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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
CLARENCE FRY IN
AVIATION CORPS
VEIL KNOWN AUTOiST VOLUN-
TIERS SERVICES TO HIS
COUNTRY.

Clarence Fry has volunteered and
oeen accepted for service in the avia-
ion corps of the United States Army.
lr. Fry is one of the best autoists in
his section of the country and is
especially qualified for the place to
which he has been assigned. He will
o to the training camp at FIT. Ogle-
horne next week. The automobile
business here will continue just as
housh one of the members of the
tirm had not gone into the service Of
lis country, Carlton Fry being in
charge.
Kiethe Denham of the same firm,
has already been ordered to report for
training at Chattanooga. Provine S.
Greenlaw. Of the Columbia Bank &
Trust company. has also been accepted
for service in the officers training
corps and will report next week at
Chickamaugua.
Wilmoth Bowen and Ernest E. Nc
Lemore have been ordered to report
tomorrow to the training camp at Ft.
Oglethorpe.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
SCHOOL PROPERTY
ii THETA BOUGHT
By COUNTY BOARD
PURCHASE PRICE OF LESS THAN
HALF OF THE COST is
AGREED UPON.
HOUlE At GEttkIIELD BEND
Necessary To Make Reductions In The
Plans in Order to Come Within the
Amount Appropriated-Teach at
Mex Meeting.

At the meeting of the county board
of education on Monday a final trade
was made for the school property at
Theta in the Second district, the coun-
ty buying the houses, including all of
he fixtures furniture, etc, and about
five acres of land for $4,000.
1t will be recalled that at the meet
ing OF the board a month ago prop
osition was submitted to sell this prop
erty for the amount of the debts there
on, which are approximately $4,000.
The board offered 1880, but the own
ers declined to accept and finally at
The meeting on Monday the board
made the offer $4,000, which was ac-
3epted.
The property was inspected by the
board month ago and the members
all agreed that it was worth consider
lbly more than twice the amount that
was asked for it, and that the price at
which ii was being sold to the county
was equivalent to a subscription upon
The part of the citizens of half of the
cost. This is in line with the policy
Of the board where school houses are
erected, the board requiring the citi-
zens in the community to put up half
the cost
The board also found it necessary
to cut down the plans for the consoli-
dated school for the First district, in
the Greenfield Bend, being unable to
obtain a bid within the limits of the
appropriation.
Considerable routine business was
transacted The election of teachers
will be taken up at the June meeting.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
NOTABLE SCHOOL
RALLY At CUILEOKl
ON next FRIDAY
EX-SENATOR LUKE LEA AND
PROF. n. A. MORGAN WILL BE
THE SPEAKERS.
BOTH ARE VERY POPULAR HLR.
Will Present In The Most Forcibe
Manner the Needs for Popular Edu
cation-speaking to Begin Promptly
At O'clock.

One of the biggets school rallies in
the history of that section will be held
at Culleoka on this afternoon
beginning promptly at o'clock. Two
of the states most distinguished ora
tors will be present and speak. They
will be Hon. Luke Lea, former sena
tor from Tennessee and Prof. H. A
Morgan, the dean of the college of ag
riculture of the University of Tennes
see. Both are recognized leaders in
the state in the campaign for food
preparedness and for higher educa
tional opportunities. Two more ap
propriate speakers could hardly be sc
lected Mr. Morgan has been one
the most powerful factors in Tennes
see in arousng interest in and enthu
siasm for education Due largely to
his personal influence and hold upon
the people the recent legislature
passed the most progressive and bene-
fetal legislation ever enacted for the
schools of the state.
Senator Lea, both personally and
through his paper, has likewise been
the staunch friend of popular educa
,, ton. His paper the Tennessean, rem
dered the most powerful aid to the
cause of the million dollar education
bill through which, the schools, from
the district elementary school to the
University of the State, were greatly
aided? He is doing all that he can
day in and day out to aid the cause
through his paper.
Both Senator Lea and Mr. Morgan
! are popular in this county and espe,
| tally in the Culleoka section, where
! 10Th are always welcome. Mr.. Nor
| gan always draws a crowd and Sena.
tor Lea carried that section in his con
.est for reelection by two to one over
his opponent.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
PEOPLE IF COUNTY
10 AID NATION N
ITS LIBERTY l0AA
SEVERAL THOUSAND DOLLARS
ALREADY SUBSCRIBED TO
LOCAL BANKS.
fine SENTIMENTS fXFRESSl D
Feeling of Many That Since They
Cannot Fight for the Sacred Cause
Of Liberty They Should at Least
Dedicate What They Have To It.

Maury county will do its part TO-
ward floating the great two billion
lollar liberty loan of the United
States. Many of them at least will
dedicate part of their fortunes and
of what they have to the task that is
before them. They are going to aid
With their might the country in it's
contest with Imperialism and autoc-
racy.
Several thousand dollars of sub
icripticns from the citizens of the
'ounty have already been made to the
liberty loan Every subscription
made has been in response to the pa
riotic impulse of the makers. One
the oldest and most prominent citi-
ems of the county put the matter in
this way:
Il am too old to fight; were l young
ar | would offer my services; hut that
denied me- However, | can at least
edicate what I have~to tire cause OF
ny country and you may enter my
subscription for $1,000 of these bonds
want to do my part in the war to
make the world itself free"
Another citizen of the county, who
will not be included in the call to
rms, expressed the same sentiment
,ut for every member of his family
hat all might be partakers in the
glorious privilege of aiding their coun
ry in its titanic struggle to make
The world safe for democracy" Still
another equally as patriotic citizen
;ubscribed himself and for his son
rhis is the spirit that is actuating
hose who are taking the loan.
One very conservative investor
ipon having the matter presented tt
lim as a patriotic duty, readily agreed
| md said: THAT is true, that is al
lspect of the matter that had not oc
urred to me. You may enter my sub
scription for $500 of the loan"
All of the local banks will receive
| nd forward without cent of cos
subscriptions to this loan They ma.
,e taken in amounts from $40 and up
| wards.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
WOOL PRICES 10
ECLIPSE HIGHEST
EVER Known HERL
CLIP FROM FLOCK is SOLD BY R.
L. HAYS AT FIFTY CENTS
A POUND.
ALL FORMER RtCDRtS B!OKEk
In Quality And Quantity Due To The
Severe Winter the Crop Will be Be-
low the Average, But Price Will
Make up for Loss.

R. L. Hayes sold the wool from his
flock of sheep, two hundred and
eighty head, for 80 cents per pound.
Mr.. Hayes expects to begin clipping
this week, and averages his fleece at
(our pounds to the sheep, making a
eotal of | ,120 pounds, for which he will
receive $4,000.
This is the first sale reported, and
lenotes that the price will eclipse
What The Herald predicted few days
lgo, when the statement was made
apon the authority of one of the local
buyers, that free of burr fleece would
sell on the opening market at 45 cents
Der pound.
Mr. Hayes stated to Herald re
porter that while his wool was com
paratively free of burrs, still it could
not be classed as the free of burr
stock, and that if it had been absolute
ly free of burrs, that he could have
gotten an even better price than sc
cents per pound.
The wool crop in Maury county this
year will oe far under the average
)wing to the extremely severe winter
The sheep are not fat and there is not
much Oil in the fleece. Clipping will
lot be on a large scale until about
he fifteenth of this Month or later.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
WOOL SHORTAGE
IN THE COUNTY
PRICES BID FAIR TO OPEN AT as
CENTS PER POUND FOR
FREE OF BURRS.

Present indications are that the To-
cal wool market will open at As cents
for the free of burr product, and that
the price will range all the way from
25 cents to As cents, according to quail
ity and condition. This is an unus
ually strong opening, but the scarcity
of the sheep in this section of the
country is responsible for the high
price of the fleece.
Louis Barker, one of the heaviest
wool buyers, announced this morning
less than third over the output OF
1916.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
MAURY COUNTIANS
TO CGLETHORPF
FIFTEEN OR TWENTY WILL LEAVE
HERE MONDAY FOR TRAIN
ING CAMP.

Maury countians who are going to
take the officers training course at
Ft Oglethorpe, will leave on next
Monday. There will he fifteen or
twenty in the list who will go from
ms county and they are all fine speci-
mems of physical manhood, young men
of education and of experience, most
of them in business life. They run
from twenty-one years of age to the
late thirties and it is practically sure
that a large per cent of them will be
successful candidates at the training
camp and will receive commissions in
the army. The High School faculty is
hard hit by the war, two OF the ablest
members. C.. NJ. Hardison and j. A.
Moore. going TO the training camp.
In addition. O. L. Farris, the county
demonstration agent, has already been
commissioned an officer in the United
States army The problem facing Su-
perintendens Harris and others sim
iIarlv situated is a serious one and
must result in the election of more
women to the faculties of the schools.
They must in school work as they
will have to in other lines of endeavor,
take the places of the men who an
swer the call to arms.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
REAL ESTATE AGENT
JOINS HEROIC BAND
OF. ARMY OF FUkROW
J. NoRFLEET FlGUERS, JR, FOL.
LOWS HIMSELF ADVICE THAT
HE GIVES OTHERS.
IND BU S Dirt IN The DIMPlf
simply A Case Of Returning To His
First Love as he Pines Once More t.
Milk the Cow, Feed the Swine ano
Draw a Line Over Beck.

I. N. Figuers, Jr., of the Figuers
Sealty Co., joins the army of the
Men in the burrows" Mr.. Figuars
closed a deal with A. M. Thompson
Tor his farm of 172 acres in the Third
district, ON Rutherford creek, fol
which he paid $4,000. This farm is
Ill creek bottom and is in high state
# cultivation. The farm contains a
splendid two-story residence, and the
improvements are all first-class. The
tarm lies on the new road recently
built by the county hands.
Mr.. Figuers has preached the pro
iuctiveness of Maury county farms
md what the outlook was for the
Maury county farmer in the future
o such an extent that he could
10 longer stay out of the game
md when he decided to. get in,
ne looked around and picked out what
ae considered one of the best farms
n the county. Mr.. Thompson was
cry anxious to sell his farm as h
had on a big deal at Demopolis, Ala.
ind would not list the farm with Mr.
Figuers for sale Mr. Figuers realiz-
ing that it was splendid opportunit.
TO get good farm worth the money,
he did net hesitate long to grab the
plum. Mr.. Figuers in talking of the
sale to a Herald reporter, stated that
the sale was made through the Fig
lers Realty Co. as matter OF course.
Farming, though, is not a new de
rarture for Mr.. Figuers. He was born
| IN farm and spent several years
feeding the swine, milking the COW
| md pulling the bell cord over ole
| Deck. Unknown to many of his friends
ne has owned and been operating {
farm of five hundred acres near Nash
| lille for the past two or three years.
The farm purchased by Mr.. Figuers
from Mr.. Thompson is all in cultiva
ion, the greater part of it in corn anc
oats, and with favorable season vii
produce twelve barrels or more to tho
acre Figuers says now that he has
a Maury county farm of his own h
feels independent. He knows wha
Maury dirt will do, and feels that Sc
curity characteristic of all Maury coun
tv tilers of the soil.
Mr.. Figuers has not made any plan
as to the future disposition of thu
farm. but it is his intention to keep i
unless someone comes along and offer
him a handsome profit on it, and ther
is no doubt but that he will have man,
bidders for this excellent piece o
property.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
C0P|OUS Rains ALL
OVER COUNTY ENDS
THE LONG DROUTH
D0WNPOUR WILL DO MUCH FOR
TIE GRASS, OATS AND
POTATOES.
SEVERE HAIL STORM In PLACES
CuIeoka Section Is One OF The Worst
Sufferers, Apple Orchards and Gar
dens Eeing Very Much lnjured-At
others Places, Too.

Naury county was visited on Thurs
dav night by ground soaking, trash
moving and even gully washing rain.
II was badly needed too and despite
fine fact that in many fields the lands
were badly washed it was worth all
of the cost. For it has been nearly
four weeks since the county had a
real wetting. Everything needed rain
eycept the corn and the dry weather
had really been an advantage to that
crop where the lands were prepared
before the drouth came.
The rain will be more beneficial to
the grass than to anything else. Pas
lures are far behind for the season of
the year. There has been so little
moisture that all kinds of pasture
have suffered The Irish potato crop
and oats were also suffering for the
lack Of rain. But the ground soaker
has placed a new outlook on things
and farmers are smiling today as they
have not in several weeks.
At Culeoka a terrific hailstorm ac-
companied the rain and over a small
area considerable damage was done to
truck patches and garden and in some
places to the corn. The hail was so
heavy and lasted so long that felt
roofs were damaged in a number OF
places and some window lights were
broken out The apple orchard on the
PEBBLES place was a severe sufferer,
a great portion of the young apples
being knocked Off the trees and those
that remained were damaged. Like
wise the berry crops were hurt. In
some of the yards in Culleoka at day,
light this morning there were huge
piles of ice, although the storm oc-
cured at | o'clock.
There was also a severe haiistorm
in some sections west Of the city and
good deal of damage resulted to
orchards and young crops.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
GREAT SERMON
FIRST M. E. CHURCH
DR.. w. A. CHRISTIAN breaches
ON "YE ARE THE SALT OF
EARTH"

One Of the ablest, most logical and
convincing sermons ever delivered al
the First Methodist church was that OF
DIR, w. A. Christian, of Richmond. Va.
DR.. Christian is a reasoner, a logician
and an orator. He charmed and in
structed an audience that filled the
spacious auditorium of the church. He
took for his text the familiar words
"Ye are the Salt Of the Earth" Ii
was a most striking utterance and the
Illustrations that he made will live
forever in the hearts of his hearers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
CUT THIS OUTFIT is WORTH
MONEY!

DON'T MISS THIS. Cut ouf this
shn, enclose with sc to Foley & Co.,
2>"5 Sheffield Ave. Chicago, H., wri'
ung your name and address clearly.
You will receive in return a trial pack.
ese containing Foleys Honey and Tar
compound ~" coughs, colds and
Group, Foley Kidney Pills. and Foley
CathartiC Tablets DRUG
CO-(Advt1
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
CULLEOKA BAND
TO PLAY AT RALLY

The Culleoka band will make music
for the big school rally at that place
today The members of this or
ganization are always ready to do
their part toward any public enter
prise.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
f REGULAR CiNCH.

81 see Gen. Szaptyoki has been ap-
pointed TO d command in Poland"
"WeU. I'm glad to learn that. You
couldn't possibly mispronounce that
name"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
A TEST.
@ must love her. p"

He must love her"
"Huh?"
"There was a procession going pH'
She couldn't see very well, and he let
her stand on his foot
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
CONTRACTORS TO
EAST TENNESSEE
FRANK NlCHOL SON AND ED. r.
SMITH TO WORK IN FAST
GROWING TOWN.

have gone to Kingsport in East Ten
nessee, the new manufacturing town,
to do a lot of contracting work This
is one of the fastest growing towns in
the South
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11

Everybody's friend-Dr. Thomas
Eclectic Oil, the great household rem
edy for toothache, earache. sore
throat. cuts. bruises. scalds. Sold at
all drug stores. 25c and 5Oc.-(Advt.)
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-05-11
WILL A HAYES
JOINS TIE ARMY

Among the number who have volun-
teered for the army and who have
haen accepted for service from Colum.
bja are Will A. Hayes, of Harlan, Por-
ter 4 Walker. He is a son Of Squire
Geo ". Hayes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-25
III GRANDE SCIOPERO DEF
FERROVIERI ARGEN7INI
BUENOS AIRES. L5 Settemhro.

BUENOS AIRES, IS Settembro.
La sciopero del ferrOVier argentinisi e
dagato rapidamente per tutta la repub-
blica. Durante Ia nOtte nemmeno un treuo e.
entrato nella citta' di Buenos Aires che e
gia' rimasta senza latte. Gli implanti elet
trici sonO operati soltapto da marnai =
soldat mentre / prezzi dele comodita
hauno raggiunto cifre proibitve. y fiji tele-
graflci lungo e linee ferroviarie sono stati
tutti tgliati in consequence le Comunica-
zioni drette con New York @ con lie eftta
elrAmerca del sud sono interrotte.
II governo sta provando tutti mezzi por
conciliare / sCioperanti ma Questi sfor2i
sono resi- vani dagli agitatori che son de-
terminau prolungare 10 sciopero. 81 am
mette, perO', che i'm questo sciOpero vi sia
la mano del tedeschi da fonte autorevoje
81 apprende che agent ledeschi stano for
nendo gil sCoperant dr. denaro per non
farli tornare al lavoro.
Questo e. il Solto giuoCo della Gcrmania
che ricorre a mezzi di tai sorta quando le
Cose non vannO i'm suO favorc. La dichiara-
zione delo sciopero ferroviaro fu appresa
proprio mel momento in cui la Camera del
Deputat era al punto di dare la sua ap-
prOvazionc per qualunque alto che II go
verno argentine dovesse compiere contro la
Germania. Possibimente gil agent tedes-
chi che fomentano 10 sciopero credono che
il gettare la nazione in una situazione in
terna pericolOsa potrebbe forzare il GO
verno rivolgere Ia sua attenzione agli af-
fari intcrni lasciando da parte la discus
sionc almeno temperance, delle reazoni
con la Germania.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-25
ARMISTICE PLANS
FAIL TO LURE U. S.
Harden's Suggestion Impos-
sible as Matters Stand, Is
View in Washington
WOULD REJECT PROPOSAL
German Liberal Leader Deceived
by Berlin's Reply to Pope's
Peace Proffer
MAsHfNGTON. sepl 2

An armistice before German and Amer
lean troops meet on the battlefield, as sug
scsted by Macmillan Garden. Is out Of The
question, as matters now stand.
This Is the view of state Department
and White House officials today. There
win be no formal statement Of this Govern.
ments attitude since the suggestion comes
from a private citizen and not from the
German Government. But even should such
proposal come from WiIhelmstrasse it.
self no doubt was left that IL would be
promptly rejected.
Macmillan Harden is regarded by wash
inxton officials as one Of the most en-
lghtened Of Germans, and his views always
are listened to with interest
Official Washington is willing 10 60 a
long way with Harden. since il il regarded
- certain that he will play prominent
part In the reform movement that l. eN-
pected to Overturn the present system Of
Government In GermAny.
But today Government officials believed
even Harden had been deceived by the
German reply to the popes peace note, when
he said il reflected the honest will Of
majority of the German people Hardens
desire for peace is believed to have blinded
him to the fact that the German reply
was penned to simulate the present IDEAS of
the German people and for its possible
effect on the United States, and in reality
was not n frank statement of their pur-
poses and desires.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-25
EXPLOSION ON TANK SHIP
BLOWS ? MEN TO PIECES
Two Others Injured, Standard Oil Yes
sci Damaged and Pier
Partly Wrecked

RICHMOND. cal. Sept 25.--rwo men
were blown to pieces, the Standard oil
tanker Jamoltctt was badly damaged and a
part Of the main wharf of the oil company
here was blown in at o'clock this morn
ing by an explosion.
The victims were Ernest Euttcr quarter
master, Of san Francisco and II. H. ,unil-
leratt, Of Richmond, 1t was definitely es-
tablished several hours after the blast that
they were blown to PIECES. Two others were
injured.
The cause Of the explosion is In doubt
Tn" police have dectted some outside agency
was responsible for it, but an officer Of the
standard Oil company declared his inves-
tigation showed beyond doubt that the eX-
plosion was accidental and due to gas gem
Grated in the hold
The Sioffett arrived in ballast from Van
couver. B. G., yesterday. and was due to
sail today. The Nessel carried no cargo at
the time Of the explosion She was built
at the Union Iron Works, san Francisco. in
1895. ana was SL2O tons net. and had a
capacity Of 60,Go0 barrels of OIL
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-09-25
LUSHFUND PROBE
BLOCKED In HOUSE
Failure Of Rules Committee
to Meet Delays Inquiry
Resolution
MORE REVELATIONS NEAR
Millions in German Gold Spent
in This Country, Evidence
Shows
WASHINGTON sept. 25.

Failure on the part Of the House Rules
Committee to meet today threw an uneN-
pected block in the way of prompt action
in setting up the machinery OF a congress
sonal investigation into the Bernstorn
"sush fund" disclosure
An implied promise by the committee that
no time would he lost In bringing out
report on the Fordney resolution. which
called specifically for an inquiry into the
charges which Representative Hehn made
of disloyalty in the House, led to the belief
that the House would act dchmtelN To-Day
in starting probe.
The impression prevails that before the
committee is called together by Chairman
pou another effort will he made to find
out the attitude of President Wilson toward
the suggestion Of Speaker Clark that the
Tordney resolution he supplanted by one
broad enough to cover every phase OF the
Bernstorff message.
In the meantime Washington Is being
stirred up by intimations coming from Of
icial and scmoficill quarters to the effect
that other disclosures. more sensational
than any that have gone before are on
the way.
Il is stated that the Department "r Jus
tiCe is holding in reserve, pending a favor
able moment for its publication. a mass Of
data to prove that the S50.000 sum which
BernstoTf proposed, on January - last
using to influence Congress was nut q drop
in the bucket The data, il is stated, in
diCated that from the time of the outbreak
of the European war to time beyond the
entry of the United States into the world
struggle. there was fund tOtaling millions
Of dollars which Germany maintained in
this country to conduct propaganda and
finance plots against American neutrality.
Officials hint at a mysterious list OF
names and dates i'm possession of the Secret
Service having to do not alone with propa-
ganda work. hut with conspiracies to OBJ
tain fraudulent American passports for
German spies working in England and
France, schemes to blow up munition fac
tories in this country plots to stir up DEM
onstrations in Mexico and along the border
for the purpose of diverting American at
tention from the ravages of the subma-
rines, and ant-preparedness agitation to
keep the United States helpless before the
growing arrogance Of Germany toward nett
tral rights