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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15

Ed. Note In reply TO the
above, we believe Reader" is
quoting the law correctly F;
but the peculiarly geographical
situation of Fulton county is
such that il would be almost ply
sIcally impossible 10 comply with
it TO the letter The primary Oh
lect of the new law, as we 'm
derstand il, is to connect the
county seat towns of the state by
highways Fulton county touches
only one other Kentucky county
Hickman county II we take
into consideration the adjacent
States, the New Madrid county,
Mo-, connection would be in a
pretty fix; especially, when we
have no assurance OF the work ev'
er being taken up at the point
where we stop. To impose sucn
tasks would hinder rather than
help the cause of State Highways,
and We believe State authorities
would not ask any county 10
stand pat on a technlcallty
that would positively prevent
such county from participating m
good road development. 80 Ear
as the counties of Obion and
Lake, Tennessee, are concerned,
these roads should be accepted rs
part of our county road system
from the start. Reader S - Sug-
gestion is timely and the matter
should be sifted down by the
committee.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15
READER" WRITES AGAIN
QUOTES SOME LAW.

Dear Courier.
! am still reader of your
paper and feel great interest ~
the schools and roads of Fulton
county. Permit me To thank our
school superintendent for her
explanation of the school law in
her notes. In may last letter |
sad that farmers in Galloway
county hauled gravel at half
price, j. e. $3.50 per day, but
that they required about as many
leaders as wagons, and these
loaders would cost Sl.O0 per dag.
The type said loads instead of
leaders. see in the last copy
of the Courier that the Good
Roads Committee met and select
ed the roads they thought best to
gravel al the start and submitted
the same 10 the court. The first
road selected was the State rond
from Hickman 10 Caycc. thence
10 Fulton etc. Then you say the
spur from Cayce 10 Hickman
county line must come first 20
meet the requirements of the
State IN order TO get State all.
Now have no desire to criti-
else tins committee but il APP.
pears to me that II has Overlo0k-
ed some points in this law The
law says There is hereby
created a system of Public State
Highways which shall consist OF
roads connecting the county seal
of each county of the common
wealth with the county seat OF
the adjoining counties by III,
most direct and practical rout,
and the county seat of the border
counties of the Commonwealth
with the state line ON the mos
direct and practical route leadinl
from said county seat TO IN
county seat of the adjoining coul
ties IN the adjacent States.
These roads shall be the first I,
receive State aid, etc.
Now If it is necessary 10 ruI
a spur TO the county line nea
Moscow when We are told tina
Hickman county will not grave
her roads, what shall We say d
bout a spur TO Obion county tina
will probably gravel hers, and
spur to Lake county, Tenn. Al
We not under as much obligation
TO run a spur to the State lin
near Phllippy and another 3
the State Line on some roa
leading to Union City, as We ar
to run enc TO the county lin
near Moscow.
r IL would be a bad mistake
spend several thousands of do
lars on these roads and then fin
thai We had not complied WI
the law aud lose the State aid
. A Reader.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15
BIDS WANTED

The City Council of the City OF
Hickman. Ky, will award TO the
lowest bidder, a contract for an
S inch sewer pipe line, running
east and west on Moulton street
connecting with the 5 inch sewer
running north and south on Wa
bash street, in Old Hickman, and
running east and west on Moscow
Ave. to Troy Ave, in East llick-
man
Said sewer pipe line TO be lad
at an average depth of 3ia fee.
with all necessary connections or
openings left in same for the
property owners TO connect 10.
All bids 10 be turned IN TO the
Mayor at his office ON or before
April 20, 1915.
il5c Jno. Pyle, City Clerk.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15
WAR AWFUL TOLL.

The nations now at war have
lost 100000 men ia the first
light months of the conflict and
,prnt - iOOOOOOOO in the first
lx months. according 20 figures
prepared for the A,anii, a SO
lalisi organ, by It's military eN-
pert. The article declares the
only result OF the war will be- a
reciprocal wearing out OF the
turoes engaged and not military
lctory II is calculated that
mne or ten months more will cX
baust the reserves of men, aud
hat the country which will sui
Ter least from this exhaustion wall
be Russia.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15
PEOPLES PACKET co.
QUITS BUSINESS.

Ii all reports are true, the Peo-
pies Packet Co, operating the
Str ST. james between Memphis
and st. Louis, is now out of bus
mess, making her last trip sat
urday night. This boat has been
IN operation for about six months
and her owners even Went So far
as TO erect small warehouse a.
Hickman. Lack of business is pre-
sumably the cause of their sus.
pension of business.
Tins leaves the Lee Line people
as masters of the situation and
without river competition.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15

In the whole field of medicine
there is not a healing remedy that
will repair damage TO the flesh
more quickly than BALLARD'S
SNOW LINIMENT. In cuts,
wounds, sprains, burns, scalds
and rheumatism, its healing and
penetrating power is extraordi-
nary. Price 25c, soc and Sl.OO
per bottle. Sold by Hickman
Drug Co. (Advt.
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. II. Robertson,
Mrs. Ella Morris and Miss Eula
Crostic. of Moscow, spent Wed
nesday afternoon in Hickman.
Maurice Dillon, a we'll known
Fulton travelling man broke his
arm while cranking an automo-
bile.
Refugee" stringless beans; :
cans for 25c.-Prather
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15

Willie Johnston, of Fayette-
willie. Ark. is visiting his uncle,
4 n. Johnston, of near town
TOMATO PLANTS for sale at
Toe dozen Richard Prather,
both phones No. 30. Up
W & johnson and wife left
first of the week for Louisville to
spend few days
just received: A complete line
of ID NJ. Ferrys garden seed ct
all kinds.-E. b. Prather.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15

Supt J, o. Clapp, of the C. NJ.
& G. Ry. was here Friday on bus
mess. He wanted to interest our
truck association in shipping their
products by special truck ex-
press arrangement, which his
company has with the American
Express Co. This applies to ear
lots. When as many as five ears
are offered at one time, IT be
comes a special train, and will be
pulled out any time, day or
night, and put in Chicago twelve
hours later. Other markets, of
course, the time would be in
proportion to the distance.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15

Kansas City has decided that
no more than three corners at any
street intersection may be occu-
pied by saloons. What are Kan
sas City street corners for, any
how
There isn't much difference
between the man who hasn Z any
brains and the man who doesn I
know how TO use what little he
has.
MOULDED RUBBER sprink
ling hose, any length up TO 500
feet, will not kink, fully guaran-
teed, at Hickman Hdw. Co.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15
WHo0PING COUGH.

Well-everyone knows the eff
feet of Pine Forests on Coughs.
DIR, Bells Pine-Tar-lIoney is a
remedy which brings quick relief
for Whooping Cough, lOosens the
mucous, soothes the lining of the
throat and lungs, and makes the
coughing spells less severe. A
family with growing children
should not he without it. Keep
It handy for all Coughs and
Colds poe at your druggist
Electric Bitters a Spring Tonic.
(Adyt.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15
BIDS WANTED.

Sealed bids for the construction
of a new school house at Syca-
more Chapel will be received on
or before Monday morning, April
%, 1918 The Board reserves the
right TO reject any and all bids
and contractor will he required 10
give bond.
Specifications for building may
be seen at the office of the Com
ty Superintendent.-Fulton Coun-
~ Board of Education, by Nir-
ginia Luten, Chm. i-l5c
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15
ONE PASSENGER KILLED.

According TO the annual re.
port of the Kentucky State Rail
road Commission 2l9 persons
were killed ON railroads in Ken
lucky in the thirteen months
ending December 81, 1914. OF
these, IA were trespassers, fifty
five employees and one a passen-
ger.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1915-04-15

When a man learns how 70
swim. he knows how TO swim.
But a girl has to have man
leach her how 10 swim every time
She puts on a bathing suit
Dolly Warden and Bardw' u
ilour.-EEell 4 Son
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-06

He said the children would remain
here until a quarantine against diph-
liberia at the orphanage is lifted.
Mrs. Olson, who could give no sat
isfactOry explanation to the Orphap-
age OF Vfrden for leaving the train at
Amboy, left for Chicago today after
being told she would be discharged
as agent of the home. DR.. Virden
said he did not believe that white
slavery entered into the woman's ae-
tons.
Relatives to share in 100000 es-
tate left by Larsen Fflstrup. 4
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-06
WHITE SLAVERY PLOT FEARED
IN ORPHANS CASE

SprlngtleId1 III.' WaICn O'-DL'
Charles Virden, state visitation agent,
sent to the Springfield detention
home three children who were COM
mitted from the Lee county farm at
Dixon to the Whitehall orphanage,
abandoned on an Illinois Central train
at Amboy by Mrs. Olson, an agent Of
the Whitehall home, and picked up
at the railway station at Clinton un-
der circumstances which at first
pointed to a white slave plot to en-
snare the oldest girl, aged IA.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-03-06

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Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21

temperatures over the Colorado plat
eau and south; cloudy and cooler over
the Columbia plateau and surrounding
region, and fair weather and normal
temperatures in the central parts of
the United States. Last weeks fore
cast stated storms would be disap-
pearing from over the Atlantic coast
states.
The storm period center expected
to appear upon the Pacific coast about
Monday the Both of August will be
slow in its motion and might take a
little longer to cross the United States
than these dates would signify. Those
who have aneroid barometers will no
tice that all through the last half of
this month the barometer has not ris-
en- to any great height but fallen APP
preciably lower during each storm
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21

1t seems to be failing of human
nature, if it can be called a failing,
that we learn. all new things from our
neighbors. The housewife goes visit
ing around the neighborhood Saturday
morning to see how this or that one
makes bread, cake or cookies. She
goes visiting in the afternoon to see
what styles are worn and what is
served for tea. The business man
visits other shops, factories or offices
to learn of methods worth while en-
ploying at home. Governments send
special men to foreign nations to learn
of their progress and actions. Even
in this last war the United States sent
military men to Europe to observe the
methods used in fighting. We all look
away from home to get our ideas. 1t
is the same in scientific circles.
The latest scientific feat will be to
take a moving picture Of the sun,
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21

center. Especially is this expected to
be true with the last storm and the
present enc now appearing upon the
western coast. The lower the barom-
eter, the greater the danger.
Increase of heat and mugginess will
prccede actual storminess of rain and
electrical storms, the latter being ex-
pected to cross the plain states at the
end of the month, Mississippi valley
about the first of September, and dis
appearing off the Atlantic coast about
Thursday or Friday. During the last
days of this storm period electrical
storms will visit many parts of the
Gulf states and lower Arkansas val
ley. Bright warm days will follow
close upon the heels of this storm
area, and the week will end without
any prominent storm in sight.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

This makes it necessary that we
keep correct record of our matches,
that we may know the age of every
fowl on the place. For this purpose
there is no better way than to punch
a hole in the web of the foot of the
chick. A poultry punch, for this pur-
pose can be purchased for twenty-five
cents.
The drawing shows sixteen different
marks that may be made for record
keeping. Poultrymen who pedigree
breed, usually use this method of
marking, for their records.
A little more attention paid to our
poultry, in the way of age, care, mat
ing and marketing would repay us
handsomely for our work. There is
no live stock on the farm that pays so
well with the investment as does poul-
trV
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21

showing the action of the large CASE
GUS storms in transit across the face
of that body. These spots are solar
storms and travel with as much regu-
larity as do our own terrestrial atmos-
pheric disturbances. 1t is very prob
able that much may be learned from
the action of our neighbor to enlight-
EN- many features of our present mys-
FERROUS air currents.
Things always look little different
to an outsider and an observation of
our own neighborhood-the solar sys-
tenn, each with its peculiar storms
may mean a wonderful advance to sci
ence on this earth.
August 10Th to September 4th.
The barometer will again be fall
ing to much lower readings on the Pa
cific coast at the beginning of this
week with cloudy weather and normal
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21
"SAn BROWN"

from its bitter tone that some one waI1
to blame, and made an investigation
which resulted in the appointment of
a commission to inquire into the land
shark business, and see what might
be done.
He interested himself in the forma-
ton of a company which should buy
some of these sand lands, and make
scientific study of the question, wheth-
Ell or not they could be made to pro-
duce crops at profit, and if so, how.
In connection with this demonstra-
ton farm a school was established,
where men and women could go and
learn how to clear such lands, and
how much it cost to add the deficient
plant foods and humus in which these
soils are lacking. One day the gov
ernor wrote Sam Brown the follow
ing letter:
"My Dear Mr.. Brown:-Some
months ago l received your advertise
ment, and have made a careful invesi
tigation regarding the methods which
have been in vogue for some years
for selling these lands by the state
to spectators, and also their methods
of re-selling them to men like your
self.
81 am pleased to state that there
is now in existence a school where
men can study Michigan lands in a
practical and scientific way, that any
man wishing to purchase lands in
Michigan can write to this school, and
receive, for a slight consideration, ac-
curate and unbiased information re-
garding the value of the land which
may interest him. He can have a sur
vey made, which will give him rea-
sonably accurate cost for clearing
such lands, and adding the necessary
plant foods which will make them pro-
duce profitable crops.
"This company is prepared to clear
and develop this land by the use of
trained men, and modern machinery,
and put it into productive state for
the purchaser, at a price much less
than it would be possible for him to
do it himself.
"For my own information, and per-
sonal satisfaction, | wish to make the
following request: Will you and your
wife spend one month at this school,
and give me your personal opinion as
to the methods employed, and wheth-
er, by the use of such methods, land
like your own could be reclaimed for
agricultural purposes?
eff you are willing to grant my re-
quest, all of your expenses will be
paid, and reasonable remuneration,
which shall be glad to allow you to
determine, for one months time.
Trusting l may have your accept
ance, and the pleasure of meeting you,
| am, Very truly yours"
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21
CHAPTER V.

The governors letter was more than
a surprise to Sam Brown, who had
been holding a grudge against the
State of Michigan because he had
been defrauded by the Ranch Com
pany. To be asked by the governor
of Michigan to investigate a school
which was actually training men to
develop the worthless sand lands
which he had seen, seemed strange,
but the photographs of crops actually
being raised on these soils, which he
had pronounced worthless but a few
years before, was more astonishing.
He could not believe his eyes, and half
doubted the governors sincerity, and
thought it must be another Michigan
scheme to cheat an Illinois farmer.
But courtesy demanded a reply, and
after due consultation with Sue, who
was holding their son Sam, Jr., who
had been named for both grandfather
and father, it was decided that they
should attend this new school for one
month, and make a report to the gov
ernor, as he had requested. -
The following day letter was
dropped into the mail box, which read
as follows:
"My Dear Governor:-A frank con-
fession is said to be good for the soul.
and / wish to state that when 1 sent
you that advertisement, 1 did so in
malice, and for revenge. I felt that
l had been injured by the state which
would permit such highway robbery.
and be a party to it by selling lands
for such business.
81 cannot conceive that the lands
which l saw in Newaygo county.
Michigan, could possibly produce such
crops as the photographs you have
sent me would indicate.
Continued Next Weekly
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21

for the cost of production, leaving
1924 the first year. The second year
they cleared $96-$28 less than the
first year. The third year they cleared
only $54-$42 less than the second
year-$70 less than the first year.
From the above experiments, it is
plain that it is more profitable to keep
only one and two year old hens and
dispose of all hens over two years old.
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21
Continued from Last Week.
CHAPTER III.

A year went by. Sues roses re-
turned to her cheeks. Sans face was
tanned, but his arms were as hard as
whipcord. He had not forgotten his
$50 acres of Michigan sand, but he
had been busy in the meantime.
He had written to the state author
tiles at Lansing, asking them what
kind of land it was, and had sent them
the advertisement which had deceived
him.
He had received non-committal re-
ply, advising him to examine the land
before purchasing it, and that only
angered him the more, 'For," he rea-
soned, eff the state authorities know
what know, which they should, what
right have they to allow the Michigan
Stock Ranch Co. to continue in such
a business If they are selling such
lands for so cents and 81 an acre, to
men whom they know are selling them
to the would-be farmer, like me, for
SIS an acre, and they advise me that
they are, then they are party to
the fraud. Why in the name of COM
nonsense and decent justice, don't
they send such robbers to the peni-
Tertiary, when they're so mighty
prompt about sending up the poor
devil who steals loaf of bread to
keep his wife from starving, or the
burglar, who makes no pretense of do
ing a legitimate business.
eff these lands are worthless, why
does the state sell them? If they are
of value, why don't they find out what
that value is, and make the profit
themselves ?"
One day the Chicago paper which
had published the Michigan Stock
Farm Company's advertisement the
year before, was somewhat surprised
to receive a postal order for the pub
LEGATION of the following advertise
ment:
"For Sale-A Michigan farm which
has killed one woman, sent one man
to the insane asylum, nearly wrecked
the lives of another couple. Sold by
the Michigan Stock Ranch Co., to the
present owner, as land capable of pro-
ducing so bushels of wheat to the
acre. Is watered not only by the
Pere Marquette River, but num-
Der of tributary streams and lakes"
"The soil varies from light to heavy,
dark, sandy loan, with deep clay sub
soil somewhere between the surface
and China.
The land is well covered with pine
stumps and oak grubs.
There is shanty not fit for hog
pen, but in which one owner eked out
a miserable existence for several
years, trying to raise enough potatoes
to make his monthly payments.
anyone desiring to commit suicide
in the most agonizing way, is recon-
mended to buy Michigan lands that
are capable of producing so bushels OF
wheat to the acre-but have never
been known to do it.
"This advertisement is simply a
warning to those who may be tempted
to purchase Michigan lands. Full par
ticulars cheerfully furnished to any
one interested. Address Sam Brown,
Littleville, Illinois"
Charlevoix county herald., 1915-08-21

aDanuOneu IL ana grown away from IL.
America with three thousand miles
of road from shore to shore, seeking
to develop and build up great sys-
tenn of highways under an old isolated
system of local control! The only
wonder is that we have succeeded as
we'll as we have. The. more roads
therefore that we build under the law
creating State Reward Trunk Line
Highways the better, for they help
us in way at least to get out of the
old, and into the new way, where the
state and counties cooperate and by
a system of rewards help to equaliZe
the burden of cost; but more import
ant than all else where experienced
road building is a scientific fact. Such
thing as a continuous or trunk line
road built by local efforts is impos
sible. AS an encouragement to the
various townships through which
these state reward Trunk line high
ways run, the state has provided for
the payment of double reward there
on. The cities which have heretofore,
and before the adoption of the County
System, escaped entirely the burden
of building and repairing the country
highways, contribute their share and
so altogether the state, the counties
and the. townships under the present
law, are building these great thoro-
oughfares that l am pleased to call
and believe are nothing more or less
than main market roads connecting
up and developing all parts and por-
tions of our great state, bringing the
people together in closer relationship
and checking for all time this great
onward rush from the farm to the
cities.
| have been asked why do we need
these continuous Trunk line highways,
that as you say go somewhere? l
answer, if all that we want of roads is
to get to the nearest market or rail-
road station then and in such case
few disconnected roads will serve our
purpose very we'll, but if we want to
develop our state, raise land values,
improve the commercial and religious
life of the rural districts, and to stop
the rush to commercial centers and
keep the boys and girls on the farms,
then we must have roads that go
somewhere and connect up with sys-
tenn of like roads. Call them State
trunk line highways, business roads,
farm to market roads, or what you
will, they are all of the same kind
and to be distinguished from the farm
to market road, if there is distinc-
ton in that they are continuous from
market to market, joining hands with
other systems that will make a COM
pleted whole.
The entire plan of systematic road
building has often been defeated by
appeals to the prejudices of voters
who are led to believe that they would
get no direct benefit from the roads,
and, worse, that their neighbors would
and therefore the road should not be
built. The Trunk Line or Main Mar
ket Road can not go past every mans
farm (unless he happens to be men,
Der of the legislature that passes the
bill.) When the railroads were built
they gave little heed to the switches
and side tracks until the main line
was an accomplished fact, so in build
ing these main line market roads, the
branch or side roads and laterals will
come, but not until the main line is
built.
The End.