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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04
THIEF
GOT CAUGHT
Enters Store Of Moore & Evsns.
al Chesterfield. and Proceed.
ed to Dress Himself Up.
LEFT OLD rDUDs" THERE

The General store OF Moore u
Evans, at Chesterfield on the
Perryville Branch of the Nash.
vile, Chattanooga q ST.. Louis
Louis, Railway, was burglariaed
last Saturday night by some psr.
son who effected entrans .
through q back door.
Beside helping himself to ".
rious articles Of wesring apparel,
the thief dressed himself'iu new
clothing and left his old clothes
on the foor of the store. 1t IL
said that the coat left by the
burglar was identified BY boy
in the Chesterfield neighborheod
and from that Identification !
youth named ---- Suits, was
incorrectly reported to have been
caught at Wildersvills Monday
morning and arrested, having
some Of the stolen goods in hia
possession, besides the tosa hs
was wearing
The Suits. boy had been lis.
ing with Henry Singleton ~
Warron's Bluff and the pants
left by him on the door Of Moore
& Evans stofe, were IN old pair
that had been given him BY the
SinEleton's. - ~
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04

cold blood by his 'ownacousin.
The murderer made his escape
but through attorneys made de-
fense to the bill Of Mrs. Hattie
Brown, appealing to the higher
court when be lost before the
lower tribunal. As. suggested
By the jackson Sun, Brown could
hardly have made defense TO the
suit without some sort OF COM
munication with the lawyers
who represented him.
Mrs. Hattie Brown has six
children ard isa sister to Mrs.
Tom league Of jackson and Mrs.
H. H. Thrsadgill Of Lexington.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04
Nation Wide Prohibition

Washington, Jan. 27;.-The
FIRST step in the progress Of the
national prohibition movement
in this Congress was taken to.
day, when the Senate judiciary
sub.com mittee decided to rec
ommend to the full committee
Senator Sheppard's . proposed con-
stitutional amendent.
The Sheppard resolution would
submit to the states for approval
"a constitutional endment. pro.
.bibitins the sale, manufacture,
transportation, importation and
expectation Of ali Intoxicating
liquors for beverage purposes.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04
Best Illinois Speller.

Ralph Huston, Of Kewanse. IL
the champion spellsr among tls
school children Of Illinois. This
fact was determined in the state
wide.spelling bee held pfelimi.
nary to the obening OF thesan6u.
81 convention Of the State Teach.
ers Association. Young Huston
spelled correctly the full list Of
900 words pronounced TO the
thirty.thrse cOntestsnta. fspfs.
ssnting as many couatisS. Ln.
cils BAtson. Of Keensburg. Va.
bash county, finished second.
spelling correctly c77 words.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMITTEE MET
HERE JAN. 18TH
And Fixed Date for Primary August 8, 1915
Meeting Was Harmonious.
NO RUN-OFF; NO SINGLE TICKET

The Democratic Congressional
Committee, Of the 9Th Congress.
sional District Of Tenn, met
here last Friday, January %, on
call Of the Chairman, with oil
counties present in person or by
proxy 90 follows:
Benton--E. E. Fry.
Carroll-O. M. Townes.
Ohester-G. E. Mckinney.
Decatur. s. England.
Hardin-Edgar Cherry proxy
q. D. Barry.
Henderson, q. E. Grapsr.
Henry--L. +. Alexander.
Madison-T. j. Murray.
McNairy-pro1y-G. E. Nc.
Kinney.
PefrY-sproxy-.l. s. Fielder.
The minutes of the last meet.
ing we're read andlapproved.
Motion was then made by AL.
sxander, seconded by Townes,
that the Democratic candidate
be selected by . primary elec.
tion, which was unanimously
carried.
Motion then fixing the dateifor
the day Of the August election
1918 was made and unanimously
carried.
The rules adopted two years
ago were then read by sections
and after amendments were
adopted az follows:
The Democratic Congressional
Committee OF the 9Th Congress.
sional District Of Tennessee,
hereby orders that a legalized
primary election be held at the
several voting wards and pre-.
1cincts in the counties composing
the 9th Congressional District of
Tenn, on Thursday, Aug. 8,
1915, between the hours Of 9 a.
m. and 4p. IN. aud closed at Z
p. m. to select Democratic can.
didate to represent this District
in the congress Of the United
States.
The officers, judges and clerks
shall be appointed by the Con.
gressional Committeeman in
their respective counties and
shall be chosen from lists sub.
mitted by the several candidates,
il such lists be furnished, each
candidate to have as near equal
representation as possible, and
all candidates are hereby invit-
cd to submit such lists by July
l, 1915.
All white male citizens who
are known by the judges to be
De emocrats, or who shall furnish
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04
Dredge Boat Damaged.

jackson, Tenn, Jan. H.--One
Of the two big arms Of Che dredgs
boat being used to dig the new
canal Of the Forked Deer river
broke this morning at 8 O'Clock
and put the boat outof commits
sion for several days or . week.
The boat tilted aud sank ! depth
Of eight feet. Pumps at the city
water works plant we're secured
aud are being used to rid the
boat Of ito water. The boat is
now located half way between
the levss aud the railroad south
Of Jackson.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04

Trenton, Tenn, Jan. 26.-Pry.
ing their way out Of jAil with !
crdwbar, Ave neeross last night
effected 90 escape from the Glib
son county Jail, and although
pursued BY officers todsy, are
still At liberty. Noise made BY
the prisoners prevented a deliv.
cry that would have freed every
prisoner 10 the Jail.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04
Billy Sundays Fast Day.

Billy Sunday may be an &C.
clesiastical fakir, las many claim
him to be, but Billy Sunday ID
certainly . man Of power with
the masses. 's.''-
His orders from the rostru IN
are mandates that are generally
obsyed. He has started the peo-
pie Of Trenton. N. j., by order
ing that the city set aside one
day ~ . day Of fasting and pray.
or. He has requested that the
stores and shops, on this particu.
lar day, be closed and that for
"a hours the people of the city
shall eat no food, that they must
devote the day Of fast TO prayer.
Prayer AZ the first, second and
third element Of Christian life,
should open, prolong and con.
clude each day. It is natural
and reasonable for . dependent
creature to apply to the Creator
for what he needs ~ for a child
TO solicit the aid Of = parent who
is believed to have the disposi.
tion and ability to bestow what
itneeds.
To pray as God would have Us
pray. with all Of our heart and
strength and will, aud to conf.
IDENTIFY feel that God will listen
to our voice, through Christ, and
verify do the thing he pleaseth,
is the last and greatest achieve.
ment Of Christian duty.
Billy Sunday may not be sin.
cere. he may be pursuing his
present policy Of narrowing up
the public sentiment for the sake
OF ahe dollars to be gained, but
he at least does much good. He
sets people to thinking aud this
is something. He plays always
in the limelight. He is spectac.
ular in his achievements. The
order that : day be set aside as
3 day Of fast and prayer will be
obsysd by his following and By
others easily moved. 1t willnot
Of course be observed by the mu-,
nicipalitJ Of Trenton. Others
will resent the .boldness Of the.
Sunday ultimatum, others will
laugh st it, others will -shrug
their shoulders and 60 the even.
tenor, OF their way. Billy Sun.
day, at least. has succeeded in
attracting attention and after oil
this 10 probably what he really
wants. Il Commercial Appeal.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04
MAN KILLED
In MADISON
Madison County Merchant and
Farmer Shot and Killed
viii NcLain.
HARRIS KEPT HIS WORD

Last Friday afternoon, in the
18th district Of Madison county,
Dave Harris shot twice and in.
stantly killed Will McLain, the
first shot taking effect in Nc.
Lain's body in the region Of the
heart, snd the last shot. both
from q rife, entering the vic.
TINS head and causing instant
death.
There were no spectators i'm
mediately 1t the killing and the
only published account of how
the shooting occurred was given
BY Harris when he went to Jack
son Saturday morning and gave
himself up to the officers.
It seems that Harris who is
now 81 years old, three years
ago refused McLain who ID
past "a. credit in his store
aud McLain slipped up be.
hind Harris, struck him on the
head with 3 stick. the blow caus.
ing Harris to be confined three
months and to almost lose his
life. Harris told McLain that if
he ever came back to the store,
he would killhim. McLain has
passed the store, bnt never un.
til last Friday did he stop.
When McLain came up to the
store at the time mentioned last
Saturday, leading a mule, Harris
says he McLain) was drinking
that he ( Harris) reminded Nc.
Lain Of his threat or promise
made three years ago. to which
Mclain replied that he was
twsnty.one years old and could
20 where he pleased--or words
TO that effect, aud thereupon,
Harris, as stated by himself,
knowing McLfin had come for
trouble, shot him, as before stat-
ed. Harris admits that McLain
drew no weapon, but says that
pistol was found on his person.
McLain leGves q wife aud chill
'dsen and Harris also has o fami.
ly.
We Judge that Harris is a man
Of much better social and finan.
cial standing than McLain.
That there will be mitigating
circumstances which proven will
save Harris from stretching
hemp" or temporarily occupying
that "easy chair" provided by
the State, at Nashville, is our
first guess, but it seems to one
at this distance, from Harris ;
own story. that he was q little
too quick in the use Of his rife
to meet the laws approval.
We are informed that Nc.
McLain's home was in this coun-
W, about three ssmiles West Of
Juno and that he was on but .
temporary stay in Madison coun.
W, when he was killed by Har.
ris.
Harris made bond.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04

to the judges satisfactory evi.
dence that they are democrats,
and all such as will be 81 years
ofage by the November 1915
general election, shall be EMIT
led to vote in said prilnar ~s
No poll tax receipt shallrbs re.
quired as . prerequisite to vot.
ing in said primary, nor shall
the Dortch Election Law apply,
nor ehall any registration be re.
quired except in the four wards
OF the city Of Jackson. Each
voter must vote in his own civil
district or ward, and each candi.
date shall be entitled to a watch.
or at each voting place. such
watcher to have the privilege Of
being present a. the vetss are
cast and counted.
The returns shall be made 10
duplicate in each county, one sst
of the poll-list and tally sheets
to be returned to the Congres
|sional Committeeman and the
other to the Chairman Of the
County Democratic Executive
Committee, and shall be return
ed By the officer holding the
election not later than the first
Thursday following the election.
The Congressional Committee
will meet IN Lexington on Tues
day Aug. Is, 1915 to canvass the
returns and declare the nomi.
nee.
The Chairman Of the Commit.
tee shall forward to the several
OoL gressional Committeemen
printed ballots Sx7, Of each Of
the qualified candidates, and the
Committeeman in their respec-
tive counties shall send these
ballots of each candidate to the
officer holding the election to,
gether with the poll lists and
tally sheets, but the candidates
shall have the right to have
printed and distributed a. many
ballots as they may desire.
/ Any Democrat desiring the
nomination for Congress shall
qualify a. a candidate in the pri.
mary bv filing with the Chair.
man Of this Committee not later
than noon June /, 1910 . state.
ment in writing which shall de.
clare the intention Of the maker
to be q candidate in the prima.
|ry, that he will support the nom.
inee Of the primary, and deposit
with the declaration and accom-.
pany the same by deposit Of
$4,000 to defray she publication
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04

The Bank OF FlAtwoods.
Wsvne county. after pi6rating
about live years, ~ithou paying
any dividends to it, stockhold.
srs, recently closed ita5 doosa
with : aloss Of abort 20 pSE csps.
to its stockholders. "
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1916-02-04

The Aood situation At sHick,
man, KY. IL serious. Hundreds
have beea rendered homeless.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

PEARL VETCH, as a food, is
superior to beans. Ask your grocer
for it. adv Jan. 9
Go to the NJ. G. B. Carpenter
Shop for windows, sashes, doors,
screen doors and window screens.
Phone 81. adv-tf
]. l. Monks was a business visitor
in Spokane last week and returned
home Saturday.
Mrs. L. G. Miller, of Meadow
Creek, was in the city Thursday
visiting with friends and doing shop
ping.
The board of county commissioners
finished the work of reviewing and
approving the personal tax rolls of
the county last Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Ferrari are
the proud parents of a 10-pound
baby girl which arrived at their
home Sunday morning.
Charles Smith, proprietor of the
Bonner Lake resort, has been in the
city for several days, purchasing
supplies necessary in carrying out
his winter logging plans.
Mrs. M. A. Kuehn, accompanied
by her three grandchildren, left We'd
nesday for her home at Chewelah,
Wash, after having visited with her
son, Vic Kuehn, proprietor of the
International hotel.
Mrs. Alva Brock, accompanied by
her sister, Miss Violet King, of Port
hill, passed through the city Thurs
day on their way to Mrs. Brooks
home at Gateway, Mont. Mrs.
Brock had been visiting with her
parents at Porthill.
]. c. Bush and Thomas Mcmahon
went to Spokane Saturday to at
tend the Knights of Columbus in
itiation held Sunday. Over a hun
bred candidates were initiated among
whom was Alvin Bush, of Bonners
Ferry. Besides the initiatory SER
vices the Knights of Columbus con-
Quoted dedicatory services for the
new lodge home recently completed
in Spokane.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
Local News

Lost - Double horseshoe gold
breach pin. Finder please return
to Herald office.
Useful Xmas presents for the
whole family are on display at the
Fifteen Cent Store. Come and see.
Fred Gleed left yesterday for Spo-
kane to attend to various business
matters.
Mrs. H. J. Peterson, of Addie, was
in the city Saturday on a shopping
trip.
Frank Bush, proprietor of the
Casey hotel, has been under the
weather the past week with an at
tack of lumbago.
House and two lots for sale cheap.
Centrally located. Five rooms. Wood
shed and chicken coop. Terms if
wanted. For particulars inquire at
Herald office adv Dec. &c
A sleighload of Bonners Ferry
young people attended the dance
held at the Moravia hall Saturday
night. All report a good time. The
merry-makers returned home early
Sunday morning.
Herman Stakeholder and P. j.
Johnson, both of Occur d'Alene City,
arrived here last Friday to spend
week visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Fred Gleed. The visitors
will go on a deer hunting trip be-
fore returning home.
DIR. and Mrs. C. w. Driesbach ar
rived here Saturday to remain until
after the Christmas holidays as the
guests of Mrs. Driesbach's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. /. Monks. The Wis
itors are former residents of Bon
ners Ferry They have been ma
king their home at Meadow Creek,
Wash, but DR.. Driesbach recently
purchased the drug store and prac-
tice of a physician at Greenacres,
Wash, and will take charge after the
first of the year. DR.. Driesbach was
! formerly associated with DR.. Fry.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

Phone 90, Bonners Ferry Lumber
Company for No. 5 boards, fine for
common work. $3.50 per M. adv-tf
C. ]. Wagner, of the Round Prairie
district, was business visitor in the
city yesterday. Mr.. Wagner is in
terested in legislation which will
come before the Idaho solons soon
and believes that legislation provid-
ing for the taxation of interest draw
ing instruments such as notes and
mortgages, would be a good thing.
He also favors having a law pro-
viding that road districts raise and
spend money upon the same plan as
the school districts.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

Miss Curren, teacher of the Naples
school, was in the city Saturday on
a shopping trip.
Mrs. H. L. Medbury returned home
the first of last week after visiting
with friends and relatives for a few
days in Spokane.
M. F. Bayer drove to the city
Friday from his ranch near Cope
land. He was accompanied by A. j.
Kent and H. Thomson who had been
hunting in the Copeland district and
who brought two large bucks with
them as proof of their huntsman-
ship.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

Yost Washing Machine for sale
cheap. Inquire at this office. tt
Phone 90, Boomers Ferry Lumber
Company for No. 5 boards, fine for
common work. $3.50 per M. adv-tf
Cedar Post and Pole Contract to
let in the Bonners Ferry district.
Address L. d. Mcfarland, Sand
point, Idaho. Dc 29-c
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

Go to the Fifteen Cent Store for
the latest and the best in Toys,
Games, ETC., for the children's Xmas
presents. If
We take every precaution in fill
ing your prescriptions. We use the
best drugs obtainable. Mail orders
given prompt attention. Simonds'
Drug Store. adv
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
We want
to give YOu
a Musicale

We invite you to visit our
store and let US prove to you
that this advertisement is
an understandment of the
merit of the New Edison.
Come at any time. There is
absolutely no obligation to
buy.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
Marie RappOld and Albert Spalding

performance by the same artists.
These two great artists are but
two of the many artists who, by
similar tests, have proved the in
failibility of Edison S new art.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
What will you bave in your home?

You choose your piano. your furniture,
your pictures and paintings with a view to
getting the best you could afford.
The same discrimination will lead you
inevitably to select the New Edison.
The New Edison has greater superiority
over all other kinds of sound-reproducing
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
What
What
The NEW EDISON
means to you

This Edn the literal Recreation
great utterly
all talking machines talking machines partial produc
Edison literally
eve kind of instrument.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12
What music
means to
you

Music of all the arts, has
the greatest influence over
the emotions. -
NAPOLEON
"a love of the higher school
of musical composition is
one of the surest tests of a
refined and elegant state of
society. -
PLATO
Music is a more lofty reva-
lation than all wisdom and
philosophy. -
BEETHOVEN
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

It's absolute fidelity to the original has
been proved hundreds of times in pub
lie by direct comparison between the
living singers and instrumentalists on
the one hand and Edison new inven-
tion on the other.
Over 200, 900 music lovers, and the
music critics of more than 200 of
Americas leading newspapers, have
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

instruments than any other article of mer-
chandise possesses over other articles in
tended for similar use.
The Edison is slightly more costly than an
ordinary talking machine, but the differ
ence in cost is insignificant when compared
with the difference in quality.
Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1916-12-12

seen and heard these astounding tests
and were positively unable to distin-
guish the original artists voice or
instrument from Edison's Recreation
of 1t. In other words, they could not
distinguish one from the other when
they listened alternately to the living
artists and to this wonderful Edison
invention.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-11-30
TheGood
Friend
h >>>
BY Jessie Ethel Sherwin
&9V1V1V,ONfS
Copyright, 1916. BY w. q. Chapman.)

y&eVo&o&46o
Copyright, 1916. BY w. q. Chapman.)
Willis Strong, specious swindline
land agent, thought he had turned q
particularly clever trick when he in.
duced Mrs. Salina Burgess, two years
a widow, to invest nearly all she had
some two thousand dollars, In forty
acres of land.
A great company had been formed
to develop the Pearl river district
Numerous land spectators had rushed
in to buy up what tracts they could,
counting on the prestige of the really
reputable men behind the company to
sell anything and everything lining
the river at any preposterous price
they might charge.
Salina, fair, thirty, venturesome,
bought the forty acres without seeing
1t. When she did see it she realized
that she had been swindled and sat
down on a rock and cried. It was
enough to make angels weep! The
forty acres were located on q barren
stretch of rock where the river
turned. There were patches of soil
here and there, but in the main it
was 'are as Himalayan plateau.
"And sold the small but cOzy home
Mt rRiverton for this!" she sobbed
desolately. "And I've got to live here,
fer have no other possession on
earth!"
'Then, too, Mr.. Royd," she added.
"why have thrown my chance
away?"
A memory Of Bernard Royd was q
tender spot with Salina. She had
been forced by scheming mother,
now dead, to marry Robert Burgess,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1916-11-30
Uncle 1ruefitt
"
g., rll
By
GEORGE MuNSoN
Copyright. 1915. BY w. q. Chapmac.l


Copyright. 1915. BY W. q. Chapman.)
The scandal rang all through the
village. Although there was no rea.
son why 1t should be a scandal, except
that nobody had ever expected such q
thing Of Cousin Lefty. Cousin Lefty
was married-married at thirty-eight
to heaven knew whom!
To explain the sensation which this
event created in town it is necessary
to go back little. Cousin Lefty was
a Bradley. The Bradleys, the Forsters,
the Truefitts and the Slows had ruled
the town for generations.
Uncle Eph Truefitt was the head Of
the clans. He was sixty-nine and had
been a widower for fifteen years. He
had not got along well with his wife.
She had died after three years of
married life, and it was said that 1t
had been a marriage of propinquity.
In other words. they had met, known
each other, and some unaccountable
whim impelled Uncle Truefitt to ask
her to marry him. AS she was rot of
the clan, no more need be said about
her.
After his renewed bachelorhood, On.
Gle Truefitt developed streak of &C.
centricity. He was strongly against
matrfmOny, except in the case of Ger.
tain people. That is to say, he toler-
ated the married Bradleys, Forsters,
Truefitts and Slows, but It was under.
stood that Uncle Truefitt's wiiower.
hood had altered the aspect of the uni.
verse. There was to be no more mar.