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The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
He Did Not Try lt.

Nobody but boobs fight American style, said man, as he got up from battered piano in one of the New York trotteries. "Oyer in Paree yoz go up to the guy you want to lick put your right hand on his shoulder and snap your fingers a couple of times. when he raises his hand to punch, grab his wrist. Twist it to the right and back into him, holding on All you gotta do then is bend and toss him over your shoulder" But SUD- pose something goes wrong?" said one Of the songsters. Then there's the hat trick said the speaker impress slYely Try it on his hat brim. That gets him sore and your hand is in a good place" Whereupon the song men guyed him. A minute later there entered tall, wide-shouldered strang- CT. The man who had been to Paris spotted him. See that big guy? Just watch me put it over on him" While the big stranger looked on in amaze ment the piano player fiicked him once on the shoulder. The air was tense as ne Kicked again. Like a flash the strangers right hand landed flush on the jaw, dropping the pianist like a sack or cement. Out of the uproar that followed came the cry from tr singers Co on, Joe! Try the
 trick"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
CLARK's GREAT IDEA
How the Clean Up and Paint Up
 Movement Started.
St. Louis Editor Originated Campaign for Cleanliness, Thrift and Civic Pride That Spread Over the
 Entire Country.

Some three years ago Allen w. oy himself a movement that since then has spread all over this broad land and that has resulted in incalcu- lable good Mir Clark realized that though house cleaning time" was SUD- posed by the jokesmiths to be the bane of all men, yet there was not decent citizen of the United States who was not glad to have his own premises and those of his neighbors put in applepie order at least once a year Especially welcome to them was the idea that their respective towns or cities should be made decent and pre- sentable.
 In many communities there had been annual cleanup weeks or days, and to MT. Clark came the thought that all that scattered effort should be organized into constructive form and so directed that it should have more uniform and effective results. He knew he could enlist the women in such plan, and he thought the men also might be induced to take it up.
 So in June, 1912, Editor Clark made the announcement that a national Clean Up and Paint Up" campaign would start the next spring. Then he set about getting influential aid in making good on that announcement. He wrote to a number of men and women prominent nationally in public welfare organizations to ask for their indorsement of the scheme and their advice in carrying it forward The re sponseS were most encouraging, the following, from Edward T. Hartman, secretary of the Massachusetts Civic league, being typical of them all
 I am greatly interested in the idea sug- gested in your expression that this ''clean up and paint up campaign is to be pushed by two arguments, viz. that Its Good Citizenship and Good Business" for 1 believe that this states the only sub stantial basis upon which we may prop erly develop either citizenship or busi- ness. The business which aims to accom- plish it's purpose by ignoring and even de stroying good citizenship is short lived.
 
 community in general You are in a pc culiarly advantageous position to aid in conservation and improvement. for paint is a direct means to the conservation of houses, also of the forests, and of many other things which we are going to have to conserve if we are not to permit our selves to go to pieces as a nation. We cannot continue the present wasteful pro- cesses much longer.
 Being now convinced that he was on the right path, MT. Clark now es- tablished the National Clean Up and Paint Up campaign bureau in St. Louis and himself took the place of chairman. The rest, he says, was easy Business and civic organizations, women's clubs, preachers and editors all over the country at once began calling on him for campaign plans and literature to spread the gospel of cleanliness, thrift and civic pride The great idea has been taken up enthusi- astically in thousands of American communities.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
BETTER USE FOR LIQUOR MONEY

"The liquor bill would pay for 50 000,000 bales of cotton at ten cents a pound-about equivalent to four years production for the entire South" as- serted Senator Morris Sheppard in a speech delivered at Little Rock, Ark Tt would pay for 125,000,000 tons of cotton seed at $20. It would pay for all the corn the entire nation raises in two years, at the rate of dollar a bushel. It would pay for all the cattle and hogs Arkansas can raise in two decades"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
WE CAN AND WE WILL.

"A few years ago 1 was up in the interior of China" says Bishop Samuel P. Spreng of the Evangelical church.
 Tt was about three years after they had determined to do away with the opium traffic. The opium traffic is as great curse. or was as great curse in China, as the liquor traffic has ever been here, and the government de- termined to put that traffic away with in ten years. That was in 1906. Three years later in the interior cities you could not find an opium den except hidden away in the back alleys, in the little places, just where they have to look for the blind tigers and places of that kind here. By the time the ten years are up that traffic will be plotted out among those four hundred millions of people, and they did that, they un- dertook that, in spite of the fact. or in view of the fact, that nearly 33 per cent of their revenues came from the opium traffic. They let the revenue go and looked for other sources of rev enue that are honorable and honest and clean, to carry on their govern ment and let the opium traffic go. And I say If the most conservative, the bulkiest, the biggest people on the face of the earth can put away the opium traffic inside of ten years, we Ameri- cans ought to be ashamed of ourselves if we cannot put down the liquor traf- fc. And we are going to do it, we are able to do it, we are not going to say that we cannot if we will. We can and we will, God helping us"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
MUST BE TRANSFORMED.

Our trade cannot afford to longer oppose an aroused public sentiment" |" says Comforts Wine and Spirit Circu- lar. It would be like Belgium stand. ing alone against the German empire. |" And the editor says that in order to defend the trade successfully liquor leaders must make war on those things that breed opposition-must demand whatever changes are neces- sary to adapt our affairs to the de mands of public sentiment" The w
 c. T. U., through it's mouthpiece, the Union Signal, informs the trade" that it is a change in nature, not in method, which public sentiment is de- manding, and reminds the liquor inter- ests of the declaration Of Mir. Me Donough, former president of the Ma. tional Liquor league. to wit: This talk of reforming the saloon sounds well in the form Of resolution, but 1t is all rot" The change necessary to adapt the wine and spirits trade to the demands of public sentiment is nothing less than a transmutation.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
Thick k-Head

You don't seem to think much of Gadson's intellectual powers"
 No. I don't"
 Well. why not?"
 Because feel quite sure that if section an inch square were cut from his skull it would make an excellent paper weight"
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
Police Guard for Germany Embsssv

Washington, May 15.-A special guard of plain-clothes policemen was placed about the German embassy. Uniformed police have heretofore been there and detectives have been looking after all the embassies gen erally. Officials said 1t was merely a pTecaution.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
Fresh Paint.

The man who reads the legend
 Paint" Can never pass it by, Without a touch of fngertip, to see
 if it be dry, And it most always ain't.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
A COMPARISON.

The Titanic carried down 1.503 peo. pie. The drink traffic carries to death l'5o3 men and women every eight days in the year.
The Prescott daily news., 1915-05-21
Cleanliness and Morals.

A little fresh paint and the vigor- ous use of the scrub brush make mor- als cleaner.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19

and family with his congregation.
Mrs. John Hare is visiting rela-
tives at Rutledge.
Miss Mae Fuqua of the Soldiers
Home was the guest of her mother,
Mrs. w. NJ. Fuqua, last week.
Rev. Jack Crawford Of Pineville,
KY. delivered a very able sermon at
the Second Presbyterian church We'd
nesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Miller spent last
week at Roam Mountain.
Mr.. Henry Patton has returned
from Unicoi, where he has been
spending the summer.
The many friends of DR.. Cox are
glad to know that he Is improving
after a very serious illness.
Albert Shipley, the receiver for the
Russell hotel property at Jonesboro,
has rented same to ]. R. (Dick) Rus
sell, it's former owner, who will take
charge about the first, to the delight
of his many friends. The trouble
over the hotel was brought about
the settlement of the purchase price
by Mrs. Howard and no fault of Mr..
Bum, the retiring manager.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19

ant and profitable trip; still he is
glad to get back to johnson City.
Don't throw away your old UNI
brella, but have them repaired, re-
covered and made good as new. Sew
ing machines repaired, keys made to
order. Guns, trunks, locks and
graphophones repaired. W. A. HAIR
RIS' REPAIR SHOP, 116 W. Main st.
The Sullivan County Fair, to be
held at Piney Flats Sept. 1928, will
doubtless be a bowling success and
it will be an opportunity seldom
equalled to learn of the many re-
sources of this section. 1t will be
very instructive along the line of ag-
riculture, stock and poultry raising,
as we'll as showing the mineral and
timber resources this section is offer
ing to investors.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19
Society Personals

Judge S. c. Williams left Tuesday
for Knoxville.
Mrs. H. H. Suttle is visiting her
mother, Mrs. Wetherly.
Attorney Sellers of st. Petersburg
Fla, is visiting his parents in the
city.
Mr.. Keeble of Jacksonville, Fla,
is visiting friends and relatives IN
the city.
Mr.. L. D. Gump and family started
on an automobile trip Sunday morn
ing for New York.
Mrs. J. H. Jewell and family have
as their guest Miss Harriet Jewell OF
Rochester, N. Y.
eese Walker of Limestone is IN the
Neese Walker of Limestone is IN
the city mingling with friends.
Miss Katherine Wilson has return
ed from Unicoi, Tenn, where she has
been spending the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. A. Robinson nave
returned from South Carolina, where
they spent the week end with some
friends.
Misses Ruth Mcclellan of Bristol
and Dorothy Bruce of Franklin, Tenn
have returned to Bristol after a few
days visiting in Johnson City.
Miss Campbell, after spending her
vacation in Virginia and the Eastern
markets. is again greeting her many
friends at Hart & Houston's.
Mr.. Stonjarn Little, the genial real
estate man, who has been in Florida
for some weeks past, returned Mon
day, and says he had a most pleas
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19
TO DEADERICK COFFEE.
Mandy Cordelia Coffee VS.. Dederick
Coffee.

Mandy Cordelia Coffee VS.. Dederick
Coffee.
In the Chancery Court at Johnson
City, Tennessee.
In this cause, it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to, that Deader-
lex Coffee, the defendant in this
cause, is a nonresident of the State,
he is, therefore, hereby required to
appear on or before the first Monday
of September next, before the Clerk
and Master of said Court, at his Of
fee in johnson City, and make de-
tense to the bill filed against him in
said Court, by Mandy Cordelia COT
fee, or otherwise the bill will be ia
ken for confessed.
1t is further ordered that this no.
tice be published for four consecutive
weeks in The Comet.
August IL, 1915.
]. W. CASS, I.
Clerk and Master.
OSCAR NJ. FAIR, Sol.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19

return she will visit the Eastern mar
kets and purchase the Fall millinery
for her popular store of R. M. May
& Son. Upon her return Miss Hoss
will be able to show her patrons the
latest styles and fashions in the Fall
Millinery.
Mrs. Walter Chambers, of Eckman
W. Va, is the guest of Mrs. R. C.
Thomas.
Attorney A. R. Johnson of Johnson
! City was a visitor in town Tuesday.
Mrs. W. S. Hickey and daughter,
Miss Francis, and Miss Ethel Smith
have returned from the Exposition at
San Francisco.
Miss Alice Slemons and Miss Mar
garet Slemons are spending a while
at Unaka Springs.
Miss Bertha Shinn entertained a
party of friends Friday evening in
honor of her guest, Miss Brightwell.
of Lynchburg, Va.
States Attorney D. A. Vines was a
legal visitor in our town Tuesday.
Mr.. Chester Slemons spent the
week end at Unaka Springs.
Mr.. R. NJ. May and family motored
to johnson City Monday afternoon to
attend the funeral of Mr.. Sam Pou-
der
Mrs. George Thomas entertained
Monday evening with a card party in
honor of Mrs. Eugene Gillespie of
Knoxville and Mrs. Walter Chambers
of Eckman, w. Va.
The members of the Baptist church
gave their pastor, Rev. Shinn, a
pounding" Monday evening. No
bones were broken during the pound
ing, but many eatables were added to
the pantry shelves which well be-
spoke the popularity of Rev. Shinn
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19
TO JULIA ANN EDENS.

NJ. F. Edens VS.. Julia Ann Edens.
In the Chancery Court at Johnson
City, Tennessee.
In this cause, it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to, that Julia Ann
Edens, the defendant in this cause, is
a nonresident of the State, she is
therefore, hereby required to appear
on or before the first Monday in Sep
TENDER next, before the Clerk and
Master of said Court, at his Office in
Johnson City, and make defense to
the bill filed against her in said court
by NJ. F. Edens, or otherwise the bill
will be taken for confessed.
1t is further ordered that this no.
tice be published for four consecutive
weeks in The Gomez.
August u, 1916.
j. W. CASS.
Clerk and Master.
OSCAR NJ. FAIR, Sol.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19
JONESBORO NOTES.

Mrs. James Epps and Mr.. Hardin
Epps have returned from Arizona,
where they have been for some time
The many friends of Mr.. Hardin Epps
are glad to know that he is much i'm
proved in health.
Rev. Shinn and family have as
their guests, Miss Brightwell and
Mrs. Scott of Lynchburg, Va, and
Mr.. Ernest Shinn and family of Will
mington, N. c.
Mrs. viii May is spending several
days with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. C. Hale at Flourville.
Mr.. John Turner, of Boston, is the
guest of his mother. Mrs. Essie Ma
thes Turner.
Miss Addie Hoss is visiting rela'
tives in Washington City. Before her
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19

Claire claims that he was so close on
time to bring his auto to standstill
while velocipede operator states that
it was no fault of his that the acct
dent occurred. The auto, Ford, was
rolled back off the track and went
on its way. The vehicle was in char
ge of R. s. Jones, wire chief on the
C. C. q o. railway. Five other em-
ployes were with him.
to the machine that he did not have
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19
SCHUMANN-HEINK TO AID
NAVY RELIEF SOCIETY

(San Francisco Chronicle, Aug. s.
Schumann-Heink, daughter of ma
val officer, will assist the cause of
the Navy Relief Society this after
noon, when she will stand behind a
table in the lobby of the st. Francis
Hotel and sell tickets for the Navy
ball. Miss Louise Grassler and Miss
Mabel Emerson of the Omar, the
Tentmaker" company, will become
ticket sellers for the same cause at
the Palace Hotel, where the relief So
ciety has it's headquarters.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19
AUTOMOBILE IN COLLISION
WITH vELOCIPEDE

An automobile driven by David B.
Claire, of this city, collided with a
yelocipede running on the G. G. & O.
railway at the Spring street crossing
Monday afternoon about o'clock.
AS a result the auto and velocipede
were both damaged the latter softer
ing the most serious damages. Mr..
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19

The Summers.ParrOtt Hardware
Company will close on noon SatHr'
days for the benefit Of their employees
during the months of June, July and
August-AdVt.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19
SPECIAL WEEK END FARES
SOUTHERN RAILWAY,
Premier Carrier of the South.
ToL,no, C;ty +o p1uff Citv

From Johnson City to Bluff City
and return ....-----------.-.----------.----@ .oV
From Johnson City to Bristol
and return ..-.--.--------.-----------------S
Round trip tickets will be sold for
all Saturday and Sunday morning
trains from June 26th to September
18th, 1915. Tickets will be good re-
turning to reach original starting
point prior to midnight Sunday fol-
lowing date of sale.
@. M. ELLIS,
Division Passenger Agent. Knoxville,
Tenn.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1915-08-19

FOR SALE-Beautifu China Astors,
all colors, cheap. Call Mrs. H. B.
Crumley. 1913
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

services at 1O:45; sermon subJect, rs
There a Divine Providence? AT the
evening services w. H. Boles, FORMER
pastor will preach on the subject Is
1t Foolish to Believe in God ana the
Bible?"
Westminster Presbyterian church,
College and Huntoon streets. Rev.
theme. .aThe World Convicted" Even
ing subject, THE Dignity of the Soul
First United Brethren church.
Twelfth and Quincy streets, Rev. j.
subject, 1.-THE Ascension Gift" Even
ing subject. 1.-The Masters Religion"
St. Johns A. M. E. church. Seventh
and Topeka avenue. J. M. Brown, pas
vering Prayer Special services at 4
o'clock in the afternoon with preach
ing by Rev. E. c. Cox, of Asbury M.
E. church Evening service, special
sacred program.
Seward Avenue NJ. e. church. Ar
thur e. Hughes. pastor-Morning
services in charge of Shurley Harper
Sermon by the pastor in the evening.
ular morning and evening services
with preaching by the pastor, Mrs.
Clara Hazelrigg. Morning subject,
1.-The Amounted One" Evening. AL
most Persuaded.
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Huntoon and Polk streets-Morning
and evening services. Lesson sermon
subject, "Mortals and Immortals."
Potwin Presbyterian church, Fifth
and West streets, Rev. H. L. Nelson,
pastor-Regular services morning and
evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

80 Jesus, I have promised
To serve Thee to the end;
Be Thou forever near me,
My Master and my Friend:
1 shall not fear the battle
If Thou art by my side,
Nor wander from the pathway
If Thou wilt be my Guide.
90 let me feel Thee near me,
The world is ever near;
1 see the sights that dazzle,
The tempting sounds 1 hear:
My foes are ever near me,
Around me and within;
But, Jesus, draw Thou nearer,
And shield my soul from sim"
Trained workers are the need of the
church and every social cause. Mud
dlers and putterers and faddists there
are in plenty; what we want is those
who know how to begin and continue
and hold on. Christian Endeavor is
a training school in service. 1t teaches
young people how to do by doing. In
to providing the noblest i'm
pulses and detectives, it imparts skill
in carrying out Christian purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
In the Religious World

Gus, difficult life, King Saul was
dwarfing steadily into pettiness. Mean
passions INDUCED make the soul mean.
Hates arrows are boomerangs. Small
ness of spirit shrivels the soul. SO
Saul, once great and noble, became
morbid and maudlin, fierce and gusty
anger alternating with cringing sell :
abnegation and sycophancy- His word
was no longer a kings word, put a
slaves, and his own retainerS failed
to respect or obey him. No clearer
illustration can be found in all history
of the truth that it is not the sceptre
but the soul that makes the king.
A frenzy of fear and Jealousy and
hate drove Saul far and wide in pur-
SHIT of David, as his spies brought MIN
word. He held himself up to popular
ridicule, as with an army of three
thousand men he chased hither and
yon, even into the desert Businesses,
after David and his little band of six
hundred followers. The dramatic
in David's complaint, which is almost
a taunt: After whom is the king of
Israel come out? After dead dog?
After a flea % Really, the king should
vindictiVeneSs.
Twice David spared Saul's life. Once
he was in the unseen back of "a cave
palestine is a land of caves), when
Saul lodged near the entrance. He
cut off the lower part of the kings
robe while Saul slept; and then, with
this evidence of his mercy in his hand,
he called from a neighboring hillside
and asked the king why he should
hunt him a wild animal A coarser
nature than David'S would have slain
the enemy and ended the pursuit. But
David had a fundamentally reverent
spirit, and he respected the oil of
amounting which had made Saul Je-
hovah's man. He would not lay hands
on the Lords anointed.
This clemency made the king
ashamed of himself for the moment,
and he made maudlin promises to
David. But the latter, who had
learned not to put his trust in princes
still kept safely out of SauPs reach.
Again, when Saul slept in the CEN
ter of a barricade and his army, with
Abner, the captain of his host, by his
side and his spear stuck upright in
the ground at his head, chieftain
fashion, David and Abishai drew near
to him and could have ended the feud
at a blow. Doughty Abishai begged
permission to strike only one blow at
the king; a second would never be
needed.
Despite all provocation. David
would not put forth his hand upon the
Lords anointed. Whatever others
might do to him he would be mag
unanimous. Thus he kept his own soul
safe from his enemies: for vengeance
reacts upon all who indulge in it. The
big man can afford to forgive and to
wait: the little man strikes on the in
slant. David conquered both Saul and
his own soul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
live Wires"
In All Lines of Business

Telephone numbers and addresses in
buying This list of business telephone numbers together
with firm names and published for the
seldom phone book city directory who
frequently have to get in touch with these firms
all lines of industry Filed could
often for quick reference will appear every
Saturday, If not represented call Phone $780, Adv
Dept, information
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

ills that current periodicals describe
and decry may be cured by a reason
able adherence to the clear teachings
of Holy Writ-teachings of which our
day is lamentably ignorant. The fact
that the great host of Christian En-
deavorers are reading the Bible daily
and accepting it as their. standard OF
life, argues well for the citizenship
and social order of tomorrow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15

Central Avenue Christian church,
Central avenue and Grant street, John
D. Zimmerman, pastor. Morning SER
vice at 10:45. Evening sermon theme,
would Jesus Join a Labor Union ?"