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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24
NOTICE

l wish to say to my friends that |
am no longer with w. A. P'Pool G.
Son, but am prepared to handle any
business in the Undertakingline. Any
call, day or night, given my prompt
and personal attention. Phone 1l34.
H. L. HARTON.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24
Got the Wrona Tube.

After a busy day of golfing and an
evening of automobiling. James skin
was irritated from the combined ef-
fects of sun and wind, so she literally
"cold-creamed" her face and hands and
settled herself for good nights rest.
In few minutes her face began to
feel stiff and drawn. AT last" she
thought, the expected has happened
i have paralysis" Her nervousness
increased when her fingers became I'm,
manageable and her skin began TO
crack and snap. She hastily turned
on the light and found her face alarm
ingly waxy and shiny. What could he
the cause? Finally she rushed to the
tube of cold cream. 1t was labeled
Library Paste. Youths Companion.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24
His Reason.

There's old Dunn. don't care TO
meet him. Let's turn this way. Last
fall requested loan or 500
Well. he ought 20 have obliged you;
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24

Smithson Water delivered Tues
days and Saturdays. Phone 633 l.
advertisement
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24

See j. h. Dagg for contracting
building and general repair WORK Of
all kinds. Phone 476.
Advertis ement.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24
Ham Sacks.

Plenty of ham sacks just received
at this office. Call and get your
supply.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24

Good morning! Have you
seen The Courierf
Evansville's best paper.
Advertisement
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24
Preferred Locals

Time to sack your hams. Big sup
ply for sale at this Office.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24
Eggs For Matching.

Barred Plymouth Rocks, Thompson
strain with new blood from Holder.
man, Miles and Latham. Fine winter
layers, 10 dozen eggs from one per
in January. Eggs 10 for $3.50 or &c
for $3.50. Phone "a or 449.
STANDARD POULTRY CO.,
Hopkinsville, Ky
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Cottage For Rent.

Seven-room cottage at 1O4 w. 18th
street. Good repair, bath and electric
lights, garden and fruit trees. One
square from Main. Immediate pos
session.
CHAS. NJ. MEACHAM.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-02-24

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The Brinkley argus., 1916-01-14
Old Citizen Passes Away

Mir. 1. Sapp who has been a citizen of Brinkley for more than a quarter of a century died at the family home corner of Willow and South N. Y, Ave-, on Tuesday night.
 The funeral was conducted at the residence yesterday by Rev. Q. M. Yerger the Episcopal minister of Forrest City.
 MT. Sapp was 81 years of age and leaves wife and two chil- dren, Assistant Post master F. E. Sapp and Miss Claudia Sapp, to mourn his death. He was well liked by large host of friends and neighbors and not, withstanding the severe weather a large concourse of sorrowine friends gathered at the funeral land burial yesterday to pay their respects.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-01-14
TOW THE RED CROSS
 SEAL ORIGINATED.
Anti tuberculosis Workers After $780,
 GOO Fund.

Nearly $2,5OO,OOO has been raised by. Red Cross Christmas Seals in the last seven years, and yet many people who will buy these holiday stickers at this eighth annual sale do not know how the charity stamp idea originated.
 It was war that brought forth the charity stamp-our Civil war of '61 to '65. Some of your grandmothers first played post office" with stickers sim liar to Red Cross Seals way back in 1862, when they conceived the idea of selling stamps at fairs for the benefit of the relief funds for the soldiers hospitals in Brooklyn, Boston and elsewhere. Nearly $1,0O0,OO0 was rais- cd in this way before 1865. After the war this method of raising money was discontinued in this country for gen. eration, although it found vogue in Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, France. Spain, Denmark, Norway, Russia. Swe.' den and other European countries. There are now several thousands of different types of charity stamps used in all parts of the world, as many as forty being used in Austria for chil- dren's hospitals alone.
 Stamps or seals were first used to get money for the anti-tuberculosis crusade in Norway and Sweden in 1904. To Jacob Riis, the well known social worker of New York, and ito Miss Emily F. Bissell, the encrgetic secretary of the Delaware Red Cross. jointly belong the honor of originating our American Red Cross Christmas seal. In 1907 Mr aRiis's interest was aroused by the receipt of Christmas tuberculosis stamp on a letter from Norway. Hepublished an article about this queer looking stamp in the Out look and suggested some possible uses for it in this country. Miss Bissell at once saw an opportunity here and pre- pared stamp, from the sale of which her society realized &, eco for tubercn- losis work. So impressed, was she with this success that she induced the Amer ican Red Cross to take up the sale in 1908 on a national basis With very little organization and with hardly any attempt at careful advertisinr ,fhA aala
The Brinkley argus., 1916-01-14
I. E. Missionary Society

The Missionary Society of the Methodist Church has formed a new branch to their society which deals exclusively with the local work. There is only a small fee of ten cents asked and every member of the church and others interested are urged to join this department.
 Last Monday afternoon the society enjoyed a good spiritual service with Mrs. J. D. Rodgers. Their theme, Stewardship, :" inspired each one present to greater work and a deeper con- secration.
 They are going forth to make this year the banner year of their work. They have resolved
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Card of Thanks

Roe, Ark. Jan. 10th. 1916 To the voters of Monroe County: I know of no words sufficient ly strong to express my appre- citation of your support in the recent primary. To those who oppose me have no i'll feeling. My sole aim will be to make 8 good treasurer for the entire people. Gratefully Yours,
 w. l.. Hinton.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-01-14

to grasp the true substance of all their plans, bringing forth the flower into a beautiful reality of service to their church and their God.
 The society will meet Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrs. N. P. Lawrence. Will not the ladies give their presence to make this the best meeting of the year.
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that year brought in over $1ao.UuO foi anti-tuberculosis work in various parts Of the United States. In 19O0 with more thorough organization. the sale was increased to $23O00O. in 1910 to nearly $310O0O, in 1911 to over $330,-. 900 and in 1912 to over $400.O00. In 1913 the sale was increased to nearly S450000, and last year. in spite of; war and hard times. p per cent more. or 55OO0,O0O seals were sold. totaliuR S55O.OOO for the nti-tubercuicsis Was.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-01-14

revealing the dirty methods of the gang" in such a way as will force the better element to line up and clean out the city. Let it come. for Brinkley and all adjacent territory will profit by the good work.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-01-14

LAND FOR SALE: The North East quarter of Section 32, I'D. 6, Range l, in Woodruff County. Apply at this office.
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Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
APPLE CROP HURT

Apple growers throughout Delaware
and the Eastern Shore of Maryland,
composing the Delaware and Maryland
Peninsula, are much concerned over
practically the total destruction of their
early apple crop, mainly the Vel ow
Transparent variety, caused by the
scab or fire blight, which has affected
many of the orchards, both large and
small. The cool weather of the past
several weeks has been most favorable
to the disease, and for this reason
apple growers contend that they have
much to fear for their early apple CROP
F. M. Soper, of Magnolia, well-known
as the Delaware "Apple King" reports
that his Yellow Transparent apple crop
will practically be total failure and
loss, with probabilities that the disease
may extend to other earlier varieties.
DIR. w. S. Maxwell, of Still Pond,
Md, another large apple grower of the
Eastern Shore, reports his Yellow Tran
parents badly damaged, with less than
half crop, possible less than quarter
of a crop.
Farmers and fruit growers, however,
claim that the cool weather has not
affected wheat or other early vegetables
and fruits, the only complaint being a
setback to the yields. Strawberries,
while plentiful, will be at least two
weeks later in Delaware this year than
in former years. The same will be true
of other berries and vegetables.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
Marriage "EndOwment'' Eliminated

The General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, which is
holding its sessions at Saratoga Springs,
N. Y, has decided to omit in the mar
riage ceremony of their ritual with all
my worldly goods l thee endow !"
While the title to this endowment given
at the altar, may not have any stand
ing in court, even if the groom was
possessed of the goods, yet there is
something of the heroic and generous
ring IN the words, with my worldly
goods thee endow' spoken in a church
crowded with relatives and friends. 1t
gives the man a substantial and i'm
portant feeling and the brides alteration
for the magnanimous and manly figure
beside her goes up several degrees as
she realizes that not only his heart but
his purse is all hers. No one would
censure the bride if in this happy day
she placed an inflated valuation on both
the heart and purse, but if she does she
will find it out later, and she can remind
him of the declaration he made as he
placed the ring on her finger, and claim
the fair proportion of the endowment.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
LICENSES DUE IN JUNE

Clerk of the Peace for New Castle
County, Harry A. Brown, calls atten-
tion to The fact that all State Licenses,
excepting liquor licenses are due in
June. To all licenses not paid in June,
5 per centum will be added, to all Ii
censes not paid in July an additional
penalty of 10 per centum will be added
and to all licenses not paid in August a
further additional penalty of 10 per cen
tum will be added, making penalty of
25 per centum on licenses paid after
August, in addition any person or per-
sons conducting business after August
of each year without a license is liable
to be indicted by the grand jury at the
ensuing term of court.
All manufacturers are required to
make statement of the gross receipts
of their business for the year next pre-
ceeding and all merchants a statement
of their purchases for the same period,
both of which shall be under oath.
The penalty for making false state
ment is a fine Of not more than one
thousand dollars, be imprisoned not
more than three years or both.
The last legislature gave to the Col
lector of State Revenue the right to in
vestigate and examine the books and
stock of any person who has made the
statement required. for the purpose of
ascertaining the truth and accuracy of
such statement
Any person refusing to permit such
examination shall be guilty of a mis-
deamor and on conviction shall be fined
$500 or imprisonsd or both.
The manufacturer tax is $3.50 plus
zoe per thousand on the gross receipts.
The merchants tax is $3.50 plus 81
per thou sand on the gross purchases.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
HATCHERY FISH PROVIDED

The Committee on Merchant Marine
and Fisheries of the House of Repre-
sentatives has incorporated Represen-
tative Thomas W. Miller's bill provid
ing for fish hatchery and fish cultural
station at the headwaters of Delaware
Bay in a general omnibus bill which has
been introduced and will soon be re-
ported by that committee.
This bill carries total appropriation
of 5000, 900 for fish cultural stations in a
number of states along the Atlantic
seaboard. One of the provisions of the
general bill is that the states wherein
the stations are authorized shall legis-
lative action accord the United States
Commissioner of Fisheries the right to
conduct fish Matching and fish culture
and all operations in connection there
with in any manner and at any time
that they may consider necessary, the
various laws of the states to the con-
trary- Notwithstanding. The bill will
soon be placed upon the Calendar but
after it passes the House it may not be
reached in the Senate until next session
which will give the next session of the
Delaware General Assembly ample op-
portunity to provide reciprocal legisla-
ton.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
Forest Church Notes

Sunday, June 4th, 1916. No morning
service will be held on account Of the
Drawers Church re union service.
6.45P. NJ. Christian Endeavor service.
Topic: ''The Conservation of Money. +"
Job 27:1-23. Conservation meeting
7.3OP NJ. Evening service with SER
mon.
Wednesday evening, 7.3O o'clock,
Prayer meeting.
The Sacrament of the Lords Supper.
will be administered on Sunday morning,
June 18th. The Preparatory Service
will be held on Friday evening, June 9,
and the Session will meet on Sunday
morning, at 1915 O'Clock, to receive
those desiring to unite with the church.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
AUTO CRASH FATAL
William H. Shea, Of Wilmington,
Was Instantly Killed
SEVEN OTHERS BADLY NJUED

One man was almost instantly killed
and three men, two women and two
boys were more or less seriously injured
at Mt. Pleasant late Sunday afternoon
in one of the worst automobile wrecks
ever seen in this section of Delaware,
William H. Shea, aged so, of No 1908
West Ninth street, Wilmington, cloth
Ing salesman, was the person who lost
his life. Mrs. Shea was bruised and cut,
and suffered severely from shock; Mrs.
Charles L. Story, of No. 1005 West
Ninth street, Wilmington, guest of
the Sheas, was severely bruised, and
George Schaffer, Shea's chauffeur, sus-
tained internal injuries.
In the other car, operated by William
Keough, a Delaware City hotel man,
were Charles Schaffer, foreman of car
penters for the Delaware & Chesapeake
Canal; his two young sons, Frank and
Charles, Jr., and Charles O'Neal, all of
Delaware City. The elder Schaffer
sustained broken collar-bone and seri-
GUS scalp wounds; O'Neal, a fractured
left arm, and the Schaffer boys, nu-
merous cuts and bruises.
STRUCK AMIDSHIPS
The Delaware City car, small Ford,
was swerved to the right up the State
road, along which the Wilmington car
was travelling, but the collision could
not be avoided. The Ford struck the
Studebaker fatty on the side, at point
where Mr.. Shea was sitting. The heavy
crash sent the Studebaker rolling over
until it finally landed bottom side up,
with all the occupants pinned beneath.
The Ford rebounded from the impact
and then went off at an angle and rolled
over in the road. 1t also lit bottom
side up, although all its occupants were
thrown clear of the wreckage and were
not seriously injured.
PIERCED BY MUD GUARD ROD
A rod on the mud guard of his car
pierced Shea's back and came out
through the chest. His skull was
crushed and every bone in his body was
broken when the car fell on him. He
still was living when taken from under
the wreckage, but died in a few
minutes. Drs Beal and Lewes were
called from Mlddletown, Dr. Cam from
Glasgow and Drs. Ellis and Biddle from
Delaware City. They attended the in
jured at the home of Richard Moore,
to which place they were carried. Later
all were taken to their homes, the Della
ware City residents in the care of DR..
Biddle and the Wilmingtonians by W.
Harman Reynolds, of Townsend.
Shea was head salesman for James T.
Mullen & Son, of Wilmington His
party was going north from Middle
town while the other party was going
west from Delaware City when the two
machines met at the crossroads.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
A VERY FINE TRlRTTTE
The Country Newspaper by William
Allen White
INTIMATE STORIES OF LIFE

No finer tribute to the country news
paper has ever been paid than the fol-
lowing. 1t was written by VIM. Allen
White, editor of the Emporia (Kan.)
Gazette, for Harper's Magazine. MIR.
Whites words, in part are:
But the beauty and the JOY of our
papers and their little worlds is that
we who live in the country towns know
our own heroes. Who knows Murphy
in New York? Only a few. Yet in
Emporia we all know Tom O'Connor-
and love him. Who knows Morgan in
New York? One man in hundred
thousand. Yet in Emporia who does
not know George Newman, our banker
and merchant prince? Boston people
pick up their morning papers and read
with shuddering horror of the crimes of
their daily william, yet read without that
fine thrill that we have when we hear
that AL T.udorphis in Jail again in EN-
poria. For we all know Al. We've
ridden on his back a score of times.
And we take up our paper with the
story of his frailties as readers who be-
gin the narrative of an old friends ad-
ventures.
Our papers, our little country papers,
seem drab and miserably provincial to
strangers, yet we who read them read
in their lines the sweet, intimate story
of life. And all these touches of nature
make US wondrous kind. 1t is the
country newspaper, bringing together
daily the threads of the towns life,
weaving them into something rich and
strange and setting the pattern as it
weaves directing the loom and giving
the cloth its color by mixing the lives
of all people in its color pot-it is this
country newspaper that reveals US to
ourselves, that keeps our country hearts
quick, and our country minds open and
our country faith strong.
When the girl at the glove counter
marries the boy in the wholesale house
the news of their wedding is good for a
forty line wedding notice, and the
forty lines in the country paper give
them self respect. When in due course
we know that their baby is a twelve
FOUNDER, named Grover or Theodore or
Woodrow, we have that neighborly
feeling that breeds the real democracy
When we read of death in that home
we can mourn with them that mourn.
When we see them moving upward in
the world into firm and out toward
the country club neighborhood we re-
ioice with them that rejoice. There
fore, men and brethren, when you are
riding through this vale of tears upon
the California limited and by chance
pick up the little country newspaper
with its meager telegraph service of
5000 or 1900 words or at the best
$1,000 or 10000; when you see its array
of countryside items, its interminable
local stories, its tiresome editorials on
the waterworks, the crops and the city
printing, don't throw down the con-
temptibIe little rag with the verdict
that there is nothing in it. But know
this, and know it well: If you could
take the clay from your eyes and read
the little paper as it is written you
would find all OF God's OeautlIuI sorIow-
ing, struggling, aspiring world in it,
and what you saw would make you touch
the little paper with reverent hands.
Middletown transcript., 1916-06-03
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Betterment of public school conditions
is to be undertaken for the entire State.
To effect these betterments laws will be
proposed for enactment by the next
Legislature. To secure the passage of
these laws there will be required the
interest and support of our citizens and
taxpayers. To inform the public def
nltely about these proposals, to make
clear just what is to be asked for and
to show just what changes are contem-
plated, is the purpose of this series of
newspaper articles. Later these news
paper articles are to be gathered up
into circulars or bulletins and sent to
Parent-Teacher Associations, to
Oranges, to the Women's Clubs, and to
every other forum that affords chance
for free and open discussion of these
problems.
Whatever opinion and sentiment can
be aroused in this way it is expected
will be manifested and expressed by
discussion, by joint resolutions and by
newspaper contributions. If any large
force of sentiment be thus developed.
it will readily be united into an intelli-
gent and substantial demand for the
improvements advocated. The existence
of such demand, and its expression in
unmistakable ways, will be sure to Sc
cure a respectful hearing and consid-
cradle recognition by the legislators.
The study of school conditions for a
number of years has supplied informa-
ton upon which certain proposals for
new laws are based. With this knowl-
edge of conditions the State Board has
combined good intent when framing the
proposals. The full confidence and in
terest of every citizen of the state is
earnestly requested for this effort. To
these proposals of the State Board of
Education it is desired to join the best
thought of other equally alert, inter
ested and devoted citizens. The separ-
ate proposals as chosen by the Board,
will be submitted to the public for con-
sideration, for criticism, for discussion
and for additional suggestions. 1t is
now, when changes are to be made, that
the Board wishes to receive helpful
proposals and constructive suggestions.
Some excellent suggestions have already
been received, and more are cordially
invited.
One at a time, IN short newspaper
articles, the proposals will be stated
and explained. Following the appear
ance of each proposal in the papers,
questions and discussion will surely be
welcomed by the newspapers. Follow
ing the appearance of the proposals in
the papers they will be sent to educa-
tional organizations for reading and
discussion in open meetings. Thus the
Boards educational program should be
fully known and appreciated through
out the state. Thus opinion can be in
telligent and decided. Thus legislators
may be precisely informed as to the
wishes of their constituents. Thus will
our school legislation be government
of the people, by the people, for the
people"
CHARLES A. WAGNER,
Secretary of State Board of Education.