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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
City on Qui Vive Over Approach
ing Arrival Of Viewing
Commission.
OF DIXIE BEE LINE HIGHWAY
Public Meeting Wednesday Night
Probably at Virginia
Park.

The Location Commission of the
Dixie Bee Line Highway will be here
Wednesday night Sept. Is, coming
from the South via Pembroke and
spending the night here.
The locol entertainment will con-
sist of dinner aud public meeting.
The details Of the functions are
progressing favorably.
The next day GAINESVILLE will be
visited and the visitors will be taken
to Dawson via Nortonville where the
Hopkins county people will take
charge of them for the second time.
Mr.. r. E. Cooper received this
week a paper from Vermiion coun-
ty, Ind, saying not less than 80 visi-
tors would come from that county un-
der the leadership of M. l. M. Case
beer, the local committeeman. 9th
err over-the-river counties will be
largely represented, not less than
200 being expected.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
Paris Admits Partial Success
of Foes, But Berlin Claims
Much.
RUSSIANS MAKE FINE STAND
Little News From DardanelleS
Allowed To Get
Through.

London, Sept. 10.-The German
crown prince is making another de-
termined attempt to break through
1.-THE French lines in the Argonne,
and Berlin declares he has taken
trenches over a front of two kilome-
tres Zone and a quarter miles, and to
a depth of from 300 to 500 meters,
capturing 1000 prisoners, forty
eight machine guns and sixty.four
mine throwers.
The French admit a partial Ger
man success, but declare that in
most instances the attackers were
thrown back with heavy losses.
This doubtless is the German re-
ply to the artillery bombardment
which the allies kept up for fifteen
days, but which now seems to be
dying down without succeeding in
fantry attacks. Instead, except for
heavy gun action south of Arras,
bomb throwing seems to have taken
its place.
Along the eastern front things are
moving more slowly again after the
Russian offensive in the southeast, in
which the Muscovites claimed a SUBJ
stantial victory had helped to liven
up matters.
From the Gulf of Riga to Olita,
south of Kovno, the Germans assert
the situation is unchanged, while
their center from that point to and
beyond the Pripet marshes contin.
ues to advance. Thence to the Ru.
manian frontier the Russians are
still the aggressors; they are endeav-
oring to prevent the invasion of
Bessarabia.
Gu the whole, the Russians appear,
with fresh ammunition supplies, to
be making a better sand. They
are aided, doubtless, by the rains,
which are turning the roads, especi-
ally in the region of the Pripet and
its affluents, into quagmires.
The only news from the Dardanel.
les comes from Turkish sources,
which report an artillery action in
which allied ships took part.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
Two Miles Of Turnpike AS
sured By Local
Energy.
DIST. ACTS WHEN co. FAILS
State Aid Will Provide Stone
on The Graded Road
bed.

Fine work was done on the Gale.
donia road in Trigg county this
week under the leadership of Claude
Wellington and Garrett Sallee, as.
sisted by Clint Cayce, Jim Wallace.
Esq. Charlie Wallace and Col. w. R.
Howell. The stretch of two miles
from the county line to Caledonia
was graded and made ready for
stone by the citizens. who worked
Wednesday and Thursday with r.
men, 81 mules, 2 engines, 2 graders,
drags, scrapers, plows and shovels.
The work was done under the super
vision of State Engineer Whitaker
and d. c. McQueary, the contractor
on the Julien section of Christian
county pike. finished this week.
The road is now ready for the
stone and the money for stone is in
sight. Some has been subscribed
and the work done by citizens will
be given a cash value by Engineer
Whitaker and the state will give
dollar for dollar for all paid by citi-
zens in money or labor.
Col. Howell was in town yester-
day and modestly claims no credit
for himself, but says the work done
to the meetings held at Cadiz and
Caledonia by the Christian county
boosters.
The pike will be completed with
out delay.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
TROUBLES MULTIPLIED.

B. F. Davis, of Casky, had a run
of bad luck" this week that seldom
comes to one man. On Sunday,
while the family was away from
home his house and all its contents
burned. He is now seeking shelter
at his brothers house at Pembroke.
On Monday his wife was the victim
of a runaway accident and was
caught under an upturned buggy
and narrowly escaped serious in
juries. On Tuesday his best mule
got out and was only found after a
days search. and on Wednesday a
young colt was caught in q barbed-
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
ANOTHER
STORE ADDED
The City Grocery Company Pur-
chaSeS Store of hiSer &
Company.

The City Grocery Company has
purchased of Hiser & Co., their
grocery at No. 200, East 2lst street
thus adding the fifth mercantile es.
adjustment to their chain of stores.
When the City Grocery Co. organ
lied and incorporated they opened
up four grocery stores. Store No. l
is located at the corner of 9th and
Clay, No. 2 on 9th and L. & NJ, No.
3 on 10th and Clay and No. a on 10Th
and High.
Mr.. W. A. Diuguid, who has been
conducting the Hiser store, has not
yet announced his future plans.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
THE CARS LATEST MOVE.

The transfer of Grand Duke Mich.
olas TO the Caucasus and the assump.
ton by the Russian Emperor OF
command of all his land and sea
forces has caused surprise among
the allied nations. but the opinion is
expressed that the Emperor is mere
ly following Russian traditions and
that the Russian troops will give a
better account of themselves in the
knowledge that "The Little Father"
is personally directing their efforts.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

MENINGITIS
Causes Death of Mrs. .CarmaCk
At Her Home Near
LarkinS.

Mrs lola C4rmack, wife of Mr..
Aubrey Carmack, of the Lsrkin
neghborhood, died Wednesday even.
ing after an illness of several months.
She had been sufferer from tuber-
culcsis for eight months. but the i'm
mediate cause of her death was tu-
berculsr meningitis. Mrs. Carm &C
was in her eighteenth year. Inter
ment took place in the Fowler bury
ing ground Thursday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
LIQUOR
TRAGEDY
Man Accused Of Selling Liquor
" Kills Youth and Officer,
Then Is Shot.

Hickman. Ky. Sept. l0.-W. A.
Naylor, a deputy sheriff; VIM. Col
Inns, a youth. and Claude johnson.
whom Collins is said to have accused
of selling liquor. we're killed and
Collins mother was seriously wound
ed in q series of shooting ARRAYS
here last night.
According to Collins relatives.
johnson called the youth to the door,
way of his home and shot him to
death while the boys mother and
sister were attempting to prevent
him opening the door. One OF the
bullets struck Mrs. Collins. MAYOR
vas killed when he attempted to
arrest johnson. and later johnson
was killed in exchange OF shots with
a posse Of citizens.
Naylor formerly was county judge.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
1000 MEN $50 TEAMS
Did Work In One Day ESti-
mated at $1,000.

In summing up the work done or
the roads interested in the Dixie Bee
Line, the total of men and teams
runs up to probably 1000 men and
$50 teams
On the GAINESVILLE road alone w.
T. Fowler had 14l men and 80 teams.
M. A. Mason and W. c. Summers
100 men and Is teams, B. P. Eu.
banks and j. P. Stevenson had so
men and 10 teams, P. H. Aliens
worth and Mr.. Johnson, P. c. Sallee
and T. j. Baynham in their sections
had approximately ITO men and %
teams. Eleven cars of stone were
scattered and a great deal of per-
manent improving done and a word
of cleaning up.
On the Nashville pike S. l.. Cow
herd and the Pembroke workers and
on to Trenton had perhaps as many
and the Madisonvile road had
enough to make up the totals gwen.
The Ladies Book Club of the Nash
vile pike served dinner at Otis
Rhes's for the workers on that road
Wednesday, both white and black.
The dinner was a sumptuous repast
of everything good to eat and was
free 10 all.
1t was a great day for good roads
in Christian county, its money value
in men and teams being not less than
SO, 900.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
FORTY STONES
ARE REMOVED
Mrs. HaddOck Operated on at
Jennie Stuart Hospital
Yesterday.

The wife of Mr.. w. L. Haddock,
of the Sinking Fork neighborhood,
underwent an operation at the Jen-
ME Stuart Memorial Hospital yester-
day morning for gall stones, from
which she had suffered for some
time. Forty gall stones were re-
moved. She stood the operation
well and was getting along satisfac-
torily yesterday afternoon.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
LOCAL BOY
WINS PRIZE
Will Get $35 For Essay Writ.
ten In State COmpe-
titiOn. 81

Jas. L. Skerritt, a bright Hopkins
vile boy, won the second prize of
$35 offered by the State Tax League
for the best essay on taxation to be
written by the school children of the
state. Young Skerritt's essay was
"The General Tax Kentucky's Stun
bling Block"
The first prize went to Miss Louise
Robinson, of Pleasureville, Ky.
The judges who decided it were,
Judge Henry S. Barker, president of
the State University; Prof. E. O.
Holland, superintendent of Louis
vile schools, and Prof. H. H. Cher
ry. president of the Western State
Normal school.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

The news that Emperor Nicholas
had placed himself at the head of the
Russian armies, which was an
nounced in a telegram to President
Poincare, of France. and the visit
of the French commander, Gen.
Joffre, to the Italian army, fore
shadow, it is believed, stirring events
both on the eastern and western
fronts, in which the armies of all
the Allies will cooperate.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
LITTLE RIVER
ASSOCIATION
Meets At Hurricane, Caldwell
County, This
Month.

The one hundred and second an
nual session of the Little River Bap-
fist Association will be held this year
with the Harmony Baptist church, in
Caldwell county, beginning Wednes-
day. Sept. 20. for a three-days ses-
sion. The Rev. John T. Cunning
ham, of Princeton, is moderator. and
|. ]. Wallis, of Trigg county. is clerk.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
NASHVILLE COMMISSIONERS.

AS a result of Thursdays city pri.
mary there will be a run-off. Sep
TENDER 20. between Judge John j.
Killen and George j.. Tompkins in
the race for commissioner of fire.
sprinkling and building inspection.
while James B. Armstrong and Paul
W. Treanor will be in the run-off in
the race for commissioner of finance.
liehs and market house.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

The new Agricultural Agent for
Christian county is A. M. Casey,
with the accent on the M. Until the
public gets accustomed to seeing his
name in print, it is not amiss to make
it plain that he has never lived here
before and that he is c'ever gentle
man, an all round good fellow and
an expert in his line of work.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

The Gar of Russia, without any
experience whatever as soldier, in
command of any army numbering
millions, would have a humorous
side to it. but for the fact that
modern war is no laughing matter.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
Two molar teeth proved stumblin,

Two molar teeth proved stumbling
blocks to Lucien N. Grant, of Lam
caster who sought admission to the
United States Naval Academy. until
4 Senator James used his good offices
and obtained the coveted appoint
ment for the Kentucky boy, who
wants to fight with his hands and
not with his teeth.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

Germany's note on the Arabic ex-
presses regret. but ADDS: The
German government is unable, how
ever, to acknowledge any obligation
to grant indemnity in the matter.
even if the commander should have
been mistaken as to the aggressive
intentions of the Arabic"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
GREGORY PLEADS GUILTY.

Eli E. Gregory, cashier of the de-
funct Central City Deposit Bank.
was given a minimum prison sent
ence of eight years on his plea of
guilty to a charge of forgery and a
minimum sentence Of five years on
his plea Of guilty to having accepted
deposits knowing the bank to be in
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

3 Sending Dumba home does not
mean a severance of diplomatic rela-
tons with Austria unless that gov
eminent assumes responsibility
for his actions. 1t may be added
that German papers are defending
and justifying Dumba.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

Another chapter has been added
to the Woodson-W atterson controv-
ersy over Urey Woodson's removal
as National Committeeman. The
next hove is Marse Henry's.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

Col. John R. Green Chapter D. A.
r. will meet at Carnegie Library at
a o'clock p. M. next Monday. A
full attendance is desired. as dee
gates to the state conference will be
elected.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

The Liberty Bell will pass through
eaducah the second week in Novem-
Der, being routed from Memphis to
st. Louis. Later it will re.enter
Kentucky at Louisville.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

Get ready to decorate for the visi-
tors on Dixie Bee Line Day. Flags
and bunting and banners of any
kind may be used.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

Up to the time the war began,
most of the Cars military expert
ence was in lodging bombs.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

The long expected air raid on
London caused 20 deaths and sc
injuries, IA probably fatal.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
COST Il LIVES.

The recent hurricane along the
Florida coast cost twenty-one lives,
according to the latest figures on
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11

More than one-thiTd OF the 1875, 900
White man In The TransvaaI ara nm.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1915-09-11
WATCH THE DATE

After your name. renew
promptly. and not misea NUM-
Der. The Postal regulations
require subscriptions to be
paid In advance.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-05
OLD EIGHTH WARDERS.
what DO They Know About a Fire,
house Triangular Stone?

To TIE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir. I
remember as n hoy residing In the
Eighth ward OF New York city, seeing
the engine housc OF Oceanus No. II. ad-
joining the station house on the corner
of Prince street. The old engine house
was on Wooster street and the entrance
TO the Eighth precinct station house
was on Wooster street, next to the en-
CINE house.
over the doors OF this house was n
large triangle shaped stone. serving as
an "arch" In fact all the old lime en-
CINE houses had n triangle shaped arch
stone like this. After Eleven moved
to n new house on Wooster street near
Spring street the old house was used
by the police station. A few days ago
! passed this corner and saw that a
new entrance 10 the station house had
been made ON Prince street. and ! noted
that a large triangle shaped stone was
over the doors.
Is this the same stone that was over
the engine house doors? could not
find any old resident 10 talk to. as the
neighborhood has changed radically SO
| thought, as THE Sun reaches every
body and goes everywhere, that some
Eighth Warder, veteran fireman or
old citizen might read this and satisfy
the curiosity Of an old New Yorker who
still has n love for his old neighborhood
and tho engine of his ~boyhood days.
FRANK DuMoNr.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-05
Local Progress Toward Civilization.

President MARKS OF Manhattan Dor
ough records in his report for 1914
n number of advances toward civil
Zation in the governmental activities
over which he has jurisdiction. Som
of them are contributions to comfort
and economy adopted or enforced 10y
Mr.. Marks: others are the natural
Developments OF reforms begun by
his predecessor. All of Them give
support to the Relief that in munich
pal administration we make progress
steadily in lettering conditions. and
not n few reveal the carelessness and
~looscness that have existed In the not
remote past. For example:
"By defining for the first time in the
history OF the city the true street lines
and the location OF sub-surface struc-
lures In downtown New York MAN
hat,anl the Bureau OF Design and Sur
vey has been able to furnish to the
Public Service Commission Information
which has been % great value In the
construction Of subways."
How much the lack Of such Il sur.
vey has cost in time, bother ana good
hard cash nobody can compute, but
II il Il tradition firmly established
where the truth should be known that
only u few years ago there existed
NO complete map Of the water mains.
and when a break occurred in one
of them II was necessary IN ask n
single individual where the valve that
must be closed to shut Off the supply
vas situated. Another paragraph
from Mr., NNRKs's report
we have adopted a plan which ar
fords better surface drainage facilities,
Intakes to the catch basins at street cor
nc,s are now placed on either side Of the
corner instead of exactly on the corner.
| Thus the water flowing In the cutters
IL intercepted before II reaches > the
crosswalks at street corners. Before
this Improvement was effected the sur
face water would traverse the cross
walks, thus exposing the pedestrians to
annoyance and discomfort"
A small thing, but worthy Of praise
or a wet day. 1t should have been
done from the beginning. But here
Is another reform which required
no particular ingenuity TO achieve
though It was long overlooked
In order that newly paved streets
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-05

The Attorney General is reported
as saying that the Governments suit
to dissolve the Steel Corporation.
thrown out day before yesterday by
the unanimous decision Of the Judges
Of the United States Circuit Court
for the Third Circuit. will "undoubt.
eddy" he carried to the Supreme Court
on appeal. Possibly the advert used
by Mr.. GREGORY was "doubtfury." No
Ease Of this magnitude ever prose
cuted under the Sherman act was in
. more doubtful condition for appeal.
Barring the ordinary momentum of
litigation and the pride Of opinion OF
certain law officers specially con.
cerned in this enterprise. there seems
to be no conceivable motive for con.
tinuing this attack on that form OF
legitimate cooperation which has come
TO be known as big business.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-05
AMERICAN
An Examination In the Battery
Legend of Billy Patterson.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: I
can't find any one 10 tell me what Is
the meaning and importance OF the qucs-
ton: "NVho struck Billy Patterson"
I'm told II is a Joke, hut where In thun-
der Is the Joke? | asked ten men and
they laughed but they couldn't tell me.
Is Billy Patterson n myth" I've looked
in all the encyclopedias in the Congress
sional Library and can't find any mem
ton OF a Bllly Patterson who was IA
nous for being struck. SO II he Is not
Il myth. kindly tell me;
Who was BILLY Patterson?
When ala Billy Patterson live?
Where did Billy Patterson live and
move and have his being?
Where was Billy Patterson when he
was struck?
why does anybody care whether
somebody struck Billy Patterson?
what made the blow that struck
Billy Patterson famous?
what was Billy Patterson struck for,
anyway? Did he deserve what he go,
and id he get what he deserved?
Did the blow kill Billy Patterson?
And IL II didn't. why in hotherntion
doesn't he come forward and tell an
a~nxious world. once for all, Who struck
Billy Patterson
| want to know.
JAMES GAY Fox.
WASHINGTON, II. G., June T.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-05
Chief Judge Bartlett on the Delay In
Criminal Cases.

In his statement to the judiciary
committee Of the Constitutional Con
vention Chief Judge BARTLETT Of the
Court Of Appeals referred briefly to
one weakness of the machinery OF ap-
pellate Justice as 1t affects criminal
cases when he said:
THE delay in criminal cases Is due
% the indulgence which public prose-
cutors show to counsel for the defence.
They are reluctant to refuse appeals
for delay. especially in capital cases"
Criminal cases receive preference
from the Court NJ Appeals. and the
lime actually devoted to their consid-
GRAFTON by the Judges Is not dispro-
p%ortionate to their intricacy and their
merits. But frequently the whole
period that elapses between the con
viction OF a murderer and the Anal
decision in his case Is charged against
he bench and Is put down to judicial
urocrn~ situation. AS n matter OF fact
he court cannot act until the case
ONES before IL. and for unreasonable
rrolongation OF the process OF prep
Grafton the Judges are not accountable
or responsible.
The misunderstanding Of this fact
illustrates the difficulties encountered
on every side in the treatment of the
subject commonly described rs the
laws delays. and brings on the courts
unmerited criticism.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-05

The problem IL, with one unlocked
for, smashing blow to make chaos Of
frontal and 6anklng defences and
then swamp everything with an over
whelming charge. In the Arras dis
trict at least that is the problem
which the French seem to have solved
pretty thoroughly, and they solved 1t
with the mine.
This last. the mining stage Of trench
warfare, Is also called the listening"
stage. because from the moment OF
immediate proximity the enemy Is felt
and CROPPED for by the guidance Of ear
touch alone. IF you are mining he
probably is countermlning Yours Is
the task Of divining where he Is,
| where he is going and about how long
1t will take him to get there. The
most dellcately adjusted microphones
record every faint tick he makes In
his work. In estimating his distance
| and direction not only the character
OF the earth he Is In but even the
| probable nature of his tools must be
| taken into the account. II becomes
n breathless underground race with
life or death the stakes.
The precision and skill shown In
this kind Of work rs developed of
late mark a new era In military min
ing. Warfare submarine Superior
ranean and s~ubterranean, these seem
to be the great military innovations
Of the conflict TO date. And as be-
tween the man bird and the man
mole. the man above the earth and
the man beneath 1t. 1t Is the mole who
thus far easily wins in the record OF
wholesale slaughter.