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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-01-28
Master Commissioners Sale.
Ohio Circuit Court, Kentucky.
T. II. Black, Plaintiff,

Ohio Circuit Court, Kentucky.
7. H. Black, Plaintiff,
| vs..
r. p. Buck & c., Defendants.
BY virtue of q judgement and or
der of sale Of the Ohio Circuit Court,
rendered at the June term, 1915,
in the above cause for the sum OF
| $4,000, with interest at the rate of
per cent. per annum from the 1st
day of January 1915, until paid, and
-- costs herein, will offer for
sale by public auction at the Court
house door in Hartford, on Monday,
the 7th day of February, 1916,
about one o'clock p. m, upon
credit of six months, the following
described property, to-wit:
Being certain tract or parcel of
land in Ohio County, KY, known as
lot No. in the allotment of the
lands of Joshua Maddox, situated in
Ohio county, KY, on the waters of
Little West Prong of Lewis Creek,
and bounded as follows:
Beginning at a stone in line of
lot No. at figure Is; then w. 100
poles to a red beech and two black
oaks, a corner to No. at figure 16;
then with line of same N. 40 poles
to stone and small white oak, cor
ner to lot No. at figure IT; then
with another line of No. west 81
poles to a black oak, sweet gum and
white oak in one of the original
lines, and also corner to lot No. 4
at figure Z; then with said line N
so poles to a post oak standing on
rock another original corner at the
letter E; then 1877 poles to larger
poplar another original corner at
the letter c, and corner to lot No. 2;
then with line of same s. 100 poles
to the beginning, containing 100
acres, more or les. The mineral
right had been sold to McHenry
Coal Co., which land was conveyed
to c. H. Chapman by G. B. L. Mad
dox and wife, July 81, 1907, and
which deed is of record in deed book
"a, page "a, Ohio County Clerks Of
flee.
Second tract: Also another tract
of land in Ohio County, KY, bound
ed as follows Beginning at a gate
post in south line of A. C. Wake
land land on the creek and running
west with the Broadway Coal Com
pany, and A. c. Wakeland's line to
a sweet gum tree, A. c. Wakeland's
corner; thence N. As poles to
black gum; thence e. 2-3 poles;
thence N. 67 poles to walnut and
two dogwoods thence east to
bridge on the Greek; thence with
the creek on the west side to the
beginning being all the land owned
by A. c. Wakeland on the west
side of the creek; mineral and coal
rights reserved and right to work
and mine same and same land con-
veyed to Claud Chapman on April
Z, 1911, by A. C. Wakeland and
Wife and which deed is recorded in
Deed book 80, page $50. Ohio Coun-
ty Clerks office, or sufficient thereof
to produce the sums of money order
ed to be made.
The purchaser will be required to
execute bond with approved security
Immediately after sale.
This 18th day of January, 1916.
e. e. BIRKHEAD,
Master Commissioner.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-01-28
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

the diseased portion Of the ear. There 10
only one way to cure deafness. and that 10
by constitutional remedies. Deafness IL
cous lining OF the Eustachian Tube. When
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sound or imperfect hearing. and when II 10
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and this tube restored 10 its normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out OF ten are caused by Catarrh.
which 10 nothing but an infiamed condition
OF the mucous surfaces
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
Send for circulars. free.
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Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
Walker Likes Politics

Jasper and Walker county are again pursuing the even tenor of their way after one of the hottest political campaigns in two years,' said Malcolm E. Kettles, prominent attorney of Jasper, who was at the Tutwiler yes- terday.
 T say two years advisedly, be- cause We have one of these warm con- tests in our county every time there is a general election. Most of the peop- pie are glad the fights are over and quite few are complaining about the way politics interferes with business, but I notice that many of them were among the most active in the recent fightsA
 Every county in the old Sixth dis trict is accustomed to warm politics and I am led to believe that many would be sorely disappointed if some thing did not happen about every sec ond year to stir up things The people of Alabama like politics, it seems, and Walker county is no exception to the general rule.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
WORTHY A TOWERING SHAFT

From the Richmond Times-Dispatch
 Out in Dayton, O., where the commits sion manager plan of city government thrives and flourishes and justfies its being, folks are beginning to be delighted with it. They point with pride to it's accomplishments of economy, eff ciency and liberality in public improve ment, and view with alarm" the re- motest suggestion of return to the old conditions In the midst of their satis- faction with large achievements how ever, they do not forget a relatively minor one. The city manager has washed the city sereets.
 Oldest inhabitants say that before the flood which incidentally swept Dayton to reform, these streets never had been
 thoroughly cleansed. There was the usual bidding with sprinklers and sweep CTS, but no whole souled appreciation of the fact that dirt becomes dust, and that dust when circulated by a hard work ing summers breeze, becomes an abomi- nation. Citizens who thought and said that the streets should be washed were rebuked sternly, as visionaries and inn practical idealists.
 But the city manager washed the city streets For this one service Dayton con- siders building him a monument. Woulc that we had him here!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
A FAT MANS HOPE

William Allen White in the Emporia Ga Zette.
 The skirts which the girls are wearing this spring are equipped with elastic quicker strings at the waist and the Emporia tailors who build clothing for men should take a hint therefrom, and include an elastic section in the vests of the suits they build for customes who are no longer sylph-like in their propor- tions.
 Men who hover habitually on the bulgy side of a 44-inch waistband sometimes inches in before and after breakfast readings. An elastic vest would auto- matically take up the slack and shield from the remarks of the ribald crowd the man who by persistent starving, sometimes called dieting, is just begin ming to see his own feet for the first time in years, where now, slack and wrinkled vest is dead giveaway of the dieting. Also, when the flesh is weaA, although the spirit vemains wiling, and the portly brother falls, and wraps him. self around baked potato, salad rich in olive oil, and other waist-line producers, the elastic section would yield and there would be the same unruffled vest front of his more slender days, where now bulging and strained buttons betray the fact that the old man is putting on weight again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
CARE IN MAKING CANNON

From Engineering Magazine
 The field gun proper is made of nickel steel, of about 9o,00O pounds per square inch tensile strength. The inspection and specifications for the forgings are most rigid and the slightess flaw developing at any stage of manufacture is usually sufficient cause for rejecting the forging, or for special proof firing with excessive pressure at the risk of the maker after the gun is completed. An experienced manufacturer may not have many re- jected forgings. but without exception ally good fortune an inexperienced maker may count on 25 per cent or more of rejections. This extreme care does not appear unrea sonable when it is con-
 sidered that the gun must withstand suddenly applied interior pressure of perhaps 5000 pounds to the square inch, which at each firing stresses some DOT ton of the gun to perhaps 70 per cent of it's elastic limit. gun failure is of serious moment, for aside form the death or injury of the detachment the moral effect on other detachments is bad.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
HOW TO LIVE LONG

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 A number of well known persons who have passed the allotted three score and ten period all have defiance against old
 age. Hetty Green, the worlds richest
 woman, says: "The best advice I can
 give those who live to an extreme old age and still retain their mental and physical
 health is keep the mind occupied on some
 business endeavor. walk as much as you
 can and chew a baked onion between
 meals" Chauncey M. Depew says the reason he is so well at so. Is because he keeps busy. My universal observation has been that men who have led active lives and who stopped work when they arrive at 80 years or whereabouts, died,
 while those who continued at their tasks lived for many years more." Mrs Thomas Whiffin, who has passed her eightieth year. says early to bed and early to rise makes old people young. Charles R. Flint, the we'll known captain of in dustry says that sunshine and not moon shine is the real thing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25

of the party can carry out their plans. An attempt will be made to induce either William Jennings Bryan or Richmond Pearson Hobson to accept the presidential nomination. The Ne braskan will be first choice, it is sup posed, because of his long experience in presidential running as demo- crat; but if he declines it is believed that the convention would unite unanl- mously on Hobson.
 It is quite thinkable that Bryan would accept the prohibition honor Of course he would be allowed to write the platform and make unpre- paredness one of it's main blanks.
 The prohibition party could not ex- pect to win in November next, no mat ter how strong a vote-getter might bear the standard, but with either Bryan or Hobson at the head it would be safe to assume that the popular vote would be more than double that of 1908, and indeed it would not be surprising to see it cross the million mark. That would encourage the na- tional prohibition politicians to expect bigger things in 1920.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
Brown Talks of Graft

''The only graft I have received from my position as chairman of the reunion executive committee was a package of chewing tobacco today from a veteran in Winston-Salem, N. G." said R. A. Brown yesterday.
 Unfortunately, I do not chew tobacco, which is most distressing, since I have been advised by some of my friends who do use the weed in that form that it is an exceptionally fine grade. I deeply ap- preciate the kindness of the old veteran who sent me this token of his apprecia- tion of the work which was done by our committee and all the other reunion com mittees in making his visit here a suc- cess. I shall make good use of the to- bacco by sending it to my father, who, I am sure, will enjoy it and will appre- ciate 1t for the spirit which prompted the sender of the gift to me-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
A Proper Defense

Mayor Commissioner George Ward is eminently correct in the statements he has made in his article for the Survey relative to prohibition in Bir- mingham.
 The men representing the liquor houses and the liquor interests are materially injuring their cause in the many misleading articles they are dis tributing throughout the country about Birmingham.
 While The Age Herald is not an ad- vocate of prohibition in any sense of the word, it does attribute to the ab. sence of the saloon in Birmingham the splendidly good, peaceful and joyous week which Birmingham had during the Confederate Veterans reunion Those who, as Commissioner Ward eX presses it, "enjoy good drink of Ii quor as we'll as any healthy citizen, usually are enabled to get it in Bir mingham in a proper way and without violating the law. It cannot, however be gotten in quantities to cause drunks, street brawls and fighting ant shooting like unto the days of whicl no citizen of Birmingham is proud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
HOTEL LOBBIES
Police Are Very Polite

Although automobile speeders are find ing it very difficult to evade the police scouts on the highways and byways Of the city, they are enthusiastic about the courteous treatment afforded to them by the officers.
 Several of these 'speeders have come to me for a remission of their fines, said Commissioner Barber, and one in particular said: MT. Barber, l admit was going faster than the law allows, and do not blame the officer for making the arrest Incidently these motorcycle scouts are fine fellows. They chase you for miles and never lose their temper. When they do catch you they courteously offer you bond to sign and then bid you good day Really, if it wasn't such costly sport, it would be a pleasure to get ar rested for speeding by Birmingham po- lice scout"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
WHERE THE PLAY IS DEATH

fluence of the detestable asphyxiatinS gases used by the enemy; the struggle to inhale air into lungs which had lost their elasticity; the involuntary groans of men with shattered, mangled bodies; the oc- casional piercing, startled shriek from those who in their disturbed slumber- the slumber that comes as result of utter fatigue and overstrained nerves are hounted by dreams of vague horror; the clattering of heavy boots on bare boards; the sharp click of surgical in- struments: all this to the accompaniment of the heavy booming guns which shake the earth and cause the windows to rat tie.
 The men are lying on their stretchers OH the floor of the theatre, from which the seats have been removed, awaiting their turn to be placed on the operating table most of them gazing as though fascinated at the grim scene being en- acted on the stage. How futile are the cheap shams commonly used to produce dramatic illusion! What stage of any theatre in the world ever presented a scene to compare with this, the tragic reality of life!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
Regarding Army Patronage

Under the new military law, which increases and reorganizes the United States army, there will be greater ef- ficiency as we'll as appreciable numeri- cal strength on a peace footing and reasonable provision for war foot ing.
 It is to be small army, as stand ing armies go, but some of the op- ponents of preparedness-those who choke with fear lest the United States, by expanding it's army, will develop a spirit of militarism-see nothing good in the adoption of the conferees' re- port.
 The Nation, edited with marked ability in all respects, where polltl- cal prejudice is not involved, takes no stock in democratic policies and can see little to commend in anything President Wilson does or proposes to do.
 The army measure is moderate and is such as thoughtful, patriotic men, regardless of party lines, will approve, but the Nation in brief survey ot the conference bill from a skeptical, not to say fault-finding point of view, says among other things: "No less than twenty-three new generals are added to the twenty-one we now have, which evidences anew the old desire of congressman for new and well paid places" The figures are not accurate as to the number of old general of ficers, although that is of small con- cern. There are twenty-six of the line, and counting line and staff there are between twirty-fiye and forty. But it is the animus of the Nations remarks that is particularly notice able, and it is the way the statement | is put that is calculated to mislead. Congressional graft is implied, but as a matter of fact there is little po- litical patronage in the enlarged army appointments. Several hundred com pany officers must be appointed, but few of these will be taken from civil fife. They will come largely from the noncommissioned officers and from the National Guard. As for the new generals, they will be almost invari- ably promoted from the next lowest grade, according to seniority. Those critics of sinister habit of thought al- ways see the wrong side first.
 The United States army will not be perfect, but it will be an improvement on the old establishment. It is a sane step at any rate in the direction of preparedness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
Prohibition Party to Branch Out

The national prohibition party will strive to make an impression in the approaching campaign. Organized in 1876, it has never had the support of the rank and file of those who were active in state and county elections, but this year an effort will be made by the leaders of the organization to put out strong presidential ticket in the hope of polling large popular vote.
 In 1876, Green Clay Smith of Ken lucky, the first prohibition standard bearer, received popular vote of only 9522. In 1880, Neal Dow of Maine, the famous apostle of prohibition, was nominated for President, but he com manded only little more support than Smith.
 In 1884 the party made squirt anc rolled up a popular vote of 151 ,S0s for John P. St. John of Kansas. The prohibition vote struck it's high watel mark in 1908, when Chafin received 253, $40. In the next campaign Chafir was again the candidate but he polle' not quite POS, 900 votes.
 Of the minor parties it was sup posed that the prohibitionists woul' lead in popular vote, but the socialis ticket has been moving far ahead O the "dry" candidates.
 The prohibition party has always had for it's presidential candidates man of high character, but the plat form contained no live issues excep the one which gave the organization its name, and no one ever took it seri ously.
 It will be different in the campaign of this year, if certain of the pillars
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25

From War Time Sketches in France,
 by Herbert Ward, in the June Scr1pner. IT formed from a playhouse, with it's IMAGINE the local theatre, trans U dry accessories, into an improvlsed hospital for the reception of the wounded who were being continually brought ln from the front, some two miles distant to receive first treatment before pelng removed to the regular hospitals.
 The scene was particularly effective at night when the stage was lit by an oil lamp attached to a portion of the scenery which represented baronial banqueting hall. I can see 1t all-the white blouse of the surgeon, who was lit at his Worfs by the light of a candle, held by grisly, mud stained brancardier; the naked, in animate form on the operating table; the hetrogeneous collection of rifles ana knapsacks, surgical appliances and blood- stained stretchers, propped up against gaudy columns I can still recall the smell of sodden clothing and the pun gent odor of iodoform and anaesthetics I can still hear the vain gasp for breath of men who had been under the ln-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
As Convention City

That Birmingham is popular as a convention city is evidenced by the large number of bodies, state and general, that meet here, in spite of the lack of an auditorium.
 The general assembly of the Cum berland Presbyterian church, which has just closed it's annual spring meet ing, had delightful sessions and the delegates expressed themselves so pleased with Birmingham that they would be glad to come here often.
 The general assembly of the South ern Presbyterian church, which met here only few years ago, has selected Birmingham as its meeting place for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
HuntsyiIle,s High School

T am merely passing through Bir-
 mingham on my way to Huntsville" :"
 said Walter Smith of Tuscaloosa, grand maser of the Masons of Alabama. ''The people of Huntsville are constructing Ia magnificent new high school build ing, and the Masons will have charge of laying the corner stone. The people of the city will all take part in the ceremonies and the day will be a holi- day. There will be big parade, in which all the school children will par ticipate.
 "The people of Alabama are aroused on the question of education now as never before, and school building which was considered a monument to a city 10 years ago, will not satisfy and will not met the needs now. l believe the amendment to the state constitu- tion allowing local school taxation which is to be voted on this fall, is one of the most important measures which has come up in recent years ir Alabama, and I hope it will be carried | by an overwhelming majority.
 Alabama, for good and sufficient reasons in some cases, has been rated | as a backward state in matters of edu. cation for several decades, but whatever reasons existed in the past for this condition have now passed. It is up tt us to remove the stigma which hal rested on us for many years and Joir the ranks of the states with ample edu cational facilities. The tax amendment
 is the first step looking toward mak ing Alabama the great state she Is de | stined to become
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-05-25
Fayors Three Bond Issues

Commissioner J. D. Truss wants all his friends to know that he is going to vote for all three of the bond issues that come up before the voters on June 5. In particular he favors the $2,0O0,000 bond issue for the schools and the $5OO,- 900 bond issue for the municipal light plant.
 q am very much in favor of all three bond issues that will be submitted to the people on June 5,' said Commis- sioner Truss, "and I sincerely hope that my friends will vote for every one Of them as it means progress and pros perity for the city.
 Of course I favor the $2,00O,00O school bond issue first of all, because lit means so much for the children of this city and for the fact that the schools at the present time are in such a deplorable shape.
 Next I favor the $500,000 municipal electric light plant bond issue, because that means progress for the city. Our North Birmingham plant, on small in vestment is success. and enlarglns l it at a cost of $5OO,000 is a decided step | forward. I believe the $500,O0O b3nd issue for the municipal light plant will carry by vote of to 1, due in large measure to the character of the oppo- sition against it.
 "As to the auditorium bond issue, l
 believe that we need it. but this is the only one of the questions that comes up before the voters on Jung that Will
 have hard sledding. However, we need
 an auditorium, and I am going to vote
 for the $50N000 bond issue to build one. | 'The citizens should reIember that
 if the bond issues are successful that 1t
 means $3,000,000 of additional capital
 in the city. It means a large amount of construction, labor for the building trades, increased pay rolls and better 1 business for the merchants. It also means better and more schools, a
 civic auditorium that will mean that
 we are a forward looking city, and
 municipal electric light plant which will supply power at such rates as to lower the cost from the merchants to
 the smallest consumer by thousands oi dollars annually.
 All patriotic citizens should vote
 for all three of the bond issues ou
 June g."