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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-01-25

Now, Judge E...s~- AR, asks
the Democratic voters of Fulton
county, for that office for anoth-
er terln-if he merits it; if he
has filled the bill to their satisfae
tion. Well, the proof of the
pudding is the tasting; let 5 see,
in brief way, what has been
done during his administration.
OF course, he is not due all the
credit-nor all the blame, In eth
or case. but here are some of the
principal items:
A new $4,000 county jail.
Steel beam, concrete bridges,
$4,000.
Concrete culverts, $4,000.
Metal culverts, $4,000.
Flooring for steel bridges,
5000.
Road machinery, 81, 200.
Repairing and painting Court
House and outbuildings, 81, 200.
Every mile of public road In
the county has been dragged
each year and about 50 miles of
new opened and added to county
roads. Roads have also been di-
vided into sections and drag plac-
ed ON each section, SO roads could
be dragged at proper time by
simply notifying each contractor
thus giving us the best dirt roads
in the State. He also installed
q system requiring weekly repots
Of all work done in each section
condition Of roads and culverts
al of said reports to be signed
by magistrate of said district ane
county road engineer, and for
warded to county judges office
where . complete record Is kept
The county also assisted In open
ING the cah-Memphis High
way at q cost Of about 81 500, ant
also helped in building and grav
cling State Road, east Of Hick
man, and a short stretch OF roat
near Fulton. There have beel
fills made in . permanent man
ner that cost around near S4OoO
plus . large expense IN makina
1hs highway wider.
There also has been establish
"a = Juvenile Court, which ha
accomplished . great and mucl
peeded work in dealing with de
linoucpk children, and saved tn
county : considenble expense.
u kranoh e the County Conr
~ established = Fulton, for tn
oonvenieuce Of people>in the 80
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sc DIS
items out OF the way, there as
nothing TO hinder the county from
getting out-of debt and having
nice balance on hand before an
other four years. The accomplish
ments of the past four years have
been gigantic, compared with all
previous terms. AS stated be-
fore, the Judge is not the whole
show" but merely the presiding
officer of the Fiscal Court, which
has charge of the county's at
fairs, though it must be conceded
that his views and suggestions
are of considerable weight and
respected by the members of the
court. AS a major portion of the
county's money was spent on road
work, We believe it was spent IN
mighty good cause, and the
court is to be commended rather
than criticised. Roads cannot be
built without spending money -
and no county can get very far
without passable roads. Give us
more roads-and better roads.
Getting back to the Judge s
candidacy for reelection. We
started to say, thus far he has
no opposition, and is not expect
ed to have any-which in itself
is a gilt-edge endorsement of his
work during the expiring term.
1t is also a logical conclusion that
if his first term has been satls-
factory second would be even
more so, as he is better acquaint-
ed with the general run of the
duties of the office, etc. The ac-
cepted precedent of giving the
county judge a second term IS al
so in his favor; but aside from
this his record is above reproach
and recommends him for a Sec
ond election. 1t must be conced-
ed by all that Judge Stair has
never lost sight of the county 8 In
terests. He is a man possessing,
! what we are pleased to term,
horse sense, plus legal knowledge
and observation-disclosures; impartial
, honest, fearless, untrammeled by
any set of men, uninfluenced by
ulterior motives. AS to his po-
J litical faith, it is only necessary
/ to recall that as a result OF hii
work as ecounty chairman Of th'
, Democratic Campaign Committee
Last fall Fulton county rolled M
! the biggest Democratic majority
, in its history. But all Of thu Il
/ generally kn0wn-and we ar'
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ht we are able to
Hill be necessary for
Wee committee, within
iew days, to find ways
for raising from $500
na.h cover additional ex-
W. neufred in building the
ma melnan levee. This extra
49, - to be expended in
md pulling stumps from
way and theSbuild-
,iR % >huge concrete sewer,
poIn = dich fell to the local
coi',ii'n lot. 1t was only just
nat w tand the expense of
siiese -, but they were not
lgureh = on the original. Ger
lalniy M committee will have
liO.ie 0D difficulty in getting
Dhls iM as the amount is so
ihsigi&nt as compared with
me Dats derived. 1t might
also Ds3ed that our merchants
ana Duess men, who have not
oeen I'D upon to help with
TINS pNRt, viii receive indirect
DenefItf sufficient magnitude
TO JUST each of them giving a
liberal nation to this fund. A
year awe spent more taking
rrare dtfugees, to say nothing
'of loahsiness, than is now re-
quirejf us for permanent pro-
tectiQ4ainst a reoccurrence Of
such l6saster. In short, this
colnu1e should receive our fl
uanG16d and cooperation in
is cpt to raise the amount
Gon. There should be
bling, hanging back or
sanoE6hg. The levee bene-
lh>k Courier, although we
mn property behind it, just
Isi 1oes every other business
n ! town. 1t is limited that
w no subscribed money In
lie mGnal canvass for funds, are
ladnd to find excuses for not
lanH across. If such there be,
lte0 to us these collections
sIm3k made with the minimum
- of trouble. 1t would be
to convince a court OF
pr twelve COED men that
6SAgation sHo1fld not be dis
Erged; more especially in view
fact that nGgrounds for with
,lding payment were discover
until after the levee had been
The levee is a God
nd to Hickman and every dollar
le, as subscription or extra ex-
,nse, should be paid promptly.
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Mott Ayres, formerly y. = ea'son
has been elected Democratic
County Chairman of Jones Cddn-
ty, Mississippi. Great guns and
little fishes
Owners of automobiles and
Fords had better secure their
1917 license right away, for the
license inspector is headed this
way.
Capt. G. B. Hackett has been
sick for several days.
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r. v. Putnam has sold his sec
ond hand automobile rights and
priileges, also part of his equip
ment. to Leonard Frost.
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cular turrets, the. coming tower,
and the curvedssides of the ship.
The plant requires considerable
heavy machine work to provide
the fastenings for holding them
on the ships and for making them
tit their proper places In the
armor belt. The fact that in
some cases as mucch as 20 per
cent of the plate must be cut a.
way indicates the importance and
great cost of the machining.
An armor plant such as con-
templated in the act of Con-
gress, having an annual capacity
OF not less than 10000 tons Of
armor and costing about $11,-
100000, is described in the Re-
port of the Committee to Inves-
tigate the Cost of an Armor Plant
for the United States,' of which
Senator Tillman was chairman
and which report is published in
House Document No. 1920, 63d
Congress, Sd session.
The plant estimated for will
consist OF an electric power plant,
boiler plant. an open hearth
plant, forging and bending shop
for heavy plates, cementing and
tempering shop, and machine
shop for finishing ar7nor plate.
Aside from these there will be an
office building, laboratory
building, and the miscellaneous
shops and building necessary for
auxiliary purposes.
In the open hearth plant there
will be made all the steel from
which the armor is fabricated.
The raw material used will be
pig iron and arm0r scrap with
the necessary nickel, ferrochrome,
fearomanganese, etc. There will
be five open hearth furnaces, and
the 10 accompanying gas produc
ers. The building will be about
700 feet In length.
The forging and bending shop
will contain four furnaces fQH
heating the heavy 7noOts, and
10 furnaces for plate heafing, be-
side the heavy forging pressea
with intensifier and pumps. The
building will be more that 1,100
feet In length.
Tbo <,oxno.,x.,n<~ ~~,A <oxnv1o~.;,,sp
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
Berry Preserving
|: Is Easy IF Simple
. Rules Are Followed

Use only fresh, firm and clean
b1ueberries for canning, says today's
bulletin from the National Emergen-
cy Food Garden Commission. which
is cooperating with this paper in its
nationwide food conservation cam
paign. Best results are obtained il
the fruit is canned the same day that
1t is picked.
Pick over fruit carefully and wash
by placing in colander and pouring
cold water through it. Pack into hot
glass. jars and fill spaces with boiling
water or hot syrup. Adjust tops and
partially seal jars (tin cans should
be sealed completely sterilize in boil
Ing water fir sixteen minutes and
then tighten tops of jars Immediate
ly after removing from the hot wa
ter. Invert in a place free from
per to prevent loss of color in stor-
age. (Keep it dark
If syrup is desired, use a cup OF
sugar to four cups of water and boil
till dissolved. Use syrup boiling hot.
BlackberrieS and Dewberries:
B1ackberries and dewberries should
be picked in shallow trays or baskets
during the cool part of the day can
ned as soon as possible after being
picked. Greater care is necessary in
handling these berries than in the
case of b1ueberries because they are
more easily damned
The canning process is essentially
the same except that the heavier syr-
up may be used if desired. An excel
lent syrup made be made of a cup OF
sugar dissolved in three cups of the
juice from very ripe berries. This
gives very fine flavor and adds col
or to the canned fruit making a pala-
table and. attractive dessert.
Send a two cent stamp to the Ma
honal Emergency Food Garden Com
mission 210, Maryland Bldg, Wash
ington, D. C. for free canning and
drying manuals
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
Today's Anniversaries

Cruel punishment was the reward
of Thomas Abel, chaplain at the,
court of Henry VIII, who was exc
cuted on July 80, 1910. He incurred
the resentment of the king by his
attachment to the cause of the queen,
Catherine. Such was the kings an
ger against the unfortunate clergy
man that he was not alone hanged,
but was drawn and quartered. On
this date in the year 1926 one of
the most disastrous earthquakes on
record devastated the region about
Naples. wiping out thirty towns and
villages and resulting in the death of
more than 10000 people. On July
80, ,1733 the first lodge of Free Ma
sons in America was opened at Bos-
ton. The poet Gray, whose famous
work 'Eulogy Written in a Country
Churchyard' has gained world wide
fame, died on this day in the year
It'll. In 1866 Geographic communi-
cation between America and Europe
was established. The Great Eastern
sailed with the cable and landed the
shore-end at Valentia, ireland. It was
on July both. that the President of
the United States answered the first
cable message. sent by Queen Victor
ia. In 1871 on this day, the steamer
Westfield exploded at New York,
causing the loss of one hundred lives.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
Manual Labor Pays
Better Now Than The
Arts And Crafts Do

There are some queer contrasts in
the values placed by the world on diff
ferent kinds Of work Charlie Chaplin
gets ten times as much as the Presi-
dent OF the United States. And man
ual labor is reaching the point where
1t commands more than art or brains
of many kinds.
One instance Is the relative pay
earned by women who produce art OBJ
1ecAs. and those who do the coarsest
kind of manual labor. A fef years
ago the arts and crafts movement
was a prominent phase of our eco
non1ic interests. Many women took to
producing art objects and artistic
home furnishings.
Their product was interesting. orig
lnal, and harmonious. It enabled
many families toy buy material giving
their dwellings a distinctive charac-
ter with beauty of its own. The
cr.ftswpmen found mental stimulus
and congenial employment in turning
out superior product.
Unfortunately this kind Of work
brings in money returns far below its
merit. AS soon as the craftswomer
worked out an idea, the factories i'm
ftated it with machine product fol
half the money, and made a. fairly
good bluff at it too. OF course there
win always he many tasteful people
who will form a market for a high
grade of hand work But factory pro.
ducts are made so much more cheaply
and are often SO good, that the mar
ket for hand made house furnishing.
| will always be limited.
It was said by people interested II
| this movement. that q person coult
| earn about ten cents an hour making
| high grade raffia baskets. While thes,
highly cultivated and gifted wonel
were turning out these lovely art pro
ducts for that pittance. the most ig
norant alien can now earn % cents al
hour scrubbfng floors. Which sug
gests that the people who go in 70
art professionally need other means o
support, and in so far as they Deepen.
on art, their food rrust be largely spir
itual rather than material.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30

Luther Burbank. the famous plant
wizard" was born on March q. 1s4s.
at Lancaster. Mass. Among the new
species of plants which he has bred
are the Shasta daisy. the thornless
cactus and thornless blackberry and
the plumcot and pineapple ounce.
In 1904 he received a $4,000 al
slowance for five years from Carnegie
institute in order that he might have
freedom and leisure to pursue his
scientific studies. In 1907 he trans
ferred to q corporation all rights to
his creations except the ones which
he had already sold. He had recent
" more than 1900 extensive expert
kments in progress and was growing
more than 5000 distinct botanical
specimens.
$n 1916 he married Miss Elizabeth
Waters, who had formerly been his
secretary.
It was first reported at Santa Rosa.
Cal, his home, that Mr.. Burbank was
suffering from overwork and q cold
but it was announced that he had
been stricken with appendicitis.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
John Sharp Williams

If you should happen to meet John
Sharp Williams, United States Sena-
tor from the great and glorious state
OF Mississippi, ON the street, and If
you should not just happen to know
exactly that it was he, don't for heav-
ems sake, make the mistake of ask
ing him to call around for your old
ciothes-he might resent it. True, he
would appear to be most -sorely in
need of some new wearing apparel.
for Senator Williams doesn't give, a
snap of his fingers for appearance or
clothes or things like that. He prefers
to devote his mind to more serious
things than neckties and such. It is
no wonder, therefore, that he has
the reputation of being, one of the
most learned men in the United
States Senate, and you will agree
that that's going some John Sharp
Williams, having been born on July
80, 1854, In Memphis, HEM, is a
Democrat from his toes to the top
of his, very high browed head. His
mother died when he was still child
and his father, a colonel in the Twen-
ty-Seventh Tennessee Volunteers,
Confederate States Army, was killed
in the battle of Shiloh. It was then
that the future senator was taken to
his mothers ancestral home, Yazoo
County, Mississippi. Here the boy
grew up and received his early edu-
cation. Then followed courses at the
Kentucky Military Institute, at the
University of the South at Suwanee,
at the University Of Virginia and
later, abroad at the University of
Heidelberg, Germany. Do you won
der that John Sharp Williams is a
high-brow? When he returned home
from Heidelberg he took up the study
of law. He was admitted to the bar
and returned to his native state of
Mississippi, with which he has been
identified ever since. Besides prac-
ticing law, he has also been for many
years engaged in what he described
in his own words as "the varied pur-
suits of a cotton planter From 1898
to 1903 he presented the Fifth dis
trict of Mississippi in Congress; from
1908 to 1909 he represented the
Eighth District. AS far back as Au-
gust, 1907, Williams was chosen BY
the people of his state to be the par
tvs candidate for the Senate. The
following winter the legislature elect
ed him to succeed H. D. Heney, an6
on April A, 1911, he took his seat
from which since that time nobody
has succeeded in dislodging him an6
it is safe to bet that nobody will fol
| a long time to come.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
SECRET HEARTACHES.

Alma writes: "I am q young Wo-
man of % and one Of the worlds hard
workers. Am employed in store
which requires my services from IN
the morning until at night and fire.
quently later If there are custoners
to be waited on. have a beau, OF
rather did have until lately. He was
always annoyed because could not
accompany him out any evening but
Sunday. I certainly felt as badly over
lit as he debut could not get other
employment that paid as well and
gave me the evenings to myself. De-
spite that drawback all went well be-
tween this man and myself until a
very good looking stylish girl came
into the neiglhborhood. The young
man had to pass her home every time
hes came to see me, and, somehow,
they became acquainted. She is a
stenographer in an office, her time be-
ing her own after 4 o'clock afternoons,
all Saturday afternoons and evenings.
My beau has quit me and gone to see
her and takes her out I am heart
sore over it. I do not have equal
chances with her. Should z throw UP
my position, get something, anything
else to do, and try to win him back ?
I cannot do that while ann tied
down"
The young man who would quit a
observing sweetheart for such a rea-
son as you state, is not worth hav-
ing-not worth the affection you are
wasting on him. If he really cared
for you, nothing, no one could have
power to part him from you. He
would wish to wed you all the sooner,
to have you all to himself, and pro-
vide you a rest from five years OF
such arduous labor, The fact that he
has proven himself f1clnle, should be
he a warning to you that your future
does not worry him. He has trans
ferred his interest to another. There
is only one thing to do, and that is to
face the truth, that you must live
without him. Brave is the girl who
faces such a bitter battle with her
heart courageously-and wins. No
doubt Cupid has better mate in store
for you. Have faith while you wait
lpatinently. Remember the loss of one
lover may be the gaining of two 9TH
| ers, and your choice Of half dozen.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
Tan, Red or Freckled
Skin Is Easily Shed

To free your summer-soiled skin of
its muddiness, freck1es, blotches or
tan, the, best thing to do is to free
yourself of the skin itself. This is
easily accomplished by the use of ordi-
nary mercolized wax, which can be
had at any drugstore. Use at night
as you, use cold cream, washing lit
off in, the morning. !. immediately the
offending surface skin begins to come
off in fine, powdered like particles
Gradually the entire cuticle is absorb
ed, without pain or Inconvenience
The. second layer of skin now in evil
dence presents a spotless witness
and sparkling beauty obtainable in no
other way.
If the heat tends to loosen and
wrinkle your skin. there's an effective
and harmless remedy you can readily
make at home. Just let an ounce OF
powdered saxolite dissolve in a half
pint witch hazel and battle your face
in the liquid. This at once tightens
the skin and smooths out the lines,
making you look years younger.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
DEATH OF PENN

William Penn, the quaker and
founder of Pennsylvania. died on
July 80, 171S, in England, a very
much disappointed man. He had
worked very hard to establish a col
ony on this side OF the Atlantic.
PENIS chief fault, and the one which
had brought him most Of his troubles,
was that he was a poor judge of
character. Those whom he sent to
represent him and carry on his bust
ness affairs, were too often either
weak or wicked. HIS son, William,
was arrested in a drunken brawl in
Philadelphia and expelled from the
Quaker fellowship. All sorts OF
wranglings broke out in the province
and the whole state of affairs be-
came so miserable that Penn was cast
into the very deepest despair and
thought very seriously of selling the
governorship for $4,000 pounds. III
ness alone prevented the signing OF
the transfer. In 1713, Penn, living
at Ruscombe. in Berkshire, had 9
paralytic stroke and two others fol
lowed soon after. He spent his de-
elining years walking about his gar.
den and finally died in IT'S.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-30
Russia's Liberty Loan

It must make Nicholas Romanoff.
erstwhile Car OF ell the Russians feeI
pretty. good to have received permits
sion to invest some of the fortune
that is left him In Russia's Liberty
loan There was a time when he
could have taken up the whole loan
and had few hundred million ru-
bIes to spare for any other little en-
terprise, for prior to the revolution
which deposed him his private for
tune amounted to something like
$500, 200, 600 or $500, 600. 600, with q
few odds and ends, too small to both
er about not included. So now he
has picked over the leavings and has
invested half a million In the Russian
Liberty loan. He had Co ask paFInas-
sion first, though, Of the new Mil1fB-
ter of Finance stating that all he
had left now was about $2.50o,o00.
but he would glady deprive himself
for the sake Of the Russia he used to
own. He received permission to hand
over some of this cash and. ifshernev-
err did his bit for Russia In the old
days. he certainly Is doing &c as far
as he Is able, at the present time.