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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04
Entirely Too Calm.
PUTTING PLANTS TO SLEEP
Drugs Administered to Sensitive Flow
ers Result in a "Loss of Con-
sciousness."

Living plants were administered an
esthetics and lost consciousness under
the drugs just as human beings would
do. The experiments were conducted
at one of the meetings of the Ameri-
can Association for the Advancement
of Science by Prof. j. Chunder Bose,
Hindu savant from the Presidency
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04
Teacher Disanreed.

Mamma, when you speak about
three things you always ought to say
are, oughtn't. you?" Eyes, dear.
Why?" "'Cause the teacher said it
wasn't right when l wrote on tho
blackboard: The grand old red, white
and blue are waving over Cuba.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04
His Chest Protector.

Doctor-Let me feel your heart ac-
ton. All, most remarkable! You ap-
pear to have large foreign growth
on your chest. I'll have to operate
at once.
Pat-Sure, that's our cat-Judge.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

Whoever reads the daily
newspaper recognizes that
the poor are always with us.
In good times, when every
able-bodied person can get
work, poverty is a disease
which charity does not cure.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04
The Kind.

Shelf woman is clinging vine,
what kind is her type?
He-It ought to be the morning
glory, because then she would know
when to shut UP.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

teal with, the nerve currents Of ami
mails. He draws striking parallels
between sensitive movements in plants
and similar movements in man.-Phila-
delphia Public Ledger
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

In the face Of the fact
that the daily newspapers
TEEN with accounts of wom7
en- having been robbed by
purse snatchers it would
seem that the deed itself
would be suggestive Of a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

That the medical profess
sion is far from being unan-
imous that vaccination pre-
vents smallpox may be seen
from the following extracts
from the opinions of some
of our most eminent physi-
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

What has become Of the
agitation in favor Of contin-
uation schools and voca-
tional training? A year
ago there was much agita-
ton of this topic here in
Chicago, but it appears to
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

In this country, where
everybody is supposed to
have an equal chance, it is
much more difficult to get a
start without capital than it
is in Australia, New Zea-
land, or even in Canada.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

Unfortunately the information that live fifteen longer
orrnerly comes too late to do some folks any good
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

War is mans costly luxury and he is getting tired of it.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

thought what it means to have him
grow up in little town where every
one will point his finger at him and
say, That is the son of convict?'
Have you thought of that, John?"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-02-04

"here two schools of poets" says the New Yori
Both ought to be kept in.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02

in Gen. Lees pew in the same church.
On Sunday he may listen to the SER
mon preached from the quaint pulpit.
At Alexandria is the Masonic Lodge
over which Washington once presided.
Here, too, is the Carlyle House in
which occurred the Ellsworth tragedy.
From Alexandria, one may go to
Arlington, by trolley. just across the
river from the nations cayital. Here
he enters the Custis-Lee Mansion and
registers in the visitors book in the
room in which Miss Mary Custis
(great-grand-daughter of Mrs. Martha
Washington became the wife of Gen.
Robert E. Lee. Part of the eleven
hundred acres Of the Arlington Estate
is now used for a national cemetery.
Twenty-four thousand graves are
Another part Of the Arlington lands
is used as a drill field and station
ground for Fort Myer. The rest is
a Government agricultural farm. The
Government paid George Washington
Custis Lee $l50,O00 for the Arling-
ton Estate.
Mount Vernon belongs to the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association. They
paid John Augustine Washington
100000 for it. Mount Vernon was
built in l749 by Lawrence, half
brother Of George Washington. Up
on the death of Lawrence and his
only child, it became the property Of
him whose ownership made it famous.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02

Shave with Keen Kutter safety
razor. price $1.00 only.
Selmer Hardware Co.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
From Old Zique.

Who was it that said | was dead
No sir. Pm not dead, either! either! Folks
fotched up in McNairy county don't
pull off that stunt every time they
get soakin' or catch a cold, or run
against snag. If the boys of old
McNairy had been mixed up in that
fracas they're playing with in Europe
the war would have been over long
ago. and the boys would have been
gone courting.
Say, Captain, that made me think
one day when was in Dyersburg ]
accidentally found ]. F. Sweat. !
stuck to him closer than a marrying
widder and spent the night with him,
1t made me feel good. We talked
over ancient times and laughed till
way in the night. We talked about
our neighbors, too, but not the way
some folks talk. | told him about
going home with Bruce Hines for din
ner one day and how we enjoyed it
about Willie Nickolls, Thos. Hunter,
Zach Simpson. and ever so many others.
1t made US both want to rent car
and head that way, but those wives of
ours objected unless they could 60,
and if they went we'd have to bring
the children and as we doubted The
ability of even the best cars pulling
US that distance we abandoned the
idea for the present.
This letter will close on short order,
but very soon | will tell you some
thing Of Gibson county and its people,
its roads, it's waalth, etc. Pm going
to tell you how folks up here make
from $50 to $3.50 per acre and how
YOU can do the same thing.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02

1t is up to the county court
Monday to say what will be done
about the high school question.
We feel that the time has come
when the magistrates of the
county should rise to a plane
where the interests of certain
persons and places should be SUBJ
ordinate to the educational inter-
ests of the county. No county
in the State the size of this has
more than one high school, and
but very few over one and many
not one. If we intend to furnish
teachers for the common schools,
we must furnish a school that
will prepare them for the work.
AS now required there are not
enough teachers qualified to teach
all the schools of the county.
Shall we have one high school
equipped with teachers to qualify
them to teach, or will we have
a half dozen or more so-called
third-class high schools not equip
ped with teachers capable to pre-
pare these common school teach
ers for certificates. The cry of
having a high school in every
community community 50 the patrons can go
home and not board hardly rises
to dignity of common nonsense.
The common free school puts a
child through the 9th grade. That
is education sufficient for nine
tenths of the boys and girls of
the county. If the other tenth
which expect to teach or follow
learned profession, cannot board
should not aspire to leadership in
the literary world. The question
is one first-class high school at
Se,mer or none. If in the future
it is deemed wise and there is
enough money another might be
established at Adamsville or some
other distant place where most
needed. At present and to meet
present needs the coming year,
let the high school be provided
for and established at Selmer,
where all the facilities are, and a
complete board Of teachers EN-.
ployed to teach the best school in
the county.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
AN EASY, PLEASANT LAXATIVE

One or two DR.. Kings New Life
Pills with a tumbIer of water at night.
No bad, nauseatihg taste; no belching
gas. Go right to bed. Wake up in
the morning, enjoy a free, casey bowel
movement, and feel fine all day. DR..
Kings New Life Pills are sold by all
Druggists, 36 in an original package,
for 25c, Get bottle to-day enjoy
this easy, pleasant laxative. adv
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
Easy to Darken Gray Hair

When your hair turns gray, streaked
with gray, white, faded, brittle, fall
ing out, itching scalp or dandruff, try
the following: On retiring rub Q-Ban
like a shampoo on nair and scalp. BY
morning the gray has disappeared
and another application or two of
Q-Ban the hair is beautifully darkened
and becomes fluffy, glossy and luxuri-
ant with real hair health. Itching
and dandruff have stopped. Q-Ban
stops falling hair and promotes its
growth. Q-Ban is not sticky and
messy. and cannot iniure the hair or
scalp. Delightful to use and sure to
darken hair so evenly and naturally
no one can tell. Soc for ST bottle.
Browder Bros, Selmer. Tenn. adv
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
The Needs Of a CountyHish School
COncreteIy Emphasized.

OF the "a white teachers who
took the May examinations, "A
failed. This number of failures
has been received. Presumably
the other 40 applicants passed,
though certificates have not been
received, and some of these may
have failed. But granting that
the other 40 pass, over 81 per
cent. have failed. Only 40 can
pass. and there are nearly 80
schools in the county, employing
a hundred teachers. A number
of schools will have to do without
teachers or take those who failed
to pass and who are far from
qualified to teach.
Do you want one of these
incompetent teachers for your
school? If so, make application
to the county board and we are
sure you can get one, for there
are not near enough who passed.
to go around, and most people
want qualified teachers.
The only way we can hope to
have a full supply of well quail
fled teachers for the schools is
by maintaining a first-class high
school in the county,
Not one who attended the full
session of the school at Selmer
last year failed in the recent ex-
aminations. We do not have the
data from the other schools.
It is to the vital interests Of
every citizen Of the county tc
urge the county court to make
permanent the establishment oi
at least one first-class high schoo
in the county, and we believe one
such school is all the county car
establish at the present time, ant
Is all that is required for tht
school system of the county.
Such school cannot be placed
at every mans door anyway.
AARON BROOKS.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
: Bonneville vs.. Selmer.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
last week the Bonneville boys met the
Selmer team on, the diamond. One
game was played each day. First
game went to Selmer, 8 to 2; second
to Bonneville, 8 to 2; third to Boone
vile, 5 to 3. It was fine game and
was pulled off in frst-class order.
Sam Freeman as umpire gave entirely
satisfactory rulings.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
A Cough Remedy That Relieves

It's prepared from the Pine Balsam,
Tar and Honey-all mixed in a pleas
ant, soothing Cough Syrup called DR..
Bells ne-Tar-Honey. Thousands have
benefited by its use-no need of your
risking a dangerous Cold. Go to
your dealer, ask for a 25c original
bottle DR.. Bells Pine-Tar-Honey, start
using at once and get rid Of your
Cough and Cold. adv
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02

STATE OF TENNESSEE, | 90
COUNTY OF MCNAIRY, %.
/. Albert Gillespie, Cashier of the
above named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the
best of my knowledge and belief.
Albert Gillespie, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this Both day of June. 1915.
r7 w. III. STONE,
lshALl Notary Public.
CoRRECT-Attest:
Jno. L. Warren,
b. L. Browder,
J. d. A Coleman, Directors.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02

Legal Blanks of all kinds.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
Notice.

All parties owing the firm of E. F.
Hendrix & Sons, come in at once and
settle the same. am winding up
the business of said concern and insist
on you doing this promptly.
F. F. HENDRIX.
Selmer, June A, 1915.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
StramoIine

That powerful lung medicine that
is sold by druggist on positive guar
antee to give satisfaction or money
refunded. We are not satisfied until
you are satisfied. Large size bottle
sent by parcel post to your door for
one dollar. Address Moore-Higgs
Chemical Company, 948 Linden ave.,
Memphis, Tenn.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
Residence for Sale

offer for sale my residence on
4th St., Court Ave-. Selmer, Tenn. s
rooms, two-story, frame. Lot look
240. Barn, all outhouses, fruit and
good we'll. A bargain offered. W.
NJ. Phillips, Cairo, iii. 48
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02

Lemons. Lemons, Lemons. We have
contracted for several boxes Of nice
lemons and can sell them at zoe per
doz. while they last. Both phones Al.
Free delivery. Warren & Co.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02
Notice to Fishermen.

The fishing privileges in Crystal
Springs lake have been leased to the
Parrish Hotel for the exclusive use of
its guests. All persons will please
take notice and not trespass.
]. w. PURyIANCE.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1915-07-02

Read the Independent for the news
Of the county.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27
SHERIFF's SALE
WILLIE T. STEWART.
Versus
FRED and P. j. VOORHEES,
No. 0,238, 18th Judicial District Court,
Parish of st. Landry, La.

By virtue of a writ of seizure and
sale, issued out of the Honorable Six
teenth Judicial District Court, in and
for the Parish of st. Landry, in the
above entitled and numbered suit, and
to me directed, | have seized and will
offerfo sale, forcash, at public auction,
to the last and highest bidder, at
the front door Of the Court House of St.
Landry Parish, at Opelousas, La, on
SATURDAY, MARCH 9th, 1915,
at IL o'clock a. M, the following de-
scribed property, to-wit:
A certain parcel, or parcels OF land,
situated in the original and official
town of Eunice, Parish of st. Landry,
State of La, more fully described as
being Lots Number Three t3), Four
"a, Five (5), and Six t6) of Block
Eighty Nine 1897, and is commonly
known as the VOORHEES, Brothers Lum-
Der Yard: between Crowley and Mid
land Branches of the Frisco and S. P.
Roads; together with all the buildings
and improvements thereon located,
save and except ali the merchantable
lumber, and all other stock in trade.
Terms: Cash, to pay and satisfy tn
sum of two thousand dollars, debt, with
interest and costs, unless the same is
Immediately paid.
fan 80 st M. [. SWORDS, Sheriff.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27
Farm News
IF WE BUY FROM YOUR
SHELVES, YOU BUY FROM
OUR FARMS"

We have a letter from aSouth-
ern farmer before US which sheds
a strong light on the situation.
Il hauled a load Of hay to my
home town the writer tells US,
but the merchants wouldn't
even make me a price on it.
They said. we don't want your
wagon of hay, because we buy
our hay in carload lots from the
west. And yet they say we do
wrong when we send money
north and west to buy bargains
from mail order houses. We are
simply feeding them out of their
spoon"
Now we hope any merchant
who reads this article will not
throw the paper down and say
the farmer was wrong. It's a
case where merchant and
farmer should come together
and reason together. 1t seems
to US a reasonable demand which
farmers make of merchants
when they say, If we buy from
your shelves, you buy from our
farms. If we buy of Southern
merchants, you buy of Southern
farmers.
Here, it seems to us, is a great
chance for cooperation for the
mutual benefit of farmer and
merchant. It will certainly help
the merchant to keep in the COM
munity the money which he has
been sending north and west for
meat, corn, oats, -four, hay, lard,
etc. His patrons will become
richer and give him larger trade.
And we repeat that it is the
duty Of the merchant to eneour-
age this result. As we have said
before, the merchant in the rural
south has performed only half
his function when he has ar
ranged for farmers to pay him a
profit on what he has to sell. It
is also his duty to find a market
for what they have to sell, and
he cannot demand that they
serve him unless he also serves
them. And he ought to serve
them not merely in taking their
cotton, a service in which he
usually takes little trouble and
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27
Obituary.

Emile Peferkorn, an old and
popular conductor on the Alex
andria branch died last Saturday
night at his home in Lafayette
at the age of 90 years.
The above notice Of death
which we have taken from the
Abbeville Meriodinal, will be
read with genuine regret by the
numerous friends of the de-
ceased in this community where
in he was born and reared.
Emile Pefferkorn was a good
man and first class citizen. He
was the son of Jacob Pefferkorn
and Esther Miller and was
born and reared in Opelousas.
He began life as a shoemaker,
then went into the bar room BUSH
ness, in which occupation he
made lots of money.
He built the home wherein
Cliff Allen resided just north of
the Pefferkorn home on Union
Street, now occupiud by Mrs.
Sam Perkins.
Moving to Lafayette some
twenty years ago, he became a
railroad man and was for many
years a conductor from Lafay-
cite to Alexandria. Sometime
since he lost his job and this
preyed upon his mind to such an
extent he died of grief.
A relative of his stated to the
writer about two months since,
he was dying of grief at the loss
of employment.
He had to pass an examination
under new rules of the company,
and being u%nlettered, could not
stand the test.
He had been an ideal employee.
Always on the job, without ac-
cident to his train, but being I'M
able to pass the examination,
was reIegated to private life.
This was more than he could en-
dure, and he passed away grief
stricken over his inability to find
other employment.
He leaves a widow, formerly
Miss Hollier Of this city. a num-
Der Of sons and daughters to
mourn his loss. J. A. Perkins
and Robert Perkins are his
nepheWs. Mrs. Sam Perkins
his sister and Jake Waiter his
first cousin.
Goodbye "Peff." May the
sod rest lightly upon your manly
bosom, and over. your honest
heart, may violets spring.
OLD TIMER.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27
ru1 PARSONS MOTION

Levi Morton's opportunities were not
greater than those Of most country boys
He was reared on a New England farm,
under conditions demanding religious rev.
erence. patefnal respect, strict morality
and habits of industry. His strongest
characteristic was a disposition to trade,
rather than to read-a harbinger of that
keen insight for which he was famous in
later years in the world Of business.
Country boy, merchant, banker, diplo-
mat vice president-the rise of Levi p.
Morton is Enthusiastically an American
possibility.
At the age OF fifteen he displayed dash,
vfgor and enterprise II keen perception
concerning matters connected with busi-
ness. The dominating note of his career
was fltness-he was prepared-always
ready-sensing opportunities with an ac-
curacy that was considered marvellous.
His vision reached beyond the limitations
Of country merchandising. The assurance
OF his own qualifications impelled him to
seek larger fields in which to exercise the
peculiar faculties with waich he was
gifted.
His extraordinary capacity for winning
the confidence Of men was responsible II
q large measure for an unbroken chain
Of commercial and financial successes IN
Boston. New York and London. Mr.. Nor
ton typified the dominant spirit in Amert-
can business life Progress.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27

By virtue of a Judgment of the Hon.
B. H. Pavy, Judge OF the 18th judicial
District Court, sitting in and for the
parish of st. Landry, and rendered and
signed on the 10th day or January, A.
D., 1915, and pursuant to a commission
issued out of said court by A. j. T. Lit
tell, Deputy Clerk, and of same date,
there will be sold at public auction, to
the last and highest bidder, according
to law, at the Mill Site of the Alexander
Hardwood Company, Ltd, at Euniee,
La, commencing at the hour of II
o'clock a. M, on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9th, 1915,
by the undersigned Receivers, or any
duly qualified Auctioneer, the follow
ing described property, to-wit:
Two black horse mules.
Two Bay Horse mules.
Also about one hundred thousand {100.-
000l hammer handles; about seventy
five thousand U.s. 600 cub turned hick-
DRY spokes; about one hundred thou
sand (100, coo oak spoke billets;
also three dismanteled saw mills,
known as mills Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and at
the plant at Eunice; also one lot OF lum-
Der wagon and logging tools; also n
lot of open accounts and claims, and
miscellaneous tools and appurtenances.
Terms and conditions--On a twelve
months credit for what it will bring.
Purchasers to give a twelve months
bond with good security to be ap.
proved by the joint receivers and mort
gage retained On property sold.
JAMES J. LEWIS.
T. B. Unlikely,
Joint Receivers, Alexander Hardwood
" ~ Ffo o.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27
RECEIVERS SALE.
M. BORNE
VS..
ALEXANDER HARDWOOD COM
PANY, LTD.
NJ. BORNE

No. 19,947, 10th Judicial District Court,
st. Landry Parish, La.
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27

W. have a letter from aSouth-
ern farmer before US which sheds
a strong light On the situation.
Il hauled a load Of hay to my
St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1915-02-27

y, n.nG h,1t i will
nav him to serve them by finding
markets for farm products in
cases where it means that he
must do intelligent and active
hustling to effect results. The
Progressive Farmer.