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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05
Atov2 Ancestry.

It is fortunate to be Of noble ances.
tiy; it is more so to be such th..t peo-
pie do not care to be Informed wheth-
er you are noble or ignoble.--La
Bruyere.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05
A GOOD REMINDER,

The next time you meet a man
with a crouch on, take good look
at him; you look just like he does
wh>n you've got one. Partisan.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

The Farm Loan Bank, for which
Nashville worked so hard, was To-
Gated at Louisville, Dy., to serve a
bunch of states of which Tennessee
is one of the southernmoSt.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

Mrs. Ed. Deloach entertained with
a high-noon dinner last Sunday,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. johnson. Of
Gardner, ILL.,, and Harry johnson
and wife, Of Paducah, KY, as guests.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

AT their home at Undertake, on
Thursday Dec. Is, Mrs. j. R. Timber
tanned a party of young people in
honor Of the presence of Miss Alice,
the younger daughter Of the house
hold, who was at home for the holt
days from her school at Lynchbure,
Ma. The day was made all the
more enjoyable by the splendid
good things to eat, which Mrc. Tim
berlake knows so well how to pre-
pare.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05
Explanation.

"A babe says writer, lis a moth.
er's anchor" This, then, probably ex-
plains why the maternal parent OF
Moses consigned him to the water.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05
was served during the dancing.

Mrs. Ernest Hay entertained sew
eral friends at 6 o'clock dinner on
last Friday evening.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

Miss Lucille Brown entertained on
Friday evening. Dec. 20. In addi-
ton to excellent music and delicious
iced refreshments, there was a
Flower contest" in which Mr.. lines
Tanning won the prize--a box Of
real sweet candy. The evening
will be remembered as marking
Miss Lucile's holiday visit home
from her school--the Ward-Bel-
mont College in Nashville.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

On Friday evening, Dec. 20, in
the coy and comfortable G. A.
Thompson home on Purdy Street, a
goodly number Of young people as
sembled for the purpose Of having
a jolly good time. Refreshments
were served and the light fantastic
tripped' and both Mrs. Thompson
and her daughter, Mrs. Jack Hen
nessee left undone no effort in see
ing that each that each and every
guest had an evening Of unalloyed
pleasure.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

Innis Tanning entertained q num-
Der Of friends on Saturday evening,
Dec 80, in honor Of Miss Smith, Of
Gleason, a visitor to Innis' mother,
Mrs. Will Tanning. The refresh
ments served were in keeping with
the holiday season and typical Of
Ms. Fannine's skill. The occasion
served the purpose Of making the
guest acquainted with a number Of
our younger set and will be remem-
bered with genuine pleasure.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

During the holidays Miss Clara
Rockholt entertained the j. U. G.
Club. A tree contest was the prin-
cipal advertisement Of the evening
and Mr. Stanford Beasley was the
winner Refreshments served were
a course a course Of salads. Miss
Clara made the envent so pleasant
that the J. U. G.'s are hoping for a
repetition and all that went with it.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

Last Monday night there was a
very enjoyable dance given at the
Hearn Hotel. by number Of young
men Of the town. in the large and
beautiful new dining room. Music
was furnished by orchestra from
Huntingdon and among those pres
ent wereMr. and Mrs. Tom Stegall,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. Johnston, Mr..
and Mrs. Ed. Deloach, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mrs. Van Watson, Mrs. Outlet, Mrs.
Moore, Mrs. Pope, Misses Lillian
Denver, Mile Newman, Catherine
Barry, Loca Hearn, Emma 7. Pear
son, Evelyn and Lula Mae Pearson,
Ida Taylor. Jesse Mccall, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Arnold. Messrs. Willie
Darden, Roy Picker, j. H.. Carter,
Walter Sweat, Ed Drummer, Tom
West, Murray Arnold, Roy Page,
John Davis. Rocco Conklin, Jess
Taylor, Joe Hearn, Howard Pearson,
Tom Carpenter, Gill Gideon, Frank
Priest, Of Huntington, Tenn, and
C. r. Watkins, Of Ashville, N. G.
The hall was rented from Mrs
EIearn, the popular .proprietress Of
the house, and everybody had a
good time dancing until twelve
o'clock. Grape juice fruit punch
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

On the evening Of New years day,
Mrs. G. A. Thompson ard daughter,
Mrs. Jack Tennessee gave much
pleasure to their invited guests in
the way of a dance and refresh
ments' both of which were not to be
surpassed. The Thompson home is
a hospitabie one and especially ar.
ranged for the pleasure of the young
people whom Mrs. Thompson and
Mrs. Tennessee delight to often
have with them for an evening.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1917-01-05

Among the holiday entertainments
enjoyed to the limit by all who
were so fortunate as to attend, was
given on Saturday evening Dec. 80,
by Miss Geneva Stewart. Punch
was served, there was music and
other pleasurable amusements,
which made the guests vote the
evening one they could not forget.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-03
100 MOST IMPORTANT
EVENTS IN GREAT WAR

June %, 1914.-Archduke Ferdinand
heir presumptive to Austria's throne,
and wife assassinated at SerajavO,
Bosnia, by SlaV student, Princip, CIV
ing the pretext for war.
July 23.-Austria delivers famous
ultimatum to Serbia, charging assas-
sination plot was hatcned on Serb
soil.
July 2S.-Serbla having agreed to
declares war.
August 1.-Germany declares war on
Russia.
August 3.-Germany declares war on
France and invades Belgium.
August 4.-Great Britain declares a
state of war by act of Germany.
August 21-2EBattle of Mons Char
leroi Germans victorious.
August 23.-Japan at war with Ger
many.
August 27.-Germans burn Leuvaln,
Belgium.
August 29-Russians crushed in
battle near Tannenburg, Prussia.
September 6-10-Germans turned
back by French and British in the
battle of the Marine.
September 12.-Battle of the Aisne
begins.
October 9.-Germans capture Ant
werp.
October 21-31.-First battle of
Ypres.
October 3O-Russia declares war on
Turkey.
November 1.--Germans sink Ad-
miral Cradlock's British fleet off Chill.
November 10-12.-Second battle at
Ypres.
December Herman General De
Wet captured, ending South African
revolt
December 5.-Serbians defeat Aus
TRANS.
December S.-British sink German
fleet off Falkland islands.
January "a, 1915.-Naval battle in
North sea; German cruiser Bluecher
sunk.
February Russians suffer sec
ond great defeat IN East Prussia.
February 17.-Germans begin sub
/ marine blockade, despite American
protest.
March 22.-Russians take Przemysl,
GaIicia after long siege.
April 22.-Gas first used In war by
Germans at Ypres.
April 25.-Allies land at Darda-
nelles.
May 4.-Beginning Of great German
offensive against Russia.
May 7.-Lusitania sunk unwarned by
U-boat; 1000 die, of whom more than
100 are Americans.
May 22.-Italy declares war on Aus
tria.
June 2.-Teutons retake Przemysl
August 5.-Germans capture War.
saw.
September 1.-Germany promises
| United States to sink no more liners
without warning.
September Scar succeeds Grand
| Duke Nicholas in command of Russian
armies.
September 15.-Germans capture
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1917-08-03

July 11.-Russlans seize town Of
Kalusz.
July Widespread labor disorders
In West caused by Industrial Workers
of the World; German agents suspect
ed. Chang Hsun, leader of Chinese
monarchists, flies to Dutch legation In
Picking.
July 13.-Brltish bring down 30 Ger
man airplanes on west front in big
gest air battle so far.
July 14.-ChancellOr Bethmann-Holl-
veg resigned and DR.. G. e. Michaelis
succeeded him. Germans took French
posts south of Courcy. Rouse passed
40.o0O,00c aviation bill.
July IS. = French took important
hills positions from Germans south of
Reims.
July 16-Russlans took LOdziany
from Austrians, but evacuated Kalusz.
July IL. French took German
trenches near Melancourt. Three
members of Russian cabinet resigned ;
riots in Petrograd suppressed. Shake
up in British cabinet.
July 1S.-Increased activity on ROu-
manian front. Russians took part of
Novica.
July 19-Great German attack be-
tween Craonne and Hurtebise partly
successful. Chancellor Michselis de-
clared for submarine warfare. Rus
slams driven back i'll Wilma region. Teu-
tOnS r,noIyo q,
July 20.-Draft for American Ma
tional army held. Premier Lvoff OF
Russia succeeded by Kerensky. Ger
many called 100000 of her youngest
men to the colors.
July 21.-Senate passed food control
and aviation bills. Russians In dlSor-
derby retreat, burning villages.
July 22-German aviators raided
England, killing IL in coast towns, but
were driven away from London Siam
declared state of war with Germany
and Austria-Hungary.
July 23.-Kerensky given absolute
powers as dictator of Russia. Ger
mans lost heavily in attacks along the
Chemin des Danes.
July 24-Goethals, Denman and
White out of shipping board; Rear Ad-
miral Capps, e. N. Hurley and Balm
bridge Colby succeeded them. Nc
Adoo asked congress for $5,000,O00,O00
more for war. Russians evacuated
Stanislau, their whole line periled.
French defeated Germans on Craonne
front.
July 25-Division of traitrous Rus
sian troops blown to pieces by own
artillery as part of General Korniloff's
measures to restore order. Lenine,
Russian paciist agitator, captured Of
ter greatest man hunt Russia ever
knew.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-29

why it can't be perfect thing in
stead of just compromise. Why be-
ing friends and partners shouldn't
make US better lovers, and why be-
ing lovers shouldn't make us better
friends"
Like the doctrine of the Trinity"
he murmured. Three in one: one
persons nor dividing the substance
It's a wonderful idea, certainly"
"Well, then" she demanded, isn't
1t what we ought to try for? Tho very
best there isP"
That's what they tell u.s." he ad-
mitted. ".Aim high they say. I'm
not, not sure .S; it I'll! isn't better #: t. aim at
at us, these past three weeks! We said
We were going to have a month Of
pure happiness. One hundred per
cent pure. We walked up every
morning telling ourselves we'd got to
be happy. and we made ourselves
miserable every night wondering If
we'd been happy enough.
too." she said. Il was 30 ashamed
Of myself for being"
After while he said, ''Here's
what we've got to build on: What
ever else 1t may or may not be. this
relation between us Is a permanent
thing. We've lived with each other
and without each other, and We know
limitations and drawbacks, Wa needn't
! worry. Just go ahead and make the
best of it we can. There's no law
that DEGREES we've got to be happy.
When we are happy it'f1 be so much
to the good. And when we aren't :"
She gave q contented little laugh
and cuddled closer down against him.
You talk like Solomon in all his So
lemnity." she said. "But you can't
imagine that we're going to be un-
happy. Rearly?"
His answer was that perhaps he
couldn't imagine 1t, but that he knew
it. just the same. Even an ordinary
marriage isn't any too easy; mar
riage, I mean, where It's quite we'll
understood which of the parties to it
shall always submit to the other, and
which of them is the important one
who's always to have the right of
way. There's generally something
perfectly unacceptable that decides
that question. But with us there isn't.
SO the question who's got to give in
Will have to be decided on its merits
every time difference arises" She
burlesqued look of extreme appre-
hension. She was deeply and utterly
content with life just then. But he
wouldn't be diverted. There's anoth
er reason he went on. 1--WE q no
ton that the thing we're after is
about the finest thing there is. II
that's so, we'll have to pay for it IN
one way Or another. But we aren't
going to worry about it. Wen lust
go ahead-and see what happens"
DO you remember when YOU said
that before?" asked Rose. You told
me that marriage was an adventure
anyway. and that the only thing to do
was to try it-and see what hap
He grunted. '"The real adventures
just begun" he said.
Anyhow" she murmured drowsily.
you can talk to me again. Just as if
we weren't married"
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-29
voy of q badly flustered-and, to tell
the truth, q somewhat scandalized-

voy Of q badly fustered-and, to tell
the truth, q somewhat scandalized-
Miss French, simplifled the situation
somewhat-by complicating 1t! They
absolutely enforced routine. And
they gave Rose and Rodney so many
occupations that the contemplation Of
their complicated states of mind was
much abridged.
But even her babies brought Rose a
disappointment along with them.
t'rom the time of the receipt of Miss
F'rench's telegram. telling them what
train she and the twins would take.
Rose had been telling off the hours
In mounting excitement, The two ut
terly adorable little creatures, as the
pictures of them in Rodney's pocket
book showed them to be. who were
mtraculiusly, incredibly hers, were
coming to bring motherhood to her
a long-deferred payment for the labor
and the agony with which she had
borne them; the realization Of half
forgotten hopes which had, during the
period of her pregnancy, been the
mainstay of her life. There was now
no Mrs Ruston. no Harriet (Harriet
had gone back to It0ly at the begin
ning of the war;, no plausible physi-
clan to keep them away from her.
Rose had a smile of tender pity for
gled so Intellectually, and yet with
such heartbrealsing earnestness, to
break the fllaments Of the web they'd
spun around her.
No, it wouldn't be like that now
Rodney had agreed explicitly that
Miss French was to be allowed to stay
only so long as Rose wanted her; only
for the few days-or hours-she
would need for making herself mis-
fraSS
was to be sent away on a vacation
and Rose should have her children to
herself
She didn't go to Boston with Rod.
ney to meet them; stayed behind ir
the cottage, ostensibly to see to it
up to the very last minute, that the
fires were right (June had come ir
cold and rainy) and. in general. to be
ready. on the moment, to produce any.
needs might call for. Her real rea.
son was a shrinking from having hel
first meeting with them in the confu.
sion of arrival on n station platform
under the eyes Of the world Rodney
understood this we'll enough. and, ar.
irving at the Gotta ge. he ciambered
out Of the wagon with them and car.
r.cd them both straight in to Rose
leaving the nurse and the bewilderine
paraphernalia of travel for second
trip.
Rose. in the passionate surge a
aratified desire that came with the
sight Of them. caught them from him
crushed them up against her breast
and frightened them half to death
SO that. without dissimulation. they
howled and brought Miss French fly.
ing to the rescue.
Rose didn't make tragedy of 1t
IL L, A.
suspected she'd cry when she got the
chance and subjected her ideals to ar
instantaneous revision. They were
persons. those two funnily Indignant
little mites. with their own ideas. thei,
own preferences. and the perfectl,
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-29
ever turn bitter-those two zestful
children had ceased to exist.


John Galbraith had spoken truth
when he said there was no such thing
as fresh start. For good or evil, you
were the product Of your yesterdays.
The nightmare tour on the road with
THE Girl Upstairs company was a
part of Rose; the day in Centropolis:
the night when Galbraith had made
love to her. The hour in the Univer-
sity club when Rodney's heart had
fear, the days and weeks Of humilia-
tion and distress that had succeeded
1t. were part of him-an ineffacea BILE
part.
So 1t was natural enough-though
not. therefore, the less distressing
that Rose should note. with wonder.
tendency in him to revert to the
manner which had characterized his
first call upon her in New York, a
tendency to be-of all things-polite
He didn't swear any more, nor con-
when she did, picked up things she
dropped. And when she was quite
sure she was safe from discovery, she
sometimes wept forlornly for the
rough, outrageous, absent-minded
imperious lover of old.
She did not know that she was diff
ferent. too. AS remote from the girl
SHe ut1N Decil uuTlnS Tue ITSL SIN
months Of their maria ge-the girl
who. "all eyes," had held her breath
while Doctor Randolph told her
things; the girl who had smiled over
Bertie Willis lovemaking, because she
didn't know that such things hap
pened except in books-as he was
from the old Rodney.
So 1t was not wonderful that Rod
ney should have found new mystery
in her: nor that. seeing in her look
sometimes--especia when it vas
not meeting his own-the reflections
of thousand experiences he had not
shared with her, he should have felt
that she was a long way off. And his
heart ached for the old Rose, whom
he had so completely "surroundcd"--
the Rose who had consulted him about
the menus for her dinners. who had
brought him all her little troubles
who had tried-bless her!-to study
law, and had stolen into court to hear
his argument. so that she could talk
with him. Whatever the future Nigh,
have for him. 1t would never bring
that Rose back.
The arrival Of the twins, In the con.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-29
'NCopyrtght, 1915. Robbs.Merrin Co.
CHAPTER Xxx.
The Beginning.

There was a sense in which this
prediction Of Rodney's about their
none ymoon was altogether true. They
nad great hours-hours of an emo
tionas intensity greater than any they
had known during that former honey
moon. greater by all they had learned
anu SuHcred since-hours that repaid
all that suffering, and could not have
Deen captured at any smaller price.
Ihere were hours when the whole of
their two selves literally seemed
transfuscd into one essence; when
there was nothing Of either of them
that was not the other; when ali their
thoughts, impulses, desires. flowered
spontaneously out of d common mind.
periences. They came upon them.
seized them, carried them off.
One Of these, that neither of them
Will ever forget. came at the end of a
long tramp through tho dawn of their
second day. They had been swinging
along In almost Inbroken silence
through the gray mist, had mounted q
little hlllock and halted. hand in hand
Is the first lance of sunlight trans
nxcd and flushed the. still, vaporous
air, and 1t had seemed to them, as
they watched breathless while the sun
mounted, that the whole of the life
that lay before them was n track of
gold like that which blazed across the
sea. leading to an intolerab!e glory.
But life, OF course, cannot be made
up of hours like that. No sane per
son can even want to live in a per
petual ecstasy. What makes a noun
tain peak is the fall away into the
surrounding valleys.
In their valleys of commonplace,
everyday existence-and these oc-
Cured even in their first days togeth-
er--they were stiff, shy, self-conscious
with each other. And their attempt to
ignore this fact only made the self
consciousness the worse. 1t troubled
and bewildered both Of them.
Roses misgiving had been justified
They weren't the old Rodney and
Rose. Those two splendid, careless
savages who had lived for a fortnight
on an island in the midst Of Martin
Whitney's carefully preserved solitude
In northern Wisconsin, accepting the
gifts of the gods with such joyous
confidence that none Of them could
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-29
CONTINUED tomorrow.

1t is predicted that because the next
house Of Representatives in Washing
ton will be about tie politically. the
attendance Of members will be much
better, to prevent the other party from
stealing a march occasionally.
Grand Forks herald., 1917-01-29

% % 1 SSns s t fsn the New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-13
MAGAZINE is TO DEVOTE
ITSELF TO WAR ORPHANS
Washington People Are Doing Their
Part in Support of the
Movement.

The National Association of Orphans
of the War. an organization to rescue
French war orphans in distress and
provide homes for them, has announced
the publication of a magazine bearing
the title the Orphans of the War.
Contributions from all parts of the
world. including liberal response from
Washington, have been used for the
immediate needs of the orphans. The
magazine is designed to aid in provi-
sion for the education and future care
of the orphans The publication viii
appear three times a year and will
reach subscribers on Christmas, Easter
and July IA.
There viii be three editions of the
publication, to which the annual sub
scription will be Simple edition. Is
francs: special edition. $50 francs, and
extra edition, 1000 francs.
The statement announcing the pub
lication. which has offices at 40 Quai
dOrleans. Paris, says: THE education
of the orphans of the war, which is ur-
gent social work. and the most impor-
tant Of all. demands continuous effort
and considerable funds. To contribute
to giving a solid moral and professional
education to the children of those he
roes who died for the defense of right
and humanity means for each French
man to fulfill a self-evident duty and
for the friends of France abroad it
means debt of gratitude 10 the genius
of France
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-13
Tests for Auto Licenses.

To the Editor Of The Star
| have been taking a great interest
in your editorials on the traffic acci-
dents. I for one do not believe that
any more traffic regulations are needed.
If the officials at the District building
would be a little more careful in hand
ing out permits to operate automobiles
there would be fewer accidents. All a
man has to do is to buy car. The
dealer selling 1t will see to 1t he gets
a permit to operate the same. whether
the owner be nervous. deaf or blind.
If every man or woman had to go out
in the automobiles with the examiners
and give a practical demonstration of
ability to drive car instead instead of going
tions half of the collision accidents
would cease. / know of men who have
got permits to operate automobiles that
had never driven cars oe1ore they got
JOSEPH WILLIAMS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-13
JUNIOR LEAGUE MEETS.
Elects Officers and Arranges Thanks.
giving Dance at Elks' Hall.

Leo kershenbaum was elected presi-
cent of the Junior League at a special
meeting of the organization recently al
It's clubhouse. Other officers elected are
MISS Lillian Wolf vice president: Her
bert Soloman, recording secretary; Will
nam NltowitZ. financial secretary: Sam
freedman. treasurer; Morris Weis, as
sistant secretary. and William Gold
berg, sergeant-at-armS.
arrangements were completed to give
a thanksgiving dance Thanksgiving
evening, at Elks' Hall. The dance com
mittee is composed of William Gold.
berg, former president of the league
Misses Blanch Crit. Anna Sheer. Re
becca Dinkin. Herbert Soloman. Will
liam Nitowitz, Max Minkofsky ant
David Fink
The next meeting of the club will BIZ
held Thursday evening at O'Clock al
the clubhouse
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-10-13
DEATH OF CAPT. BERRY,
Had Followed Water Life for Nearly
Half Century.

Capt. Wesley Berry, one of the best
known OF Potomac river men. was
stricken with paralysis early in the
week aboard the schooner J. 2. Robin
son, lying in Upper Machodoc creek, Va
He was removed to his homo in King
George county, Va. and died Thursday
Capt. Berry had followed the water
for nearly half century. most of his
time having been spent on the Potomac
river. For many years he had been mate
with Capt. John Redmon aboard the
schooner J. p. Robinson. and was q
weekly visitor to this city aboard her
with wood and other careoes.
The vessel left here in the latter part
of last week and was loading to return
here when Capt. Berry was stricken.
His wife and several children survive
him.