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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Telephone Girl at Rulo Driues
Away Would Be Bank Robbers

the agent, being unable to find live
wire in either direction, called the tele-
phone exchange and told the girl his
suspicion that an attempt would be
made to dynamite the big railroad
bridge. In a few minutes the girl
heard noise outside the Office, and,
peeping out, saw man on the tele-
phone pole cutting the cable. She
fred six shots with a 10 revolver at
the man and to arouse the town, and
ran to the nearest house and aroused
Dr.. Sheppard. She shot at the man
after he, was on the ground and he
called, "Girlie, don't shoot; we won't
hurt youp Tools were taken from
the section house. $
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
DECIDE TO CARRY
BRAND WHITlOCk
OFF TO GERMANY
Frontier Correspondents of
British Press Hear American
Legation in Brussels Un-
der Police Guard.
IS VIRTUALLY ISOLATED
Rumored Teutons Contemplate
Taking Minister and His
Staff Across Border.
U. s. CAPITAL Is sKEPTICAL

London, March 29.-An Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Amsterdam
says:
Frontier correspondents hear from
Brussels that the American legation
is completely isolated and under a
guard Of German police. 1t is rumored
that the Germans contemplate taking
the minister brand Whitlock) and
his staff to Germany.
Must Stay Three Months.
"The Americans in Brussels have
been notified that they cannot leave
Belgium before three months at the
earliest"
A Hague dispatch March % de-
clared authoritatively that the Ger
man government intended to ask
American officials and relief workers
of the American commission for re-
lief in Belgium to submit to a period
of news quarantine" the time not to
exceed four weeks, in order to pre-
vent military information from leak
ing out.
A Proper Course.
Washington, March 29.-Subjection
of Americans of the Belgium Relief
commission to a news quarantine"
prior to their departure from behind
the German lines was explained at the
state department today as a proper
course agreed upon when the relief
workers were invited to remain in
Belgium.
Reports that Brand Whitlock, min
lister to Belgium, and other diplomatic
officers also would be detained were
not credited.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Nellie WakeIey's Funeral to
Be Held This Afternoon

Funeral services for Miss Nellie
Wakeley, eldest daughter of the late
Judge E. Wakeley, will be held at 2
o'clock this afternoon from the family
residence, 607 North Nineteenth
street. Dean Hancock Of Trinity ca
thedral, will conduct the services,
which will be private. Pallbearers will
be-:
Charles q. Keller Robert W. Patrick
Stockson Heath W. A. Rediok
Henry W. Yates Alfred Millard
Morton Wakeley and Thompsor
Wakeley, nephews, will arrive IN
Omaha this morning from Ithaca. N.
", where they are students at Cor
nell university.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
JAPANESE, ,WARSHIP
is SUNK BY RAIDER
Report from Toxic Says Un-
named Vessel Destroyed in
the Southern Pacific.
BRITISH BARK MEATH SUNK

Vancouver, B. C., March "a dis
patch to the Canadian News from
Toxic says that German raider has
sunk Japanese warship in the south
ern Pacific. The names OF the vessels
were not disclosed.
1t was officially announced in Toxic
about two weeks ago that converted
German cruiser had been sighted in
the Indian ocean and was being traced
by Japanese and British warships
after the raider had sunk a Japanese
freight ship. Prior to that two Brit
ish steamships were reported TO have
been destroyed by an armed nier-
chantman off Colombo, Ceylon.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Lady Walnut, Kentucky
Hen, Makes New Record

Lexington, KY, March pa
worlds record was made today in
the international consecutive egg lay
ing contest when Lady Walnut, white
leghorn No. 707, laid an egg. 1t was
the eighty-third consecutive day that
this hen has produced an egg. She
is owned by DR.. R. |. Ireland Of
Louisville, KY. The best previous
record was eighty-two eggs in that
many consecutive days. -..
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Subject of Italy Sues
Rock Island for Biz Sum

Louis Farrara, citizen Of Italy
and a subject ,of Victor Emmanuel
III, is suing the Rock Island for $l0,-
200 in district court, alleging perma-
nent injuries suffered in a railroad
wreck near, Atlantic, Ia, on February
5. His attorney said that the case
was brought as it was, with Farrara
named as a citizen OF. Italy, so that
it could not be changed to federal
court,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Faculty Of Regents
OF Nebraska Uni
Opposed to Pacifists

Lincoln, Neb., March "a petit
ton circulated in the faculty and
among the regents of the University
Of Nebraska, in which President Viii
son is strongly endorsed and paci-
fcists are declared untimely, was
signed today by nearly thirty persons,
influential in university affairs. Copies
of the petition will be sent to Senator
Hitchcock and Congressman Reavis
at Washington,
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Public Aid to Be Given
Garden Workers in Fremont

Fremont, Neb., March 29.-(Spe-
cial Telegram. AT meeting of citi-
zens at the high school Wednesday
evening plans for community gar
den club were laid and a committee
appointed to have charge of the work.
Arrangements have been made for
aiding in a financial way those who
are unable to buy their seed potatoes.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Bill to Supply Funds
For Guard Reported Out

Lincoln, March 29.-(Special.) y
The house finance committee today
reported out for favorable considera-
ton the special bill sent in by the
governor, appropriating 100000 for
the mobilization OF the National
Guard and to cover other expenses
in connection with raising troops if
it should be necessary.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
Operator Fires Six Shots at
Man Who Climbed Pole
and Attempted to Out
the Gable.
PRESENCE OF MIND SHOWN

Falls City. Neb., March 2o.-(spe-
cial Telegram)-An attempt was
made to rob the bank at Rclo last
night by several men, who; when de-
tected, fed south toward Kansas in a
high-power auto. The telegraph wires
were cut at the Burlington depot. and
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-03-30
The Weather

For. Nebrasla-Partly cloudy: warmer.
Temperatures at Omaha Yesterday.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
Better Farming i'm the South
ORDER FALL Fertilizers EARLY
Railroad Service is Serious PrObem-Fertlzer Dealers WIN
Be Required Accumulate Orders So That Full Carloads
Only Shall Be Shipped-Railway Authorities Say
Fertilizers Can Be Handled in Half Number of
Cars Ordinarily Used War Measure ~
Farm Service Bureau, Atlanta, Ga.
C. A. White.

The world is hungry. To get more
rood is an alarming problem.
How can the farms produce more
food when labor is so scarce?
How can more acres be planted to
food crops or how can more work be
given the acres usually planted with
out more labor?
Increase of labor is hardly to be
expected, but there is one important
means of help which the Southern
FARMER has been utilizing in the
past and that is Fertilizer. But this
too is beset with difficulties
Fertilizer can increase production
without increasing labor except at
harvest time The warning nations
appreciate this fact, and are giving
all the encouragement they can to the
use of fertilizers.
The railroads can't do the bust
ness expected of them unless every
freight car is loaded to full ca
pacity To load them to full capacity
the fertilizer dealer must have enough
orders in to make up full car load
before he can reasonably hope to get
a shipment. The earlier the carload
orders are placed the better cha1ce,
of course, of getting a shipment. Be
cause of the shortage of equipment.
the railroads should have as much
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
NONRESIDENT NOTICE
Mrs. Callie Rogers Is.
/ b. Norman ct al

Mrs. Callie Rogers IS.
]. B. Norman ct al
No. us. In chancery court al
Benton, Tennessee.
1t appearing from the record in
this cause that Mrs. Callie Rogers
is a resident OF the state of Texas
and a non resident of the state of
Tennessee so that the ordinary
process of law cannot be served
on her. 1t is ordered that publ
cation be made for four consecu-
tive weeks in the Polk County
News, a newspaper published in
Polk county. notifying said non
resident to appear at the August
rules of said court to be held at
the court house in Bentou on the
first Monday in August, 1917, the
same being a rule day of said
court, and make defense to said
cross bill or the same will be ia
ken for confessed and the cause
set for hearing ex parte as to her.
June lst, 1917.
A. J. Williams,
Clerk and Master.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
CALLED Her FAMILY
TO HER BEDSIDE
Six Years Ago. Thinking She Might DE- Says Texas Lady, But NOs
She Is q We'll. Strong Woman and Praises CardI For
Her Recovery.

the better. THAI was six years ago
and l am still here and am q well,
strong woman. and I owe my life to
Cardui. had only taken half the
bottle when l began to feel better.
The misery In my side got less. :. !
continued right on taking the Cardui
until l had taken three bottles and I
did not need any more for was we'll
and never felt better in my life... I
have never had any trouble from that
day to this"
Do you suffer from headache, bach
ache, pains In sides, or other discom-
forts, each month"; Or do you feel
weak, nervous and fagged.out? II SO.
give Cardui, the woman's tonic. q
trial. "
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12

Frederick Liechti VS.
Margaret Liechti.
No ia. In chancery court at
Benlon, Tennessee.
1t appearing from the cross bill
of Margaret Liechti that Freder-
lex LieChti is resident of New
Jersey, and a nonresident of the
state of Tennessee, SO that the
ordinary process of law cannot be
served on him. 1t is ordered that
publication be made for four con-,
secutive weeks in the Polk County
News, a newspaper published in
Polk county, notifying said non
resident to appear at the July
rules of said court, to be held at
the court house in Benton on the
first Monday in July, 1917, the
same being rule day of oaid
court, and make defense to said
bill or the same will be taken for
confessed and the cause set for
hearing ex parte as to him.
May 18th, 1917.
A. J, Williams,
Clerk and Master.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12

time as possible to plan for moving the
fertilizer Early orders will give them
a knowledge of the number OF cars
that will be needed.
Government Authorities Backing u
The National Council of Defense mas
sent out a bulletin on this very subject,
urging farmers to order their fall fer
tilizers early so full carload shipments
might be made and the largest amount
of human food produced.
The United States Department Oh
Agriculture through the States tie
Iations Service and Bureau OF SOILS;
and agricultural colleges and coun-
ty agents, are advising the same.
The railroads are very urgent about
the matter. The fertilizer manufac-
turers are offering to help the dealers
and farmers as much as possible 10
overcome the transportation difficult
ties.
Half Cars Can Be Saved
Railway authorities have statistics
to show that half Of the cars ordinar1-
ly used for hauling fertilizers could
do the business, if only they are load
ed to their maximum capacity.
Where a full car load can not be
made up for one destination, then IL
is to be filled with orders for neigh
boring stations along railroad.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12

Royse City, Tex.--Mrs. Mary Kill
man, of this place. says; after the
birth OF my little girl. my side com.
menced to hurt me. I had to so back
to bed. We called the doctor. He
treated me-. but l got no better. I
got worse and worse until the misery
was unbearable. II was in bed for
three months and suffered such agony
that was just drawn up in knot.
told my husband II he would get
me bottle Of Cardui would try IT,.
I commenced taking II, however that
evening called my family about
me. for l knew I could not last
many days unless had a change for
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
Saliie Hall VS. Samuel Hall.

Saliie Hall VS. Samuel Hall.
No. 721. In chanCery court at
Benlon, Tennessee.
1t appearing from the allegations
in complainant's bill which is sworn
to that Sam Hall is a resident of
the state of Wisconsin, and non
resident of the state of Tennessee,
so that the ordinary process Of
law cannot be served on him. 1t
is ordered that publication be made
for foursconsecutive weeks III the
Polk County News, a newspaper
published i'll Polk county, notify
ing said non resident to appear at
the August rules of said court to
be held at the court house i'll Ben
ton on the first Monday in August
1917. the same being rule day of
said court, and make defense to
said bill or the same will be taken
for confessed and the cause set for
hearing ex parte as to him.
This June 30th, 1917.
A. ]. Williams, c. & M
j. S. Shamblin, sol'r for compl't.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
Farm Service |

Farm Service Bureau, Atlanta, Ga.
The South will be expected to take
care of its share of wheat and oat
production. Discouragement from the
winter kill of the last season and la
Dor conditions make the task of keep
ing up production no small one, but
tine country needs more of these crops
If It is to take care of it's allies. The
prices which they are bringing, of
course, do not discourage production
Even if the acreage cannot be in
creased the prices which the small
grains are bringing justify the very
best seed bed preparation and the
maximum use of fertilizer.
Growing cereals, of course, do not
require as much labor as growing corn
and cotton, 1t is true, but corn and
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
More Wheat and Oats From the South

cotton will take their turn In every
well planned farm.
The scant oat crop should be hus-
banded for seed this year No oats
are as good for planting in the South
as those grown in the South, especially
if they are grown in the region where
they are to be planted. The same is
true of wheat unless in given sec
ton the best variety for that section
has not yet been used.
Good seed should be ordered early.
Unless fertilizers are ordered early,
so that dealers can ship only in full
carload lots it is quite probable that
farmers will be disappointed when
seeding time comes. The railroads
will probably have more than they can
do even with full carload shipments.
1t Is national necessity to see thar
no freight car space is wasted.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
F. NJ. Jones and wife,

+. NJ. Jones and wife,
Lille Jones, VS..
J. L. Collector
No. III. In chancery court
at Benton, Tennessee.
1t appearing from the allega-
tons in compliments bill which
is sworn to that Bessie Collector
is resident of the state of Vir-
ginia and Chas. S. Roland is a
resident of the state of Illinois,
and are non-residents of the state
of Tennessee SO that the ordinary
process of law cannot be served
upon them.
1t is ordered that publication be
made for four consecutive weeks
in the polk County News, a news
paper published III Polk county,
notifying said non-residents to
appear at the next July rules of
said court, to be held on the first
Monday in July, 1917, the same
being a rule day of said court,
and make defense to said bill or
the same will be taken for con
fessed and the cause set for hear
ing eX parte as to them.
May II, 1917.
A. J. Williams,
Clerk and Master.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
State of Ohio. City OF Toledo,
Tncau Cnupty no

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
Is senior partner OF the firm OF +. ].
Cheney & Co., doing business In the City
of Toledo County and State aforesaid,
and that said firm will pay the sum of
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each
and every case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use OF II Nils CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn 10 before me and subscribed In
my presence, this 9Th day OF December.
A. D. 1886. A. w. GLEASON,
(SeaD Notary Public.
Halls catarrh Medicin Is taken in
ternally and acts through TIE Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the system. Send
for testimonials. free.
r. j. CHENEY & co, Toledo. o.
Sold by all druggists, Zoe,
Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
Savannah Landing and the
Shrieking SquaW I'D. cGfMMER

The lower part OF the original
Savannah farm once was the point
of shipment for the large amounts
Of farm produce and the receiving
place of freight and store sup
plies. The center of its activity
was the Savannah steamboat land
ing, near the ridge above where
Ccnasauga creek enters the river,
and just below Savannah ford.
This landing was attended by
slaves, stevedoreS, hired negroes,
husky whites, and one bookeep-
ing overseer for most of the last
half of the eighteen hundreds,
and was the only depot for this
section. 1t was the head of nav
igation on Hiwassee river.
The Savannah ferry with ford
some distance below it was in
still, deep water little below the
Indian mounds. SO still was the
current that much wind upstream
caused waves to break into white
caps and make crossing in the
fiat bottomed ferry boat too dan
gerous to hazard. Below the
ferry where the ridge squeezed
out the strip of bottom land, an
old road from the ferry joined the
main road from the steamer land
ing on little spur OF the broader
ridge Here, where now stands
a tenant house, was the home of
the pioneer settler Abraham
Heard. He settled at the place
in the spring of 1922, coming
from a long residence in Greene
county, Ga, though originally
from Virginia. He broughtslaves
with him to tend the fertile lands
but his peace was disturbed by
the daily begging of an old In
dian squaw who had not moved
with her people into the new
Cherokee nation south of the Hi
wassee river. She kept hanging
around the neighborhood begging
her meals generally. fromN him,
until he became tired of the Aan-
n0y nee, and finally, exasperatcd
by he persistence, determined to
get rid of her. He had one of
his slaves tie her, take her down
to the river, put her in canoe
and push it out into the current
to drift away downstream. The
old squaw made the night hideous
with her screams, and to this good !
day the negro tenants of these
farms can hear her screams echo
ing along the river and nothing
will induce them to go near the
scene after night.
Heard died soon afterward,
does not tell how-but
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12


His monument, now in the tenant
horse lot, is a horizontal stone
about three by seven feet in size,
placed upon a brick wall, and all
similar to that of StanwiX Hoard
in Columbus cemetery dated
1920.
While copying the inscription
and listening to the relating of
the tradition of the fate oil the
shrieking squaw handed down by
the slaves and their descendants
to my informant, e. P. Williams,
| was almost stepped upon by a
large mule that walked over the
grave, paving at the brick wall
under the broad slab Part of
the inscription is, Here lies the
body of Abraham Heard who
died on the 9Th June 1922, aged
S. years.
Tradition is silent as to how he
met his death, as it is as to what
became Of the aged squaw SO i'll
humanity set adrift The legend
whether accurate or not serves to
illustrators the relation of white,
black and red races their respect
i've traits of cruelty, superstition
and shiftlessncss.
BY Heard's grave is one with
similar marker, relative by mar
rage, James Kennedy, aged 81
years and FIVE months, dying
Oct. 7. 1925.
Below the inscription of each
reads. This stone is presented
by his wife and children as last
tribute of affection to a kind and
loving husband. : Kennedy's
further states, He was native
Pennsylvania, and for years Re g
fore his death a citizen of Knox
Vile ="
The steamboat landing is no
longer used: the railroad depots
at Wetmore and Delano take the
place of the Savannah warehouse,
and tfs3fins transport what former
~ tn. steamers freighted down
the HTiwassee and Tennessee
rivers to Chattanooga. The ferry
and the ford are used no more;
even their roads are disappearing,
but. upstream mile or SO pike
road crssses OH high steel bridge.
The mister, the slave and the
squaw are gone. Hiwassee town
and its cemeteries have disap-
peared; the town cannot be To-
Gated exactly. But the black
earth ard the red mans bones
help to fertiize the white mans
corn.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-07-12
line from his monument says,

He settled near this fatal
spot only the Spring before
hiS death.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-02
INDIAN PRISONERS EXPORTED FOR WORK
Many Nov Employed As Labor
 CTS in Mesopotamia

Simla. India, March 2-The exper.
 iment Of granting well-behaved short term prisoners in Indian jails a con-
 ditional remission of sentences and
 employing them as laborers in Mes. opotamia is now being conducted by
 the government and is attracting wide attention. Some time ago a few
 hundred such prisoners were sent to
 Mesopotamia and. the trial having proved success, several thousand
 more Will be started on their way to
 tnls war theater shortly. These
 labor corps are made up entirely Of
 volunteers and it is declared none o1
 them will be employed near the fighting line.
 An official of the home department
 told The Associated Press that the next lot of prisoner-laborers to be sent out would number between six and ten thousand. The terms offered have attracted
 large number of volunteers from
 the better class of prisoners" said this official. "In fact, several times as many men as we are sending have asked to join the labor corps. The men permitted to go must have good records as prisoners and must be physically fit.
 They are paid wages better than
 the average given to India and after they have worked for stated time
 they are paid a bonus of about a
 months wages and are given com plete pardon, provided their con-
 duct has been satisfactory.
 'So far as possible the prisoner laborers will be treated as though they never had been inside a jail. The corps are organized on much the same lines as those followed in the case of the free labor corps now en-
 ployed in Mesopotamia, the chief diff ference being that they are partly of- f1cered in the Indian ranks by ward CTS, to whom they are accustomed.
 who have also volunteered for the purpose. All ranks are dressed and equipped in exactly the same way as members of the free. porter and labor corps, but for obvious reasons the control and discipline exercised will be little closer than in the case of the frec labor corps.
 ''The corps will be employed in
 loading and unloading sea and river craft, stacking stores. road and hut
 making. and the like. There is. of course, on intention of taking them
 near the fighting line. An exper-
 fenced inspector general of prisons
 will be in administrative charge of the corps"
New Britain herald., 1917-03-02
HAVE COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS
Be Better Looking-Take Olive Tablets

If your skin is yel1ow-co complexion pallid- tongue coated-.appetite poor you have a bad taste in your mouth--a lazy, no-good feeling-you should take Olive Tablets.
 Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets-a sub- stitute for calonel-were prepared by Dr. Edwards after l7 years of study with his patients.
 Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color.
 To have clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples, feeling of buoyancy like childhood days you must get at the cause. Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel-yet have no dangerous after effects.
 They start the bile and overcome con- stipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 2Sc per box All druggists. Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing resalts'