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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
REDS COT Big LEAD.

The "Reds and Blues at the
Christian Church Sunday turned the
Mems Bible Class into mass meet
inc, so great was the influx OF new
members. There were 43new mem
bers and about 265 in the class, the
Reds leading by 1000 points. The
campaign closes in two more Sundays.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27

SENSATIONAL
HOMICIDE
Nashville's Civic Crusader
Shot And Killed j
Yesterday.
ATTORNEY HARRY STOKES
Bloodshed Grows Out OF The
Upheaval In Tennessee
Capital.

Nashville, Tenn, April 26. Harry
Stokes, one of the most prominent
attorneys in Nashville, was shot and
killed this morning by Charles
Trabue. Mr.. Stokes was the prose
cutor in chief in the municipal ur-
heaval that changed the city govern
ment last year, BUSTING Mayor Howse
and several commissioners.
The killing is one of the most SEN
satlonal tragedies that has occurred
since Z. w. Carmack was killed by
Cooper, several years ago.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
MARRIED HERE.

Robert C. Coe, of this city, and
Miss Elizabeth Campbell, of Una,
Tenn, were married last Saturday,
the ceremony taking place at Hor.
kinsville. Mr.. Coe is a member OF
the firm OF Simon & Coe, who oper-
ate garage in the Mcleod building
on West Center street. -Madisonvi' e
Hustler.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
Meacham-Major.

A marriage license was issued yes
terday to Arthur Davenport Meacham
and Miss Bette F'0hces Major and
the wedding was scheduled for last
night Mr. Meacham is a son of Mr.,
r. Nj. Meacham, who resides a few
miles northeast OF tine city, and is a
popular young farmer. Miss Major
is the pretty and popular daughter Of
Mr.. Z. w, Major.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
The Williams impeachment farce !

The Williams impeachment farce at
Frankfort was a disgrace to the Sem
ate, that ran up bill of $l2,00Ot to
whitewash politician who could
have been tried in the local court for
alleged misconduct in 81, 900 office.
They held on three weeks before
public opinion finally forced them to
do what could have been done in
three days.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27

Thomas N. Hazelip. City Commits
sioner of Paducah and former Mayor,
four other men and the Independent
Club were indicted by the Mccracken
county grand jury. Gaming and lie
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27

VIM. F. McCombs has let it be
known that be win not be candidate
for reelection as chairman Of the
Democratic National Committee to be
elected in June. Fred B. Lynch, OF
Minnesota, is candidate for the
place.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
Kentsekian For Secretary,

}. Bruce Kremer, Democratic Ma
tional Committeeman frSim Montana,
"a former LouisviliiaA, is reported TO
Rave been selected as secretary OF
his pa-ty's Natiou5s Committee.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27

President Wilson doesn't propose
to waste any time writing notes to
Carranza. He has sent Generals Scott
and Funston to tell him how it is.
They will meet his main man, Obre-
gon, at Juarez today.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
EASTER EGG HUNT,

Mrs. Charles Boyd, OF Newstead,
gave an Easter egg hunt to her three
children and the latter's little guests,
numbering about twenty-five, Satur.
day, After the 'hunt' elegant re.
freshments We're served and the littlS
folks had fno9 enjoyable time OF it
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27

Cummins carried Nebraska by a
little more than 1000 votes over Hen
~ Ford in the Republican presidential
primary.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
Graduating Recital.

The graduating recital Of Miss Var
GINA Pursley will be held al Bethel
Woman's College next Tuesday eye-I
ming at S:l5 o'clock. Miss Pursley
will be assisted by Hiss Susan Mario
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Edward L. Rogers, a Chippewa
Indian Of Walker, Mimi, is Repub-
lican candidate for Congress.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27

Germany will either back down or
is hunting trouble with Uncle Sam in
order to be in a position to say that
il took the whole world to lick her.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
French Front Quiet Except in
Lorraine And Around
Ve.dnn.
RUSSIANS ARE In FRANCE
Heavy Cannonade Continues
In Sectors Near
Hill 304.

London, April 26. Except in Lor-
raine there has been an entire absence
of infantry fighting on the Western
front The big guns however have
continued their rain of shells OH OPP
posing positions at various points. At
La Chapelotte in Lorraine, the Ger
mans launched a heavy infantry at
tack against the French, which was
repulsed. Some of the Germans OBJ
tanned a footing in portion of the
French salient but later were driven
out with heavy losaes.
Around Hill 304 and in the region
of Esnes and Cumieres, northwest of
Verdun, the bombardment continues
intense. In the Argonne the French
have destroyed with their guns a Ger
man post and shattered a German
trench over a small front. Consider
able aerial activity by the French air
men in which four German machines
were brought down is reported by
Paris.
On the Eastern front near Garbuu-
ovka the Russians made a heavy at
tack against the Germans, but accord
ing to Berlin, were repulsed with
sanguinary losses. Heavy artillery
engagements are still in progress in
the upper Cordevole and Monte San
Michele zones of the Austro-Italian
front
The British official communication
from Mesopotamia says the British
are still holding their lines on the
right bank of the Tigris against the
| Turks and have somewhat extended
them at one point by driving in the
Turkish pickets.
/ GIVEN NOISY WELCOME
/ Marseilles, April 26.-Marseilles
Twas again the center of tremendous
enthusiasm Tuesday as another con-
, tingent of Russian troops arrived UNI
, expectedly. The word that more
, Russian troops were coming soon
spread and great crowds gathered at
the quay to witness their disembark
/, alton.
# II was a stirring scene as the Rus
, slams lined the decks of the transports
d, and returned the cheers from thu
% crowds massed along the shore while
70 the flotilla of warshipS and merchant
men in the harbor saluted with flag
and salvos booming cannon. A regi
ment of French Hussars was draw
up along the quay as guard of hon
or, the French bands playing the Rus
sian national hymn, to which the Rus
|. sian bands responded with the "Mar
seillaise
I The new troops are composed c
" young men Of excellent appearance
and sturdy bearing, similar TO thos
in the previous detachments.
AERIAL ACTIVITY
!. A squadron OF German aeroplanc
i, has delivered another attack on Ii
~ entrenched camp of the entente allie
J at Saloniki, according to a Havas dii
m patch from Saloniki to-day, the airme
> flying over the camp from all dire,
tons and dropping bombs at variou
lNoiutc
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
AERIAL ACTIVITY

A squadron Of German aeroplanes
has delivered another attack on the
entrenched camp of the entente allies
at Saloniki, according to a Havas dis
patch from Saloniki to-day, the airmen
flying over the camp from all direc-
tons and dropping bombs at various
points.
Little damage was done by the raid
ers, according to the dispatch. Aside
from this aerial activity there was
calm along the front.
Eight British aeroplanes lombard
ed the hostile camp at Quatia in
Egypt, near the Suez canal, twas an
nounced officially to-day. The camp
was destroyed and the hostile troops,
the aviators reported, apparently be-
gan to withdraw from that district
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27
WaTca TAe Dave

After your name. roper
promptly. and not miss a
number. The Postal reena-
tions require subscriptiops 20
be paid in advance,
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-04-27

FOR KENTUCKY
Thursday, unsettled and
cool.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
The Mexican Commission.

President Wilson has appointed three
very excellent men to the commission
to settle our difficulties with Mexico
George Gray, retired federal circuit
judge and before that senator from
Delaware, is one of the strong men OF
the country.
President Cleveland offered George
Gray the post OF secretary Of state in
1892. President Roosevelt put the same
man on the anthracite coal strike com
mission. He has served on the interna-
tional permanent court of arbitration at
The Hague, and thus, in spite of his 70
years, brings highly executional quail
ication to the latest task
John r. Mott. general secretary of the
international committee of the Young
Mems Christian association and the au-
thor of several widely circulated books,
has long enjoyed certain pre- eminence as
a student of world problems He should
prove a valuable factor in the delibera.
ton.
Franklin X. Lane is the strong man OF
the present cabinet His California resi-
dence acqquaints him with the point of
view of the West toward our Mexican
problem. We believe the president has
been unusually successful in constituting
this important board. May it get to
work promptly and secure results with
out too much Observation-Disclosures
Herald
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26

Col. Winston Spencer Churchills state
ment in the House OF Commons that the
war is to be of long duration from thi.
time on may have been calculated "a
have a depressing effect upon the Ger.
man people, providing the statement
should ever be permitted 10 reach the
German people, To let the Teutons
know that Great Britain and the other
allies are laying in for a long war even
though the hostlities have already con.
tinued more than two years is informa-
ton not likely TO prove quoting to the
Teutonic demand for peace, a demand
which has been growing more and more
insistent since the concerted allied drive
was started this summer Col. Churchill
undoubtedly was speaking for a double
purpose when he made the statement,
the purpose TO spur the entente allies on
to greater efforts in anticipation OF su.
preme effort and the purpose TO discour.
age the German people and, if possible,
the Prussianism that is in control OF the
empire at the present time.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26

the automobilist sees you in the street
stand perfectly still and let the driver dc
the maneuvering. This rule does not, OF
course, apply TO narrow country high
ways. where there would not be chance
for the vehicle TO pass. In that case
make a certain move, and only one, eth.
err forward or backward; never change
your tactics. The accident which hap
pened to Assistant Judge c. A. Gardyne
in the street at ST. Adams recently was
in part due, if the reports be true, to his
own INDIGESTION while crossing the street
ahead of an approaching motor vehicle.
Numerous accidents OF very similar ma
ture are occurring again and again, all of
which might have been ayerted by fol-
lowing out a certain course on the part
of the pedestrian.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
A FORTUNATE SCHOOL

Again Ira C. Calef has evinced his in.
terest in Goddard seminary, the school
whose benefactor he has been almost
since the founding of the institution, and
his latest contribution surpasses any
thing heretofore given to the seminary
by him or any other one person. A gift
outright of 100000 without conditions,
supplementing many previous eontribu
tons, is an acquisition of which any
school in New England might well be
proud, and there is no doubt that the
trustees, faculty, alumni and students Of
the Barre institution place due value
on this latest gift to the cause OF educa
ton, not only because of the actual value
of the gift but also because Of the con
tinued manifestation of confidence in
the future of the institution by one who
has been closely associated with its we'll
being. 1t is especially reassuring as it
of the class in which Goddard finds itself
are having a hard time in making prog
ress in competition with the many other
institutions of public or semi-public ma
ture. Be it said at this time that God
dard's endowment fund, wisely invested,
together with the accretions that may
be expected from various sources as the
years pass, is sufficient to maintain the
school in a satisfactory financial condi-
ton Indeed, there are few institutions
of learning, outside of the colleges, which
have an endowment fund of 100000,
such as Goddard has at the present time.
The seminary is very fortunate in its
financial status.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
Orange Congregational Church-Amos
Vermont Roads and Tourists.

The prolonged hot, dry period hai
brought the people OF Vermont face t.
face with new road problem. A Bur
lington man who travels much and is il
close touch with tourists. says unless
some way can be discovered to overcome
the terrible dust on our country roads
we can prepare to bid farewell to much
OF the auto travel from other states.
Tfs states which viii profit from our
loss in this situation judging from com
ments OF tourists, are New York, New
Hampshire and Massachusetts,, which
have trunk line routes Of highway com
paratively free from dust.
That is one handicap which our gravel
roads have, and the question j. whether
II viii be cheaper TO oil such roads OF
otherwise Law the dust permanently than
to provide different highway Burling
ton Free Press.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
A. B. g. M. Receivership.

Despite the apparent willingness OF
the directors of the Boston & Maine
system to consent to a receivership, The
Union finds considerable difficulty in be-
ly eventuate. We regard it as reason
ably sure some way will be found TO
avoid such an extreme measure in which
it must be plain to all interests involved
only loss can come attended by more or
less Generalization and disorganization
OF railroad system which has during
the psat year displayed such wonderful
recuperative powers and remarkabl
earning capacity.
A reeeivership OF the Boston & Maine.
with its extremely complex organization
and resultant conflicting interests. would
mean endless litigation, during which the
interests OF the system as a whole, the
interests of the stockholders and the in
terests of the community served would
be certain to suffer. The balance sheet
of the company shows net cash earn
ings over fixed charges for ten months
of the current year of eight millions.
Men prominent in leased line affairs af-
firm the b. & NJ. has a cash balance of
ten millions in its treasury. While il
Is unquestoinably true that the road
must meet many heavy charges for new
equipment and enlarged facilities in the
immediate future. il j. not entirely clear
to the layman why at least a portion OF
this great sum, almost the equivalent Of
the entire floating debt. should not be
employed to discharge a part OF the debt
and thus make comparatively easy re-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26

good sense was shown, although to oul
mind it would have been still better t.
have foregone even more, Finally, pol
tiles was largely taboo, although the
special session coming only few weeks
before the holding of the primaries fur.
nished an excellent occasion for the
building of political fences. 1t was in.
evitable, perhaps, that some political
maneuvering should have been done here
and there, but taken as a whole the spe-
cial session was more free from that
than might have been the case under the
circumstances. And now the legislators
have gone home and although a pretty
penny has been spent the state is not
disrupted, Vermonters have sense of
duty well done and the nation has an
example of sturdy independence of ac-
ton in good cause 1t is well.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26

funding of the balance at reasonable
rate OF interest.
We are fully aware of the desirability
of a thorough reorganization Of the sys
tenn in order to put its fiscal affair:
in good order, but, desirable as this may
be, il is not more vital or essential than
the first need OF maintaining the sys-
TEN, and continuing its present prohta-
bic business and then trusting TO furth-
er deliberation and further discussion
to finally hit upon plan agreeable alike
TO the stockholders of the parent sys-
tenn and. TO the owners OF the leased
lines
In spite Of the present ugly look which
the situation wears we feel confident
that this point of view will find sui.
fciently wide acceptance to prevent re-
sort to the extreme measure OF re-
Manchester Union.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
GRANITEVILLE

Mrs Howard Bowen and children, WHIT
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Goorg'
Laird the past two months, returned to
day to their home in Baltimore, Md.
Mrs. Rollin Sturgeon and daughter
have returned to Montreal after visiting
relatives here.
Lawrence Clark has returned to hi:
home in Nashua, \. H., after visiting
friends.
Mrs Norman Mcleod, who has been
confined to the house by illness since
spring, has so far recovered as to be able
to sit out.
Miss Florence Finniean returned on
Wednesday from short visit to Mine
vile, y. Y. She was accompanied by
her sister, Miss Margaret Finnigan, who
has been spending two weeks with rela.
tiyes in Winooski
Mr. and Mrs. George Woolsey went to
Linwick, P, @, yesterday to visit.
Rev. ] Turcott returned to-day from
Winooski, where he has been attending
the annual retreat of the priests.
MISS Frances McN llllamS Is NlslVIng
friends in Montpelier.
Henry Patneau has returned from a
visit to Ticonderoga, \. y. He was ac-
by his son, Frank who will
here for a short time.
A number of children from here went
to South Barre yesterday to take en-
trance examinations for high school
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Shuttle and daugh-
ter, Arlene, of Boston are guests of Mrs.
r. Anderson.
Mrs. James Wilson and Miss Bessie
Wilson were guests at the home of VIII
fred Gillandcr last Thursday.
Russell Coughlin, who has been con.
ined to the house by rheumatic fever, is
lble to be out again.
Mrs Charles Beatty and her daughter,
Mrs. Cronin, have returned from trip
o Sherbrooke, Z. Q.
Miss Mildred Miles is the guest of Mrs. |
William McCaskill of Montpelier
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
THE SPECIAL SESSIONS WORK

As far as can be determined at the
present time the Vermont legislature in
special session for day and a half dur
ing the present week did a clean-cut job
of that which was before it to do. First
and foremost, the legislators seemed to
have particularly discerning sense of
extraordinary session; they went at the
business in hand with simple directness
and frowned upon an effort to turn the
discussions off into digressions from the
main issues. In short, they attended
strictly to their knitting. Such expedi-
tious endeavor is most heartily to be
commended. Then again, they had a
high sense of the obligation which some
one owes to the citizen soldiery OF Yer
mont which willingly abandoned their re-
spective gainful occupations in order to
give service to the nation when the need
seemed urgent; and, moreover, they
looked further and recognized that a
large number of dependents Of soldiers
were in need of support to tide them
over the period when the wage earners
were earning only a fraction of their for
mer salaries and could not render the
family assistance that they otherwise |
would have rendered. We believe the |
latter obligation is, or should be, on the |
federal government more than on the
state of Vermont; and we have faith to
believe that the federal government will |
in its own time come to a realization OF /
its obligation. But pending that action,
the state of Vermont. through its eXecu-
tive and legislative departments, stepped
in and assumed the obligation, thereby
showing to the nation that Vermont Is
not unmindful OF duty and not niggard
" in rewarding patriotic service. And
again the Vermont legislature, which
adjourned yesterday noon, was willing
to sacrifice some Of the increment which
might have been taken with perfect right
under the law. We refer to the slicing
IN half Of the mileage allowance o. theif
individual members. In the abnegation
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
Despite Good Times.

For a railroad of the character of the
Boston & Maine to go into a receivershir
in times like these, after weathering the
hard period OF the present administra-
tion which preceded the war, is indiea-
ton OF the wrong being done the rail
roads through governmental neglect
Saved by strenuous effort from dying in
the deserts OF 1914, the victim has been
brought into land of plenty only to die
of thirst while contemplating the
streams it is restrained from tasting.
The expenses of receivership, the
suffering of the owners and creditors OF
the railroad, the scaling down of ex-
penses, the injury to traffic in the 1900
miles of territory served are entailed by
no general condition of national distress.
They are inflicted by the failure of the
interstate commerce commission to allow
traffic revenue sufficient to run a long
established railroad at a profit,
This at least in part. No doubt the
violent severance of the road from its
natural ally. the New Haven, in compli-
ance with certain artificial public clam
or, has done its part in the wreckage.
How great that part may be experts will
presently determine. But we know, at
any rate, that so long as the interstate
commerce commission continues to serve
short sighted agitators instead of JUS
tice and permanent advantage, we may
expect to see the railroad construction
business shrink and the railroad receiv-
ership business grow, no matter how
good the times may be.-New York
Evening Sun.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
ODDITIES FROM
THE STATE PRESS

Says Perley S. Belknap in the South
Royalton correspondence in the Randolph
Herold and News:
ITO demonstrate practically that it is
possible for the humbest citizen to pre-
sent himself as a candidate for office at
the primaries under the new election law,
Perley S Belknap has solicited enough
signatures of voters to cause his name to
be printed on the official ballot to be vot-
ed for as a candidate for Republican rep
resentative at the coming primary Sept
II.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-08-26
He Holds the Record.

Merwin, the ll-yesr-old son Of Al
Huntley, a newcomer here from Roches-
ter vicinity. was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff D. D. Howe last Thursday at Silas
Dashner's, where he had been employed.
On a charge of intoxeation. The lad
pleaded guilty and was sentenced by Jus
tice f. F Briggs to spend the remainer
of his minority at the state industrial
school at Vergennes.-R Randolph Herald
and News