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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
GRAVES COUNTY WORKS
PRISONERS ON ROADS.

The fiscal court of Graves
county has decided to work their
prisoners ON the county highways
This is the right step in the right
direction, and Fulton county
would come out ahead if she did
likewise. On the subject the
Mayfield Messenger says:
This order was made in com
pliance of an act passed by the
1914 session of the legislature.
The prisoners will be used on
roads leading from Mayfield AMI
will not be taken such a distance
but that they can be brought
back 10 prison on the same day
Either deputy jailer or specla
officer will have charge of the
prisoners while at work, this mat
ter 10 be decided later by the
county Judge and county attor
ney. But the work of the prlS
oncrS will be under the supervi
sion of the county road engi
necr.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
LET'S STOP TRADING.

America is doing well, in fact,
too well. to be drawn into the
European war and should not do
SO unless very grave offense is
given. As neither Germany nor
Great Britain and her allies will
abate their violation of the laws
of neutrality on the ocean, why
not suspend all maritime inter
course with the warning nations
until the European war is over,
or until they can agree 10 observe
the laws of neutrality. We had
better lose some that way than to
lose more and the blood of our
sons and brothers besides in a
prolonged and cruel war.
Ii any of our people want to
persist in trading and going over
TO the warning countries of Eu-
rope let it be understood they do il
ut theeir own risk.-Fulton Lead
ar.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
BAD NEGRO KILLED
BY FULTON POLICE.

Buster Slayden Mayfield ne
gro, has been the terror of Wes.-
ern Kentucky for several years
and officers in many places have
been searching for him. lie met
his fate in Fulton Friday when
he was shot and killed by Chief
of Police Young Eaker and Spe'
cial |. c. Officer Leander Rob
ertsOn.
Slayden, it is said, was max
ing AN effort to pull a pistol from
his pocket when the officers took
shots at the bad man. The negro
when searched had a blue steel
revolver in his pocket.
SIayden was wanted at May
field TO answer TO the charge OF
stealing lot of silverware from
the home of w. J. Johnston, the
druggist, last winter. The at
tempt 10 arrest him led TO the
tkilifntr.. ''aa.ls.s. A.. s--ale a. s.ts
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
HEAVY RAINS AND
SEVERE WIND STORMS.

Quite a severe wind storm visit
ed this section Thursday night
and Friday morning following a
continuous 40-hours rain, aud did
considerable damage. Many
fields of corn were layed low, as
the ground was very soft, and big
damage may result unless most
favorable weather conditions fol-
low. Other growing crops suf-
fered in a similar manner.
In Hickman lighs and telephone
wires were blown down and the
three companies We're forced TO
work full crews all day Friday in
the rain TO make repairs.
Many roads were badly washed
and both shade and fruit trees
suffered from the wind.
The temperature dropped so
low Friday evening that over
coats were comfortable aud quite
a few were 10 be seen in use.
For three days and nights
rain fell with varying intensity
and without n let-up. Esti-
mates place the rainfall from !
To ) inches
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
HICKMAN KENTUCKY, THURSDAY. AUGUST 90, 1915
FUNERAL 81 YEARS AFTER
"SUBBJECT" WAS BURIED.

Dawson Springs, KY, Aug D.
A strange funeral service was
held at the Baptist church at 81.
lent Run, ten miles from this
place, Thursday. Milton Sisk
died at hls home in Hopkins
county twcnly-0ne years ago, and
at his request no funeral service
was to be held until ille one hun
drcdth anniversary of his birth,
Thursday was the date and his
grandson, the Rev. l.. q. Sisk, o.
Clay, preached the sermon.
The service was conducted 10
fulfill a dream that Milton Sisl
had thirty-,lght yeaN ago. III,
dreamed be- was one hundred
years old aud died and his funera
wis preached by a grandson OF
the elder Sisk 's one huudredtl
birthday.
Just before his death he re-
qneSied his family not 10 have an!
funeral service when hc died, tha
hc bad faith IA his dream and be-
lieved that IN time one OF hr
grandson would be- a preacher
and he wanted hun 10 preach th,
funeral On the hundrcdth ami
yeNary of hs birth At tl
time of the dream the Rev, Slsk
who preached the funeral, wa
only Two years old. There wer
l5O of Sissk = descendants at th
funeral service The audienc
numbered 600.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
CRYSTAL MOVIE SHOW
CHANGED HANDS MONDAY

The Crystal Theatre, a motion
picture aud vaudeville show, has
been sold by the proprietor, j. o.
West, TO A. w. Parker and II. G.
Taylor, both of Cairo, Ills. The
deal was made Saturday and the
new owners took charge Monday
morning.
Parker & Taylor are experlenc
ed picture show men and live
wires. They promise to the pa
irons of the Crystal as good OF
better than they have been re
ceiviHg and will keep the stand
ard up TO that established by tn
former managers.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
VICTIM OF ELECTION
DAY FIGHT is DEAD.

Walter Allison, age AZ years,
who was wounded in a three-cor-
nered pistol and shot gun duel at
the jess Anderson store on Aug.
7th, died at 8 O'Clock Thursday
night. Allison was shot through
the lung by Bert Wallace, who
was instantly killed in this fight
The bullet entered his back and
was taken out of the left breast
Death was not unexpected, as
pneumonia had set up in the in
jured lung.
Mr.. Allison owned a half inter
est in the Jesse Anderson store
where the shooting started, and
had been in this section for a
bout - years. BY profession h'
was "A steam engineer and wa
unmarried. lie leaves two bro
theirs Oscar and James, the lat
ter residing at Erin. Tenn. 0s
ear was also in the fatal fight, be
ing shot in one arm, but not seri
ously.
The funeral was held Saturda.
morning at . o'clock, in charge q
the Odd Fellows lodge, of whicl
deceased was member, but hi
membership was in Vicksburl
Miss. The remains We're interre
in the Odd Fellows lot in tn
city cemetery.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
JEWISH NEW YEAR TO
BE SEPTEMBER FEAST.

The Jews, ON Sept. ., will ush-
,r in the 5,676th year in the lie
brew calendar. The feast, which
has AN annual religious aud his
torical significance, Is called
Rosh lIoshanah. Ten days later
the day of Atonement' You
Kippur, will be observed. Spe-
cial services in all of the SyHa-
gogucs throughout the world viii
be- held.
In the Jewish tradition, the
Rash llOshanah marks the ami
,cSary OF the creation of the
world, supposed 10 have TAX
IA place 5,O76 years ago. The
present Rosh Hoshanah. therefore
Nll mark the beginning of the
year 1876.
The change of date, however, Is
al little or no Importance. and At
ihr Jewish New Years Day hal
no further significance, its appeal
to the Jews would be- very faint
indeed. Il is not the change oi
year, but the change of life, that
this day sircSsss. that makes u
stand out as one OF the hoIiri
DAYS n the Jewish calendar
Herein Il radically differs from
the ciyil New Year; 1t IS a day
sci apart for lntrspcrtlon AN,
self examination.
The sacred character of TIN
day is impli,'d IA the two Other
names BY which II Is known, viz
the day of memorial and the da,
of the blowing of trumpetS IL
the first place II is the day o
memorial, OF remembrance A
such. Il calls upon the Jews to r,
member the divine purpose 0f h
HE; secondly, il rs the day q
the blowing of the trumpcis. IL
purpose IN 10 ruusc and stir hn
30 high resolves and nOhler deeds
The R0sh lloshanah derives II
significance from the fact that
is but the introduction 10 the ia.
of aioncmrni. which follows j
days later. Before one ca
realize the need of atonement,
says a statement II is necess'u,
that Dee berome conscious OF hl
shortcomings for 80 long as "
imagine ourselves whole, Il ma
never occur 10 us that We need
physician ~ long that We do no
admit our siniulness, We shd
hardly feel the need of being fol
given.
Hence. to make the ai0nemci
possible. We must have RoSh llOI
hanai. which s also designate
ID, the Yom lIadin the day
Judgment The day whcreon "
weigh ourselves in the balanc
and, perforcc, find ourselv'
wanting, for there IS no righ
oous man upon the earth th'
docih good always and SHINE
not
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26

s. l.. DOddS and Geo. B. Ter
rctt are building silos on their
farms this week. If the value of
the Sil0 has not been greatly ex
aggcrated, every farm in Fulton
county should have one.
The ll-year old son of John
Davis. of the lower end Of .he
county, died on the night of the
18th inst. Malarial fever was the
cause of death; burial at Colum-
bus, Ky.
Mrs. Il. A. Hammond and chll-
drcn have returned from a visit
with relatives near DukedOm, Ky.
Watch out for the bill collector
next Tuesday.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26
POLICE COURT NOTES.

Since last report, Lewis Easley
was fined 800 for violating the
local option law.
Dave Andrew WIS found guilty
of violating the city sanitary or
dinancc and was fined Sll.IO.
Virgil Roberts was tired by a
Jury ON charge of disturbing Lh'
peace. for knocking a fellow down
who used prolane Language ahonl
Roberts place of business - ana
Was found not guilty.
The following were fined Sll'''
each for minor olfcnsos Bonner
Williams. B. r. Ward, two casrs
V,~ter DAVIS. W. G. Phillips, Clli
ford Wilson, VIII Jones an'
Frank Cape
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26

1t would he a good idea, while
the steam roller is in this vicinity,
to use for few days on HEX
man streets. Several of these
streets are already grayeled, bat
are wavey and rough because The
gravel was never rolled. THIS
roller has with il an attachment
similar To a harrow, used Tor
digging up bumpy streets. After
the narrowing process, run the
roller over il and smooth 1t down
and you have a good street We
realize the city is short OF avalla-
bile cash. but, in view of the Splen
did opportunity 10 get the roller
and the little it would cost, IT
seems we could well afford to
cconOmizc in some other bran'll ]
for the time being. The big cX-
pense has been putting ON the
| gravel; the small expense would
be putting the finishing touches
/ To it. This is chance TO get the
maximum of service for an addl
tional minimum of cost.
Mrs. S. b. Parker and Miss Ly
dia Harrison left last week FOL
Troy, Tenn, TO visit relatives.
viii Hammond and famIl!
have returned from "A visit Wit
Mayfield relatives.
Missouri Hams and Breakfas
Bacon.-Bettersw0rth.
Mr.. Atchison, of Louisville, l
] here on business.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26

Well. we have nothing Ia say
cditorially, about the hanging oil
Lro Frank, because we have more
kllllngs. night riding, etc, IN
Fulton county than any other IN
kcnlucky-- including the nolori-
ous county of Brcathltt. The pot
should not accuse the kettle ol
being black.
Mrs Will Barry and Mrs
SWayne Walker and little daugh-
ter returned last week from a
short visit at Three States.
LOST; Gold Bar PIN with TO
pazcs and pearls. Finder return
10 this office and receive reward.
Judge Herbert Carr and VI
Roach, of Fulton, were IN HEX
man Tuesday.
Goalder johnson aud w I
Reed were in Mayiicld Sunda.
night.
The court house steps are u
need of repair.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26

Al those members of the Grand
Old PcSsimisuc Party who agree !
to sill their wheat and corn at
2Oc following Mr.. Wilson's elec-
ton wall please deliver at the
front door of the Courier Office
any time between row and Thirst
mas.
+. NJ. Grout, Of New Orleans
WAS here Thursday and Friday oi
last week on business
Go Ia Lutcr's Shoe Shop for
the b,vl work in town. III
cheaper.
HOR SALE Pure white cont
honey MS. Mollie Cobb, Rid. !
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26

w. w. Bee is back from Little
Rock TO get hiS gin in readiness
for the cotton season. Mrs. Bee
will arrive here in a short time.
Miss Lois Moore, of sherman
Miss. returned home Saturday al
Ter visit to Miss Dorothy
Moore.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-08-26

Miss I.eona Wright, of Morgal-
field. who has been visiting hef
sister. Mrs. q. NJ. Ross. returned
home Sunday.
Mrs j. Il. Brown visited her
daughter, Mrs. j. NJ. Roper, Of
near Stats Lame. few days hast
week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
u. S. HALTS STRIKE
ON NEW HAVEN ROAD
Freight Clerks and Officials VIII
Confer To-day - Hangar
Named as Mediator.

New Haven, June 22.-The threat
ened strike Of the $500 freight clerks
on the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad has been averted, tenn
porarily, at least, and Clifton Reeves
a Federal conciliator. said tonight
that he was hopeful Of achieving a
peaceable solution Of the trouble.
Through Mr.. Reeves's efforts to-day
a conference has been arranged Tor
tomorrow afternoon at which officers
Of the roads and of the Clerks Broth
erhood will attend. He secured writ
ten guarantees from both parties IN
the dispute Of their intention 20 be
present at the meeting and of their
acceptance Of the principle Of media
ton. MIR. Reeves also announced That
w. w. Hangar, Assistant Commission
or of Mediation of the Department OF
Labor. had been named as mediator.
II is expected that MIR. Hangar Will
come to New Haven either tomorrow
or Thursday. .,
Representatives of the big five.
the engineers, firemcn's, conductors ,
trainmen's and telcgraphers' unions
declared to-day that they had not
taken sides in the controversy between
the company and the freight clerks.
They had tried, they said, to bring
the contending parties together in
the interest Of peace and harmony
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23

their statements and they are going to
have the opportunity now 10 do So
J. b. Greenhut seemed, in the sharp
answers he gave to questions that
followed the referees ruling, 10 show
vcxation at the turn affairs had taken.
A reorganization plan, involving a
new corporation 10 take over the busl-
ness and issue stock, has been ap-
proved by the majority merchandise
creditors committee and the bondhold-
ers' committee. 1t is opposed by the
minority creditors, who declare that
the stock would be of little value, and
more could be obtained by the mer-
chandise creditors by liquidation. The
merchandise creditors. they assert,
would get S7l2 per cent Of their claims
in stock of the new company, and the
Greenhuti would be protected in pay
ing more than Sl,O0O,OO0 to themselves,
while at the same time leaving the
merchandise creditors with unpaid bills
for $2,857, 900"
The views of the minority creditors
are contained in pamphlet which was
rushed through the press yesterday al
ternoon. In the pamphlet it is asserted
that there are "clear, substantial
claims against the Greenhuts and the
Monmouth Securities Company Tor their
withdrawal from the estate of sums
amounting 10 S2.4OS,OO0.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
Halt War Death Made in U.S.A.
Americans Cry, Miss Lang Says
Denies Humanity League Is Controlled by Germans
Stop Expectation of Things hat Kill Is Slogan
Two Million Names Expected for Protest Petition.

man. Her two sons were with the
Kaiser's army. Not long ago she was
to be the guest at a dinner party.
When the appointed night came she
was not present. We received a tele-
gram instead, which said: Second son
killed at front American bullets
did it,
Another signcr was a French cor
setierc. France she said, is bleeding
to death for England. America is help
ing 10 prolong the war when she gives
more bullets TO England"
One million signatures have been re-
ceived already, according TO Miss Lang.
and when the day for counting comes.
on July /, she expects TO have total
Of two million TO present to President
Wilson.
Tomorrow evening one hundred thu
manity girls" will invade Madison
Square Garden during the Bryan meet
ing. which is being arranged by the
American Truth Society and the
Friends of 'Pe, &c. They will make at
tempts TO pocket the signature. Of
every person in the audience. The
petition 20 President Wilson is headed
by quotations from international law
and the proclamations Of several rulers
in reference 10 the expectation Of arms.
and ends with the words Of the Pre,i-
dent himself: I'VE must be neutral in
fact as well as IN name, and we must
put curb on every transaction which
might give n precedence TO one party
in the struggle over another"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
LIGHTNING SpURTS
GEYSER IN BRONX
Elders Kneel in Prayer, but
Youngsters Splash and
Sail Boats.

Lightning struck an iron trolley pole
Yesterday at 1S9th Street and Arthur
Avenue, The Bronx, with surprising
results. A six-inch water main below
the pole was tapped by the bolt and a
jet of water rushed up the pole and
mushroomed forty-fve feet above the
street The impromptu fountain was
Illuminated for several seconds by
brilliant flashes from the feed wires,
which also felt the shock.
1t is an Italian section, and at the
thunder clap which accompanied the
phenomenon men and women rushed to
the street, flung themselves to their
knees in the pouring rain and began
TO pray, convinced that the end of the
world was at hand.
Deputy Water Commissioner John F..
Mcclellan and a squad of workmen
found after some delay that the gush-
ing main was one which supplied
water to many apartment houses.
Rather than Inconvenience residents
without notice they decided to post
pone repairs until to-day. All evening
the geyser spouted, while small boys
gayly splashed and sailed boats where
their elders had knelt in prayer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
Block on the line. "

Such was the announcement at the
Chambers Street terminal OF the Fourth
Avenue subway, which opened auspi-
ciously at noon yesterday and went out
of business ingloriously four hours
later. A Manhattan bound train try
ing to climb onto the Manhattan Bridge
at the end of the Flatbush Avenue tun-
mel. in Brooklyn, had an attack OF motor
trouble, and behaved like a sulky mule
from 4:23 until SOB o'clock in the
evening. For this reason thousands Of
Brooklvnites weren't able 10 narrate
the wonders of their new subway at the
supper table last night.
There was something so sweetly IA
miliar about the announcement that
there was a block on the line that the
transpontine commuters took their
emergency checks with hardly a muir
muir and liked over 10 Park Row 10
engage. for the 999th time, in their
fayorite sport oil entering West End
and Bay Ridge line trains over some
body else's back. The Fourth Avenue
subway resumed business al 6:lO, but
by that time most % the hungry South
were in no mood 10 take
a chance.
The cantankerous train that botched
the happy opening of a transit line. al
ready two years late in opening, con-
sisted of four cars, and was in charge
OF Conductor Nathan Harris and Motor
man Henry Grouney. Ii left the West
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
Rooklwtes' Nice NeU Subway,
7qvo Years Late, Rams # Hours
Mysterious Motor Trouble Parayzes Line, and Hungry
Commuters, Grabbing Transfers. Battle Way
Home by Familiar Sardine Route

End station at Coney Island at 3:45
and pulled out of the Gold Street sta
ton, the last stop in Brooklyn, at 1925
Just where the ira S leave the tunnel
and mount the bridge there is a 5 per
cent grade, which b. r. 7. experts say
is the heaviest on any rapid transit
system in greater New York. At any
rate, II was enough of grade 20 eau e
the circuit breaker on Car 2,0O9 to
snap, with an attendant display Of fire
works, and the train came TO an abrupt
standstIll.
According TO the b. r. T. officials.
the motor trouble was of MYSTERIOUS
origin, and seemed to exhibit more than
anything else the natural perversity
Of inanimate objects. Harry NJ. Bull
lock, the publicity man for the COM
pany, said it wasn't at all likely that
the trouble would be repeated, and a
smooth operation of the new line in
the rush hour is predicted for to-day.
Later-Once more the b. r. T. hoo
doc got the best Of the new subway.
and from 1855 to l0:40 last night
trains were stalled because of motor
trouble on a Manhattan bound train at
Gold Street. The safety device worked
as efficiently as in the afternoon, and
other trains were brought TO an imme-
date stop, as the power was cut off.
The passengers displayed their habit
ual docility, and congratulated them
selves that the block lasted only for
ty-fye minutes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23

"Four-ffths Of all the American peo-
rlc are in sympathy with our desire
10 prohibit the expectation OF things
chat kin II is not the Germans only
bu, Irish and French and English, as
well as native Americans"
This was the answer Of Miss Elsa
Lang. Of the American Humanity
/ .caruc. to the charge that the league
under whose name signatures are be-
ing collected was controlled by German
interests. Miss Lang Is the executive
secretary Of the league, and Il Is at
her home, $40 Garfield Place, Brook
lyr. that the stenographers are in
stalled who do the work Of handling
2 600 600 signatures.
Miss Lang says she is an American,
though Mrs. K. 7. Code, head of the
league, and Mrs. Ernst Richard, wife
Of Dr. Richard, who lectures on the
History Of German civilization at Co
lumbia University, another member,
have obviously German connections.
1--WE had a booth for two weeks at
the COSMOPOLITAN Garden. al 80 West
Street" she said yester-
dqy. "Four-ffths Of the people pass
Ing through that street seemed glad 20
sign our pctitIon. You cannot argue
that they were all Of German sympa-
thics. They were the genuine peace
loving Americans, who do not think
IL is right for their country 10 grow
rich at the cost of Europe's blood.
zone woman who signed our petition
is an American glrl married TO q Ger
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-23
MRS. TATUM GOES
TO DIVORCE CITY
Says Husband Gave Her $780,
000-Friend Hints She Will
Wed Again Soon.

Mrs. Mary Jane Tatum has quit
Fort Tatum," her husbands country
estate at Great Neck, Long Island, and
is on her way TO that much advertised
city in Nevada. where preliminaries for
securing new husbands or wives are
said TO be comparatively simple. Since
her husband, John c. Tatum failed TO
secure a divorce from her several
months ago. Mrs. Tatum has lived on
the Great Neck estate.
II was learned yesterday that Mrs.
Tatum left for Reno Monday. On that
day she dropped in to see her friend,
Mrs Fannie Kraft, at 2l3 East Six
tieth Street. She said that her hus-
band had paid her 100000 and that
she had decided to him her half inter
est in Pontica, the Great Neck home.
The next stop was Reno, she an
nounced, and all would be clear SAILING
again within six months.
Did Mrs. Tatum say what she
planned to do after getting her di-
yorce ?" Mrs. Kraft was asked.
ooh, yes. indeed. She's going to get
married again, and she has picked out
her next husband already. But it
isn't Jack Ottman," Mrs. Kraft an
nounced, smilingly.
Ottman was the man named by Mr..
Tatum in his unsuccessful divorce suit
Mr.. Tatum was surprised, but en-
tirely pleased when told about his
wife's move. He was positive in his
statements, however, that no money Of
his had been settled on Mrs. Tatum.
VI. l.. Towns, his counsel, was equally
surprised and equally sure that nothing
like a settlement had been the cause of
the evacuation of Fort Tatum.