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The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04
vAUGHN'S MILL.

Messrs. Ernest Gravett and
Hubert Burgher are home from
Ohio.
Mr.. and Mrs. HenryKing spent
the holidays with relatives in
Clark county, returning home
Sunday.
Mr.. Clarence Gravett and fam.
lily, of Carlock, ILL.,, are making
an extended visit with relatives
here.
Mrs. Chas. WEIGH was confined
to her room few days last week
on account of having some dental
work done.
Miss Vada Curtis, who is with
her sister, Mrs. S. A. Easter, at
Irvine, spent Xmas with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. II. M. Curtis.
The Vaughn's Mill Sunday
School celebrated Xmas on the
25th with good exercises and a
blooming tree, much to the de-
light of all. Too much cannot be
said of the leaders who pushed
the enterprise to the front.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

w. J. Bryan deserves all the
honor accorded him in Louisville
and Lexington last week. He is
doing a noble work for humanity
aad the Democratic party. He quit
the Wilson administration be.
cause he feared it was too mill.
tant, but unlike many others of
like mind, he did notrush into the
arms of candidate who was prac.
tically committed to war in both
hemispheres. In loyalty to party
principle as we'll as faithfulness
TO an idea, he has given the coun
try fine example of fidelity and
common sense.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04
SLADE.

Everett Miller, who was oper-
ated on at Lexington for appendi-
citis, has returned home.
Misses Maud and Annie Bowen
visited their brother Cassius at
Whltesburg during the holidays.
Miss Ella Congleton Of Lexing-
ton, Mrs. Lula Broaddus and Miss
Minnie Congleton of Irvine,
spent Christmas here with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. b. Con
gletOn.
Mrs. Mary K. Faulkner of Stan
ton has returned to her old home
at Slade to live with Mrs. Minnie
Faulkner and children, and is
gladly welcomed back by many
friends and neighbors. She is
now 80 years old but is enjoying
good health.
Sanders McKnabb, who lost
his house and contents and his
meat, by fire, not long since, is
going to build again IN the same
place, as soon as possible. The
entire community sympathizes
with these old people, and Mrs.
McKnabb is an invalid.
There is quite lot OF sickness
in the neighborhood. | III. and
Alvin Mcdaniel have been con-
fined to their beds with severe
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

cases of chicken pox, and Miss
Sarilda Mcdaniel is suffering
from paralysis of the nerves Of
her face. We are glad to report
that all are somewhat improved.
Drs. Lemming and Arkil Congle-
ton have given medical aid.
Some one broke into the depot
at Campton Jet. Saturday night
and took out 6 qts. whiskey and
brandy but overlooked a purse
containing money. A warrant was
issued for Ernest Stamper, com.
monty called Ernest Hall, but at
this writing he has not been capt
ured. The writer is praying for
the day to speedily come when
such stuff will be banished forev.
ermore from our land, and be no
more temptation to our young
boys, as we'll as old men. Rail.
road companies ought to lose for
carrying il. The depots along
the l.. 4 +. are very nice saloons
for the Lexington bars, anyway,
and we wish to congratulate
some of our agents for holding
the booze till after Xmas day.
Anyway, we hear Of several dis.
appointed who did not get TO
celebrate our Sayiour's birthday
in a drunken stupor when, If
there should be a day held sa-
cred il is Christmas Day.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04
SPOUT SPRING

Mr.. and Mrs. Moses Mckinney
visited relatives at Winchester
last week.
Jordon Barnett has moved ia
the farm he recently purchased
of john T. Wright.
The little eighteen months old
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. j. Larri-
son was very sick last week.
The holidays passed off here
very quietly, as usual, no dis
turbances whatever taking place.
Oscar Milton and family have
returned from Illinois where they
have resided for these several
past years.
j N. Burgher is building q
new dwelling on a portion of the
old Burgher homestead, which he
purchased from w. 4. Moore
last spring.
Vernon Christopher and Paul
Young of Middletown, o., spent
the holidays with Mr.. Christie.
piers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ii.
f. Christopher.
Walk Barnett has moved to
his fathers place--Dick Bar
nett's. Dill Snowden has NOV.
ed TO the house vacated by Walk,
aud Zeke Conner has moved 10
the Lodge property vacated by
Snowden.
AT the election of the MASONIC
Lodge last week, Robt. l.. Upton
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

The country papers which OPP.
posed the proposed tax reform as
recommended by the Commission
are charged with such views be-
cause they do not understand it.
The reason the Times opposes
it is because il does not impose a
uniform tax on all property alike,
as the present law is designed to
do. Our present tax laws are
everything that they should be.
The trouble has always been in
The manner OF assessment.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

The L. IL N. railway built 90
miles Of railroad from WincEes.
ter to Irvine and refused to in
stall passenger service for eigh.
teen months after completion,
and until after indictment in Els.
till county for refusing to put on
passenger trains Up TO this
time there is not a depot on the
new line from Winchester to Ra.
VIENNA, Irvine not excepted.
The Bsrbourville and Man
chester Railway Co., completed
this week "a miles of railroad
from Barbourville to Manchester,
and two weeks before it was
completed twelve stations were
established, eight depots built
and the time card advertised in
the local papers.
The Barbourville and Manches
ter Railroad, 1t seems, would
serve the people; the l.. d N.
X iilroad, it seems, would have
the people serve it. That's the
difference.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

was elected Master; Pete Mountz
Sr. Warden; S. e. Baker, , Jr.
Warden; Asa Todd, Treasurer /;
L. B. Mcintosh, Secretary and
T. S. Mckinney, Tyler.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04
The bond bdsiness n..Kentuel

The bond business in..Kentucky
got another set. back when bond
issue of SlS0,00O was Knocked
out in the CLARK Circuit Court.
The people nowadays have a
fashion of voting bonds and when
they see the money is not going
TO be expended to suit them,
they knock out the bonds. There
i generally always a loophole to
crawl out, and We do not believe
Powell county is an exception.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

We are proud that Louisville
gained one OF the Farm Loan
Banss. OF the various convinc.
ing Facts and Figures that are
credited as landing the bank at
Kentucky's metropolis, none so
inspired us as the statement of
former Commissioner of Agricult-
ure, John w. Newman, that
-Four tons OF limestone on every acre
of farm land in the State would double
the value OF the States agriculture in
In five years.
This statement is of vital inn
portance 10 such counties as Pow
ell. We have the land; we have
the limestone, and we have the
labor, but not the money to make
the investment. Now if the
Farm Loan bank will just furn.
ish the money and double our
land values, we will be up and
a coming in old Powell.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

the editor is not only willing, but
eager to hear of it. We are on
the lookout always for something
better, and by helping us you
profit thereby, and by benefitting
You we gain thereby.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

II our readers sce any way by
which the Times-your newspa.
per- can be improved aud made
more helpful aud entertaining,
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04
You get Good Singing

when you use our collection of
sacred and secular selections en-
titled CHILD SONGS. We will
send FREE one copy in exchange
for the names and addresses
of five music teachers, Sunday
School Superintendent or Choir
Leaders.
The Ruebush-kieffer Co.,
Dayton, = Rockingham Co., Virginia
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

: The oil production of Estill
county last year is reported at
50, 100000. The products of the
farms and all other business, was
probably 100000. The assessed
property of the county is $780,
900. The farmers and business
men with 100000 production
paid all the tax of the county
while the oil operators with a
production of $4,000, 900, paid
nothing. The new tax law still
proposes to not tax oil and coal
production.
Tax reform in Kentucky tastes
very bitter TO us.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04
GOOD MUSIC

Do you like to sing? Do you
want an up.to the minute c0llec-
ton of songs which will delight
children.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-01-04

YOUR ACCOUNT SOLICITED.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

long. tight sleeves of braided satin run ming from shoulder to wrist. They do not make a shocking contract In color. but depart from the tone of the gown sur- ficiently to give an artistic touch.
 ANOTHER TOUCH OF ECONOMY
 The French say that the elimination of material is done for economy. The slip-on frock is done for comfort as well as economy in these rushing hours of civic activity; and they insist that the separate sleeves jumper frocks, separate underskirts and differing bodices and skirts in evening gowns are also meas ures of economy.
 The French may not realize the dan gers that beset the amateur who trods in these paths of rigid economy. Patch- work quilts may be revived as most ef- fective coverings for early nineteenth century beds, but they are not effective coverings for late 1917 women.
 Give a woman chance to use up scraps in clothes and she will do it.. Ask her to use up scraps in food and she will point to the full slop pail. There are women who really buy an entire gown to use up four yards of leftover braid and there are others who will get a top coat, hat and blouse to go with a skirt that has hung in the closet for two seasons All in the name of econ ony is this done, when it is nothing but high extraxagance and poor artistic judgment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

colored millot or lining, with It's sleeves intact and it's necliline arranged, and over this she may adjust any Kind or tunic that she wishes.
 This trick has been snatched right up from the heart of the twelfth century ana handed over to us of the twentieth cen tury. It makes an interesting departure in fashion. The tunic Is not a dinicult garment to achieve, especially as 1t does not have armholes and is made from two widths of material, as a rule, which are put together at the waist by some sort of girdle.
 Sleeveless Russian blouses, gorgeously girdled. are also put over these dark foundation slips
 The extraordinary possibilities of this startling new fashion have so deeply entered the minds of American women that they are beginning to utilize it in evening clothes. A white, cream or col ored satin millot is built and over it can be worn a tunic of embroidered tulle or crystal, of chiffon or satin.
 The shops sell a number of these tunics that are almost adjusted to the figure. They can be caught with thread here and there, slipped over the head. and, behold there Is new evening gown
 The woman who has quantities of tulle, flowers, fringe or embroidery at home sees a wide field of opportunity open up before her in the accumulation of several evening frocks that may look ex- pensive and are fashionable; but she must be an artist to assemble the diff ferent parts into harmonious whole. She must be sufficiently clever to keep to simple lines and not overdo the orna- mentation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
How Gobbler Learned to Strut

One day while Peter Rabbit was slip- ping about in the green forest he dis covered big bird. the biggest bird Peter had ever seen, going through the strangest antics When Peter Rabbit is puzzled he goes to wise old Grand father Frog for enlightenment. He did so this time, and what he found out Is told by Thornton w. Burgess in the Peoples Home Journal for No- vember:
 "Chugarum.'' exclaimed Grand very wide to laugh at Peter and his excitement. That was big Tom Gob- bier; he was doing all that for the benefit of Mrs. Gobbler who was hid- ing in the brush. Big Tom is the most conceited fellow in the Green forest He dearly loves to strut. He is just like his father and his grandfather and his reat-grandfather The Cob blers never have gotten over strutting since Old MT. Gobbler the first of the family, got the habit"
 "Tell me about it. please, Grandfather Frog, tell me about it." begged Peter iicV did OAo MI. 1OpDlSI Stl lle habit?"
 Grandfather Grog chuckled "He got it from admiring his dwn reflection in pool of water" he said. You see In those days-way back when the world was young-people had more time to form habits than they do now With plenty to eat and little to do they had more time to think about themselves. Old MT. Gobbler soon dis covered that he was the biggest of all the birds in that part of the great world where he lived, and this dis covery was, I suspect, the beginning of his vanity.
 Then. one day, as he was walking along he came to little pool of wa ter. It was very c'drr and there wasn't ripple on the surface. There, for the first time, Mr. Gobbler saw his re- flection. The more he looked the bet ter he liked his own appearance He spread his tail just to see how it would look in the water. Then he pulled him. self out and strutted.
 "'There Is nobody to compare with me- he thought, and strutted more proudly than ever.
 "After that he used to steal away every day to admire himself in that little pool of water He tried new ways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

tion, for the average woman knows that
 the skill or awkwardness in cutting an
 armhole makes or mars the fit of the
 frock and her individual comfort.
 There are few people who can restrain
 their tempers when the subject of arm
 holes is mentioned. because the extraor-
 dinary deficiency of talent in this partic-
 ular line of dressmaking reaches out into
 the daily lives of thousands. Why cut
 ter cannot absolutely establish profici-
 ency in the outline of an armhole is something that millions of women can
 never understand. You may pay $150 for
 coat suit and both the neckline and the armhoe will be as poor as though you had bought the suit ready made for s20.
 Sometimes it is poorer.
 This trade against armholes must be
 taken a prelude to the kinds of arm holes we are asked to wear Let us hope that the cutters of this winter will have learned more than they knew last winter, if they are going to attempt dozen instead of two varieties.
 | There is the tight, Directoire armhole that hugs the skin so that the fronts of the coat or bodice must be perfectly adjusted in order that they will not raise in waves about the neck
 There is the long. loose Chinese arm hole which demands a certain lack of contour in the bodice or jacket.
 l There is the pear-shaped armhole which extends to the waistline and into which
 an elbow-length or three quarter sleeve
 is usually placed. And, topping the list
 of comfortable armholes, is the one that
 belongs to the lining and not to the 1 bodice.
 1 If you have had trouble with the fit of 1 your jackets and blouses because of ill., cut armholes, remember that this last l type saves temper and tears. When the sleeve is put into the armhole of the lining and the outer material is allowed to drop over it, moving with security and 1 freedom, according to the shifting of the shoulders then you get the best arm- hole that the American tailors can achieve.
 | This is the kind that is now in high fashion. It runs well over the top of
 the arm and up on the lining, in order that there may be no revealing of the 'AiSiNS iioeSitdi WtlcH lHC OulSI swings to and fro. Some dressmakers
 use band of embroidery or soutaching | or ornamented cloth of some kind over the lining from the edge of the armhole half way to the front in order that the effect is good when the outer armhole shifts
 l The recognition given by the designers to this armhole in the lining has been | the reason for an influx of sleeves made of different material from the gown fabric and also in a different color, i Gowns of dark blue satin may have ] full Italian sleeves of gray lace mounted
 caught into the wrist with a broa l, cuirass cuff of the silver.
 Street frocls of heavy cloth will have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
Arousing the Sleeper

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The minister of I-- is one of those quietly humorous characters of whom there are many in the church. He has a deal to contend with in his preaching, and the chief matter he has to combat is sleep. Many of his hearers begin to doze the minute he starts preaching.
 The minister arranged with the bead,e that in future he should endeavor to waken the sleepers from the pulpit He managed this successfully for some time, but one Sunday he failed in his endeav- ors to rouse an old woman, well known innkeeper in the parish. At length just as he was about to yield, a bright idea struck him.
 I'll awaken her this time' he ex- claimed.
 Striking the side of the pulpit firmly with his clenched fist, he called out:
 "Anither pint here, Janet" Whereupon the good old innkeeper started up and replied: Coming. sir, coming.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

As the current of clothes goes rushing by, one has a strong temptation to reach out and grasp at the straws that are swirling along on the top eddies.
 It is a confusing season, this one or mid-autumn, when thousands ot clothes are sent rushing down the waters that flow through the heart of social ana commercial life and those on the banks must watch and grasp at details or CO., ordinated masses of color and line.
 Standing on the bank and watching the brilliant things borne down the stream one is strongly reminded of an alluring article by MT. Beebe, the explorer, who has brought back so much that was worth while to the geological knowledge of America.
 MT. Beebe rests quietly on bank, as he tells it. by which passes a great, swift ly flowing stream which comes from the heart of the jungle and color and splendid exotic life. The stream has caught on it's top current parts of this life, and as he studies it, keenly and with knowledge, as it swiftly goes by him, he Is able to form in his mind just what the life of that especial jungle is. Fauna and flora go by, an opossum with it's young, a peculiar kind of snake on log, bits of wood that explain the tree growth, birds that have been caught in branches and cannot extricate themselves On, on goes the colorful stream, rushing past the flat mud bank and explaining to the zoologist and ornithologist the entire life and person.
 
 things come.
 It is thus in fashions. All the tumult, the revolt. the color. the personality and the life of country flow by in this semi-annual stream of clothes that are symbols of their sources. And the one who stands on the bank wants to reach
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

Be that as it may, the truth about the new fashions is that a woman may use separate sleevee, a separate skirt, tunic of another fabric and call the re- suit fashionable frock. If she does it well, it will be a good looking frock.
 The main idea that prevails is that the slip, or what the French call millot is made as the foundation of a gown. It has sleeves attached to it's armholes, and it's exposed surfaces may be trimmed in whatever way woman wishes. Now, over this can be worn tunic that slips over the head like bit of harness and adjusts itself in the middle, or a jumper blouse and skirt can be attached to the lining.
 Economy lies in the fact that woman may have dark blue black or beige
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

out hand or throw out a graphing pole, as MT. Beebe did, and bring in for closer observation the peculiar and par ticular things that can be developed into whole chapter of interest.
 SLEEVES FROM EVERY EPOCH
 Sleeves, for instance. There is de- tail that one wants to catch at with grappling pole, pull into the bank and study for a week. They are representa- tive of the history of the world. Each epoch seems to have offered a peculiar phase of arm covering for the designers to incorporate into modern costumes.
 We have the medieval sleeve which opens after it leaves the elbow and drops into a point to the knee; we have the Chinese sleeve, which is roomy enough for all the juggling we care to do; there is the tight sleeve of the Directoire that fits into an oversnug armhole and stretches to the knuckles of the hand; there is an Italian sleeve, that begins in an armhole that is nearly at the elbow and widens itself out in order that it may drop in cloaklike folds to the wrist, where it is caught into band of white velvet or cloth.
 There is the sleeve that is slashed from armhole to wrist, as Marguerite and Faust wore it, and there is the Oriental sleeve that is formed from the front edges of a cape and confined to the arm with a bracelet of tule or jewels
 Another sleeve is merely brassard and, of course, it is on an evening gown. There are sleeves taken from the church, from comic opera, from the Round Table, from Wagnerian legends, from the days of Dante and, one might almost add, from the Sultan of Sulu There are sleeves that are nothing but arm bands above and below the elbow. to which are caught swinging folds of colored tulle.
 Possibly, the one garment which the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
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Just apply to your hair and scalp be- fore going to bed the famous La Creole Hair Dressing. This revives the color glands to activity In a short time you will observe all your gray, streaked, bleached or faded hair turn to such an even. beautiful, natural dark shade that no one could tell you had used La Creole. Not a trace of gray hair can be seen. Also stops dandruff and fan- ing hair Have soft. fluffy. long. nat ural dark hair again by applying La Creole. Sold on q money back guar antee by drug stores. or sent prepaid for sl20 by Van Vleet Drug Co. Men- phis, Tenn.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

sleeve-mad designers have left untouched in their wild orgy of designing is the street coat which is part of a conven- tional tailored suit. All sorts of liberties are taken with sleeves in top coats be- cause this garment has reached so high on the ladder of fashion that it gets a whack of originality from every designer who wants to play with the garment in either commercial or artistic way.
 The short street coat, however, re- mains conventional. So little has been done with this garment in the line of originality that we begin to believe that the French influence dominates even in this line of American costumery. Paris, as you remember, insisted that she could do little with the coat suit because her tailors were yielding hand grenades instead of scissors. The con- sequence of it is that we wear exceed ingly good looking suits.
 It is rather relief to the woman who likes the AngloSaxon type of rigidly conventional coat suit, when the French do not interfere with their more ornate ideas. We look our best in what is known oS LID liuiH6 HdUlt Codl Sull, anu " . should be devoutly thankful when we are left alone to wear it as much as we wish. This season we have that wish granted.
 The sleeves that we adopt in jackets run on an even line from a comfortable, loose armhole to the wrist
 VARIETY IN ARMHOLES
 It is not possible to deal with sleeves, in detail or in mass, without taking the armhole into serious consideration The tailors and dressmakers talk in an inter- esting manner about this alleged minor part of the costume. It is a pity, one might say in passing, that there are any cutters who treat it as a minor considera-