
they have enough to buy some
thing of some value, This habit
once established, will be invalu-
able in later life.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
NONRESIDENT Notice.
In Chancery Courl at Tracy City, Tenn.
James Meeks and wife, Lille Meeks
VS..
Alf Meeks, ct. al.

ALI Meeks, ct, al.
In this cause it appearing from COM
plainants' bill, which is sworn to that
7 J. Meeks, Mack Meeks, James Meeks
and Ellen Payne are non-residents of
the state SO that the ordinary process of
law cannot be served upon hem, it is
therefore ordered that publication be
made for four consecutive weeks in
Mts. Grnndy, requiring the said de-
PENDANTS, Il. J, Meeks, Mack Meeks,
James Meeks and Ellen Payne to ap-
pear before the Chancery Court to be
held at Tracy City, Tennessee, on the
first Thursday after the second Monday
in November next to make defense to
said bill or the same will be taken for
confessed as 10 them and the cause Set
for hearing exparte.
This October %, 1914.
JOHN SCRUGGs, G. & M.
BY A, @. Alexander, D. G. & M. HIP
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
LOCAL And PERSONAL
Happenings of Interest About
Our City.

Will Greenlee, of Gap, was here
Saturday.
Berge Roddy took III the Rally at
Wonder Cave.
Wess Braden attended the Educa-
tional Rally Saturday.
Lawrence Rhodes was in Pelham
day or two last week.
A big frost, the first of the sea-
son, fell here Tuesday night.
E. c. Norvell is having a large
barn erected on his premises.
Willie Walker was in Coalmont a
day or two the first of the week.
Rev. c. r. Wade will preach at
Oak Grove next Sunday at 3 p. N.
J. B. Kirk returned last week
from a visit to relatives i'll Hunts
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Conry, of
Monteagle, visited relatsves here
Sunday.
Tom Wilson left Saturday for
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where he will
spend few days.
Rev. Henry Smith will conduct
services at the Episcopal Church at
Coalmont Sunday.
Quite a number from here attend
ed the Educational Rally at Wonder
Cave last Saturday.
Prof. and Mrs. John T. White
attended the Educational Rally at
Wonder Cave Saturday.
The w. F. Bradley Lumber Com
pany is getting quite lot of lumber
stacked on their yards.
Geo. d. Boyd, County Register,
moved his family from here to Alta
mont the first of the week.
Mrs. Robert Arnold left for Jack
sonville, Fla, last week where she
expects to spend the winter.
Ethridge Bearden is here from
Kentucky to visit Z. B. Finney and
family and G. M. Thorogood and
family.
Esq. and Mrs. J. M. Givens, of
Burroughs Cove, spent Saturday and
Sunday visiting their son II. c.
Giyens,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
lngersOIl at a ChiId'S Grave.

it is to gid grief with words, and
yet | wish to take from every
grave its fear. Here in this
world, where life and death are
equal kinds, all should be brave
enough to meet what all the dead
have met. The future has been
filled with fear, stained or pollut-
ed by the heartless past. From
the wondorous tree of life the
buds and blossoms fall with ripen-
ed fruit, and in the common bed
of earth patriarchs and babes
sleep side by side.
Why should we fear that which
will come to all that is? We
cannot tell, we do not know,
which is the greater blessing-life
or death. We cannot say that
death is not good. We do not
know whether the grave is the
end of this life or the door of an
other, or whether the night here
is not somewhere else a dawn.
Neither can we tell which is the
more fortunate-the child dying
in it's mothers arms, before it's
lips have learned to form word
or be who journeys all the length
of life's uneven road painfully
taking the last slow steps with
staff and crutch.
Every cradle asks US "When-
ce?" and every coffin "Whither9"
The poor barbarian, weeping
above his dead, can answer these
questions just as we'll as the rob-
ed preast of the most authentic
creed. The fearful ignorance of
the one Is as consoling as the
learned and unmeaning words of
the other. No man, standing
where the horizon of life has
touched grave, has any right to
prophesy a future filled with
pain and tears.
Maybe that death gives all
these is of worth to life. If those
we press and strain in our arms
could never die, perhaps that
love wonld wither from the earth.
Maybe this common fate treads
from out the paths between our
hearts the weeds of selfishness
and hate. And | had rather live
and love where death is king
than have eternal life where love
is not. Anether life is naught
unless we know and love again
the one who love us here.
They who stand with breaking
hearts around this little grave
need have no fear. The larger
and the nobler faith in all that
is and is to be tells US that death,
even at its worst, is only perfect
rest. We know that through the
common wants OF life-the needs
and duties of each hour-thelr
grief will lessen day by day, until
at last this grave will be to them
a place of rest and peace-almost
a Joy. There is for them this
consolation-the dead do not suf
fer. If they live again, their
lives will surely be as good as
ours. We have no fear. We are
all children of the same mother,
and the same fate awaits us all
We, too, have our religion. and
it is this; Help for the living
Hope for the dead.-Robert g.
lngersoll.
0nn Of tho Go O h iona bio cinc Of
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
The wife of a Bulgarian rarely

The wife of Bulgarian rarely
goes out without her husband,
does not receive callers in her
husbands absence, seldom APP
pears in restaurant, cafe or a
place of public amusement, and
never goes to any such place I'M
less her husband accompanies her.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

The father and mother ought
to be numbered with the boys
and girls in every holiday and
frolic as we'll as in everv respou-
sibility.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

One of the fashionable sins of
the resent time is the sin of idle
ness. This may not apply to the
"club ladies" of our town, but
this evil exists to an alarming
extent, especially so in larger
cities were competent ladies fit
away time as if there were no
claims upon them in the busy
marts of life, There are persons
whom the stress of circumstances
compel to work, but the work is
too often done under protest.
There is distaste for housekeep
ing. While all honest labor is
honorable there is nothing more
so than the care of a home.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
County Officers.
Magistrates.

First District-W. S. Cain, Irving Col
lege, R. F. D. /; Print Layne, Morrison,
Tenn, Route No. 2.
Second District. R. McCarver, Beer
sheba Springs; Wallace Warren, John
Schild, Gruetl.
Third District-J. Q. Brashear John
Gallagher, Pelham.
Fourth District-W. d. Bennett, Mont
eagle; j. f. Haynes, Tracy City.
Fifth District-T, B, Roddy, G. W, It'd
man, Tracy City.
Election Commissioners.
J, III. Northcut- Altamont
W. Omartt AltaHonl
9. ii. Garner Tracy City
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

A recently patented anvil for
cracking nuts is mounted on a
dish TO catch the nut meats,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
KEEP VIGOROUS BROOD SOW.

As a rule the old brood SOW should
be kept as long as she remains Wig
orous; she knows better how to raise
her sucking pigs than the younger
mothers
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
CHURCHES.
EPISCOPAL CHURCHES.

Rev. W. IL. DuBose, rector; as
sisted by Rev. Ii. l.. Jewett wills
liams, Mr.. George Ossman and Mr..
h. N. Ward. Tracy City service
every Sunday at 1900 a. m; Sunday
school at 1000 a. m. Monteagle
service first and third Sundays at
II a. m, Coalmont service every
Sunday at Up. m. Sunday school at
10 a. m. Foster Falls service every
other Sunday at IL a. M; Sunday
school at 10 a. m. every Sunday,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29

Palermo has more jewelry
stores than any other Italian city,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
TRACY CITY.
COALMONT

No. l24..,,.. 215 pm No. l23....... i.25 pm
Nos. 100, 12l, 1876 and 127 are daily ex-
cept Sunday. Nos, 122, l23, l24 and ,25
are daily.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
NJ. E. CHURCH, SOUTH.

Preaching every Sunday morning
and night, Rev. G. r. Wade, pas
tor. Sunday school every Sunday
morning, Prayer meeting every
Wednesday night.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
Your Fall Cold Needs Attention.

Your Fall Cold Needs Attention.
No use to fuss and try TO wear
it out. 1t will wear you out in
stead. Take DR.. Kings New
Discovery, relief follows quickly.
1t checks your Cold and Soothes
your Cough away. Pleasant, Anti
septic and Healing, Children like
it. Get SOC. bottle of DR.. kings
New Discovery and keep it in the
house "Our family Cough and
Cold Doctor" writes Lewis Cham
berlain, Manchester, Ohio. Mon
ey back if not satisfied, but it
nearly always helps.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
DIRECTORY.
Chancery Court.

Meets at Altamont Tuesday after second
Monday in May and November Meets
at Tracy City Thursday after second Mon
day in May and November. V, O.
Allen, Chancellor; John Scruggs, Clerk
and Master; A. G. Alexander, Deputy
Clerk and Master.
Circuit Court.
Meets at Altamont Tuesday after first
Monday in March and July, and Tuesday
after fourth Monday in November. Meets
at Tracy City Thursday after first Monday
in March and July, and Thursday after
fourth Monday in November. Ewin i.
Davis, Judge; W. w. Fairbanks, Attorney
General; A. W. Campbell, Clerk Geo. D.
Boyd, Deputy, Altamont.
County Court.
The quarterly sessions are held on the
first Mondays of January, April, July and
October The quorum sessions are held
on first Mondays of February, March,
May, June, August, September, November
and December. John Gallagher, Chair
man; E. c. shelton, Clerk; J. D. Wiley,
Deputy, Tracy City; W. D. Bennett,
Deputy, Monteagle.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Preaching every Sunday morning
and night by Ed. J. d. Northcut.
Bible class every "Wednesday night.
Sunday School every Sunday at 10
O'Clock.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-10-29
ROMAN CATHOLIC.

HUMAN CAIH OLlC.
Services the fourth Sunday in
each month. Mass and sermon 10
a. m. Sermon and benediction s D.
m. Sunday school every Sunday
morning. Paulist Fathers, of Hum
dred Oaks, Winchester, in charge.
BAPTIST CHURCH.
Preaching first and third Sum
days in each month at II a. m. and
Z p. m. by Rev. Jas. G. Sprouse.
Prayer meeting every Thursday
night. Choir practice every Tues
day night. Sunday School every
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock.
M. e. CHURCH, Myers Hill.)
Preaching second Sunday morning
and night in each month. SUNDAY
school very Sunday morning.
Prayer meeting every Wednesday
evening.