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Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
WANTS PARTICIPATION
IN WORLDS SERIES
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH

CHICAGO, Sept. ia chance for
the Federal league to participate in the
worlds series was asked today in a
letter from James A. Gilmore, president
of the Federal league to the members
of the National Baseball commission.
In his plea for truce in the inter-
ests of the supporters of the game Mr..
Gilmore declared the national agree
ment does not prohibit clubs in organ
lied baseball from playing fair out
side club and outlined the claims of
the Federals to be regarded as a major
league and contended that no club can
rightfully claim the worlds champion
ship until it has met the pennant- win
ners of the Federal league
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
No News Details Of The
Battle Along Aisme Rlve1

definite conclusion of any kind can be
| inferred. We know, however, that up
| to 6 o'clock tonight we have not been
weakened on any of our positions
The Havas agency from Petrograd
says:
1T is announced that the Turks
have concentrated large army on the
! Bulgarian frontier and General Lima
F, Van Sanders, the Prussian cavalry Of
/ lficer who trained the Turkish army,
/ is expected to take command"
| The Swiss government has estab-
lished a bureau for the exchange of
civilian prisoners, according to Ha-
vas Berne dispatch.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
MEDIATION is ACCEPTED
ASSOCIATED PRESS pIsPATCHl

ST. LOUIS Sept 1e.-The invita- :
ton of the mediation board to in
tervene, was accepted The action
of the company was taken after a
committee representing the order OF
Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen, and the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen and
Engnemen, advised railroad Officers
that a strike would be called unless
the company reinstated formel
conductor discharged on allegations
of drunkenness
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
MILLION FOR cARRANZA
ASSOCIATED PRESS D1sPArcHI

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-As the
result of American administration Of
the Vera Cruz customs office the
Carranza government will receive
cash balance of more than s1,OOO,0OO.
General Huerta pledged the customs
receipts as security for loan OBJ
tanned in France, but officials take
the view today that the United
States should turn the money over
to the government in Mexico City,
leaving it to that authority to deter
mine its DISPOSITION
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
GERMAN ARMY DRIVEN
FROM PARIS FORMS LINE
FOR A DECISIVE BATTLE
SUBMARINE RETURNS
AFTER SINKING CRUISER

LONDON, Sept. 15.-The ad-
miralty announces the submarine
E-9, Lieutenant Commander Hor-
ton, has returned safely after hav-
ing torpedoed a German cruiser
six miles south of Heligoland. 1t
is believed the cruiser was the
Hela, the sinking of which by a
submarine was officially reported
from Berlin yesterday.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcH1

PARIS, Sept 16.- AFrench official
PARIS, Sept ia French official
the headquarters sends no new de-
tails of the battle now being fought
along the Aisne river.
The text of the announcement fol-
lows:
This evening general headquarters
has communicated no new informa-
ton about the action going on along
our front. AS conditions have been
remaining as before, it is not to be
wondered at that during the course of
a battle which lasted several days no
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
FOR BANK OF TEXAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATcH1

AUSTIN, Tex, Sept. Ex-Governor
Colquitt submitted a plan for the
Bank Of Texas" in a special mes
sage to the legislature, to be capi-
talized at s2O,OOO,0O0, two and a half
millions to be supplied by the state
banks, and the balance by the state
board of education. The bank was
intended to meet financial emerg-
encies. administer school funds and
to be custodian of the bank guar
anty fund, and reserves.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17

German right wing is now encircled
by the allies, according to an Amiens
dispatch to the Daily News.
Reports indicate the Russian gen.
eral, who is conducting operations
in East Prussia, found himself in a
dangerous position, has fallen back
to the Russian fortresses on the Rus
san frontier. Germans under Gen
elal Won Hindenburg are reported
to be following up their advantage
with the hope of dealing the Russians
a. heavy blow before they can be re-
inforced.
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
ACCEPT NEWS WITH cALMNEss


BERLIN, (via Rotterdam and Lon
dom, Sept. 16.-The Military critic
in a Berlin paper says:
I'VE must accept the news from
French sources concerning the re :
treat of the Germans with Dutch
calmness, and not imagine the
French a:e already before Berlin.
If the French pursue the Germans
with the same haste as they We're
pursued by the Germans they will
get into the same difficult position
in which the Germans were. The
French, however, have the advantage
i'll support of the Belgian army, but
even if the Germans are beaten back
over their own borders, the aspect
o. the situation will be no better for
the French than it was at the begin
ming of the war"
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17
WILL SUSPEND HOME RULE

ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH
LONDON, Sept. 6.-The house of
lords passed through all stages the
bill suspending operations of the
home rule and Welsh disestablishment
bills
Arizona republican., 1914-09-17

Continued on Page Four)
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
TRAINING SPARROWS.
Planter Uses Them to War on Potato
Buqs

PLANTER uses j mem to war on Potato
Bugs.
Humboldt.-Dr. R. o. Williams, Hum
boldt's genial physician, and big land
owner, who won considerable prom
inence and notoriety few years ago
by teaching gang of geese to pick cot
ton, is now endeavoring to teach Eng
fish sparrows how to bug potatoes.
Just at this time the red potato bugs
are very numerous in this section and
are about to devastate the early Irish
potato crop, of which the doctor has
large acreage.
The doctor has begun his experiment
by feeding the sparrows in his potato
patch, and he now has hundreds of
them who go there continually for
their rations. Mixed with the other
things he is feeding them are numer-
GUS little red balls Of dough, which he
has made especially delicious, and
some of these he has sprinkled on the
potato plants, mixing them up with the
bugs. The doctor has had the salts
faction of seeing the sparrows pick
up a bug now and then, and he be-
lieves when the birds are little better
trained 1t will only be necessary for
him to quit feeding them, and that they
will then go to work on the bugs, and
he expects to have the insects cleaned
from his patch in very few days.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
HOME LOOKED GOOD TO HIM
Thrilling Experience With
Arabs.

There never was a man who showed
more happiness to touch foot on native
soil than Percival Roberts of Boston,
graduate of Oxford college, England,
and an alumnus of the Harvard law
school, who arrived at Boston from
Naples. Mr.. Roberts had hurried to
Italy after having been chased on
camel back by wild Tripolitan bandits,
who swooped down on him and his
party's pack camels and household
goods when they were camping on the
border Of the desert south Of Sfax, In
the interior of Tunis.
Italian soldiers had driven a flying
squadron of untamed Arab horsemen
and cut-throats across the Tunis bord-
er, and when the pack of Infatuated
savages caught sight of the Roberts
party 1t charged the camp with wild
yells and blazing rifles.
Roberts embarked on the first ship
Of the desert he could locate in his
frantic rush for q conveyance and
swayed and rolled on camel-back over
the dry sands of the desert for ten
miles before he could make his ,geta-
way. His three friends, two French
men and an Englishman, got OF in diff
ferent directions, all aboard the swift
racing camels which had carried them
into camp.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
RINGW0RM ITCHED TERRIBLY

1916 Aisquith St., Baltimore. Md
"My children were afflicted with what
they called ringworm of the scalp
contracted from house-cat they were
playing with. The rngworm formed
on their scalps about the size Of
silver dollar and their hair fell out,
leaving round scale or crust on their
scalps. Their hair fell out In round
spots. There was terrible itching, and
they scratched till the blood came.
They were very fretful and could not
sleep at night, and they were very
cross.
They were treated for several
months with no improvement whatso-
ever. I was told they would never
have any hair and would always be
bald. Then I began using Cuticura
Soap in connection with Cuticura
Ointment and the first week l could
see the wonderful remedies were do
ing all they were claimed to do and in
six weeks time they were entirely
cured They all have beautiful
growth of hair" (Signed) Mrs. Sadie
Pollock, Jan. l, 1913.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. l., 3oston."--Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
BANKERS WILL ASK
CONGRESS TO QUIT
BELIEVE NEW LEGISLATION WILL
sTAGNATE BUslNEss-REs-
oLuTioN INTRODUCED.
EMERSON TALKS ON LOANS
State Bank Superintendent Pleads for
More and Smaller Loans-Colum.
bia Banker Elected President
- of State Bank Section.

Chattanooga. - Contending that the
country Is "sorely in need of legisla-
tive rest" and that new national legis-
lation will have tendency to stag
nate business conditions, members of
the Tennessee Bankers Association.
during a session of the twenty-fourth
annual convention, voted unanimously
for the adoption Of resolution me-
moralizing Congress to adjourn imme-
diately, If possible.
Rutledge Smith, Of Cookeville, intro
duced the resolution, and it was Sec
onded by various delegates on the
floor of the convention.
The annual meeting of the state
bank section was held at the Hotel
Patten, with President w. T. Mum,
of the Bank of Halls, in the chair.
Election of officers for the ensuing
year resulted in the presidency going
to w. B. Greenlaw, president of the
Columbia Savings Bank & Trust Com
pany. ]. T. Price, secretary and treas
urer during the last year, was sue
ceeded by ]. E. Quisenberry, of the
Haiwasseo Bank at Charleston.
The principal address of the eve
ming was delivered by J. Luther Emer-
son, who recently became state bank
superintendent.
Banks court danger by making ex-
cessive loans to but limited number
of their patrons, instead of allowing
small loans to a larger number of ap-
plicants, declared Mr.. Emerson In his
address.
"The matter OF excessive loans is
one Of proportion as well as judgment.
Practically all bank failures are caused
by large loans made either to insiders
or outsiders, and which seem at the
time to be splendid investments.
In addition to the actual danger
of tying up too much of the banks
funds in a few resources, there is an
other important aspect of the ques-
ton. By making few large loans a
bank is precluded from making many
small ones and therefore loses its OPP
portunity to serve the community as 1t
should" said Mr.. Emerson.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
French Women Lawyers.

Mdlle Verome, who with Mdlle.
Grumberg is to assist in the defense
Of Nine. Caillaux, has the largest prac-
tise of any of the woman advocates
admitted to the Paris bar, having been
notably successful when in the de-
tense in criminal cases. She has out
stripped the senior advocate" Mdlle.
Chauvin. whose appearances in the
courts are now few and far between.
The latter won her doctorship of laws
so far back as 1892 with thesis on
the subject, Professions Accessible to
Women" After five years as a pro-
fessor, Mdlle. Chauvin determined to
become a barrister. Her application
was strongly contested, but the judges
decided that the law was on her side
and she was duly sworn in in 1897,
being the first woman admitted to the
bar In Europe.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
SHOULD GET LARGER CROPS
American Farmers Might Largely In
crease Their Production Through
Scientific Methods.

Our Pennsylvania Dutch are good
farmers, but not SO good as their rela-
tives In Germany. For every bushel
OF wheat Pennsylvania farmer pro-
duces from one acre the German grows
two and tenth bushels.
Z His farm Is small, but the man who
delves beyond the Rhine makes each
acre produce exactly twice as many
potatoes as do our farmers.
The man who bows to kaiser In
stead Of president extracts just a
half more oats and over a third more
barley and about go per cent more rye
from each acre than does the improvi-
dent American.
The man who has but dollar can
live for long time on it, whereas the
prodigal can waste $40 bill on one
dinner. The German has SO little
ground that he makes it work doubly
hard.
When the United States has 200,-
100000 population our farm production
an acre will likely have doubled from
sheer necessity-Public Ledger.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Embarrassing for Rector.

A rector Of a certain English church
is a somewhat portly gentleman, and
a little inclined to be pompous. He
owns a small terrier called Rags
On one occasion last summer Rags
escaped from his guardian and wan
dered into the church just as his mas
ter was facing the congregation, hold
ing up the aims basin in both hands.
That was Rags opportunity. He made
a bee line for the chancel, and paus.
ing before his master, whose eyes
were piously elevated to the ceiling,
he sat up and begged!
Delight of the wicked and horror Of
the pious!
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
TiLER COMES BACK.
Causes Stampede Among Negroes
Dragging River for He Body.

SduSCS 0taHlpcuS AIMING NcSTOou
Dragging River for He Body.
Rutherford. - The negro population
Of Rutherford and vicinity were very
much wrought up over the disappear.
ance of very old member OF their
race, by the name of Tier. The old
darby was the father OF the Rev. Ed
ward Tfler, who Ia a negro preacher
of more than local note. He wandered
off from the home of his son and
failed to reappear, as was his custom
when night came. The next day 4
searching party was organized to
search for him, as he had been seen
by number Of people in the bottoms
of the Rutherford fork of the Obion
river. w. H. Gravett, living down
the river about two miles, telephoned
in and advised that he saw the body
of the darby floating in the river near
his home. Taking literally the last
Sundays exhortation of their pastor,
the colored brethren Immediately de-
serted plows, hoes and strawberry
patches, and with graphing hooks,
seines and nets they proceeded in a
body to the place where the body was
supposed to have been seen, where
they became Fishers of man" In the
meantime one of the brethren who
was making a search near Dyer Sta
ton came acress the old negro and
took him in his buggy to the place
where they were dragging the river.
Concealed behind bush, he for a
time enjoyed the sensation of watch
ing the grief-stricken brethren search
for his body, then he caused STAN
pede by walking down to the edge Of
the water and dramatically raising
his arms as If to pass a benediction
upon the assemblage. A negro looked
up and when he saw what he took to
be the ghost Of Brudder Tiler a-view-
in dem from de bank" he gave the
alarm and the negroes in their rush
jumped from their boats and RATS
and splashed to the opposite shore,
where, at safe distance, they stood
with wide eyes and gaping mouths
while one of their number interviewed
the ghost"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
SAVES BOY FROM DROWNING.


Boy Hero at Jackson Rescues Com.
panion From River.
Jackson.-Clyde Sewell,. 15-year-old
son of Tenner Sewell, played the hero
when he saved his companion, Chester
Rule, a boy about the same age, from
drowning.
The two boys, in company with
others, had gone to the Forked Deer
river to go in swimming, and while
there Rule got in water over his head,
While going down the third and final
time he was grabbed by Sewell, who
caught him by the hair and dragged
him to shore. Application will be
made for a Carnegie hero medal for
Sewell.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Ravaqed Eastern Coast.

One hundred years ago the British
blockaders were committing many
depredations along the New England
coast, Their method was to land boat
crews from the vessels at nightfall,
surprise the Inhabitants of one Of the
smaller towns, and after plundering
the storehouses and burning the ship
ping at the wharves, retreat to their
boats before the villagers fully COM
pretended the blow that had fallen
upon them. Such occurrences took
place at many Of the coast towns and,
In most cases, the militia proved pow
erless to check the enemy. All up and
down the New England coast, from
Maine to the mouth Of the Connect.
cut river, the people were kept In a
state bordering on panic during tx
greater part of the summer Of 1914.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Anxious Moment.

Lucille Earnestly Karl, / want
10 ask you one question.
Karl (also earnestly What is 1t,
sweetheart?
Lucille (more in earnest than ever)
Karl, II you had never met me.
would you have loved me just the
same?--Life
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05

had no appetite. Since ! have taken
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound the aches and pains are all gone
and feel like new woman. / cannot
praise your medicine toohighly. Mrs.
AUGUSTUS LYON, Terre Hill, Pa.
It is true that nature and woman's
work mas produced the grandest remedy
for woman's ills that the world has
ever known. From the roots and
herbs of the field, Lydia E. Pinkham,
forty years ago, gave to womankind
q remedy for their peculiar ills which
has proved more efficacious than any
other combination of drugs ever COM
pounded, and today Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound is recognized
from coast to coast as the standard
remedy for woman's ills.
In the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, are files containing hundreds Of
thousands Of letters from women seek
ing health - many of them openly state
over their own signatures that they have
regained their health by taking Lydia
Il. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound;
and in some cases that it has saved them
from surgical operations.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
DouqIas Takes Oath.

Nashville. Lee Douglas became
United States district attorney for the
Middle District of Tennessee, sue
ceeding A. M. Tillman, who had held
the office continuously for 1e years.
The oath of office was administered
by H. M. Doak, clerk of the United
States District Court.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Thouuht He Was at a Christening.

Thought He Was at Christening.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-I bought one of
those new things to suspend milk
bottle against the side Of a house
instead of leaving 1t on the doorstep.
Mrs. Yeast-How does 1t work?
ut was failure. My husband came
home late the other night and thought
the house was new battleship to be
launched, and In the morning we had
no milk"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Coal DEPOSITS Found.

Chattanooga. Authoritative an
nouncements were made that prelim-
mary surveys and prospecting work
reveals the existence at Montlake,
Hamilton county, of an extensive and
deep deposit of high grade metallur.
gical coal, sometimes called "smithy'
coal.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
ROOFINGS

We believe that we carry the largest
stocks of roofngs In the south, in painted
and galvanized steel, rubber and compo-
sition; all prices. 90c per square. COM
plete, and up. Try "Paroid," the King of
Rubber Roofing. Ten years without a
brush. Pidgeon-Thomas Iron Company,
Iron. Steel, Railway and MIL Supplies,
Memphis, Tennessee. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
DAISY KILLER placed |.
A Better Plan.

1.-THE people next door play the
graphophone necessarily"
Still they seem kind-hearted. They
have offered to loan us any records
we like"
Il should prefer to borrow some Of
those we don't like. and thus get them
out OF commission for a few days.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
GEO. CoPP,NGER KILLED.
Found Dead With Gunshot Wounds ir
His Body.

Track.-George A. Coppinger, mar.
ried, with family, was found dead
about a mile south of town, there be.
ing a number of gunshot wounds in
his body. 1t seemed that he had been
fired upon by someone from dis
lance, one of the shots taking effect
in the body, and that then the person
or persons had advanced and fired a
load of buckshoht into his head at
close range. No arrests have beer
made.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Woman Hanus Self.

Hollow Rockville Uncle Billy"
Hodge was in town selling some straw
berries his wife went into their smoke
house, took chair to get up on meat
box, filled with country hams, tied a
rope pillow line to her neck and jumped
off. She had been dead about two
hours when found.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Must Pay Income Tax.

Nashville.-All corporations are be
ing notified from the office of the col
lector of internal revenue that they
have to pay per cent on their entire
net income, there icing no specific ex
emptions in cases affecting corpora.
tons.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
laborer Stabbed,

Nashville Following a difficulty in
the Tennessee Central railroad shops,
w. T. Mcmillan, laborer, was dan
gerously injured when stabbed in the
abdomen by d. T. Barfold, foreman
He was removed to st. Thomas hos
pital and given medical attention.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05

ACMY FEELINGs. PAIN IN LIMBS
and all Malarious indications removed
by Elixir Aahek, that well known REM
edy for all such diseases.
II have taken UP the three bottles Of
your Elixir Babek,' and have not felt
30 well and entirely free from pain In
limbs for fave years."-Mrs. e. Higgins,
Jacksonville, Fla
elixir Babek 80 cents, all druggists or
ty Parcels Post prepaid from K1oczew-
ski & Co.. Washington, d. c.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Killed in Auto Wreck

Friendship.-A telegram from Mon
rovia, CAL, states that A. j. Parker,
former well-known citizen of this place,
was killed in an auto wreck in that
city. He was engaged in the real es-
tate business and had been living in
California for a little over a year.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05

Cookeville.-The prosecution con.
Guided the introduction of its proof in
chief in the case of the State VS.. Nc
Connell Moss, who is on trial charged
with the murder of former Sheriff
Houston S. Gill, near Silver Point, this
county, about three years ago.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
At 1880 p. M.

wife, why does that young cub
stay out SO later"
Il believe he's pleading with Mabel
for goodnight kiss"
well, If that is the only way to
get rid Of him, authorize her to be-
stow It."
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Board Meets.

Bolivar. The Hardeman County
High School Board met in executive
session here, with Chairman James L.
Afford presiding, to consider appli-
cations for the positions of principal
and assistants of the high schools Of
this county.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1914-06-05
Stock Perishes In Fire,

Lexington.-Fire of mysterious or
igin destroyed the large stock barn
Of Sid Dodd, near Luray. A large
amount of feedstuff, consisting of corn,
fodder and hay, and seven head 'ni
fine horses were destroyed.