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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
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The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
DEFEAT BARRIERS BILL.

HARRISBURG, Pa. May 31.-The
mouse of representatives has defeated
the BARRIERS sanitary and license law,
which was intended to abolish I'M
sanitary conditions in numerous shops
IN this state. Many authorities on
hygiene and sanitation Endorsed the
measure.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02

GAINESVILLE, Ohio. Nav 3t.-rhe
Baltimore and Ohio ranlroad is en-
ploylng women in it's reclaiming shops
an alluring term for sorting scrap
iron and other junk. The officials say
they cannot secure men. but unionists
say the reason is the $3.50 wage rate
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
UTAH UNIONISTS CONFER

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, May 81
At the thirteenth annual convention
of the state federation of labor Pres
ident Lewis and Secretary Treasurer
Lamont were reelected. Ogden was
selected as the next convention city.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
"HERB'' WILSON RETURNS.

Herb" Wilson of tn, News Tribune
composing room staff has returned af-
ter a 10 days visit with friends in
Minneapolis.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02

The value of pineapples exported
from Hawaii during the year ending
June 80, 1915, was $6,319,O00.
The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1917-06-02
WOMEN SORTING JUNK

Carpenters Of ZanesVille, Ohio, have
st secured another boost in wages
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
IS CHILD CROSS,
FEVER|SH|, SICK
Look, Mother! If tongue is
coated, give california
Syrup of FiqS."

I Children love this fruit laxative"
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach. liver and bowels so nicely.
A child simply will not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result Is
they become tightly clogged with
wnste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
s0urs, then your little one becomes
cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat,
sleep or act naturally, breath is bad.
system full of cold, has sore throat,
stomach-ache or diarrhea. Listen,
Mother! See If tongue is coated, then
give a teaspoonful of California
Syrup of Figs" and In few hours all
the constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the sys-
TEN. and you have well child again.
Millions of mothers give California
Syrup of Figs" because It is perfectly
harmless; children love 1t, and 1t new
e. fails to act on the stomach, liver
and bowels.
Ask at the store for 50-cent bottle
of california Syrup Of Figs" which
inns full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
printed on the bottle. Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Couldn't Remember.

Before we were married." sobbed
Angelina, "did you not always call me
your little drop of cream?"
.Well, you know" answered Har-
old. cream turns sour If you keep 1t
hong enough. was fool when mar
ried you"
@And didn't you tell me you had
plenty of money behind your" asked
Angelina.
s.rhat was correct. / lived in front
Of q bank. the willy Harold replied.
-And you never take me out now"
aaid the wee wife.
.Not since you took me In" was
Harolds cold rejoinder. II used to
eajcy single life, but now Tn that mis-
esnbie l don't know myself until ! feel
In my empty pockets; then it's easy
10 remember who am"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Henry w. McBryde of Ardmore
Ok, pleaded guilty to the murder Of
Frank R. McLaren, a wealthy Taylor
Tex, citizen, and was sentenced to
SO years in the penitentiary.
Mr.. and Mrs. James J. Gore of Chi
cago are parted, after 10 years Of
married life. A former husband Of
Mrs. Gore turned up, and Judge
Thomson annulled the marriage.
Newton Spradling, former gauger
in the internal revenue service, was
acquitted in the Arkansas federal
court of the charge Of completely in
an alleged moonshine conspiracy.
A pedestrian has the right of way
over an automobile in crossing a
street, Circuit Judge Oscar M. Fritz
ruled In awarding Frank KiokoW
$4,000 damages for injuries suffered
in an auto crash.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Temperance
AusNOfeS@
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Tamneranca IInionO
SAVINGS IN MAINE.

ut is a good showing for Maine
better still, Maine can say, can any
other state make the claim ?-that no
depositor In Maine savings bank has
ever lost a dollar that he deposited
there. 1t Is to be noted, moreover, that
the savings banks by no means repre-
sent all the savings Of the Maine peo-
pie that are at interest. The savings
departments of the trust companies
have 90,322 depositors with. deposits Of
S30,000000, or twice as much as the
demand deposits In the same institu-
tons. The national banks have mil
lions In their savings departments, and
the 1929 shareholders in the loan and
building associations have to their
credit an accumulated capital Of $4,-
$4,000. These and other tStSis make
showing for the thrift and industry
of Maine people that no state can bet
ter"
This remarkable testimony to the
prosperity of prohibition Maine comes
from a newspaper avowedly hostile to
prohibition, the Boston Herald. 1T Is a
complete answer to the Oft-repeated
falsehood of the brewers and distillers
that Maine has been impoverished be-
cause she has steadfastly refused to
legalize the dramshOp. In population
Maine ranks as the thirty-fourth state
in the Union. But on June 80, 1915,
the deposits in her savings banks
amounted to $97, 423, 088.63, total ex-
ceeded by only II other states. The
amount of depositors-238, 596-repre-
sents nearly one-third of the total pop
ulation of the state, including men,
women and children. Only ten states
exceed Maine in the actual number OF
depositors. The total proportion Of de-
positors to population is equalled by
only five states. Deposits in building
| and loan associations amounted to So
558, 269, with 12,113 depositors. Add to
this the savings deposited in trust COM
panies and national banks, and the per
capita individual deposits amount to
$244.50 for every man, woman and child
In the state. In 1914 the average per
capita individual deposits In all the
states was $1SS, which average Maine
leads by over $50.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
HIGHWAY BILL PASSES
SECRETARY OF HIGHWAY DE-
PARTMENT TALKS TO TEN
NEssEE SENATE.
Appropriation From Federal Govern
ment With State Allowances VIII
Be of Great Benefit To State High.
ways.

Nashville.--By a vote of rs to 8, with
four not voting, the senate passed the
highway bill, which proposes that the
state shall make the necessary appro-
priat!ons to take advantage of the new
federal aid good roads act.
Hon. J. J. Murray, secretary of the
highway department, in short talk,
said the federal agricultural depart
ment had agreed to send gentleman
here before the general assembly fin.
ally adjourns to explain just what the
state would have to do in order to
meet the requirements of the federal
act. He said he could not tell spe-
cifcally just what roads would be ben
Gifted under this act, but his depart
ment would submit to the government
map showing all roads Of the state,
including trunk lines and post roads.
The government, he said, had ap-
propriated many millions of dollars
to the states for this purpose, to be
used in cooperation with the states
asserting to the federal act.
Both houses assembled In joint con-
vention to elect secretary of state,
comptroller, treasurer, election COM
missioner-and land commissioner. The
nominees of the recent democratic
caucus won out in all the races over
their republican opponents.
Treasurer Porter Dunlap, Comptroi-
Ter John B. Thomson, Election Com
missioner J. M. Brackin and Land
Commissioner A. A. Lyon were all re-
elected. Hon. Ike B. Stevens was elect
ed secretary Of state, succeeding R. r.
Sneed.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
VICTORIES ON NOVEMBER Z.

Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, South
Dakota and the territory Of Alaska
voted by large majoritles to outlaw
the manufacture and sale Of alcohol
ic liquors.
Arkansas and Arizona defeated the
liquor interests efforts to substitute a
local option law for the statewide
prohibition law.
Idaho voted for constitutional pro-
hibition.
Oregon, Colorado and Washington
rejected by overwhelming majorities
the beer measures initiated by the
brewers.
Oregon gave a substantial majority
vote for an amendment prohibiting the
importation into the state of alcoholic
liquors for beverage purposes.
Utah, Wyoming and Florida elected
legislatures pledged to pass at their
next session prohibitory laws.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
DOM EsTic.

In an attack by 20 persons on coal
train en- route from mines south of
Danville, ILL.,, to Chicago, on the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois railroad,
armed guards on the train shot
Lewis Butler and Burley Newman.
President Wilson's plan to visit the
capitol frequently, urging action on
his legislative program, was attacked
in the senate by Senator Jones, Re.
publican, who declared it indicated a
course of systematic lobbying by
the president.
Immediate withdrawal of Sub
stantial number of national guards
men" from the border has been or
dered by the war department
President Wilson will be officially
reelected Wednesday, Feb. IA. On
that day the house and senate will
hold joint session in the house and
count the electoral votes.
Robert e. Lees memory was hon
ored Friday throughout the south. The
10th anniversary of his birth was OBJ
served as a holiday in all southern
states.
William Sirl of Cleveland wants
$4,000 damages from doctor, alleg-
ing he was kept prisoner in plaster
cast week overtime until he paid his
bill.
An earnest appeal to Gen. Carranza
to spare the lives of two Mexican Ro-
man Catholic priests arrested near
Mexico City and charged with sedi-
ton has been made by the state de-
partment.
Limited woman suffrage will be-
come effective in North Dakota July
l next.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
NEWS MISCELLANY
BITS OF QUEER AND INTEREST.
ING ITEMS.
Compiled from the Drag Net of Daily
Happenings-Matters Of More
Than Passing Interest.
FOREIGN,

Baron Davenport, the British food
controller, has decided that the guam
tity of beer to be brewed for the year
shall be restricted to 70 per cent of
the output of the previous year.
The official figures show the total
losses of airplanes in the great war
during 1916 to have been 1.005. OF
these the entente forces lost 7S4, the
Germans 221.
Six large submarines, four British
and two Italian, together with the
14.000-ton British armored cruiser Lee
viathan, have been added to the Brit
ish naval base at Bermuda.
1t has been established that 300
were killed by the recent explosion In
a London munitions factory.
About so Sim Feiners rushed to
the platform from which Thomas Lun-
don was addressing Limerick meet
ing and beat him with clubs.
Brig. Gen. w. c. Macdonald was
killed and four others were badly In
jured when light engine backed into
the crowds at the union station at To-
ronto.
The Dutch steamer Prins Henrik,
which was taken into Zeebrugge by
German torpedo craft, has been re-
leased by the German authorities.
The British steamship Toftwood,
carrying cargo worth $75O,OOO, was
summarized and sunk on her voyage,
according to advices.
Disaster has overtaken the enc
N.Y." said a wireless press dispatch
from Petrograd via Rome. "The
bridges over the Danube nave been
swept away and the Russo-Roumanian
armies are advancing
The Corriere d'Italia says that 510.-
900 Syrians have died Of starvation
since the war began.
France is considering the question
of advancing the legal time by one
hour and has informed the committee
ON education that it is in favor Of the
step.
Traffic In spirituous liquors has been
prohibited by the French authorities
in the zone occupied by the army be-
cause Of the prevalence Of drunken
ness.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
WASH WOMEN SCARCE.

Wash women are getting very scarce
in Des Moines, says an Iowa paper.
Two dollars per day, car fare and
meals is no temptation to a woman
who has husband to support her and
little children to care for in the home.
Many men who drank up their wages
and spent their spare time in saloons,
are now supporting their families, buy
ing ground and building homes, and
have become respectable citizens, al
though lawless floating tramp ele-
ment would try to make 1t appear that
prohibition does not prohibit.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
ANY CORN LIFTS OUT,
DOESN'T HURT A BIT!
No foolishness! LIT your ccrns
and calluses off with fingers y
It's like magic!

Sore corns, hard corns, soft corns or
any kihd Of corn, can harmlessly be
lifted right out with the fingers If you
apply upon the corn a few drops of
freezone, says a Cincinnati authority.
For little cost one can get a small
bottle Of freezone at any drug store,
which will positively rid ones feet OF
every corn or callus without pain.
This simple drug dries the moment
It is applied and does not even irri-
tate the surrounding skin while APP
plying 1t or afterwards.
This announcement will interest
many Of our readers. II your druggist
hasn't any freezone tell him to surely
get a small bottle for you from his
wholesale drug house.-adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
GEN ERAL.

Rather than see Patrick Riley, a
friendless tramp, buried in a pauper's
grave, residents of Avon, ILL.,, gave
him public funeral.
Looking in mi-lady's letter Is the
same as peeDing in her boudoir, a
California judge told Postman liver.
son. who pleaded guilty to peeking
into letter his former sweetheart
wrote his rival.
Fifth avenue isn't so SWELL" is the
verdict of Miss Louise Schen, ''the
| queen of Alaska" But, then, she's
prejudiced. She mistook a wine list
for a prayer book.
After searching two years for his
missing wife, ]. H. Ralston, a million.
aire coal operator of Middleboro, KY,
found her body in morgue.
Thousands of men were thrown out
OF work and score of big industrial
plants closed as a result of one of the
biggest floods in recent years sweep
ing down the Allegheny, Monongahela
and Ohio rivers.
A stone image of Kwan-Yin, Chi
nese goddess Of mercy, has been pur-
chased from Paul Poiret OF Paris by q
firm of art dealers for 100000.
Francis Jones, negro subway por-
ter in New York, threw a bucket of
water on what he thought was burn
Ing paper and went back to work.
When he discovered 1t was bomb he
fell down flight Of stairs.
Magistrate Harris in New York do
nestle relations court upset the pro.
gram of years for Mrs. John Mackey
when he ordered her to help wash
dishes and take hubby to an occasion
al movie. He was being tried for
cruelty.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Boy for Safety First"

The other morning mother of sew
en- was alarmed at hearing her young
est child screaming.
Rushing up to the bedroom to as
certain the cause, she observed her
four-year-old son proddlng at his lit
tie sisters arm with an old pocket
knife.
Whatever are you doing, WillieT'
shouted the frantic mother.
81 am waxinating Eva," replied tie
youngster proudly.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

A bill offered In the legislature
makes cigarette smoking in West
Virginia criminal offense and DOS
session of cigarettes misdemeanor.
The mystery Of Charles Hagerdahl,
go, 1.-The hermit Of Halsted street." Chi
cago, was disclosed by diary found
when he died. He was engaged to a
Norwegian princess, whose death
caused him to come to America and
become a recluse.
Young Dutton. one of the most en-.
thusiastic sympathizers with war
stricken Europe, has disappeared
from Chicago with $500 he collected
''for war sufferers"
No longer will Chicago cabaret
bands syncopate "The Star-Spangled
Banner" for dancers. An ordinance
forbids playing the national airs as a
part of a medley.
A bid Of $1,000 secured the original
manuscript of Eugene Fields poem,
Little Boy Blue" at the allied ba.
zaar by John Mccormack.
A de luxe special train with Is cars
of Colorado potatoes is en- route from
Lucerne, Colo. A special guard rides
in each car of the shipment to pro.
tect the "spuds."
The death at Dover, o., of David
Hartman. 63, was said to have result.
ed from insufficient nourishment.
Hartman lived on less than 10 cents
per day.
Secretary Lane Of the interior de-
partment flew over Newport News
from the Atlantic coast aeronauticaI
station.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
eIc DEFICIT IN CHICAGO.

Chicago, which gets $7.OO0,O0O from
It's saloons, will, 1t Is said, have a
deficit of about 100000 at the end OF
the present year. Cincinnati, another
very wet town, is also practically bank
rupt. Meanwhile prohibition states
and cities are prospecting because they
do not have to sink so much money
In caring for the crime and poverty
caused by drink.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
PERSONAL LIBERTY.

The Munich police are authorized to
censor woman's dress. In Leipzig, boys
and girls under eighteen are forbidden
TO enter saloons unless accompanied
by adults, and to attend motion-pic-
ture exhibitions unless Juvenile pro-
grams alone are given. And all that Is
la Germany, the home Of personal lib
erty!
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Soldiers Ask for Allowance.

The national association Of Vicks'
burg veterans proposes to hold a ma
tionSl memorial reunion and peace jub'
lice in Vicksburg, Oct. 1919, 1917. Mr.
Dabney M. Scales of Memphis and
Capt. John A. Webb of Jackson, Miss,
members of the council of administra'
ton of the association, have been in
Nashville seeking to interest the mem
bers of the general assembly in a bill
which will be introduced in the legis,
lature, asking that the state pay the
expenses to the reunion at Vicksburg
Of all civil war veterans who are un'
able to meet the expenses themselves,
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
DEWEY ON WINE.

George Creel recently interviewed
Admiral Dewey for the New York
World. The admiral gave his opinion
about the "wine mess" in answer to
the question, "What about the famous
drinking order?"
"A good thing" His answer was in
slant. "There was some feeling about
1t at first, because the papers made
fun of it, and there was also an at
tempt to make 1t appear that Secretary
Daniels was charging officers with in
temperance. I think that the feeling
has disappeared completely. Every
railroad, every gveat corporation, has
long had an ironclad rule forbidding
men to drink while on duty. Isn't a
ship as important as q locomotive?
Practically every European power has
copied the order, by the way"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
More Auto Legislation.

At the board of directors meeting
of the Nashville Automobile club the
question of automobile laws for Ten
nessee was thoroughly thrashed out,
and the law and ordinance committee
of the club will draw up a code which
it is believed will be fair to all, and
simplify great many difficulties that
have arisen in the past because Of i'm.
perfectons in the present laws.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Opposes inferior Court.

There seems to be developing a
widespread opposition to the proposed
inferior court for Hamilton county.
Gen. M. N. Whitaker's advocacy of the
measure within the past few days has
aroused a number of other lawyers,
and several hot letters have been for
warded to Speaker Crabtree protest
ing against the passage Of the bill. Sew
eral business leagues have held meet
ings and adopted protests.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Lightning Strikes Barn.

Lightning struck the large stock and
feed barn at the West Tennessee ex-
pertinent station, one mile from Jack.
son, and split the barn in twain, shock
ed three employees, doing considerable
property damage and setting fire to
the building. The employees were able
to extinguish the blaze in its incipien-
cy by smothering and with the water
bucket brigade Fire damage was small.
None of the stock was killed.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Senator Caldwell is Criticized.

Protesting against the action of Sen
ator D. p. Caldwell of Union City in
voting against the antipass bill after
he had pledged himself to support the
Democratic platform upon which he
ran and of which the antipass law is a
plank, citizens at Union City held
massmeeting and sent copies of their
resolutions to Nashville, hoping they
might be brought to the notice of Sen
ator Caldwell before the expiration OF
the motion to reconsider the bill.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
rAp.RooT OF EVIL.

The late Gen. William Booth Of the
Salvation Army summed 1t all up as
follows: "The drink difficulty lies at
the root Of everything: Nine-tenths OF
our poverty, squalor, vice and crime
spring from this poisonous tap-root.
Many of our social evils which over
shadow the land like SO many upas
trees would dwindle away and die IL
they were not so constantly watered
with strong drink. There is universal
agreement on that point"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
ACCIDENTS,

United States Senator Robert Owen
Of Oklahoma was struck and slightly
injured by an automobile at Okla
homa City.
Eighteen persons were killed in the
collapse of the Sonora hotel, two
story structure in Cananea, Mexico.
DOMESTIC
George w. Adam !, :. jitney driver of
Springfield, ILL.,, was killed when a
Frisco passenger train backing in the
yards collided with his automobile
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
To DISCUSS BuiIdino Roads.

The annual road builders confer
ence will open at the University Of
Tennessee Feb. 1, and continue in SEES
sion for two days. A feature of the
conference will be instruction to coun-
ty officials by government Of the best
methods of road maintenance.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
[IIlIlIlIilIuHiIIII

proved and am now the mother of q
fine baby girl and do all my own house
work. Mrs. ALLIA B. TIMMoNs, ZIG
Almond St., Poplar Bluff, Mo.
In many other homes, once childless,
there are now children because of the
fact that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal,
healthy and strong
Write to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co., Lynn, Mass, for advice--it
will be confidential and helpful.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-02-02
Same Ace as Robert e. Lee.

One of the most interesting attend.
ants at the Robert e. Lee anniver-
sary celebration at Nashville was R.
l.. Dowlin, born ON the same day as
the great Confederate leader. Mr..
Dowlin is floterial representative from
Cheatham county. He is chairman Of
the rules committee of the lower house
OF the present general assembly.