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The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

DR.. Martin reports the birth Of
a daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Robt.
Conlee, Tuesday, 9th.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

w. J. Mountz, Jr., has return
cd from Lamar, Morgan county
where he has been for some weeks
engaged as government store
keeper guager
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

Sheriff II. 7. Derickson was
down from Stanton Tuesday serv-
ing notices on property owners
of increase in assessed value OF
property by Board Of Supervisors.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

C. T. Mapel, of Irvine, wasln
the city Monday on business.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

Hubert l.. Hunter, of Winches-
ter. was in the city Tuesday.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

Mrs. Hackworth and daughter,
Miss Virgle, returned Monday
from visit to relatives in Lex
lnUton
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11
Local Brevities

Pulaski county voted dry by
., 500 majority Jan. 6.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

Mrs. Luther Loving visited rel
atives in Lexington last week.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVoR
(Pledge MeetingD

Leader: Miss Roxye Akers.
Subject: Ought.
Reading: Ps. 30 I-l5.
Junior Meeting
Subject. Thinking about Gods Laws.
Scripture Lesson: Ps. aud , Phil.
I;S.
-
Preaching service immediately after
program.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-11

We find il necessary to print a
six page paper tins week, and
this makes us one day late.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17
VIRoQUA, WIS, Aug. 8, 1917.

Buyers best posted tell the Censor
that there is at this time uncontrolled
for in Vernon county not per cent of
the tobacco acreage. Last week clean
Aed the platter, practically, and the out
side buyers went on their way to con-
quor other worlds, so to speak. But
from reports elsewhere in Wisconsin
the contracting craze has been much
like that here. Before the race was
concluded in these parts the market
was topped in very few instances by
a price of tWenty-six cents.
The outlook is not fiattering, we are
sorry to report. The crop is very un-
even and appears stunted in too many
cases. In the valleys overf1owed fields
do not appear to take root and push
forward. On one farm fine, vigorous
crop grows, while on the next place a
radically different and poor outlook is
found. AS whole the crop is two to
three weeks late, and unless the best
of conditions prevail in near future
days and weeks we shall not have bet
ter than an average crop, if we are
favored to that extent. Some fields
are ready for topping, and that work
has commenced in small way. There
is tendency to shortness of leaves
and stunted plant. Censor.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17
WISCONSIN TOBACCO MARKET.
EDGERToN. WIS. A

EDGERToN. WIS.,. Aug. II, l917.
The movement of buying the new to-
bacco crop has well nigh worked itself
out. While there may be close to five
per cent of the crop yet uncontrolled
for, it is comprised mostly of either
undesirable prospects or held by grew
ers who demand still higher figures
than heretofore paid, with the result
that the movement is at standstill
and most firms have retired their men
from the field. Practically all that
could be lifted at anything at or under
the 25 cent mark has been taken over
while the rush season was on, SO it is
hardly necessary to quote Individual
sales.
A large portion of the southern grow
ing districts is greatly in need Of gen
eral rains. Only temporary relief by
light showers has come during the
week. The great bulk of the fields is
at that stage when with plenty of
moisture and warm weather will make
the usual yield. Fully three-fourths of
the crop needs four to five weeks yet
under favorable weather conditions to
reach harvest, which will take us
close to the October line and frosts are
seldom delayed to that date. Only a
small fraction of the crop has yet beer
topped though plenty of fields show
blossoms without the usual spread of
leaf. So the most critical time for the
crop has now arrived.
Cured leaf is pretty generally out of
the market with local packers.
The shipments out of storage reach
800 cases and cars of bundles to all
points since last report.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17
New England.

SPRINGFIELD, MASS, Aug. 6, 1917.
Hail and wind damage TO tobacco of
upward of $500, 900 resulted from the
electric storm which centered IN Wind
sor, Conn.,, Thursday afternoon. Fhe
storm area was comparatively small,
but the damage in the districts affected
is the largest in generation. In the
section visited by hail two weeks ago
not hailstone fell on Thursday.
The storm assumed hurricane pro-
portions and leveled tents and Shaded
crops therein as well as the sun-groWn
crops. Probably 1900 acres OF tobacco
were damaged, of which the loss is
total on at least 500 acres.
The list of Individual losses is impress
sive and would be far too long for pub
lication if an accurate compilation were
available. 1t is understood that about
one-quarter of the damaged tobacco
was partly insured against hail. The
Olds & Whipple plantation near Scan
tic caught the full fury of the storm.
Frank III. Whipple places the firm, s
loss at S25, 600. Barns and sheds Of
fered but slight resistance to the ter
rife wind. Tent coverings, wires and
tobacco plants were hopelessly entan-
gled.
The latest hail destruction removes
any>hope which may have existed that
something like fair amount OF good
tobacco would be available in New
England. Three terrific hail and wind
storms, with loss aggregating more
than So, 600, 600, are solar plexus: The
season is late and unharvested tobacco
will be exposed to hail danger for the
next six weeks. After the first of
September tobacco will be in line for
damage by frost as we'll as hail.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17
New York.
NEW YORK, Aug. II, 1917.

(
The second Sumatra inscription at
the American "Frascati" passed off
with even a greater eclat than the first
one, with larger attendance and more
spirited bidding. 1t also made the
record of top-notch price for at least
one lot. With the third inscription
scheduled for the beginning of October
the American Import Corporation will
have supplied the American cigar in
dustry with between $4,000 and $4,000
bales of tobacco, quantity which is
far from even half the necessary Su-
matra supply for our cigar industry.
The consumption of Sumatra in this
country in the poorest season on record
was 28, 900 bales. It's normal consump-
tion fiuctuates between 3d., and
81 900 bales and rises, in prosperous
year, to $4,000 bales. journal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17
NOTE BOOK SKETCHES


Dealers in Wisconsin leaf have al
ready begun to speculate what the 1917
crop bought at top-notch prices will
cost the packers in the cases and what
the cured leaf must be sold for year
hence to yield any profit. 1t is gener-
ally conceded that the labor expense of
warehouse handling will be consider
ably increased the coming season as
well as the packing cases and many
other incidentals. The packer whose
tobacco costs him 25 cents, from the
grower can hardly figure the cost,
marked weight, in the cases, less than
80 cents Just what must be added to
the initial cost to take care Of the ex-
pense of rehandling should damage oc-
cur in the curing is another liability to
be determined later. 1t is hazard
certainly no packer can escape. The
manufacturer, therefore, is expected
to pay 35 to 40c for his stock year
hence if the dealer in the 1917 Wiscon-
sin crop is to receive any profit from
his investment. A few years ago such
a figure would be considered prohibi-
tive, but these are war times and peo-
pie are becoming accustomed to soar
ing prices. There seems to be no limit
as to what the traffic will stand now.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17

(Concluusd on Page ~
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17

A side light showing how the recent
furious buying campaign was correctly
predicted in advance by Water Street
dealer is contained in letter Of in
struction sent his local representative
in this state in which he writes: ''The
new Wisconsin crop will be bought up
entirely at an earlier date than anyone
expects. You must be prepared to get
into the game and act quickly. When
the break comes, if you see crop that
looks good to you, don't leave it at
anything like reasonable figure, for
if you do you will not find it when you
return. The New York dealers and
larger manufacturers need tobacco and
the Wisconsin crop will not last long
when they get started Here is a bit
of evidence that the movement was
iprearranged on Water Street and car
ried through without a slip.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-08-17

The good women of the country are
knitting sweaters, socks, Wristbands
and all sorts of comfortable things to
send to the soldiers at the front. What
about tobacco? There is nothing you
can think of that will give more COM
fort and solace to these men than to-
bacco. We, like all good Americans,
want to do something and, interested in
the tobacco business, we feel that our ac-
tivities can be applied more effectively
in that line than in any other. No one
better than those who have had exper-
ience in the war where there were hard
campaigns, long marches, much drill
ing, guard duty, picket service, skir-
mishing and battles knows the satisfac-
ton and comfort soldier finds in his
well filled pipe or tobacco pouch. 1t
must have been soldiers of the civil
war. or the later wars who suggested
that general fund be created for the
purchasing of tobacco in various forms
and in large quantities, to be sent to
Uncle Sans fighting men in France.
All over the country newspapers are
receiving subscriptions to this fund.
Any Of our readers who desire to con-
tribute will be given an opportunity
through The Reporter.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
Primary CoIors.

As TO what are the primary coiors
is something on which authorities
have disagreed. Sir David Brewster
called red, yellow and blue the pri-
mary colors and this view has been
commonly held by painters and others.
since all the known brilliant hues can
be derived from admixture of these
three pigments. But if the pure spec
trail colors are superposed upon a
screen the resulting colors are quite
different. Thomas Young suggested
red, green and violet as the primary
colors. but subsequent experiments by
j. Clerk Maxwell appear to show that
they should be red, green and blue.
Sir William Abney, however, says red,
green and violet. Any two colors
which together produce white or
gray light are complementary colors -
Exchange.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03

l622, a newspaper believed to be the
first real newspaper. was printed II
was called the Weekly News and pur-
ported TO contain news of doings in
Germany France, Hungary and Bohe-
mia.
From then on newspapers mostly
weekly publications, began to appear
from time 10 time in increasing mum
bers Advertisements of medicines be
gan TO be inserted in the newspapers
ut an early date. The insertion of the
first real newspaper advertisements
however, is credited 10 Nathaniel But
Ter, who advertised books.
The first two magazines TO carry ad
vcrtisements were Godey's Lady Book
and Peterson's. but IL was not until
1864 that magazine advertising really
began. and it was not until 1880 that "A
general use was made of magazines.
Tor advertising purposes Philadel-
phia Press
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03

EgAPPY NEW YEAR, men and
IA women!
Happy New Year, girls and boysl
Let me wish you all sincerely
Twelve months trimming fun of
joys.
May new hopes and aspirations
Stir within your hearts today,
Soaring last years disappointments
From your memories away.
Turn around and face the sunshine
With its constant warmth and
cheer,
Firm resolving you will seek it
Every day throughout the year.
Clouds which darken your horizon,
Whilo you're gazing toward the
light,
Are collections of thin vapor
Which viii soon drift out of sight,
Let unselfish love for others
Prompt you Oft to noble deeds;
Flowers blooming by the roadside
Are more beautiful than weeds.
Through hfe's mazes we all wander,
Many stumble as though blind,
So a helping hand be often
Stretching forth to lift mankind.
May this New Year be much better
Than the her years you've passed;
Let it be a strong foundation,
Built to hold your future fast.
Use enough good bricks and mortar
SO your edifice won't snake
Should the earth begin to tremble
With war or giaat quaks.
Grace Sorenson in Omaha World
Herald
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
New Years Eve Among the Kayaks.

The Greeks who dwell in Turkish
territory and are subjects OF the sui
ian are known as Greek Kayaks. They
follow the Greek calendar, according
10 which Jan. l comes on our Jan. II
New Years eve is great time for the
Rayah boys As soon as they ring the
bell of house the door Is thrown open
and the voice of the master is heard,
saying. Let the boys in at once. Give
them money, fruit and all that they can
carry of St Basis cake. Come on.
servants: fill their pockets while they
give us their song!
Then the poor children. delighted by
the warm welcome of the host and the
profusion of dainty things given them,
sing with frenzy the romantic little
tale of St Basil. patron saint OF the
home and of the young. and end with
the calling down of numerous bless
ings OH the generous family during the
new year. Youths Companion.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
On the First Morning.

1t is curious TO find the Puritan
Judge Sewel hater of all holidays
and set days. recording with much
pleasure his being awakened on New
Years morning In sober Boston in 1893
by a levet or blast of trumpets, and he
celebrated Jan. l. 100. which he
thought was the opening of new
century, by writing very poor poem
ana causing it to be cried or recited
through the town by the town crier
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03

BAN JOHNSON, PRESIDENT or AMERICAN
the country, and they grant that Ban
Johnson was right in wanting 70 bring
the matter to an issue at once.
In New Orleans recently the minor
leaguers turned the players down cold.
They even refused to consider any one
Of the requests, some of which Were
reasonable and harmless. This is to
say they have issued an open chal-
lenge and the athletes led by Dave
Fultz can do as they like
Under cover the major Leagues are
urging the minors on and will have to
stand by them. Mr.. Fultz, for the
present, declines to say what the play
ers will do. If they decide to strike
several minor leagues will not he able
TO open the coming season in April.
The major league players may also
strike. but they are not SO cocksure
about the result as they were two
years ago.
There Is no independent league to
offer shelter now, and the players are
very much I'm the position of having tn
take what is offered them or go with.
out work.
1t is difficult to get rise out of the
minor leaguers, as many of those mag
mates declare that IL their leagues are
broken up they will save money. Most
OF them were close to the rocks last
fall.
The demands OF the fraternity are
very simple. They want the magnates
10 agree to pay the fares Of all players
70 and from the training camps.
whether they make good or not, and
they want permission given the players
to make new contracts Immediately
after notice OF unconditional release.
They also demand written report of
everything that transpires in the hear
ing of a case by the national commits
sion.
Nobody seriously objects to these re-
quests. and that is what makes the
point blank refusal look like a chal-
lenge.
Not only will the big leagues join
the minors, but there is an understand
ing between the owners that big cut
in salaries be made in the spring.
Those wartime contracts will expire
soon, and In making new ones The vet
erGn players will be at the mercy of
the magnates.
Another thing that looks blue for the
players is the probability Of a change
in the plans for the worlds series. 1t
is proposed to have the games played
at the regular prices charged during
the season and allow the players a
fixed amount instead of percentage
Of the big receipts.
Dave Fultz. it is understood. has
been comforting with several Of the
leading players. preparatory to issuing
an ultimatum.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
LOOKS like BIG
BASEBALL STRIKE
Minor Leagues RefusaItO Grant
Players Demands tho Cause.
IS up TO MAJOR LEAGUES.
Magnates Will Call Players Bluff at
Next Meeting-Two Years Ago Same
Proposition Forced Owners to Throw
up Their Hands.

The final decision OF the National
Association of Minor League Baseball
Clubs to turn down flGt all th" requests
or demands made by the ri b rs fra
tcrnity means chat 1t is up to the two
big leagues at their meeting early in
December TO either bring on biz
strike or succeed in wreeking that or
ganlzatlon. The same proposition was
forced on the baseball owners two
years ago and they backed water rath-
or than ris'. Il strike.
The mistake of that move is now ac-
knowledgel by magnates throughout
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
More BOXING siIls Pending.

Bills for legalizing boxing in the
states of New Jersey and Delaware
will be introduced IN those legislatures
when they assemble in January, \ bill
for boxing commission also viii be
introduced at Harrisburg when the
aext Pennsylvania legislature meets.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
NORTH BENNINGTON

The Venetian trio at Bank hall
Wednesday evening, Jan. 3, third mum
Der in entertainment course. See adj
vertisement elsewhere in this issue
and hand bills which will be left at
your door. 77t2
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
A New Years Day
Reflection

A LII years are not aliKe III
~ value TO the race or the
individual; neither are all
DAYS. There are black days and
white days, weeks that are bur-
densome and weeks that are ike
merry chime OF bells. months
that rumble with the thunder of
defeat and months that resound
with the shouts OF victory.
There is no monotony in time.
IL varies as does the landscape.
In one period it is as level as
western prairie. with no spe-
cial experiences to mark its pas
sage; in another changes come
and events occur which make
, the weeks resemble the Ale
ghenies. mountain heights gath
cred together like Il great COM
pany of giants whose shining hel-
NETS are visible though yon have
travelled far away and stand on
YOUR horizon line; In still another
some day or week with its Won
drous happenings rises from the
plain of memory like a veritable
Mont Blanc, and though seven
" years be counted in your cal
endar you still see Its summit
and say, THAT was the hour
when my new life began.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
Literal Promise,

Uncle Bill promises me n rousing
time on his farm"
He'll give you ropsing time, don't
fear. 1t will be somewhere about ) in
the morning Baltimore American
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03
Almost Sorry.

The Widow-Thcsc lawyer bodies
frae Edinburgh are near drivin' me
daft wranglin' ABBOTT this bit o prop
erty an that. till whites wish san
ders had never deed at London
Fun
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-01-03

Fame can never make us lie down
contentedly on deathbed. Pope.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-05-06
Sur Die slide.

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ben Hur aus &pggenmebl, Maier oOer
UiId, e.poB Sefs uno Sal3. Uaan
ma9t bier3u Qbenbs in Der G6aFel
nit &OegenmebI Elm Sefenitid an, ct.
pa Elm Diertel Otter Wil6 ooer bulb
Wil4, balb WoFer unb elm babies
Edfel6en 9efe auf 2 Yfb. Wlebl. 9us
3ut3ot nur Elm ptnig SaI3. Dos 6es
tenitiid, pie INNER, lnuDarm anoez
riibrt. ST es aufeeganeen, pirb Der
Seig geinetet unb iiber Habt nibt Al
pornI seftelt. Wprsens mirb sr auf
bem 8u6enbreit stpa Elm balb 3oa
bid aus9etrieben unb nit elmer tleineu,
fharftontigen S9iHel runbe pldbe
ausgeito9en, bic uneeFGbr 8 3Oa
Dur9meIisr boben. Sis perDen nit
WoNsr beitriben unO nit elmer De.
Hieteit Sol5 beitreut, erbolten nit 3
GinseripiBen 3 9upfen in Der glitts,
bomit feline 8laTe bGdt. 0at man
3eit, lam man iie noamols aufeebsn
IaRen. Son es I9nen oe6eH. Tam man
iis aud slei9 beimaafiesto9en baden,
lpos in beiber R0brs 10 Is Wlinuten
buuert. Sinh Iie i61n braun ge>
boden, perben Iie nit Butter beitris
den. 0ieis Sriegspeded Thmeden
frifd, iebr trdFtil unb gut unb IuFen
Tih audi am nd9Itcn Woreen nod sins
nal ouFbudeu, LANCER tuuesn iis abtr
niAt.
W1il9tn5pfli. II @ute W9il9
fpirb iisbenb gema6t bann pirb nit
Der linien 6anb Iorsfdltie, bamit nee
mig &nolen sntTtebsu, DeiBmebl eins
ssriibrt, pGbrenb nit Der redtsn be-
itGnbis aeriibrt pirb, bis Der grsi bic
ri9tige Tide bat. Wton lGbt biefen
baum nod unter 0fterem llmriibren
cine WierteIitunbe to6en. ridtst i'm
auF cine platte an ln6 I9mel5t ibn
nit beibsr, iiiBer Butter ab.
Qlu9 MiI9m0dls Iinb sinfo9 uno
biIlia. Der Seiq pirO etpas bider ges
mo8t, Big er ii4 faf BON Der pfanne
l0f, bann angeri9tet uuS eeb0rig els
talten lafen. glun pirb er nit Oem
MeFer in binne S6eiben qeI6nitten
uub in penig (etpa pis betSmsIetten)
eefOttsner Butter sebaden.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1917-05-06

5immsrpobnuns siui6idtig slesiT8
NIT Ieiuer 9ausbdltsrin. QlIs psn-
liOniIt panbelts er an Id0n,n @Ormits
tasen bur9 ben @tabtpart, ais 26t-
aisjdbriser iab er nod nit Dem altsn,
rattsnfdnseriI4en Slang ieinsr bunt
len 4useu jsOem IhOnen WGOhen
nu9. 0oB sr je Wul5er gsfhrieben,
bate sr m0gliderpeiis bis auf bic
lsbtc ROte OerseFsu 9lbsr Isin ped.
idpar5ss, glGn5eubss S9nurrbdrt1
den, bic 8ue,lfalts unb Der Tpitsslnbe
@plinbsr bsrf9oIIener 0oFou beipies
es isben I65nsn @ormittog jebem
@iener, Der import Iuitponbslte, boB
bos Ser3 bes Id0nen Gbi ou6 nod
bonn jung seblieben mar, als er oas
8ibliTde 9llter ldngit iiberIdritteH
bate.