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Washington telegraph., 1914-01-09

A. P. Delony of AllbrooK ~.
visiting relatives here the first of
the week.
]. O. Johnson of the Colum bus
Stock Farm, breeders 0 f fine
stock, called Monday and placed
an order for stationery with our
job department.
Some of our merchants have
been busy for several days taking
inventory. The complaint f
dullness which has been made
from many quarters during the
past season has not been heard
locally in fact, our merchants
have enjoyed big business dur
ing the fall.
Jno. J. Tyson has moved to the
Jagersfeld residence.
T. G. Haynes has resigned his
position at the T. J. Garner store.
J. w. Sharp, contractor and
builder, has removed here from
Hope. Mr.. Sharp began laying
brick on the new home for the
TELEGRAPH yesterday.
Mrs. w. D. Sharp and daughter
Miss Grayce, of Waldo, returned
home Wednesday, after a short
visit to E. r. Beck and wife.
DIN Bailey and Houston Wolff
have returned to Ouachita college.
Mrs. NJ. H. Boyce left Tuesday
for Texarkana where she will
visit her daughter Mrs. r. b.
Thompson, for some time.
Mrs. Fannie Old returned Sun
day from a visit to her daughters
in Louisiana.
Prof. J. w. Ramsey has return
ed from a holiday trip to several
points.
Washington telegraph., 1914-01-09
Women and Wet Feet

Cold and wet feetar a danger
Gus combination especially t 0
women, and congested kidneys
often result. Backache, urinary
irregularities and rheumatic fe-
vers are not unusual results. Fo-
ley Kidney Pills restore the reg
ular and normal action Of kidneys
and bladder and remove the cause
of the trout bic. Contain no habit
forming drugs. Adv't.
Sold here at Gold Cash Store.
Washington telegraph., 1914-01-09

@-ou iluy Surveyor OIdUlOU WdS
attending to official matters here
Wednesday.
G. M. Irwin of Ozan was a visi-
tor Wednesday.
Louis G. Bernays the Little
Rock Optician will be at Dr..
Robins Office, Ozan, Wednesday,
Jan. p, and here on the 22nd.
LAST WEEK
Miss Irene Amonette of Yancy
stopped over Wednesday a n d
Thursday with Miss Ora Smith,
enroute to Eureka Springs to re-
sumo her studies at Crescent
college.
Miss Charlean Williams Cone
of Snyder is spending a few days
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
t. Y. Williams.
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Cats will
return to their home at Almyra
today.
Miss Kathleen Johnson has re-
turned to her music class at Oke-
ma, Okla.
Miss Mary Cats has resumed
her duties as teacher in the Oko-
Iona school.
Jas. w. Bouldin Of Port Lavac-
ca, Texas, was here for several
days, having come in response to
a message announcing the death
of his brother; he left Wednes-
day for Texarkana, where he will
spend some time.
Mrs. t. Y. Williams entertained
with cards Thursla evening in
honor of Mrs. Cone and Mr.. and
Mrs. Erwin Cats.
John Bouldin of Athens is Wis
iting his aunts, the Misses Boul-
din.
Mrs. @, d. Goode Of Magnolia
is visiting her parents, ]. H.
Moore and wife.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31

further economical letting of contracts
when, as a matter of fact, they are
letting the contracts weeks before, the
date and without any official sanction
of the appropriation by this legisla-
ture. / say without any official sane
ton advisedly. | rather think that
somebody must have polled the legis-
lature and arrived at a very certain
conclusion; that an affirmative vote
for this new appropriation would be
simply formality, the votes them
selves having become already assured.
Letting Contracts.
"This may be an entirely unfounded
assumption on my part, but unless
something of this sort has been done |
can hardly conceive how the Road
Commission would go steadily on let
ting contracts without the assurance
of any appropriation on which to base
them. Furthermore, gentlemen, if
this policy is to be approved by this
Legislature, or any legislature, when
will this proceeding ever be stopped?
How is it conceivable, because at the
very time when the voice of the peo-
pie might possibly be heard through
their representatives, saying this ac-
emulation of bonded Indebtedness
will stop, the State would be found in
bonds to large contracted Indebtedness
because of the action of commission
which is clothed with no such author
ity, but whose contracts, as you gen.
tlemen we'll know, would doubtless
hold in law to be liquidated by the
State.
81 beg to ask not that this legisla-
ture shall deny this appropriation,
but that it shall sufficiently respect its
responsibilities together and bring un-
der its consideration all phases of this
great problem which is of such mater
ial value to our economic, commercial
and social welfare. Nothing certainly
can be lost by the adoption of this re-
solution. Much certainly may be gain
ed if we decline to be hurried in what
is properly wise in our consideration
of this great subject"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31
Winter Soil Treatment
by Karl Langenbeck.)
Thinking it Over.

Every season on the farm has its
duties, for in no business does work
interlock to the same degree, and what
is neglected today influences profits
next year By this time, the me-
chanical outdoor work of the fields is
done and nature is left to her own de-
vices. Freezing, thawing, teaching,
action of carbonlc acid gas, weather
ing all the farces of mechanical and
chemical action on the soil are most
active now. 1t is well to stop and con-
slider what this means and what the
frosts and SHOWS and thaws do for
the land. Understanding opens the
door for improving. The last crop and
the fall rains have taken so much of
the plant foods out OF the soil as was
in condition for solution and ABSORB
ton by the rootlets. This has to be
restored for the coming seasons
growth,
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31
Colds To Be Taken Seriously

Intelligent people relize that COM
mon colds should be treated promptly.
If there is sneezing and chilliness
with hoarseness, tickling throat and
coughing, begin promptly the use of
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound. 1t
is effective, pleasant to take, checks
cold, and stops the cough which caus-
es loss of sleep and lowers the vital
resistance. adv#
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31

judgment of any and all careful bust
ness men, will be thrice what it was if
these appropriations are continued.
am not at this time arguing against
the appropriation. | am not at this
time arguing against increased tax
rate. ] am saying that this is the
place and we are the responsible par
ties when it comes to deciding as to
authorized. My resolution looks to
careful data being furnished to this
assembly along these lines. That is,
as to what sources Of revenue can be
safely counted upon to help finance
this enterprise; as to what affect
marked increase in the tax rate has
upon the States industrial develop
ment; as to how far the people whose
Representatives we are desire an in
crease of this tax rate for even so adj
mirable public improvement as the
good roads system.
Building Policy.
81 think it also peculiarly fitting
that through the medium Of such
committee, the consideration of this
Assembly should be given to the sub
ject of how far the present road build
ing policy is equitable to the whole
people and desirable to local commit
tees. | mean by that to say that the
present policy avowedly contemplatcs
the construction of 1885 miles of road
in this State as an adopted system, at
an expense inevitably of eighteen to
twenty millions of dollars. In making
this statement | am not blind to the
words of the report that is before me,
wherein the commission objects to
having the cost of our State roads
reckoned by dividing the total face
value of the bonds issued by the mile
age of completed roads. This subject
is valid, if we were trying to arrive,
just as a matter of curiosity, at the
actual cost of any given mile of this
work. The somewhat curious data
that is found on pages IA and Is of
this report may be interesting data
from merely speculative standpoint,
but nothing more. The outstanding
fact is that up to even date the State
Of Maryland has expended in round
figures $9,000,000 and has built, in
round figures, 456 miles Of roads out
of a total mileage of 1885. Am far
wrong then in saying that $20,000,000
may be at least reckoned as the mini
mum cost of the completed system,
which completed system, or 1885 miles
constitutes Just about ne-thirteen-
tn of the entire good mileage of this
State?
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31
Use of the Work Done.

The soil contains the necessary ele-
ments in abundance but not in solu-
BILE, or as we may truly say, in diges-
tible form. The cracking by frosts of
the soil particles letting in the water
and acid of the air renders them so.
Whatever work has been done on the
land in breaking it up is so much to
good in aiding these natural agencies.
This much, every man understands,
that work on land, blowing, breaking
clods, narrowing, draining, helps fer
tility by helping Natures mechanical
forces unlock the plant food
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31
Wants Good Roads
Situation PrObed

Continued from Page ~
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31
lettering the Work Done.

What the farmer is seldom or never
reminded of in simple unmistagable
terms, is, that he can also aid Natures
chemical forces for without these,
plant foods are not made digestible
or soluble in the soil in sufficient
amount to pay. To remind ourselves
of what chemical forces are and how
they work, smell bottle of ammonia,
put some I've or caGstic on the skin
or take taste of sharp vinegar Then,
think how ammonia cleans, lye cuts
grease and vinegar will dissolve mar
bic and other hard stones.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-01-31
Making Tillage Effective.

Now, as physical and chemical
forces act together in Nature, parti-
cularly in winter, to make available a
new supply of digestible plant food,
so must the former supplement the
work of tillage by the solvent or di-
gestive treatment of chemical agency.
European farmers, who well under
stand this and average 35 bushels of
wheat to the acre as against Is bush
els in America, and other crops in pro-
portion, use the one chemical agent
for the purpose, which can alone be
applied. This agent is lime. Its sharp
OF caustic property makes it cut the
insoluble silicates of potash and phos-
phtaes of alumina and iron, making
potash and phosphates soluble. Burn
ed lime can do no harm in winter to
growing things. Where clover and le-
gumes have been plowed under, it fur
theirs their decomposition correcting
the first souring stage and making
good humus by Spring. Manure, which
is vegetable and animal matter that
has gone through this initial decompo-
sition, should be applied some weeks
after the lime. In this way, and at
any rate at this season, humus des-
truction by quick lime is a negligible
factor. For these reasons, use lime
now. 1t can be put on the frozen
ground or on the snow. 1t will at
once begin to work downward and get
in its work. Winter and fallow enable
it to exert its benefits bringing out
what is in the soil itself, thereby chea-
pening next seasons fertilizer bill.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
Notice Of Election.

BY virtue of the authority
vested in us by law, we the un-
dersigned Election Commissions
ers for Polk county, Tennessee,
on Thursday the 9th Day OF
August. 1914, will cause to be
opened and held in tue eIfsven
civil districts of Polk county
at the regular voting precincts
an Election for the purpose 0
electing a Judge of the Supreme
Court, q Clerk of the county
court of Polk county, a Clerk
of the circuit court of Polk
county, a Sheriff Of Polk county
a Trustee and a Register for
Polk county, also member OF
the County Board of Education
from the five school districts OF
Polk county, a district advisory
board for the eleven civil dis
tricts and a Constable for each
civil district except the Second
civil district, which will elect
two constables. This the II
day of July, 1914.
M. C. Bacon, Chairman
B. 3. &. Witt, Secretary
A. Liilard,
Board of Election Com'rs. for
Polk county.
We have also appointed ana
commissioned the following re-
turning officers, judges ana
clerks TO hold said election:
First dist.-Andrew Kerr re-
turning officer. George Harrison
TT Jenkins and James Slack
Judges; Gus Jenkins and Daniel
Calhoun clerks.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
NfWWNi HHiNiHlNlNlniN'if'i'k
= cLEMMER'S COLUMNS. :
BY j. D. CLEMMER :
M LII M NJ III


my uncle Sheriff Hughes, hand
ed him the note and said Il want
to sue my pap" He said Your
note is not due and cannot be
sued on now" and told me ne
had some jury tickets that he
would swap me for the noteT
| said "Alright, give me any
thing for i'll want to get rid OF
it, In The meantime had lost
my desire for an accordion, and
my father say ID me from bank
ruptcy.
JOHN H. REYNOLDS
Rome, Ga"
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30

| am selling straw hats at
wholesale prices.
W.. F. RUSSELL.
Miss Ruby Cate Wilson spent
Wednesday with Miss Mae Rob
inson, Miss Robinson returning
with Miss Wilson to her home,
not far from Benton, where she
will spend a few days.
A little daughter OF Mr. and
Mrs. Prior Lawson died of
pneumonia fever Monday morn
ing and was buried at Benton
Station the following day. The
bereaved parents have the sym,
pathy of many friends.
Mrs. Hood, wife of Tate Hood
who resides near here, died
Monday and was buried in the
Benton Station cemetery Tues
day. She had lived to be a good
many years old, and was re-
spected by all who knew her,
The bereaved relatives have our
sympathy.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
Benton %; 0coee 10.

The Benton and Ocoee base
ball teams crossed bats at Ben
ton Station last Saturday after
moon. We are unable to give
the tabulated score, the score
board having been misplaced;
however, the game went 70 to
16 in favor Of Benton. Lots or
hits and some errors were made
by both sides.
The Ocoee, boys started out
we'll, having been as much as
four ahead of the Bentonians in
the first part of the game, but
the Benton boys got down TO
business after the first few in
nings, and then the Ocoee fans,
who had been dragging the
Benton representatives .ovsF
the Goals, ran away ana
Graves pitched and Cook cIFught
| for Bentos1
=. Feature of Ehe game Hiss
s'sy .; n B;
toniafs ran into Rams SSom
first baseman 70 Ocoee, lite N
doubling him up. Young be-
came offended and threatened I'd
mop up with Love, and when
several of the Bentonians gath
cred around them the said first
baseman ordered them of Of the
diamond, without result.
There were two or three dou-
BILE plays made, but the loss of
the score board forbids our
publishing them.
The Benton boys are in good
practice now, and expect to play
some good bali before the season
closes.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
Church Directory.

Presbyterian - Rev. }. E.
Robinson, pastor, Preaching
second Sunday in each month.
Baptist - Rev w. H. Rymer,
pastor, Preaching> first and
third Sundays in each month.
Methodist-Rev. A. NJ. Tom
linson, pastor. Preaching the
fourth Sunday in each month.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
Sheriff Hughes and
Johnny Reynolds.
(Continued from last week.

1.-THE first money | ever made
was Uncle Hughes paying me
ten cents each morning at the
beginning of each circuit court
to draw the jury tickets out OF
the hat that he held IL was
intended that it should be done
by a person VINO could not read.
| could read but nobody put
the court house knew it. | do
not think Uncle Bill himself
knew it and | read every name
| drew out of the box. On one
occasion | remember drawing
Uncle Allen Biggs' name out of
the box ana he was taken on
the Jury aud kept over all night
away from his wife and children.
| got So sorry about it that |
made up my hind l would never
draw any more of my kinfolks
out of the jury box. | was some
where from six to eight years
old-I do not remember iusi
exactly.
"Mynext money making prop
osition was in some way l re
member got hold of "a calf tha'
| I wanted to sell and my fathel
told me to do my own trading
One man offered me S1.5O anc
another one afterward ctferes
me Isl rs. / told him nNqs sir
81: scesl asiegea 81 5osf4r tha
\ A and wa lIlss s;ss.. n snfs i.I. .sea..,
al any less, 50 ! went and Pr
edEthe ST. 80 offer.
II accumulated three or four
dollars and loaned il to my
father. He was smart enough
to max it a Longtime note so L
could not call for it. One day
in going up to old Uncle Nc
Councils place was passing
the residence of Emerson T.
Douglas His son, James, was
sitting in the door playing an
accordion and he played 1t
beautifully. / became interest
ed and soon Jim persuaded me
that the only thing l lacked of
having all the good things in
life was an accordion and that
| ought to buy his. l decided
that | had to have an accordion
and went to my father to get
my money, but he told me the
note was not due and would not
pay it. l thought over it for a
while and finally went back to
the store, called him out to one
side and told him if vhc did not
pay me the money was going
to sue him. He said "Alright,
90 ahead and sue," so I went to
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
PERSONAL AND SOCIAL.

Prayer meeting at the Pres
hyterian church Wednesday
night,
Sunday school at the Baptist
and Presby berian churches Sun
cay morning.
Rev. VI. H. Rymer will preach
at the Baptist church Sunday
morning.
Christian Endeavor meets at
the Presbyterian church Sunday
night.
Cal Balm and John Woody at
tended dourt at Ducksbwn this
week.
Miss Jenkins, of Fountain City
is visiting Mrs. Vernon Cioyd
here.
Dyke Higgins and wife we're
shopping in Cleveland one day
this week.
Mr.. G. E. Davis, representing
the Pittsburgh Steel Co., was in
town to-day.
B. F. McClary aud James
Lewis made a business trip to
Charleston to-day.
Mrs. Stella Painter, af Copper
hill, is here on a few days visit
with relatives and friends.
Walter M. Harrison and W. A
Prince made business trip to
Ducktown first OF this week.
Mr.. Sussandroff, with the
thatcher Medicine Co. was call
ing on our merchants this week.
Mrs. N. A. White and Miss
Sudie Clemmer with their Sun
day School classes. enjoyed a
picnic outing Thursday.
Rev. r. M. Hicks has been
called to Pine Grove to assist in
a revival and will not be able to
fill his appointment at Wire
Grass next Sunday.
Several of the Government
surveying gang, working in this
county, were in town last Sat
urday, among whom was Guy
Love.
Chas. Witt returned home last
Saturday from Knoxville where
he spent five weeks at the Sum-
mer School of the South. He
reports pleasant and profitable
stay at Knoxville.
Mrs. A. v. Cloyd gave moon
light picnic supper at the Lea
Spring three miles South East
OF town last Monday night In
honor of her guest, Miss Jenkins
of Fountain City.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30

ServiIla, Tenn july 26.--
Last Saturday night Will Payne
and Will Jones shot J L. Shook
and son, John Shook. Tire
Shocks had been to TelI ~
Plains with a load of honey arld
we're on their way back home.
Jones and Payr. were seen folt
lowing them forNseveraI miles,
until between sundown aud dark
when they ran up aud opened
fire on them.
John Shock was shot through
and through. He ran half Al
mile, fell in Frank Smiths yard
and told who did it, then died
there in the yard.
J. T., Shook, Johns father
started for home, broke down
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
MURDER COMM led Al
sERyILLA S41TURDAY NIGHT

md had to crawl two miles TO
ff. Elrod's. He was until 1
rniock in the morning getting
'elst IS might that Payne and
sant sssant to rob the murder
ek4.iSS Jones is in jail ut Mad
Vile and Payne is scouting.
q. A5hooks were both Masons
Odd Fellows and were fine
The trouble took place
een Paul Williams and
a tecock's old mill, in the
IN le-of Monroe county.
4y. S. r. Prock is holding
kefies of meetings at Spring
wn. A good deal of interest
being taken. Rev. L. M.
FYaeJrop and Jesse Waldrp are
Assisting in the meeting.
strs-4~~-~~-~~--e->~~~~-~~~~~~~-~~>~- u
1aIett judges; Garnett Nc
z.lAA and w # Center clerks.
tOth dist. Grassy Creek Dan
/ ler returning officer; F NJ
Jas, Blake and CM Hyde
w e StiIwell and Willie
EsVsIe clerks.
nth dist. John Hicks return
,d officer; J G. Hood ] B
npsoa and s J Elrod judges;
n es Hicks and W NJ Butler
it
ed MI G. BACON, Chairman
,d B. 6. Writ, Secretary
d al LILLARD,
Election Commissioners
ct sfd ne
ut from Jdfing trip Al
* ley thE gun again. and u
~ the-ssk 1ifs.a young peccary
~ Nssas.4sah htyIe. ID
4 135 acres, three miles north @
Benton; two good houses and
barns; three good springs and
0ne well; creek runs through the
farm; pike road through farm.
A. LlLLARD,
Benton Tenn.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30


End dist. w. w. Kirksey re-
turning officer, Moses Swcc::::::::s i ]. !. !
l. T. Cavett and r: 4. NichoIt
SON judges; N A White and
Frank Harrison clerks.
Srd dist. Tom .Kimbrough re-
turning officer, John Clayton,
Ell Prince and r A Orrindges;,
Luke Fetzer and Sam Osment
clerks. "
+ 3rd dist. Feizerton Sam
returning officer, B geit Amigo /
George Martin ans Mezicans 81 fOllO' s,'
judges; Straley <Sp three rusty G d
Julian Parks c9ill-spoou and presen
4th ]. DIST he had learned the obi
NcEnS sff AID fttRai aa ny MsaslS. ..ls..
clerks; John B Park and Chess
Browder clerks.
9Th dist.-D B Oneal returning
officer, George Watson, } A
Becker aud John Arthur judges
] H Oueal and Jas. Taylor
clerks.
9th dist. e L Thompson re-
turning officer. J L Morgan,
Jas. Gurley and Dayton Brown
judges; A M Thompson and Lu-
ther Press wood clerks.
9TH dist. y W England return
ing officer, P } Farmer, John
Barnett and Rufus Robinson
Judges; Gay Bryant and Sam
Rose clerks.
9Th dist. R L Kirkpatrlck re-
turning officer, P F Morgan, $
l. Sappington and w S Vaughan
judges, NJ H Campbell and Win
dom Kimsey clerk, J L Lanning
marker, J E Rollins and l.. r.
Kimsey watchers, j F Anderson
and w A Taylor registrars.
9th dist Joe Shamblin re-
turning officer, L Rymer, Rob-
ert Dunn and Miles Wilcoxen
Judges; r L Ramsey and Jas.
Parker clerk.
10th dist Copperhill-Luther
Franklin returning ofticer;Fra
Paris, NJ N Matlock and Wes
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30

See us when you need job
printing.
The shower which fell in this
section recently has done much
for crops.
I am selling straw hats at
wholesale prices.
w. F. RUSSELL.
Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-07-30
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