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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

ty pertaining to unfinished dem
ocratic national administration
legislation Of the highest i'm
portance, ! hope you will ap-
prove my course in remaining
here to make my fight here in
an effort to redeem all our plat,
form pledges and promises at
the risk of losing votes by not
being able. to meet the demo
Gratis of my district, and in per.
son, solicit their further support
and confidence.
Very truly yours,
=" T. w. SIMS.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26
Notice to Teachers.

Henderson county teachers
will please bear ia mind that the
county institute will open in
Lexington, On the 9Th day OF
Jnly, and will continue until the
following Wednesday week, and
the examination will follow on
Thursday and Friday July 10Th
md 18th. All teachers will ba
|feqnired to be present at least
1 W the time bv state require
|ment. and | shall he glad for AZ
many a possible to be present
on the opening day.
Teachers In high schools will
have to be present to get their
certificates renewed, and will
have 70 take the reading circle
examination.
4 shall look for You st.siha
nY4oDinR m 4. II. =. !. : -
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26


Samuel. j. Stock ard, late edi.
tor of the Jacksonian, the regu.
lar daily over in the capitol Of
Madison, has has assumed the
eiitorahip and management Of
the Lebanon Democrat in the
flourishing county site ofWilson.
Sam ia az excellent writer and
can do the word worn on any
sort of paper, regular or other
wise. The Democrat is support
porting The whole regular posse
from Tom Rye down.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26


The Methodist and Baptist la
dies Of the little town Of Friend
ship. Tennessee, are endeavor-
ing raise . mile of pennies
for their respective churches.
How many pennies to the mile?
The Progress editor will send
The Progress one year to the first
boy or girl, not over twelve
years Of age, who will answer
the question correctly, sending
to US demonstration Of the prob.
lem.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26
Teachers Elected
School Board Meets and
Fills all Places but one
for the City or Training
School.

The Corporation School Board
held q meeting last Saturday and
elected the following for the
next School term to open Gu the
frat Monday in Septem ber:
Prof. N. n. Norton, late Of
Cumberland City, Tenn, origi-
nally from Perry county, and
now in the Univerity of Chicago,
where he will win his degree
this summer, was elected Princi-
pal Of the City School and teach
er Of the 7th and 9Th grades.
Prof. Norton comes highly rec
ON mended and will make \ wor-
thy successor to Prof. @. E.
Holmes, who goes to Gleason.
Miss Myrtle Stinson, the for
mer and capable teacher Of the
third and fourth grades, was pro
NOTED to the fifth and sixth
grades.
Miss Lille Maxedon, former
teacher Of the second grade, was
y
promoted to the third and fourth
grades, The teacher Of the acc
oni grade remains to be select
ed and employed. Miss Make
don has made good b teacher.
Mrs. Harry v. Den.sidsntss re-.
elected primary teach reside the
pupils "a. md patrons sabr~Sysdy
----L -.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

tion upon the railroads which is
without warrant and is in the
highest degree unjust. 1t can
not be that such plan will have
the support Of the American p 90.
pie when the peaple realize what
the plan really means"
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

The Supreme court of Missis
aippi has declared constitutional
the law which provides that but
one gallon Of liquor at q time be
shippen to each individual in dry
territory.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

The Annual West Tennessee
Teachers Institute opened in
Jackson last Monday morning to
be in session for FIVE or six
weeks. 1t is said that from 800
to 500 teachers will attend.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

Sixty eight years ago today,
the goth, the first match game Of
baseball on record was played
The game was between teams OF
New York City and Hoboken,
New Jersey.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

The Kentucky law allowing far.
mers to pool their tobacco has
been declared unconstitutional
BY the Supreme court of that
state.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

Judge D, L. Lansden of the
Supreme court, is reported in.
proving In Nashville.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

The Collectors Office at Nash
vile took 10 $4,000 ON incomes
on Tuesday OF this week.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26
The Railroads and
the Parcels Post.

lHe ever INCREASING SuSluefs
of the parcel post has added
enormously to the weight Of the
mails carried BY the railroads Of
the United States, and the re-
Enumeration for this ezacting ser
vice has not been corresponding
ly increased. The Postoffice
Depart ment estimates that the
parcel post will handle elk hun
dred million packages during the
year. Upon complaint of the
railroads, congress some time
ago appointed a joint committee
to thoroughly investigate this
subject and recommend to Con
gress the proper method Of com
pensation to the railroads which
should be adopted. The com.
mittee, consisting of three DEM
-ocrats and three repu bIicans, has
made an exhaustive investiga-
ton, and has found that the rail.
roads are nnderpaid for their ser
vices
Before the committee was
ready to report the result Of its
labors, the second assistant post.
master general prepared q bin
which has been introduced 10
Congress by Mr.. Moon, and Is
known as the Moon Bill"
which revises the method Of pay.
ing the railroads In such q man.
ner as to reduce the amount Of
compensation by about 20 per
cent, instead Of increasing it 10
proportion to the increased bur.
den caused by the parcel post.
OF course the railroads are in.
dignant at this effort to compel
them to render service without
adequate compensation. The
Committee, too, feels outraged
as the following statement of
Mr.. Ralph Peters. Chairman Of
the Railway Mail Pay, represent
264 railroads carrying mails over
2lS,OO0 miles Of line, under date
of June II, authorizes the fol-
lowing statement:
THE Rules Committee Of the
House Of Representatives. has, l
am informed, adopted a recon-
inendation that tie so-called
Moon Bill" follows the Sundry
Civil Appropriation Bill now be-
ing considered BY the House.
The underlying principle Of the
Moon Bill is to reduce the pay
or The railroads for carrying the
mails by about ten million dol.
lars. s
Congress some time ago ap-
pointed q joint committee to ia
vestigate the whole subject Of
railway mail pay and recc mmend
to Congress the proper method
which should be adopted. That
commission has conducted . most
exhaustive investigation, but
has not yet reported, although it
intends shortly to do 90.
THE railroads have, believe,
proved conclusively to the Com.
mittee that the were certainly
not oserpaid for carrying the
mails, but were, ~ W. See II,
npderpaid By At least q 600.
OW Annually, ssIn ma hi bis
closing arg int 90 the 6qs per
cent adysuQ rSts case, MI Nj
dsits m X 4 ooias a.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26
To The Democrats
Of The Eighth
Congressional Dis
trict.

For the last six years Congress
has been in almost continuous
session. With the exception
Of from March 4th to April 7th,
1918, Congress has been in ses,
sion from the first Monday in
December 1912, to the present
hour, with no prospect of imme.
date adjournment.
Service in Congress is PER
S0NAL and cannot be performed
by a substitute or deputy. Such
service is best performed by one
with long experience in the
halls of legislation. 1t calls for
an exercise Of individual judg-
ment, which in its very nature
cannot be transferred to any
other member Of the same body
although of the same political
party.
10 redemption of Democratic
pledges made to the people by
which We carried the national
elections in 1912, the President
urged that Congress should re-
wise the tariff, reform the Bank.
ing and Currency laws, establish
an Interstate Trades Commits.
siol, pass legislation to prevent
the over issues of stocks and
bonds BY interstate railroads.
repeal that partt.of the Panama
Canal Act Of 1912, granting free
toll subsidy to the monopoly own
ed and controlled vessels of
American citizens engaged II in
the coaatwise trade, and amend
and strengthen the Sherman an.
thrust law in all six great
democratic administration re-
form measures.
Bills to carry out three of
these great administration meas.
ures had to be considered and
reported for passage by the Com.
mittee on Interstate and For.
eign Commerce, on which CON-
mittee am the ranking demo.
cratic member, and as such
must necessarily be a member
of all conference committees to
a lust differences arising be.
tween the two Houses of Con-
greos as to any and all bills re-
ported by that Committee. Ser.
vice on Conference Committees
is the highest and most impor-
taat service that can be per.
formed by a member of either
House Bills to revise the tariff,
reform the Banking and Curren-
cy laws, and to repeal the free
tolls clause OF the Panama Ca
nal act, three Of the six great
administration measures have
been passed by both Houses,
and are now permanent public
laws.
The other three Of the elk
bills urged upon US by the Presi-
dent, and complet ng the full
democratic administration pro.
gram, have been passed BY the
House and are now being con-
sidered by the Senate, Two Of
these three bills are from my
committee, and both are con-.
structive measures OF the great
est Importance, and will no
doubt BE- much amended Ly the
senate which will necessarily
require both bills TO be consid-
ersl and finally shaped by
N cost. Committees ~ the.
Sweatt.ss must necessArily
Ranraapntn,nsa two l1axk&I
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

Low cut shoes 20 per centsNA'
for cash--Saturday june Y, A.
SweAtt's.
County supt. " q. peaiso :
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

world 30 susceptible NV
the name and chars 4. rcsj
9 On
land publicity Il 49, M
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1914-06-26

onnd the Eastern Star oTganlzasiogg
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

ST. Dewey of Mountain Grove
was here last week.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

sent themselves on fair Sundays.
/ must not take a step in that
direction.
II Though my excuses satisfy
myself they still must undergo
Gods scrutiny; and they must
be we'll grounded to do that.
- There is a special promise
that where two or three meet to-
gether in Gods name he will be
in the midst of them.
13 An avoidable absence from
the church is an infallible evil
dence of spiritual decay. Disc
iples first followed Christ at a
distance, and then, like Peter, do
not know him.
IA My faith is shown by my
self-denying, Christian life, and
not by the rise and fall of the
thermometer.
Is Such yielding to surmount.
able difficulties prepares for
yielding to those merely imagin'
airy, until thousands never enter
a church, and yet think they
have a good reason for such neg
lect.
16 | know not how many
more Sundays God may give me-,
and it would be a poor prepar-
alton for my first Sunday liz
heaven to have sighted my last
Sunday on earth.
FRANCES II. HAvERGAL.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13
MRS. LARAM0RE
TELLS TROUBLES
Lady In Goodwater Describes Her
Distressing Experience and
Tells How She Was
Finally Relieved.

Goodwater, Mo.-'Ever since I was
a little GIRL" says Mrs. Riley Laran,ore,
81 was a great sufferer from dyspepsia.
suffered misery after eating, and had
terrible heartburn.
thought | had to suffer this way as
long as | lived, but when ! began to take
Thedford's Black raught, In small
doses, every night, the heartburn was all
gone in a few days, and | could eat
without distress.
took two small packages in all, and
although that was some time ago. the
dyspepsia has not returned.
| speak a good word for Thedford's
Black Draught whenever | have the op-
p~ortunity."
If eating causes distress, we urge you
to try Thedford's Black raught. II
cleanses the system, helps the stomach to
digest its food, regulates the bowels, and
stimulates the liver.
II acts gently and is without bad after
effects. Tryit. Price 25c.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13
Remarkable Cure of Dysentery

Twas attacked with dysentery
about July 18th, and used the
doctors medicine and other rem
edies with no relief, only getting
worse all the time. / was unable
to do anything and my weight
dropped from AS to 125 pounds.
| suffered for about two months
when | was advised to use Cham,
berlain's Collie, Cholera and Di.
arrhoea Remedy. | used two
bottles of it and it gave me per.
manent re lief" writes B W. Hill
of Snow Hill, N. G. For sale by
all dealers.--Adv.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13
Why l Go to Church on
Rainy Sabbaths

[ attend church on rainy Sun
days because:
1. God has blessed the Lords
day and hallowed it, making no
exceptions for hot or cold or
stormy days.
2. | expect my minister to be
there. I should be surprised if
he were to stay at home for the
weather.
3. If his hands fail through
weakness l shall have great reason
to blame myself, unless | sustain
him by my prayers and pres
ence.
4 By staying away | may lose
the prayers which may bring
Gods blessings, and the sermon
that would have done me great
good.
5 My presence is more need.
full on Sunday when there are
few than on those days when the
church is crowded.
6 Whatever station I hold in
the church, my example must in
fluence others, If | stay away
why may not they?
z On any important business
rainy weather does not keep me
at home, and church attendance
is, in Gods sight, very import
ant.
8 Among the crowds of pleas
ure seekers | see that no weather
keeps the delicate female from
the ball, the party, or the concert.
6 Such weather will show me
on what foundation my faith il
built; it will prove how mech |
love Christ. True love rarely
fails to meta appointment.
10 Those who stay from
church because it is too hot or to
cold or too rainy frequently alb
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

City Marshal Roe Strong has
been in Springfield on business.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

Held, so tnat spring n SOWed III
to oats and in the fall put it in
wheat with a generous allowance
of fertilizer. With the wheat
was sowed 8 pounds of timothy
seed to the acre and the next
February 6 pounds of clover
seed to the acre was sown over
the field. When the wheat was
cut the next summer there was
a good stlnd of clover and tim
othy. The field was so rocky
and brushy however that no one
would cut the hay so the grass
was wasted. This naturally sug
gested the next thing to be done
and the brush was sprouted out
and the stones picked up, so
that the grass could be cut; and
the crop of hay secured.
A good many men have failed
to raise alfalfa in the hills, but
Mrs. DurneIl has succeeded.
She says that care in prep
airing a good seed bed and plenty
of fertilizer does the trick. The
ground must be rich and the
weeds must be worked out of it
before alfalfa seed is sown, she
says. One piece vas sown in
September: both are a success.
The whole piece is now cleared
and seeded to grass, except in a
little draw, where the timber is
left to shade and protect the
spring; and where the garden
and berries grow.
Mrs. DurneIl and her daughter
cleared away some of the oak
thicket and set out blackberries.
raSpberrieS, and Strawberries,
and grapes for home use. The
wild blackberries have been
cleaned out of the orchard, the
apple trees have been trimmed,
the ground cultivated and seed
ed to grass. Now there are
plenty of apples and good grass
for hay instead of wild black
berries and briars.
Gardening has been carefully
studied; and the garden is al
ways planned to raise the great.
est variety and amount possible
on the ground, and with the least
labor. 1t is painted in long rows
so that it can be plOwed the
length of the garden to plant the
Irish potatoes in. These are
dropped and lightly covered.
This leaves them a little lower
than the rest Of the ground.
As they are cultivated the dirt
is thrown toward them and when
they are cultivated for the last
time they are billed up, and the
weeds have been kept down, al
without any hard work. At the
)ast cultivation kaiir and milo are
planted between the rows of
potatoes and early garden stuff
and there is plenty of time for it
to mature and and make line
large heads of grain for chicken
feed.
OF all on her farm Mrs. Dur
nell is most interested in her
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

| den, with the COW and chickens,
more than furnish the living,
The farm is growing in value
every day, without any more
very strenuous efforts on her
part; and the home that she and
Mr.. Durnell planned for their
old age is theirs. because Of her
determination and great good
sense.
1t has taken a great deal of
hard work to accomplish this de-
sired end, but it has been done
without any worry. Mrs. Dur.
nell early decided that the bur
den was heavy enough without
adding to it a load of worry, and
so she chose as a motto for her
life and work: Just do your
best and leave the rest'-and
this she has lived up to through
it all.
Her only regret is that she
did not come to the farm when
her children were small, for she
says: "There is no place like a
farm for raising children, where
they can have in such abundance
the fresh air and sun shine, with
pure, living water, good. whole
some food, and happy, outdoor
i~fe."-MisSouri Ruralist.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

To stand back of a shotgun and
point with sufficient accuracy to
break ninety per cent. plus of
10000 clay targets, is a record
worthy of note in trapshooting.
These figures come, from the
official schedule of the nine years.
shooting that constitute H.. H.
Stevens career at the traps.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13
POCKET CASH REGISTER

Just think of it! 1t adds and
subtracts. Can be worn as a
watch fob on chain. Send 60
cents and get one.
NITRoLINE MFG. Co
225 Title Guaranty Bldg,
st. Louis, Mo.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

uiihCpl' sleStc anu SiON up
to wild blackberries. In the
Ozark hills, neglected ground
will grow up TO wild blackberry
briars. loaded with fruit in
season AS the shiftless farmer
said, anyone can raise black.
berries if he amt to durnd lazy"
Aside from this old orchard
aud the wornout field, the place
was covered with cak thicket
where the land had been cleared
and then allowed to go back.
This second growth oak was
about six feet high and as large
around as a mans wrist. The
fences were mostly down and
such as were standing were the
old worm, rail fence. The house
was a log shack. Mrs. Durnell
and her daughter moved into
the log house and went to work.
They bought a COW to furnish
them milk and butter, but the
COW would not stay inside the
tumble.down fences, so repair
ing the fences was the first job.
Some of it they built higher
with their own hands and some
they hired rebuilt, but there was
only a little money to go on, so
the work moved slowly. When
the fences were in order and the
cows kept at home they felt that
a great deal had been gained.
The property in st. Louis was
sold and after paying the mort.
gage, there was enough left to
build a broom house, which Mr..
Durnell planned and the con.
struction of which she super.
tended. 1t was a happy day for
them when they moved from
the log cabin into the comfortable
new house, although it stood in
a thick patch of the oak thicket
that made them feel terribly
alone in the wilderness. The
crop the first year was 154 gallon
of wild blackberries which grew
in the orchard. There were nc
apples.
In the spring, Mrs. Durnell
hired the 10 acre field broken,
then she and the daughter
planted it to corn.
When the corn was large
enough to be cultivated, a neigh.
Dor boy was hired to plow it and
when he said the job was done
she paid him for blowing the 1C
acres. What was her surprise,
sometime later when walking
across the field, to find that only
10 rows on the outside of the
field had been plowed and the
rest was standing waist high in
weeds. Since then she has per
sonally overseen the work on the
place. Mrs. Durnell was learn
ing by experience, also she was
studying farming with the help
of good farm papers and the
state university and experiment
stations. BY the second spring
she had learned better than to
continue planting corn on the old
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13
A HOMEMAKER
OF THE OZARKS
Mrs. Durnell Reclaimed a
Farm, Built a House in
the Wild ess, and
Learned the Secret of
Contentment
By Mrs. A. j. Wilder, Mans
field, Mo-, Editor Home De-
partment, Missouri Ruralist

Women have always been the
home makers. but it is not usually
expected of them that they should
also be the home builders from
the ground up. Nevertheless.
they sometimes are and their
success in this double capacity
shows what women can do when
they try.
Among the women who have
done both is Mrs. c. A. Durnell
of Mansfield, Mo. She has not
only made a home but she has
put a farm in condition to sup
port it. Mansfield is on the very
crest of the OZaIks and the land
is rough and billy, covered with
timber, where it has not been
cleared. Although one of the
most beautiful places in the
world to live, with a soil repay
ing beautifully the care given it,
still it Is no easy thing to make a
farm out of a piece of rough land.
Imagine then the task for a
woman, especially one with no
previous experience of farming.
Mrs. Durnell was a city woman
and for twenty years after her
marriage lived in ST. Louis where
her husbaDd worked in the rail.
road terminal yards. Here she
raised her three children until
the eldest, a son, was through
college and established in his
profession.
None of the children were
strong and about this time the
second, a daughter, was taken
sick with consumption, while the
youngest, also a daughter, was
threatened with the same dis.
ease. Hoping to restore theil
health, Mrs. Durnell brought
them into the Ozarks but too late
to save the sick daughter.
AS the cher daughter showed
signs of improvement, Mrs.
Durnell decided to stay, and the
thought came to her to go on a
little farm and make a home fol-
her own and her husbands cid
age.
Sickness and the expense Of
living had used up the most Of
Mr.. Durnell's wages as they
went along and all they had t.
show for their twenty years OF
work was a bouse with a mort
gage on it. Mrs. Durnell saw
what so many do not realize until
too late, that when Mr.. DurnelI
became too old to hold his posi-
ton any longer, they would have
no business of their own and
quite likely no home either. "A
small farm, if she could get one
running in good shape, would be
a business of their own and a
home where they could be indep
endent and need not fear the age
limit.
Mr.. Durnell stayed with his
job in st. Louis, TO be able to
send what money he could spare
to help in making the start.
They secured a farm of % acres
a quarter of a mile from town.
Ten acres was in on old, wornout
fieldthat to use a local expression
had been "corned to death;"5
acres was in an old orchard,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13
Constipation Causes Sickness

Don't permityourselfto become
constipated, as your system i'm
mediately begins to absorb poison
from the backed-upwaste matter.
Use DR.. Kings New Life Pills and
keep well. There is no better safe
guard against illness. Just take
one dose tonight. 25c. at your
Druggist.-Adv
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

Any person in the state of
Missouri may get free informa-
ton relating to the prevention of
diseases, if he will write to the
School of Medicine, University
of Missouri, Columbia.