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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18
PERSONALS

Singing convention Feb. 26 and 27
O. H. Beck, of Guys, spent Sunday
in town socially.
Master James Houston visited rela-
tives at Guys this week.
G. W. McCullar and wife were with
relatives in Selmer Sunday.
Henry Cobb, merchant of Bethel
Springs, was in Selmer Tuesday.
Mrs. Rachel Alternately is GONZALES
cent after severe attack Of lagrippe.
Mrs. A. H. Jopling is confined to
her room with severe attack of la
grippe.
Tom Jeff Hurst made a business trip
to jackson Monday, returning Tues,
day morning.
The Misses Barton, Of Henderson,
were guests Of DR.. J. L. Smith and
family this week.
Carol E. Marshal, progressive
farmer and stockman of the 18th, was
in to see Us recently.
VIM. Hamilton has accepted po-
sition with the Chester County OBJ
server at Henderson.
M. A. Harris called this week and
settled subscriptions for this paper
and Commercial Appeal.
Napoleon Mcintyre, Of the second
district, has moved into the Lockman
residence on Pharr avenue.
Murray Houston, of Guys, was in
Selmer Monday and had DR.. W. Ross
Carter to do dental work for him.
Mrs. Purviance is still confined to
her bed, but the doctors think she is
getting along as well as could be ex-
pected.
Capt. II. A. Hunter is in very feeble
health and is confined to his bed. His
relatives and friends think his recoy-
cry doubtful.
Mrs. J. C. Houston spent few days
with her mother, Mrs. W. H. Harris,
at Finger recently, who has been cry
sick for some time.
Miss Sudie Bowling, music teacher
In the Selmer High School, has class
ut Ramer to which she devoted a day
or two each week.
j. T. Phelps, of tho Graham Paper
Co., made his regular call on US this
week. He was accompanied by his
little son, j. T., Jr.
Miss Lorraine Fulghum has accepted
position as operator with the Sun tel
ephone office here since Tie marriage
of her sister, Miss Allean.
The many friends of Mrs. j. H.
Carry will be glad to learn that she
has about recovered from a very Sc
we're illness and is able to sit up lit
tie.
VIM. Hamilton came home Monday
night from Henderson with a fully de-
veloped case of lagrippe and is under
the treatment of his physician.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18

Early Bert oats, red rust proof
oats, seed irish potatoes. onion sets.
garden seeds and etc. are now ready
for you at WARREN & Cos.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18
TRUSTEE

We are authorized to announce F. o..
HAMILTON as candidate for County Trus-
tee. Subject to the action of the Re-
publican party.
We are authorized to announce Al
BERT C. PUNK as candidate for county
Trustee. Subject to the action of the
Republican party.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18
Artichokes and Soy Beans

| have for sale ten bushels arti-
chokes and ten bushels soy beans at
about one half Of catalog prices.
Call or write G. G. MARSHAL. R. a,
Selmer. Tenn.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18
To Our Customers

We have installed a Sun telephone
for the benefit of our customers, and
when you want anything in the way
Of good things to eat, feedstuff, ETC.,
call on US. We have quick, free de-
livery.
T. M. HUMPHREY & Son.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT

We are authorized to announce II. j.
Cox candidate for County Superin-
tendent, subject to the will of the vo-
tiers at the August election.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18

W. l. Sweat, good citizen of Sci
mer and an old reader of the indie.
pendent, called recently and paid sub
scriptions for himself and son.
S. W. Gooch. B. and Coe Hawkins
and Tommie Prather, of the M. &. O.
carpenter service, spent Sunday with
homefolks. They are working at
| Mhfarphysboro, iii.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Barnes were
callers Saturday. He. in addition to
bis own subscription, sent the Inde-
pendent is his brother-in-law, G. A.
Jones, at Sherman, Texas.
J. w. Mccoy, of the educational
board. was here Saturday. He reports
the citizens of Gravelhill are much en-
Unused on the good roads proposition,
and work will begin as soon as wealth
er will permit.
Frank Richardson. of Whiteville,
has accepted the position Of local
manager of the Sun telephone Office,
and has moved his family here, occu-
plying the Warren residence on Pharr
avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Richardson en-
tertained at church benefit Valen-
tine party in their magnificent home
on Cocrt avenue. The number of
guests was large and they enjoyed the
evening very much.
DR.. B. f. Darby, of the Vernon Vi
cinity, spent a few hours in Selmer
Saturday. He is in his eighty-fourth
year and is as bluff and hearty as a
youngster. He has long been sue
cessful farmer and veterinarian and a
useful citizen.
Rev. J. W. Carnell preached Sunday
morning and night at the NJ. E. church.
The sermon Sunday night being one
of the most forceful heard in Selmer
for some time, and Notwithstanding
the bitter GOODNESS of the night, the
house was we'll filed by an apprecia-
tive audience.
Mr.. Rufus Reeder and Miss Allean
Fulghum were married Saturday night
at Ramer, ESQ, G. A. Prather perform
ing the ceremony. The bride is an
Industrious and pretty girl, and for
several years has been connected with
the local telephone Offices as operator,
and has a host of friends who will al
ways remember her as one of the best
operators who ever answered call.
Mr., Reeder is young farmer aud q
son Of Jones Reeder, a member of one
of the Oldest families in the county.
We, with everybody else, wish them a
life Of happiness and gqad luck.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18
ANNOUNCEMENTS
TAX ASSESSOR

We are authorized to announce SAN
SANDERS candidate for Tax Assessor
Subject to the action of the Republican
party.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1916-02-18
Change Of Schedules, Mobile &
Ohio r. R.

Effective May End, trains will leave
Selmer, Tenn, as follows:
Northbound
No. 2 Express Daily " 7:30 am
No. A ExpressDaily Nv 1888 pm
No. 6 Express Daily ....-,..lv All pm.
Southbound
No. Express Daily Nv 8:05 pm.
No. 3 Express Daily -....,,..lv 7:0l am.
No. 8 ExpressDaily Nv ll:28 am.
For any information regarding
rates and routes apply to J. D. A.
Coleman, Ticket Agent, Mobile Il
Ohio r, R., or write G. H. Allen. Dis
trict Passenger Agent, Jackson, Tenn.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29
A-MUSE-U THEATRE.

"Snow White" one Of the best
known fairy tales made into the most
interesting and beautiful picture play
of its kind enacted entirely by child
rem will be presented at the A-Muse-U
theatre New Years Day. Four reels
of adventure, mystery and fun.
All who have seen this picture of
"Snow White" unite in expressing un-
qualified admiration. Children
wonder over it and love it: mothers
grow tender over the exhibition of the
children's charm; grown men become
boys again and see the visions of the
days when fairy tales still held Il
glamor for them; tired critics were
enthusiastic; and even the moving
picture people themselves, in the
centers of activity. steal time to look
at it and declare it to be the finest
motion picture of it's kind ever pro-
duced. Nothing more original, pid-
turesque and thoroughly winsome has
ever been provided for discriminating
picture audiences.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29
ADJUSTMENTS.
All advance notices furnished by
Theatres.
BEST THEATRE.

Today-Mae Murray, the brilliant
young Lasky star who has won a
distinct place for herself in the hearts
of the photodramatic fans by her
splendid performances in "To Have
and to Hold" Sweet Kitty Bel
lairs," "The Dream Girl nd "The Big
Sister, will be seen in the Jesse l.
Lsky production of "The Plow Girl"
a play which carries the audience
from the South Afridan veldt to the
drawing rooms of fashionable Lon
don society. The story has to do with
the adventures of Margot, little girl
who is the family drudge of a
drunken South African farmer. The
farmer sells her to saloon keeper
ar'G she is rescued by the solicitor of
a titled Englishwoman who is in
search of her lost grandchild. whose
parents persisted during the Boer w2:.
A soheming relative, to obtain money
from the grandmother. selects Mar
got to impersonate the granddaughter.
How the little girl is made into
beautiful young society woman and
how the tables are turned on the
scheming fortune hunter when Mar
got comes into her own is brought
about in vivid and spectacular man
ner.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29

Special New Years Day attraction.
Clara Kimball Young, Queen Regent
of the Screen" has the leading role
in "The Common Law" This seven
reel production is the first of the pro
auctions by her own company. The
Clara Kimball Young Film Corpora
ton. Of the picture Kitty Kelly of
the Chicago Tribune says:
In particular "The Common Law"
picture is in keeping with "The Com
mon Law" novel. Mr.. Chambers cold
ask no more luxurious pictorial in
depreciation. There are wonderful
sets, we'll constructed, devised, AMI
furnished. The studio is set de luxe
and the country home is sample of
fine home designing. Amongst these
splendid furnishings move people in
harmony with them. Miss Young's
beauty is variously adorned, and the
other players of the cast must quite
fulfill the novelist's notion of we'll.
being folks. Mr. Capeani. the direc-
tor, has looked shrewdly at Mr.
Chambers daring situations, with the
directorial eyes focusing fairly on the
appeal of the Chamberesque to the
public. and the limitations of dansor-
ial approval. And he has wrought
quite wonderfully The picture story
is so admirably done that it nowhere
hangs heavily. nice handling Of
memories results in the mere sug.
gestiOns necessary ithout wasting
time in long fadeinS.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29
L o G "A L.

--For sale--Two used cars for sale
cheap for cash. Phone II. 22-24-6t
Xmas. Hoosier Cabinet, Macy
Book Case, Haywood Reed Rocker,
handsome rug at May prices, any one
OF which would be an ideal present
Reap & Crawford Furn. Co. tt
Let us wash your plankets--we
know how. American Excelsior Laun-
dry Co.. phone 146. If
Notice. This is the last week Of
our contest. See the standing of con-
testants on December 16, posted N
our window. Work hard and be one
of the happy seven Xmas day. Reap
& Crawford Furn. Co. If
You can make your choice in the
quiet OF your home or office, by hav-
ing Graphic classified" ads bring ap-
plicants and applications to- you. tt
Anyone wishing to buy or sell
Jefferson county script, call on Chas.
We'll Supply In. If
Buy your Christmas presents at
Reap & Crawford's and give your votes
to little lone Otte, Nov. 10. 12-13-6t
Our Press Process is unexcelled.
Amerlcan-Excelsior Laundry compa-
ny, phone LAG. tt
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29
ORPHEO THEATRE,

Today - Triangle-Ince fe a tn r e,
"Home." Bessie Barriscale, Charles
Ray and Louise Glaum are the bright
and particular stars in this produc-
ZION. This trio require little or no in
production to patrons of Triangle the
atres. This scheme strikes with ruth
less force at one of the foibles of the
great middle class society 1t tears
away cloak of ostentation and ludi
crous pretensions of the newly-rich
and shows how they expose them
selves to exploitation by those on the
ragged edge of the Four Hundred.
The story deals with the affairs of a
family that had suddenly grown rich,
which results in the usual thing-it
becomes unduly cxtravagant and
makes vulgar display of it's wealth.
1t takes their young daughter, who
has good common sense, to bring
them all to their senses and make
this home really home and rot a
stopping place.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29

If you are interested in truck, call
N. A. Anderson, telephone 1435 for a
demonstration of Ancestor truck.
12-13-tf.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29

Send your laundry to the old rell'
able, all work guaranteed. American !,
Excelsior Laundry Co., phone 146.
Awnings and uphclsterIng. CAL y.
T, TOussaint, phone 1850 or leave
orders at Knox walker Furn. 70.
-Xmas-M other-Hoosier Cabinet
Nuf Ced. Reap & Crawford furn:
Co.
Get your Xmas presents at our
store and help some little contestant
with the coupons that you VIII set:
Reap & Crawford.
Ask our drivers about laundering
your rag rugs, any size, American
Excelsior Laundry Co.. phone 146. I'll
Reap & Crawford Furniture 90.
are the people who give coupons 10
the s250.0OO free prize contest thal
closes Saturday December %. Buy
here and help some little girl. III
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29
TRACTOR DEMONSTRATION.

Mr.. J. Stevenson, president of the
Arkansas Tractor & Supply company,
will continue the demonstration OF
the Avery tractor on Mr.. Fred Sen
Yards plantation on the Tamo pike
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. A special invitation is ex-
tended to all planters to- call and sec
the work done by an Avery tractor
pulling four fourteen-inch plows.
12-27-3t
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29
EVERY OTHER DAY
MURDER IN CHICAGO

Springfield, Ill.,, Dec. 2S-An analy-
sis on crime conditions in Chicago,
just completed by Thomas NJ. Kill
bride. secretary of the state board of
pardons, shows that there is holdup
ever six hours, a murder every second
day, two suicides a day and an arrest
every seven and half minutes.
The four causes of crime, he says,
ere liquor lust, gambling and bad
company.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29
Whenever You Need General Tonic
Take Groves

The Old STANDARD Groves Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as 9
General Tonic because it contains the
we'll known tonic properties of QU1N1NE
and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
put Malaria, Enriches the Blood and
Builds I'D the Whole system So cents
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1916-12-29

Uriel l.. Clark, 60, owner Of extern
.sive tracts Of timber land thruout the
United States. is dead ct st. Louis.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06
EAST DOVER.

The listers began their work Satur-
day morning, April l.
Rev and Mrs F. II. Perkins were
in Brattleboro Monday.
A J. Howe of Ansonia, Conn, spent
the weekend at L. L. and ". p.
Howe s.
5. H. Yeaw of Brattleboro visited
relatives and friends here from Mon.
lay 10 Wednesday.
Hazel Starkey went Tuesday TO
West Dover to work for Mrs. J. Up
ton through sugaring.
The Ladies Aid society of the Bap-
list church viii meet with Mrs. q. >
sherman Tuesday afternoon, April II.
Bonnie Butterfeld was taken t.
Vineland. n j., this week to enter a
school w. j. Metcalf accompanied
him.
Winnifrcd Sherman Will return t.
ler school in Wilmington NJ ndar, af-
ter spending her vacation at her home
here.
Mrs. Walter Halliday and little
laughter Dorothy Of Brattlcboro came
Tuesday to visit few days at G. II.
Turner's and w. G. Halladay's.
Miss Ruth Hale returned to her
lome here Saturday, after enjoying a
rip to Washington with her class in
. he Brattleboro high school. Miss Hale
eng one of the graduates in June.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06
p D " CT ID E L E. O "
Howard LRdnn

dent of history is struck by the fact
that all of our early explorers We're
more in need of bath than anything
else. In his search for the Fountain
of Youth Ponce de Leon drank of
every river and lake that he found,
and succeeded in contracting several
new kinds of malaria which -rmained
in his clothing for years. Finally he
returned to Spain and presented the
North American continent to the king
in exchange for a coat of arms and
two suits Of underwear.
Becoming restless under a life OF
idleness and the underwear, which had
begun to shrink, Ponce de Leon re
turned to Florida, but was met at the
dock by the atheistic red brother and
shot full of long, quivering arrows
passing away soon afterward with both
hands folded peacefully across q blow
out in his front casing. His death
occurred in Cuba, and was due to a
total lack of hygiene and shortness OF
breath. Thus died one of the best
discoveries who ever set up in bus
ness on his own hook, a man who wa:
never married and lived the wild, free
life of bachelor in an age when goot
wives were cheaper than silk petit
coats at a clearance sale.
rs Newspaper Service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06

-Four hundred and four years ago
Juan Ponce de Leon, the well-known
Spanish explorer, discovered the state
of Florida. He is said to have been
the first, last and only white man who
ever set foot in Florida without sue
eumbing to the wiles of the ten-acre
orange promoter, but this is probably
q mistake.
At the time de Leon discovered
Florida he was greatly surprised and
disappointed. There was not a first
class hotel in the state and there were
no evidences of refinement and cul-
ture, such as are seen today in the
white pants of the winter tourist and
the price Of q room with bath at Palm
Beach. The only products of Florida
at that time were the morose, UNI
bathed Indian, the baby alligator and
the vindictive swamp mosquito. Peo-
pie from the north had not begun to
flock to Florida and live on the climate
and the pecan nut industry. 1t was
considered one of the dampest and
most disagreeable states in the Union.
Ponce de Leon did not intend to
discover Florida, as he was looking
for the Fountain of Youth and Il
much-needed bath. The careful stu
protected by The Ada
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06
May Win by Default.
(BcnninCto Banner.l

Any one circulating presidential pc
lions in your vicinity? There won t
be any primary May l6 unless there arc
some candidates, and two Of the best
mentioned refuse to permit the use of
their names. How about it2-Rutland
Herald.
If no one files the name of a presi-
Dental candidate the prophets of evi;
can be trusted to think up some new
drawback to the primary law The sit
uation this year is peculiar with the
men whom the voters want refusing to
be candidates while hardly anybody
wants the candidates who are seeking
the nomination. The only danger seems
to be that somebody will file the name
of some one of these undesirable can
didates in the hope that he may win by
default.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06

handing of the railroads wage in
creases amounting to many millions of
dollars. Railroads are the arteries of
of our business life, but there has been
a good deal Of hardening of these ar
teries in recent years. The cost of
operation has increased tremendously.
A part of this increase has come from
payments to employees, and other fac
tors have been safety appliances, elm
mating of grade crossings, full crew
laws and other regulations through
legislative enactment, or by order of
the interstate commission The physi-
cal valuation of railroads which has
been ordered by this commission will
cost the companies immense sums, and
by the time the work is completed in
one section of the country reports from
other sections where the work first
started will Anticipated. OF course
no one can make anything more than
a guess as to the loss to the railroads
from automobile traffic, but it h been
an immense figure. Some of the rail
roads were thought to be very arbitra-
ry combinations Of capital not so very
far back, but now they are lucky if
they can earn enough to avoid recei-
verships or to keep their stock above
par
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06

remain idle long if Brattleboro s pub
hc-spirited people earnestly take up
the trail of new industries. Brattle-
boro people are commercially energetic
and public-spirited and they will prob
ably find a new concern to occupy the
organ-making plant. The passing of
the Carpenter company after go years
of activity is sincerely to be regretted,
but its stockholders are guided in their
present action by knowledge of eondi-
tions throughout the country and not
by theories. Organ manufacturing is
not the field of such large possibilities
as it was q fcw decades back, or before
labor wing musical devices came into
popular use.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06

Publisher Knox Of the Manchester
Union takes exception to the friend
~ throughout tenor of the latest
note to Berlin, as indicated by wire
less reports via Sayville. He says:
''Now, observance of the forms is an
excellent thing, but if the Wilsonian
communication was marked ch ely by
amiability, it singularly misrepresent-
ed the American spirit. This coun-
try has no wish to play the bully, but
equally it is in no mood to veil hard
facts in soft phrases. American
rights have been seorned and disre-
garded. American lives have been
lost by submarine attacks we have
solemnly declared in violation of the
laws of nations and the laws of hui
manity. We have tried pretty speech
es with a master of rhetoric to polish
them for US, and we have found them
wanting. The time fer them is Ioag
past, and the time for clear-cut, virilc
unmistakable declarations has come.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-04-06

In his notable speech in the reich
stag yesterday in which he declared
that Germany entertained no designs
of aggression against the United
States, Canada or South America,
Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg sounded
no note of expected triumph for the
Teutons. His declaration was that
of a man who sees ultimate defeat.
lie says - bravely enough - that if
peace can be accomplished only by the
destruction of Prussia s military
power then Germany's answer must
be the sword. If the allies desire to
continue the devastation of Europe
the guilt will be theirs, and eve will
have to stand it as mem His posi-
ton is that of man beaten but not
whimpering.