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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
CONVENTION PLAN lost
PEOPLE REGISTERED A HEAvy
VOTE AGAINST coNsTITu-
TioNAL CONVENTION.
Extensive Campaign Over State BY
Convention League Failed To Garry
Opposition Of Country Press Great
est Factor In Vote.

Nashville.-The constitutional con
vention plan was decisively voted
down in the recent election. Less
than one-half the normal vote was
cast.
Perhaps the most surprising feature
Of the voting was the showing in West
Tennessee. In this section friends OF
the proposition to hold convention
claimed their strongholds. bat the
sentiment was so strong against the
proposition and the vote so light that
it went across the Tennessee river
with 1922 votes behind.
In the big middle Tennessee coun'
ties immense majorities were rolled up
against the proposition, in some of the
counties the vote being eight to one
against it.
East Tennessee registered its pro-
test with light vote and heavy ballot.
ing against the convention idea.
The cities failed to show the favor
for the convention idea its f'sends had
hoped
Memphis alone rolled up big ma.
jority in favor of a new constitution.
Nashville and Chattanooga, with a
light vote, broke about even, while the
proposition was lost in Knoxville.
Opposition of the country press, APP.
athy on the part of citizens, absence
of many voters in militarr camps and
the opinion that the present time Is in
bpportune were few of the coatribLt.
ing factors to the loss Of the conven'
tion plan.
Following is the vote o. the PROPOSE
ton by counties.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
PERSONAL.

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson has sent a
handsome present to the queen of Ru.
mania, as a slight token of the esteem
In which she is held by the ladies ofe
this country.
Richard Knucky. one of Terre
Haute's convicted officials, has claim.
ed exemption on the ground that he is
q felon.
Mrs. Mary ]. Lamb of Chicago, who
has three sons in teh war, says this
terrible war is Gods laundry"
Gen. e. H. Crowder, who has had
SCXVCm(e,a, mfw mfw mfw cmfw
charge of the organization of the new
army, is in direct line for promotion
Tor his good work.
Theodore Roosevelt has been ap
pointed chairman of the food commits
sion for New York state.
Dorothy Scheidel 14-year-old
school girl, missing for several days
was discovered masqueraded as sol
der.
P. r. Hamilton and ]. w. Galley
two members of an American an,bu
lance corps, were killed on the French
front Saturday, 2Sth ult.
Frank w. De Wolf of Urbana, Ill.
has been appointed assistant mine
inspector of the United States.
orville monaghan, 2S, township
clerk at Benton, H., committed sui
eide with revolver on account Of
domestic troubles.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
uNFlrNEss DUE no ALCOHOL.

According to Lieut.. w. Randolph
Angel. q. s. N. R. f., examining off,
Ger of the Boston recruiting station,
nearly every man failing to pass the
physical examinations on application
for enlistment In the United States
Marine corps is refused partly because
of conditions directly traceable to the
use of alcohol before maturity. The
adverse effect Of even the moderate
use of intoxicants are revealed In the
examinations, and Lieutenant ANGEL
declares that the conditions which
make such state of affairs should be
abolished at once.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
GEN ERAl.

The shipping board has decided to
commander 1000. 900 tons of new ship
ping in the near future.
A st. Louis girl has presented 108
French and German Bibles to be used
in foreign prison camps for the SOL
diers' benefit.
Deranged through fear of being
made to serve In the new national
army, Alma Walt of La Porte, Ind.
shot his baby his wife and then killed
himself
Bonar Law has announced that no
Englishmen will be permitted to at
tend the coming conference in Stock
holm looking to peaceful settlemen
of neutrals' troubles.
The department of agriculture. in
order to conserve the cabbage crop.
mas urged the making of sauerkraut.
The Texas legislature has appointed
a committee to look into the charges
against Governor Ferguson.
Red Cross memberships in Illinois
have passed the 100000 mark, gain
of 20 per cent in one month.
Marshall Field & Co., Chicago, have
put women in charge of the floor WALK
ing departments.
Federal authorities have made an.
other loan of $2,500,000 to Belgium.
A badge is to be provided for wives
of men drafted who are chosen for
the new army.
The German-Ameriean Bank of Mil.
waukee has changed its name to the
American Exchange Bank.
The application for an Injunction
to prohibit the transportation O. a
number Of negroes from Dallas, Tex,
to work as laborers in the east was
filed in the Dallas district court.
Voters of Springfield by majority
ct 1,724 defeated the proposition to
empower the city council to increase
the corporate tax rate from $3.50. but
not to exceed 50.
The last day of July was the warm.
est day of the year, and 80 deaths
were occasioned by the temperature.
Two Kansas City butchers are seek.
ing permits from the city health au-
thorities for the sale of horsemeat on
account Of its cheapnes.
Rescuers near Fernie, B. c., have
saved eleven employees of the Elk Lum-
Der company who were cut off by for.
est fires.
The Illinois state chemist has dis
covered germs Of a certain type on
recent samples of court plaster sub
mitted for analysis. but has not iden.
titled the disease.
| Gov. Ferguson of Texas has been
indicted by grand jury in his state
on the charge of embezzlement and
| misuse of state funds.
The greatest order of Hebrews in
! the country has taken steps to aid
| in the relief of suffering caused by
the war.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
WHO rs GUILTY?

Compensation! Yes, we believe In
1t. We published recently an ac-
count taken from the Chicago papers
Of the diabolical cruelties inflicted by
a drink-crazed man on his wife and
five helpless children. When the mon
sters who poisoned that man and
turned him loose to work his alcoholic
spite on his own household have COM
pensated that heart-broken wife and
those bruised and bleeding children;
when those monsters have somehow
recovered for that wife the love they.
have stolen from her; when they have
given back to those children father
whom they can respect, then we Will
give audience to brewers and distillers
while they talk about compensation
The American Issue. And the man
who votes "wet," where does he come
In?
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
COM M ERCIAL.,

J. P. Morgan & Co. have under
taken to float $10O,OOO,OOO worth of
Canadian securities issued for war
purposes.
National bank resources have touch
ed the highest point ever known in the
history of the country-over two bill.
lion.
The United States Steel Corporation
is preparing to pay $2OO,O00,OOO as its
part of the income tax assessment.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. an
nounced that it has sold all its an
thrauite mining properties and col
leries 20 M. A. Hanna & Co. of Cleve-
land.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
ARMY OFFICERS AND ALCOHOL.

Under the above caption the "How to
Be Healthy" department of the Chi
cago Herald, conducted by the Life Ex-
tension institute, has timely article.
1t says in part:
"Grenfell, Kitchener and Roberts Of
Great Britain, Won Haeseler Of Ger
many and Wahlberg Of Finland, have
testified that, from their keen observa-
ton on soldiers engaged in warfare,
abstainers from alcohol can stand up
under hard work better than nonab-
stainers, even though they drink in so
called moderation.
"a certain doctor took two gangs Of
soldiers and set them to work at the
same kind of manual labor. To one
gang he gave an alcoholic beverage.
To the other gang he gave none. The
gang without the alcohol did far more
work than the gang with 1t.
"The next time he tried the same
experiment he shifted the gangs. Again
the gang without the alcohol did the
most work, showing that the result Of
the first experiment was not due to
superiority of the men,"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
ALL THINGS TO MELTING POT.

Don't close breweries and distil-
Ieries. Transform them. Instead Of
making alcohol for drinks, make 1t for
the manufacture Of explosives. Make
1t for ether and other medicinal pur-
poses, make 1t for fuel. Make H for
dye and shellacs, make 1t for every
use to which Uncle Sans chemists put
1t in the supreme moment when al
things must go to the melting pot, to-
be turned to the nations greatest
good.-Allen Rogers, Phi. D., American
Chemical Society.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
CONGRESSIONAL.

A house committee will investigate
the cause and results Of the recent
East st. Louis race riots.
The senate military affairs COM
mittee voted unanimously to recon-
ment to the senate immediate pass
age of the Chamberlain resolution per-
hitting draft of aliens into the new
national army.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
THE couNTRYs NEED.

"There is no such thing as pacifsm
now" said William Jennings Bryan,
addressing Cornell university students,
and he argued for nationwide prohi-
bition on the ground that In this crisis
our country needs young men with
"clean and quick-thinklng brains, men
with steady nerves and muscles"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
trouble Ahead For Tardy Boys.

Fifty men who have not communi
Gated with Col. Cary f. Spence since
the assembling Of troops on July rs
may be arrested and court-martialed.
"The men do not seem to realize the
seriousness of this effense," says Col.
Spence. This is equivalent to deser-
ton in the army, and the penalty for
desertion in time of war is death. l
hope this is enough for me to say.
Action will be taken accordingly If the
men do not report or communicate
with me at once"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
LABOR.

Pittsburg (Kan.) miners who have
been denied the possession Of beer
under the dry law threaten to strike
unless the law is changed.
Men at five more mines have been
ordered out to join the 1000 miners
now on strike in the Pittsburg coal
fields in southeastern Kansas.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
In Fat Berth.

Towne-No; Grafton doesn't work a.
oil now.
Browne-He doesn't? Why, when I
knew him he seemed to be a young
man with considerable push.
Towne-All that's changed now. He's
a young man with considerable pull
and doesi't have to ork.--Catholic
Standard and Times.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
THE PROPER SPIRIT.

The less spirits we put into men dur.
ing war time. whether they are In the
army or navy, In the munition works
or upon the farms, the more spirit we
will get out of them for the particular
tasks they are called upon to perform.
DIR. Austin 0'Malley Of Philadel.
phsa.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10

Visitor-When writing about China
do you refer to 1t as republic or a
monarchy?
Editor-Always the opposite to
what it is at the moment. It's bound
to be the other by the time the ar
ticle gets into print.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
Temperance.
Conducted by the National woINn's
PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VIEW.
Conducted by the National wo1hn's
Christian Temperance Union.)X

A Chicago teacher, writing to the
Illinois Issue, calls attention to one
feature of the liquor evil which "edi-
tors and doctors and reformers over
look" namely, the 'immeasurable
waste n teachers efforts caused by al
coholism." In regions, she says,
where saloons have always been
abundant and conditions of living
usually because of alcoholism--are
bad, at least one-third of the aver
age teachers time is required to
merely hold in check and partially de-
velop the children of alcoholics. Most
of the abnormal and subnormal chill
dren have alcoholism In their families,
and the sins of the father are visited
upon the children even unto the third
and fourth generation.
"These children have one grave fault
In common. They cannot concentrate
the mind long on any one subject--not
long enough to follow the thought Of
the lesson. In some this takes the
form of irritation or rebellion, and in
oehChS thcic 10 the SlupuT, tHc uehu-
ness. that defies the most interesting
lesson and the most magnetic teacher.
"Of course this waste is loss to
the normal pupils, whose teaching
must lag while these weak ones are
given special help. II we could elimi-
nate wholly the effects Of alcoholism,
which would require more than one
generation, elementary education
might easily be accomplished in seven
or even six years instead Of eight
years, as at present required.
High school and college teachers
would probably not agree with this
statement, for the simple reason that
the descendants Of alcoholics seldom
get to high school or college"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
Weapons Of Bronze Aa. found.

A recent fall of cliff at Scarborough,
in England. has resulted in the
discovery of 20 weapons Of the
bronze age-axes. spears, chisels
gouges. fragments of sword. etc.
Twelve axes of the socketed type are
in perfect conditf
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
BABIES AND GROWING CHILDREN

need tonic to tone up the system and
regulate the liver. Mothers are con-
stantly using with wonderful success,
our plantation" Chill and Fever Ton
&c. Pleasant to take--contains no Cal
Omel. Price 50c,-Adv,
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
He Read a Book.

First Tramp-What did Exhausted
Ernest die of?
Second Tramp-Starvation. He read
in Doctors book that you mustn't eat
when you're tired.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
ACCIDENTS.

A serious accident occurred on the
U. s. dreadnaught New Mexico when
the gang plank gave way. Sixteen
men were hurt AND 100 endangered.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10

Gov. Rye appointed Edward M. Gil
linwater of Knoxville fire prevention
commissioner to fill the position made
vacant by the retirement of CT gles W.
Schuyler n few weeks Ego
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
Troops Take Knoxville.

One THOUSAND and seventy-five men
modified in Knoxville when six com
panies OF Third Tennessee infantry,
Company C, Second Tennessee infan.
try; Troop c, cavalry, and Battery c.
First field artillery, assembled at their
armories.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
MEANS TRAGEDY AT HOME.

The same actions of drunken man
that you are laughing at someone else
Is crying over.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10

Declaring a 50 minimum price for
wheat will not reduce the present
price of bread, the baking industry,
through its war emergency council.
asked house and senate food bill CON
ferees to eliminate this provision.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
WANT THEM FAR AWAY.

"Saloonkeepers." says ex-Aldernan
Francis Of Chicago, "are in favor of
having women at the polls--at the
North and South poles"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
FOREIGN.

Berlin authorities have assessed
another fine of 100000 against the
city of Liege, Belgium, for diobey.
ing orders.
Members of the British parliament
freely predict the downfall of Lloyd
George and the ultimate ascendancy
Of Arthur Balfour In a short time.
The Russian government has or
dered special election in Finland
for Oct. l.
Kaiser Wilhelm has recently pre-
sented whole trunkful of medals to
Won Hindenburg for various reasons.
Premier Lloyd George in statement
announced that the British now had
100000 men under arms.
The American army mission con.
cluded its visit to italy and left for
Paris with expressions of admiration.
particularly for Its;ss progress in avi-
alton
crece, as charitable as st. Elizabeth
Of Hungary, as devout as Nightingale,
having at command a large fortune,
lacking masculine acquaintance, seeks
husband by the newspapers agency.r
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
WAR sHEvlTIEs

A woman, long disguised as a man,
had registered as a soldier in To-
ledo, o., and killed herself rather than
discover her sex.
Turkish authorities are preparing an
enormous offensive against the Brit
ish in Bagdad.
Between 400 and 500 young officers
CD at Fl. Riley have been rejected
on account of inexperience.
A German U-boat was sunk by a
seaplane which was conveying one Of
the last troop ships.
Each of the 1904 Coloradoans draft
ed into the army will take with him a
$40 gold coin as luck piece. The
state legislature voted the gifts to the
young men.
Capt George Guynemer, 81, frances
leading airman, has brought down mis-
fiftieth German airplane.
Harry Chapman Gilbert, son of q
white house police guard, is the first
man to be accepted for service in the
new national army, having passed his
test and waived exemption.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
NEcROLO LOGICAL.

Gen. Harrison Grey Otis, long an en-.
envy of union labor, and owner of the
Los Angeles Times, is dead at the
age of 80.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

Samuel V. Perrott. long Indianapolis
chief of police, has been sentenced to
four years in federal prison for cleo
ton frauds.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
Exception.

/. "Bliggins wants to run everything"
Except the lawn mower" rejoined
Bliggins' wife.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10

The reports received by the state ag.
ricultural department from its crop
correspondents indicate yield Of corn
far above the average, and as an in.
creased acreage was cultivated, the
crop is by far the largest ever known
in the state.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
Reward for Negro Murderer.

A 5000 reward for the capture Of. Ed
williams, negro, who murdered work
house superintendent several months
ago at jackson and later escaped from
the Shelby county jail, has beben OF.
fered by Gov. Rye.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The system

Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking. as the formula ID
printed on every label showing II Is
Quinine and Iron In tasteless FORM The
Quinine drives out malaria. the Iron
builds up the system. 90 cents
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
DOM ESTic.

In view Of the continued depreda
tions Of the l. w. w. federal official.
are planning to institute the charge
Of treason against the whole body.
DR.. Fridtjjof Nansen of the Nor
wegian food commission, has placed
his case in the hands of the president
Land grants by earlier congresses
to railroads will cause the loss of mil
lions in revenue to the lines as tn,
soldiers must be hauled free.
A Harvard professor announces tina
anyone can live on IL cents a day
and he who spends "a is riotous per
son.
The Illinois council of defense has
plan to reduce the price of coal /,
consumers by operating the mines il
the name of the state.
st. Louis has won the next con
vention OF the Loyal Order Of Moose
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Not Overly Modest.
Here is an advertisement from a
Berlin newspaper which does not err
on the side of modesty: "a young lady
of highly esteemed and noble family,
as beautiful as Helen, as thrifty as
Penelope, as economical as the Elec-
tress Marian of Brandenburg, as
sprightly as Madame de Stael. singer
like Mile. Breval, dancer like SLa
Cerito, a pianist lie Rosa Kastna, a
vioi;nist like Mialnollo, harpist like
La Bertrand, sculptor like Princess
Marie dOrleans. as austere as Luz
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10
CRIMINAL.

Daylight robbers entered a bank in
Spokane. held up two officials pres
ent and escaped in an auto with
$4,000.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-08-10

Munford.-The revival meeting ha
closed at the Presbyterian church. /
was conducted by Evangelist E. G..
Whitwell of Norman, Okla, assisted
by Miss Fern Miles OF Guthrie, Okla
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
ADJUSTMENTS.
All advance notices furnished by
Theatres.
BEST THEATRE.

Today-The Best theatre has book
ed for today, one Of the greatest
master pieces the pen of man has pro
duced. Most everyone is familiar with
the famous poem, "The Divine Com
|edy," also known as "Dante's In.
ferno," but reading the poem cannot ir
any way bring the vivid lessons of the
masterpiece home in all it's reality as
does the motion picture.
The piece has rightly been termed
the "world's greatest allegory," show.
ing in realistic living, breathing eff
fleets the agony Of lost souls anc
bringing the authors conception OF
the theme of the story down to a
startling realism. Do you believe
there is hell? If there is such a
place, what is it like? See what the
poet thinks about this proposition, as
portrayed in the great feature to be
run at the Best theatre today.
This is a production that cost $780,
900 to produce. 1t is the only picture
of it's kind ever produced and played
at the prices charged. The people Of
Pine Bluff are indeed fortunate tt
have the opportunity of witnessing the
screen Interpretation of this famous
allegory at popular prices. A lecture
will accompany the presentation o.
this masterpiece.
Also on the same program today
will be run. an extra comedy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
HAUBER THEATRE.

, saturday-"The Voice on the Wire
Not since the publication Of "The Muir
ders of the Rue Morgue' has there
been series Of crimes forming a mys-
terry so battling as that which forms
the central theme Of the new Univer-
sal serial, "The Voice on the Wire,' y
to be shown at the Hauber theate1
Saturday. Murderers, both in fact
and in fiction have before now sue
ceeded in committing their crimes
without leaving trace for the au-
thorities of justice to work upon. But
in this serial photoplay, which is a
screen adaptation by J. Grubb Alex
ander, of the novel of the same name
by Eustance Hale Ball, a clue is left
each time that victim is sent to his
doom, a triple clue, which never va
ries, but which serves only still further
to complicate the impenetrable mys-
terry surrounding the fate of each
victim. ~
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1917-06-07
New and Wonderful
Hair Removing Secret
GLOW to Get Rid of Roots and AID


The secret is out! Any woman both
cred with superfluous hair can now rid
herself of this trouble absolutely-not
only the surface hairs, but the roots
as well--by what is known as the
"phelactine process" The new meth
cd does away with numerous and ex-
pensive visits to the electrolysis eX-
pert. Does away with depilatries or
shaving at frequent intervals. Moth
ing like it ever known before. Get a
stick of phelactine, follow the easy
instructions, and if not entirely salts
fled the druggist will refund your
money.
You do the work in a few seconds,
in your own home, without the least
injury. The hair-roots come out be-
fore your very eyes, leaving the skin
soft, smooth. hairless. Phelactine is
odorless, non-irritating, and so harm.
less you could eat it.-Adv.