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The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-18

Use SpIit-Log Drag.
Use the split-log drag on your roads,
Get your neighbor to do the same.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-18
Motive Force.

Motive Force.
The same force that moves one ton
on a smooth highroad will move eight
tons on q railway or 80 tons on q ca
nal.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1917-05-18

COrns Drive You Mad3 Try "Gets-It''
and They'll Peel Right on!
toe so big it was murder to put on
my shoe. I used salves and other
things that ate OF more Of the toe
than they did the corn. I'd cut and
dig with knives and scissors. but
now no more fooling for me. Two
drops of 'Gets-It' did all the work.
It makes the corn shrivel and get 80
Loose eth, that you S can 5uSt pick it right
covered for corns since "Gets-It"
was born. It's the new way-the
common-sense, simple. sure way.
'Gets-It" is sold everywhere. Csc
a bottle. or sent on receipt of price
bv E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. III
Sold in Bemidji and recommended
as the worlds best corn remedy by
E. A. Barker, druggist, and City Drug
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
COMPANY D WILL
ENTRA|N FRIDAY

Captain ID. L. Southard received a
telegram last night ordering Company
u to entraln Friday for Greenville, S.
c., as their drilling point. Transport
alton was received some days ago and
the wire for date of leaving has been
expected daily since.
All persons over the county who
have boys or friends in the Company
should make tia point to visit them
before Friday or be here on that day
to bid them hearty goodbye and God
speed.
Our boys present most splendid ap-
pearance as a company and no one
doubts that they will give a good &C.
count of themselves. Since they have
been in training here they have con-
Quoted themselves in a very gentle
manly manner and they leave with the
most hearty good feeling OF the people
of Crossville and the county In general.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
BURKE

Mrs. Lizzie Childs and baby have
just recovered from the measles.
Mrs. Urcie Brown is visiting hel
mother, Mrs. Flora Sheriff., this week.
&c. Thurman, of Cold Springs, was
at Lltton last week.
Tom Duncan and Arthur Miller made
business trip to Crossville last week.
A nice time was had by all at the ice
cream supper at Melvin Saturday.
Tom Duncan went to Lockwood this
week.
DR.. Lewis, of Crossville. waa IN this
vicinity last week.
There is a singing school in session
now at Friendship.
A revival IS in progress at Nevlin
now.
Revs. Dagley and A. X. Burnett are
holding a protracted meeting. at Lu-
mlnary.
Wiley Angel and sen Ozie made a
business trip to Waldens Ridge Wed
nesday.
Ted Swafford made a business trip to
Waldens Ridge Wednesday.
Homer Nail and Will Manning made
business trip to PikevllIe Tuesday.
DIR. Stewart Thurman was called to
see little Geneva Childs MONDAY.
Sherman Selby and Milllard Thomp-
son made business trip to Crossville
last week.
PoIa Sheriff. and wife went to Dun
lap last week.
Sheriff Tom Swafford, of Pikevllle,
was up at Melvin at church Saturday
night.
Aug. 30. Aafi1eid.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
LITTLE PUBLIC SPIRIT NEEDED
Few Places on M-to-B Highway That
Need Some Free Work.

There is no likelihood that further
work will be done On the Memphis. TO-
Bristol highway this fall by the high.
way commission. There were three
places that needed little work quite
badly, One Is at Dorton, one at Crab
Orchard and one in Renfro hollow.
The place in Renfro hollow has been
repaired by j. b. johnson. The other
two remain unfixed. 1t is very prob
able that the people at Crab Orchard
would turn out and make the needed
repairs there if some united action was
brought about by some one who cares
to devote a little time to it.
The place at Dorton has been need
ing work ever since the building of the
Memphis to- o-Brlstol highway was COM
menced. The real fact is, there is al
most a mile of road through Dorton
that has had practically no work on it
at any time, but it could be put in
passable shape If the auto owners of
Crossville would give it little free
work. 1t now seems up to them to fix
it If it is fixed at any early date.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
MEETING OF CITIZENS CALLED.

A meeting of citizens of CrossvIlle
and Cumberland county is hereby re-
quested at p. N. on Thursday. Sep
temper 6, 1917. in the Court House. for
the purpose of considering the matter
of submitting proposition to the War
Department looking to the location of
the infantry arms and machine gun
schools in Cumberland County. which
schools are to be located somewhere in
the south. There Is nothing possible
that would mean so much to this and
adjoining counties. A well attended
meeting of interested citizens is ex-
pected. Meetings IN other counties to
forward the same interest will soon
follow. Ali are invited.
Respectfully.
"A. L. Garrison.
--s;r- .------ A. =. Mcclure,
J. q. Burnett,
W. j. Ho6Ges,
j. s. Reed,
E. g. Tollett.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
ROAD WORK.

About three miles of grade 10 COM
pieted from Grab Orchard in the direc-
tion of Hebbertsburg. while consider
able rIght-of-way and erubbing Is done
beyond that.
Work on the road out of Crossville
on the Stephens Gap road has been
pushed by Jas. Smith and his force of
men with good success. The grading
is practically completed for nearly sew
en- miles and right-of-way and clubbing
are considerably advanced beyond that.
The road was changed at the Two Mile
Branch os as to entirely avoid that bad
hill and the road slightly shortened at
the same time. The work done IS a
great improvement over the old road
while the distance is IN no way length
ened but in several places changes have
shortened the line some.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
WHY NO CHRONICLE LAST week
Surgical Operation Put Machine Opera
tor in Unfit Condition for
Work.

Much to our regret we were unable
to issue the Chronicle last week. The
failure was caused by Miss Eula Bish-
op, our machine operator, having her
tonsils removed, which rendered her
uanble to work the greater part OF the
week.
DR.. Powell Lewis, of Doyle, White
county, came to Crossville, by appoint
ment and he and brother, DR.. V. L.
Lewis, performed several operations
last week. Monday, assisted by Dr.
A.V. Keebler, they removed the tom
sils from Misses Eula Bishop and
Eileen Hubbard. The operation was
entirely successful and the patients
are now almost fully recovered and
Miss Bishop Is back at work as ma
chine operator this week.
Drs. Lewis also removed the tonsils
for Percy Beadle. Mr.. Beadle stood
the operation rather better than the
ladies and he 10 also almost fully re-
covered.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05

Miss Hattie Hyder, of Hartman.
was the guest of Miss Bessie Potter
part Of last week.
Mrs. Geo. E. Taylor entertained with
a delightful card party honorlng her
house guests, Misses Willette Williams
and Gertrude Sander, of Hartman,
Frances Kemmer, OF Grassy Cove, and
Anne Melvin, of Waldensia. There
were five tables and late in the after
noon a delicious ice course was served.
Other out OF town guests were Misses
Carolyn kubin, Chicago; Beryl and
Eileen Hubbard, Ann Arbor, Mich,
ana Hattie Hyder, Hartman.
Mrs. l.. W. Martin and MISS Fannie
DeGolia entertained at 5000 at their
home Wednesday afternoon. The out
of town guests were Miss Frances
Kemmer, Grassy Cove; Miss Willette
Williams, Hartman; Miss Carolyn
Kubln, Chicago; Misses Beryl and
Eileen Hubbard, Ann Arbor. Michigan.
and Mrs Cora B. Keyes, Knoxville.
After delightful Afternoon delicious
salad and ice COURSES were served.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05

Main street was receiving a dressing
up with the road machine yesterday.
Mike Hale will soon have his grocery
and feed store completed and stock
will begin to arrive in short time.
Edgar Handy, who has been IN
Salisbury, N. c.. arrived home Satur-
day. He IS almost entirely recovered
from the broken thigh, as the result of
a fall from a telegraph pole some
weeks ago.
J. j. Andrews had his right leg
broken while making ties near Biglick.
He had cut tree which had hung on
the stump. As he cut the spllnters
that held 1t the tree kicked back and
struck him below the knee breaking
the leg near the ankle and dislocated
the ankle at the same time. The acci-
dent occurred Saturday. August Is; he
reached town Sunday evening and DR..
". A. Reed dressed the wsund and NJ
duced the fracture. He 10 dsiss we'll.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
WILL WRITE UP THIS SECTION
|. R. Neal, Of Southern AgricuIturists
Gathering Data for Article.

A short time ago L. K. Neel, associ-
ate editor ON the Southern Agricultur-
ist, published at Nashville and which
boasts a circulation of over 240, 900
subscribers, was here looking over
some OF the best farms with the view
to writing an article for the Country
Gentlemen that will put this section
favoratbly before the world.
Mr.. Neel owns a farm of some forty
acres of cleared land near Maryland and
has great confidence in this soil and
teels that there is bright future for
this plateau section.
While here he visited the farms of
Genera j. r. Mitchell and Jas. Smith
as being the best demonstrations of
what extensive farming aleng modern
lines will do. He stated that he had
travelled over a considerable portion Of
the state recently and no where had he
seen better soy beans than on the farm
of Mr.. Smith. He was alse pleasantly
surprised at the splendid corn tnat he
saw growing on this thin soil
GRAZING CATTLE.
He was surprised and pleased to see
the splendid results General Mitchell
had to show with cattle that have been
grazed on fenced land IN its native
state. General Mitchell has certainly
given a severe jolt to the idea that
cattle that are confined will not do
we'll when they Craze on the. native
grasses. He has 20 head of two-year-
oIds that have grazed the entire sum-
mer on $50 acres of wild land and they
are looking well; not quite so full in
flesh as the cattle that have the unlim-
tied range on which to feed, butsthey
are In good condition and show very
that cattle Will do we'll
grazing on this wild grass when con-
fined.
General Mitchell has a new silo and
silage cutter. He will erect the silo
this fall and fill it with splendid corn
sllage. He also has nearly 100 head of
hogs, large part Of which he expects
to fatten for the market.
MIR. Smith is planning to ship at
least two cars of fat cattle this fall,
after which he will have nearly 100
head left. He will build another sIio
this fail to supplement the one he has
1ad for the past three or tour years.
Mr.. Smith has 100 acres under cultiva-
Ion and has as good clover as can be
ound anywhere, while his soy beans
ire very likely equal to any ID the
tate. He also has eight acres IN po-
atoes that promise an excellent yield.
When the truth is set out as Mr..
leel will be able to do from the infor.
nation he CLEANED, it is sure to place
his section before the world In very
avorable light as a farming and stock
ajSlng section,
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
WHEAT PRICE FIXED.

The government has fixed the mini
mum price for wheat for the 1917 crop
at $2.2O per bushel and the 1918 crop
at 81 90 bushel. More than fifty mil
lions of dollars has been set aside for
buying wheat and by buying and sell
ing the government hopes to stabilize
prices until that staple will bring
profitable price to the producer bit
will not go to such high levels as to
embarrass the poor.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
MOVING TROOPS
More Than Half Million Men to Be Sent
to the Several Cantonments.

altogether 687. 900 men will have tt
be transported to the various canton
ments that the Government is building
to house the new National Army. The
movement will start today. Between
now and September ninth the railroads
will complete the entrainment of 200,
600 men, or approximately 80 per cent.
of the total number scheduled to be
moved to the various training camps.
1t is expected that second move
ment OF approximately 100000 men
will begin on September 18th, continu-
ing for four days thereafter, and a
third movement of the same size on
October 3rd.
Some conception of the magnitude of
the task confronting the American
Railway Association in preparing
schedules that will assure the safe and
prompt transportation of these armies
without interfering with regular traffic
may be CLEANED from the fact that to
move merely one field army OF ~. O0O
men requires 6,229 cars made up into
and train crews.
Meanwhile, in addition to moving
the 6S7, 900 recruits for the National
Army, the railroads have been asked
to supply transportation for the $50. 900
members of the National Guard to
their training camps. This National
Guard movement has already started
and will continue in increasing volume
until all have been moved.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
ABOUT WHEAT GROWING.
Best to Sow After Soy Beans Here; Disc
and Harrow But Don't PIow.

Special care to place the soil in gooc
condition in preparation for planting
wheat and rye will go a long way, say.
the United States Department OF Agri
culture, towards assuring the produc
ton of the bumper crops of those
grains which the Department hopes to
see harvested next year.
If winter grains are to be grown or
land devoted to similar grains during
the preceding season. the land should
be plowed as soon as the old crops are
removed and occasionally surface cul-
tivated to kill weeds until planting
time. The plowing should be to a
depth of about Z inches. Just before
planting time the land should be har-
rowed if fairly moist and free from
weeds; otherwise 1t should be dlsked
and harrwoed.
Wheat and rye may follow practically
any crop which may be got out of the
way IN time. Where a choice Is pos
sible, however, it is better to have
these grains follow cultivated crop,
preferably ieguminous crop such as
soy or other beans, or cowpeas. To
have them follow corn is a common
practice in parts of the corn belt. In
the South they may follow cotton and
in the southern Great Plains region,
the sorghums. In some sections farm
ers find 1t good plan to follow pota-
toes with v heat or rye.
If the at and rye follow culti-
waited crop hich has been kept free
from weeds, 1t IS best not to pillow the
land. The land may simply be dlsked
and harrow ed, narrowing to be per-
formed again just before seeding.
Under all conditions drilling IS pref
erable to broadcasting as a method of
planting and ii the farmer has no drill
of his own, it will be worth while for
him. in most cases. to rent one. When
a drill Is used less seed is required, the
seed are covered better and may be
planted IN contact with moist soil, and
4 more even stand IS obtained.
Fertilizer IS used on many wheat
farms east of central Kansas and Me-
braska, but IS used less frequently in
the region to the west. Fertilizer is
not generally used IN growing rye. In
growing wheat where fertilizer is used
acid phosphate ID considered CT chief
Under present conditions
t will hardly pay the farmer to use
potash. From 200 to $50 pounds of |
phosphate to the acre is the usual rate.
t IS best applied through tie drill at
planting time.
Lime should be used on land on which
wheat IS to be grown if acid conditions
'revail. The lime or ground limestone
nay be applied at the rate of 1000 to
900 pounds to the acre with lime
preader or drill, two or three weeks
efore planting time.-U. S. Depart
lent OF Agriculture.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05
CRossvLLE. TENNESSEE. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER s. 1917.

fertilizers TO the acre they plant their
rows three feet apart, but their hills
are set one font apart. This gives a
total of 14.500 hills to the acre.
Abroad, where the question of fertility
Is so carefully considered that potatoes
are grown only one year in SIX on the
same land. they plant between 24.0OO
and 26, 600 hills to the acre.
In 1911 Matthew Wallis was knight
ed by King George V for having raised
ll9. 800 pounds of potatoes to the acre.
Astounding? Well, he put his land in
to such condition that 1t could stand
36, 900 hills to the acre, that's all.
During the first ten days of August
wholesale prices TOR potatoes on the
New York market ranged from 81. 25
to So. 62 per 100 pounds. Inspectors
reports from points of origin of this
stock showed that the lowest level was
reached when little or no effort was
made to send out strictly graded
product. Just as soon as the growers
united tor better grading, the prices
rose.
In one famous potato section the
price this year went to $2.25 barrel,
because of the poor quality of the Of
ferings. Strict grading sent the price
over night to $3.85, with the demand
exceeding the supply"
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-09-05

Peter Weaver has built a new con-
crete porch to the rear of the Chronicle
Office this week. The job is q neat ose.
and seems to be we'll done IN every
way.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08

toward raising big army Of volun-
teers, it wishes to be prepared with
sufficient training officers should the
emergency occur.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08
WAR DEPARTMENT PLANS
TRAIN VOLUNTEER ARMY

Washington, March a.-With a
view of training an army Of half
million men, if needed, the war de-
partment has issued orders to regi-
mental commanders on the border to
prepare lists of sixty men in each
command who could be appointed to
officers places as high as captain to
do training work.
While the war department said Of
ficially today there isNno move afoot
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08

-O-O-
DEATH THREAT YARN PUTSiTHE
POLICE IN BAD WITH PRESS
When the hunger-crazed maniac
sent letters threatening to kill j. Og-
den Armour and Nelson Morris,
packers, and Joseph Griffin, presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, he start
ed something more than he-thought.
Besides soaring a good number of
our silk-stocking citizens and caus-
ing few of them to leave town I'M
expectedly, he started bitter feud
between the detective bureau and all
most every newspaper in town.
The Examiner had a clean scoop
on the story, how the writer of the
note was going to kill Armour, Nor
ris and Griffin on the night of March
2, presumably because he thought
they were responsible for the high
cost of living.
The story made it appear that
Griffin told the newspapers about
getting the letter from the maniac.
AS a matter of fact, he didn't tip the
papers off.
The Examiner intimated that the
leak was in the Federal bldg. But
the other newspapers traced the
story to the detective bureau, be-
tween the chief of detectives, James
Larkin, and the chief clerk, James
Markham.
Griffin says he told Markham
about getting the letters and asked
protection from the writer, but eau
toned Markham to secrecy because
he didn't want the story to become
public for fear of frightening his wife
and two children.
Markham says the only one he told
about the story was his superior, the
chief of detectives, James Larkin.
When the story was spread by the
Examiner Tuesday both were
called" from the offices of every
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-08
Lord Graham

Lord Graham, publisher of the
Montreal Star, is the first native Ca
madam and the first newspaper man
of the British overseas dominions to
be created a baron. He is So and be-
gan his career as an office boy for
small newspaper. He was knighted
in 1908.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-10
RODRIGUEZ SAYS SCHOoLBoYS I
ARE NOT ENLISTING

FNlN- W. ElNGlS . llNN
The high school boys Of Chicago
are voting on whether they want
militarism in the school system. 1t
looks now as though the vote will be
overwhelmingly against militarism.
In some schools only one boy out
of 25 has enlisted for military drill-in
the corps under Capt. SteeYer. If
more reports like the first ones keep
coming in, it is safe to say the plans
Of Jake Loeb and organized business
to militaTiZe our schools will be a
failure. It will be the same kind of
a failure as the preparedness parade
of last June, when 10000 marched
and less than 40 enlisted in the ma
tiOnal guard"
These are the views Of Aid. Rod
TigueZ, who introduced the TesOlu-
ton now before city council prOvid-
ing that no guns, nor soldier uni
forms, nor military drill, shall be ap-
proved for the Chicago schools. Rod
riguez is going to get the records of
how many boys are going in and he
says if enlistment is as slim as at
first indicated he will ask a council
vote on his resolution no matter what
the action of schools committee may
be.
q am a Spanish war veteran and I
have fought under the American flag
on foreign soil, so perhaps l may be
privileged to discuss this question as
freely as the stay-at-home patriots
like AID Link, who doesn't like my
AmeTiCanism," said the alderman
from the 18th.
Believe me, if the voluntary drill
now sanctioned by the school board
proves a sUccess-if they can lead
the boys into 1.-THE next step will
be compulsory drill. Its success will
be pointed as one more argument for
universal military service"
Aid. John c. Kennedy is raising
the point that in Germany there has
been no military training in the
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-10
STATE CLOSE CASE AGAINST
UNION MEN AND MFGRS.

OINlOlN WEN ANU WIT OFNOs
The government closed its case
against the members of the Interna-
tiOnal Brotherhood Of Electrical
Workers and the Chicago Switch
board Manufacturers assn yesterday
and the matter was continued until
next Wednesday to give the defense
a chance to prepare.
Horace Hill, vice president of the
Chicago Telephone Co, again stated
on the stand that he had bribed
Michael Boyle, union business agent,
to betray the workers and not call a
strike on the new Telephone bldg.
He admitted paying $4,000.
NEW YORK STOCKS. - Prices
generally up. Close steady.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-02-10
man boys till they're through with
school at Is.
SAYS so. AMERICA is AGAINST
WILSON PLAN


Buenos Aires, Feb. los mistake
to COnstrue notes forwarded to Ger
many by South American nations as
endorsement of Pres. Wilson's posi-
ton, in view Of Jorge Aitre, editor Of
influential La Nacion and regarded
as one of leading authorities on
South American affairs.
THE Argentina government" Mo-
tire explained today, was especially
unenthusiastic over Americas stand
and in a more or less degree the
same feeling was shown in notes Of
other republics, except Brazil. And
Brazil objects to Germany's subma-
rine blockade because of her. own
oversee trade in grain and coffee.
She is also particularly friendly to
Pres. Wilson"
Argentina government today hand
ed to American Ambassador StimsOn
a curt message of 40 words transmit
ting a copy of Argentina's note to
Germany. The forty words merely
state that copy of note to Germany
embOdies Argentina's reply to Pres.
Wilson's request that neUtrals join
United States.