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ADDITIONAL LOCALS

ADDIllONAL LOCALS o | | Typewriters for rent of sale at Turner's. If Miss Karl Friar of Memphis is the guest of Miss Frances Smith.
 **s* Mrs. Dow Jacks is visiting rela- tives in Marianne this week. Mrs. k. L. Boston of Clifton, Texas is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. c. Jacks and uncle, J. c. Wells.
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 LOST-Bunch of keys on belt hook. Reward for return to c. C.. Mitch ener. 1SI Mrs. J. B. Lyle and daughter, Bell field, of Helena. spent several days with Mrs. J. c. Jacks last week.
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 Misses Dorothy Block and Winnie Mackey, two charming young ladies from Wynne. are the guests of Miss Virginia Bush
 See T. E. Hobbs about your fall painting and papering. Estimates cneerfully furnisned. If
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 Doddridge McCulloch, wife and baby have returned from Bolivar, Tenn. where they have been visiting friends and relatives.
 Have your typewriter cleaned and oiled for the busy fall. Phone us to get yours now. Turner Drug Co. If Milton Jacks, who spent the past week with his cousin, J. c. Jacks, returned to his home in New Market. Ala, Saturday.
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 Dr. George Campbell of Mulberry spent several days in Marianna this week, giving the city the ''once over" with view to locating here.
 *#&*
 J. P. Grantham, stenographer in the law offices of Smith & McCulloch, has returned from Clarksdale, Miss, where he has been visiting friends and relatives.
 ]. B. Daggett, wife and children and R. D. Jarratt left Tuesday for South Haven to spend portion of the heat ed term. MT Jarratt will join his wife and children at that resort.
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 Mrs. W. L. Ward and little son, William, will leave today for South Haven, Mich, to spend two weeks with the Marianne colony of summer tourists.
 J. D. Williams, who formerly re- sided at Last Chance, where he was engaged in farming, and who went to Bixby. Okla. year ago, is here with a view to again locating in Lee county.
 MT. and Mrs. w. P. Harris, MT and Mrs. M. E. Newborn and son, Buster, left Monday for Chicago. South Haven and other points of interest in the north. They will be gone two weeks.
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 On account of the engagement the Marianna Commercial Club band has at the Cotton States Merchants As sociation in Memphis next week, the regular Thursday night concert in the public square will not be given. H. F. Roleson has returned from club house party given him by his friends near Augusta. He reports having had most happy time with his old friends, and of course. brings back many interesting stories of the fine strings of fish caught.
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 Mir. and Mrs. G. w. Gregory left Tuesday for Louisville, Ky, and points in Indiana. on a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs Gregory will stop at French Lick Springs and remain several weeks for the hppafif nf her health
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There will be a market for agricul- tural implements in Siam when the irrigation and development of arid districts is completed
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Martha Harvey, Plaintiff,
 v5. Gobe Harvey, Defendant. The defendant, Gobe Harvey is warned to appear in this court with in thirty days and answer to the complaint of the plaintiff filed here in.
 Marianna, Ark, Aug. 10, 1917.
 R. G. APPLE, Clerk.
 By Ben B. Bonner. D. c. Daggett & Daggett. Attorneys. 6S
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Thr Gnmirr- -5nnrx

Published on Friday of each week in Marianna, Lee County, Arkansas, by the Press Publishing Company, ana entered in the postoffice in Marianna as seoond-class mail matter under per- init from the postoffice department. Subscription price $1.50 per year. Il. II. Jackson, Editor Manager.
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TAKEN UP.

Eight shoats, weight about fifty pounds each, black; also one black SOW, weight about 25O All marked crops off left ear, swallowfork in right If not claimed will be sold on August 25 G. B. BRITAIN, J. P. Union Township. IS
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FOR THE DENTISTS SAKE.

New Dentist.-' Will you take gas?" Bronco Bill-"Will it hurt much if I don't?"
 New Dentist.-'It wills
 Bronco Bill Then, stranger, for your sake l reckon 1 had better take it'-Boston Transcript
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Miss Wheeler is a niece of John R. Wheeler. Superintendent of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad at Nashville. Young MT. Caruthers is trustee of the Tennessee society in New York. and is well known in the Southern social set. The bride and groom are spending their honeymoon in the White Mountains of New Hampshire at Maplewood Young MT. Caruthers' mother was Miss Pearl Porter of Paris, Tenn. She be- longs to a family long prominent in World.
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MT. Caruthers is a nephew of Mrs. B. M. Govan of Marianne.
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Alabama is the fifth state to en- franchise women since 1917 began, making eighteen suffrage states.
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PROMINENT SOUTHERNER
 MARRIES IN NEW YORK

The following announcement has been sent to friends and relatives in the South of MT F. D. Caruthers, Jr., Assistant Business Manager of the New York World, and at one time prominent Tennessee newspaper man
 MT. and Mrs. Samuel c. Wheeler announce the marriage of their daughter, Fife Lillian, to MT. Frank Dancy Caruthers, Jr,on Monday, August 6, at No. 72 Leland Avenue, New Rochelle, N. Y."
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WARNING ORDER

In the Lee Chancery Court. Martha Harvey, Plaintiff,
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Frank Mebane and David Drexler of Wynne, are spending the week here visiting friends and incidentally practicing with the Marianna Com mercial Club band, preparatory to accompanying the band to Memphis next Monday to play at the meeting
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Mir. and Mrs. G. w. Gregory left Tuesday for Louisville, Ky, and points in Indiana. on a visit with friends and relatives. Mrs. Gregory will stop at French Lick Springs and remain several weeks for the benefit of her health.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-05-19
BOY TO GET A MEDAL
FOR RESCUING ROBIN
IL Was Held in Treetop by String and
He Climbed to Free II.

Hartford, Conn. The Connecticut
Humane society, through its president,
the Rev. william Deloss Love, has in
formed ten-year-old Michael Ravolefe
of the Second North school, East Hart
ford, that he is to have a medal for
rescuing an imprisoned robin a few
days ago.
Little Michael had to climb an elm
tree seventy-five to eighty feet high to
effect the rescue. The robin had flown
to one of the topmost branches with q
long string in his bill for nest building.
The string caught in a stout twig, and
as the robin worked to get it free the
string tangled itself into a double hitch
about one of its legs. 1t was then held
prisoner and was noticed for two days
helplessly trying. to work itself loose
and squeaking plaintively.
Michaers Schoolfellows were talking
about the bird, and he asked them to
lead him to the elm. 1t took him more
than half an hour to work his way to
the top at the tree. And at the last of
the job it required nerve and GOODNESS,
for he was out on very slender and
swaying branches.
But he managed to reach the twig to
which the string had fastened itself
and snapped it off. With this hanging
to its leg the robin fiuttered to the
ground, was released and flew off wild
ly chirping at its restored freedom.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-05-19
PERFECT WOMAN FORTY
AND HAS FIVE CHILDREN
She IL Athletic, Mechanical, Pious, Pa
triotie and a Politician.

Liverpool.-"Thepe perfect woman" has
just been defined by a conference here
Of teachers from girls schools through
out England. Here is the result of
their united efforts:
The perfect woman is forty, is mar
ried and is the mother of five children.
She Is in happy circumstances, living
in a beautiful part of the country a
few miles from big town. She is the
center of a good home, in which there
| Is high standard of cleanliness and
comfort and where good taste is every
: where visible in furniture, carpets, cur
tains, wall paper, ornaments, clothes.
The ideal woman is sensible and
businesslike, and her home is a place
of peace. She is patriotic and inter-
ested in politics and does all she can to
remove the causes of suffering among
the poor. She is a delightful compan-
ion and has a gift for friendship. She
is religious and tries to fulfill her duty
toward God and toward other peo-
pie. She takes walks, rides bicycles,
climbs, swims, dances, skates, rows
and plays games. She can ride horse
and drive a motorcar. She is proficient
in many branches of practical learning.
She can do anything and everything
about the house. She has some knowl-
edge of the law, knows how to invest
money, can use typewriter. She is a
great reader; every day she reads some
serious book as well as a newspaper
and a novel. She speaks three Ian
guages beside her own and reads for
eign books. She is fond of gardening
and has learned several crafts-wOod-
carving, metal work, bookbinding and
embroidery.
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in the trenches. am satisfied that
volunteering is the cOstliest system in
the long run. The volunteer system
fails at the crucial moment, for there
comes a time when all of the high
hearted have volunteered and recruit
ing dwindles away.
'"That is what is happening in Aus
tralia, where CONSUMPTION was defeated
by popular vote. Australia already has
contributed $4,000 men out of a total
population of about 100000, but it re-
quires a monthly quota Of 1900 to
keep this force up to strength, and al
ready there are signs that the supply
Of men to be secured by volunteering
is approaching exhaustion. The Aus
tralians are learning their lesson, and
l think that Sir William Hughes, the
premier, and his supporters will carry
cOnscripton.
'England's losses in brains under the
volunteer system have been incalcula-
BILE. Our specialists are being destroyed
on the battlefield. America should
profit by the mother cOuntry's mistake.
mo matter how long the war lasts,
no matter what burdens of suffering
she places on the rest of the world.
Germany is beaten"
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for authority were so sweeping that
the politicians Immediately cooled to-
ward him. and Nivelle was selected for
The post. Nivelle was appointed as a
EvpOnent of the offensive in warfare.
Above all. Petain is known as fight
G He has the st. Cyr training and is
acknowledged an expert tactician and
StrategiSt.
Petain was born near Calais sixty
one years ago and by 1890 had become
acaptain in the elite ChaSSeurs a Pied.
When the war started he was a colo
le Almost instantly he was made a
general of brigade, and by Sept. IA,
1914, he had become a general of di-
vision. Seven months later he was
the Twenty-third army
corps and took part in the allied Often
dTe in ArtoiS. His work here was so
brilliant that he was placed at the
head Of the Second army, which he
led through the Champagne offensive
October, 1915. His famous iron
Division of colored colonial troops,
whom he had personally trained, large
y contributed to that victory. By this
lme petain was admitted a master of
The offensive.
1t Is reported that when the German
Norm broke over Verdun the French
we're ordered TO evacuate the fortress.
Inc rumor of this aroused a fury Of
Indignation in France, and General de
VSStenau was rushed up from Paris
With orders that Verdun must be held
tall costs. Petain was selected to do
L. Under his command General Herr
uganlZcd thr now celebrated motor
rahSport system. and the catch phrase,
lhey shall not pass" became an actu-
ilty.
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MUST DRAFT men,
Volunteer System Cost Britain
Specialists and Inventors.
TO SAVE AMERICAN BRAINS.

Sir Ernest ShaekIeton Says That No
Matter How Long War Lasts, No
Matter What Burden of Suffering She
Places on Rest of World Germany Is
Beaten.
New York.-The selective draft finds
q strong advocate in Lieutenant Sir
Ernest H. Shackleton, the antarctic
explorer, who arrived here on his way
to report at London for duty on spe-
cial mission. The world, he said,
would have to look to America for the
next thirty years for its specialists, in
ventors and scientists, and only by saw
ing these by selective CONSUMPTION
would the United States be able to per-
form this great service.
"Selective cOnscriptiOn," he said. "as-
signs these specialists to the posts
where they will do the most good for
the country instead of sacrificing them
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-05-19
OLD MAN TRIED TO ENLIST.
Wanted to "HeIp Out" In Any Way,
but Was Refused.

Topeka, Kan.-The fact that the Unit
ed States government does not admit q
man over thirty-fve years Of age to en-
list in the army prevented the officers
in charge of the local recruiting station
from passing on S. L. Palmer, a pros
porous Pawnee county farmer. the 9TH
er afternoon. o..
Mr.. Palmer is sixty-two years of age,
but appears to be a man of about forty.
He appeared very much grieved when
he was told he was too old for the serv-
ice.
Neither money nor the desire for ex-
perience had anything to do with Mr..
Palmers applying for service in the
ranks. He owns 700 acres Of good
Pawnee county land.
His only reason was his desire to
help out" he told the officers. He
wanted to be admitted as a telegra-
lher, a craftsman or a mechanic. He
said he had fifteen years experience
as a telegrapher.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-05-19
DAY COACHES FOR TROOPS.
sIeePers Not to Be Provided Under
War Conditions.

S'SSfcfo tNOh W &c
War Conditions.
Washington.-It is announced by the
secretary of war that standard Pull
man and tourist sleepers will not be
used for the transportation of troops
under ordinary conditions during the
war. Day coaches hereafter will be
used on the basis Of one officer to each
double seat and three men to each two
double seats. The new order applies to
all cases except journeys Of unusual
length, covering more than one night
and one day, which cases will be sep
arately considered when they arise.
1t is explained that the new regula-
ton is necessary owing to the limited
number of sleeping cars available for
troop movements and to the congestion
that would arise on transportation
lines if sleepers had to be collected for
every large movement of troops. More
over, by doing away with sleepers, it
is declared, the number of cars neces-
sary to handle the movement is de-
creased by one-Quarter.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-05-19
FOR DRY FARMING
Can Be Practiced Where Water
Is Not Available.
REQUIRES MUCH PATIENCE.

In Missouri, In Drought of 1914, Use of
Dry Farming Methods by Only Part
of Farmers Largely Increased Yield
of Corn Per Acre as Compared With
That of 1901.
Washington.-With the burden of
supplying the worlds wartime crop
facing this country, the committee on
statistics and standards of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States has
called attention to the possibilities
of dry farming. Such methods, it is
declared, can be made to fit the re-
quirements for raising many of our
most important products. Dry farm
ing is said to be the only form Of agri-
culture which can be successfully prac-
ticed in any region where water is not
available for irrigation and where
rainfall is not sufficient for humid
farming.
The inherent purpose of dry farming,
it is pointed out, is to conserve mois-
ture in the soil until needed for grow
ing plants. The dry farmer resorts to
methods of timely and proper cultiva-
ton, narrowing, disking and blowing,
to increase the penetration of water,
prevent evaporation and store mofs-
ture in the soil for the benefit of the
plants.
DRY farming is not an easy job, nor
is the lot of the farmer in the semi
arid regions any happier at times than
that of the policemen in the Pirates
of Penzance,' says Archer Wall Doug
las Of st. Louis, chairman Of the ma
tional commerce committee. at is
business requiring much industry, pa
thence, fortitude and intelligent under
standing of the surrounding conditions.
Likewise in the beginning it needs
some reserve capital against emergen-
les. For there are years when, through
weeks, even months, of rainless heat,
he sky is as brass and the earth as
ron underneath. and rainfall only
Instant memory.
"Yet persevered in and intelligently
stuck to, it is apt to record success
and to furnish great need for the
utilization of the vast area of semi
arid country. Once exploited as a
panacea, then denounced as a fad, it
has at last come into its own as an in
telligent scientific form of agriculture.
absolutely essential to the development
of a large section of our country"
OF particular interest in meeting war
time conditions is the argument that
dry farming methods are applicable
not only to farming in the semiarid,
but likewise humid regions in times of
drought. In Missouri in the drought
of 1914 the use of dry farming methods
by only a part of the farmers largely
increased the yield of corn per acre, as
compared with similar conditions in
1901
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TRAINING FLEET FOR LAKES.
EastIand, From Which Many Lives
Were Lost, Will Be Flagship.

Great Lakes, Ill.-A fleet of training
ships shortly will be sailing the great
lakes, it was announced at the United
States naval training station here.
Captain w. A. Moffett, cOmmandant,
has planned the mobilization of num-
Der of vessels mounting guns ranging
from one Founders to six inch pieces.
The feet will serve to train recruits
passing through the training station
here, which has been greatly expanded
since the outbreak Of war, in addition
to protecting lake cities.
The steamer Eastland, which turned
over in the Chicago river in 1915 with
a loss Of So lives and which is now
being rebuilt as a gunbOat, will be the
flagship. Other vessels in the fleet
will be two Of the former Spanish gun
boats which were captured by Dewey
at Manila bay.
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PETAIN A FIGHTER.
r,orch General an Expert Tacti-
clan and Strategist.
urs NOW CHIEF OF STAFF.

w,sn War Started He Was Colonel.
,J,,itted Master of offensive-His
Motor Transport Catch Phrase, "They
CHILL Not Pass" Became an Actual
ity at Verdun.
paris-The appointment Of General
,o.,in as chief of staff of the ministry
:. war recalls Petain's services during
.no critical stages of the battle of Yer
aru in February and March, 1916.
When JOfrre. after placing the French
.ruies in a high state of organization.
--oS madc marshal of France and re-
.;r,d from, field service it was be-
,;orad at first that Petain, the hero of
ror,lru would succeed him in COM
-,and Of The armies in the field. 1t is
,,odarsfoaI that the offer was actually
made to him. However, his demands
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BOY FARMER A PATRIOT;
SAVES MOTHER A FINE
Gennaro Didn't Go to School, but
Cultivated Twenty Acres
In Westminster.

New York.-Mrs. Rosa de Rosa, a
widow, missed being fined in the mu-
nicipal term court for keeping her son
Gennaro home from school by just
twenty acres. These acres are part Of
ner home at Mill Lane, Westchester,
and for the last month they have been
plowed and narrowed and fortified
and planted and cultivated by Gennaro
alone, and he is only fifteen.
1t was his age that got Gennaro into
trouble, for the compulsory education
law compels parents to keep their chill
dren in school until their sixteenth
year. That is why Mrs. De Rosa ap-
peared in court, very much frightened
and escorted by Attendance officers
Puglieri and Carney.
Magistrate Appleton looked sternly
at the little Italian woman until she
had explained that she was a widow,
that there was mortgage on her home
and that Gennaro was her only sup
port. Then he smiled, and after Publ
eri and Carney had testified that the
twenty acres were under intensive Gull
tivation and that one fifteen-year-old
lad was doing all this work the magis-
trate announced his decision.
Sentence suspended" he said. your
son, Mrs. De Rosa. is doing a patriotic
duty. He is a real benefit to the COM
munity-more so than if he went to
school, as the law requires
Gennaro did not hear this praise He
was up in Westchester. cultivating the
twenty acres.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1917-05-19
STRENGTH OF U. s. NAVY
.AMhzES GOCHEPRAT
Our Fleet, Second In World, Will
Hasten Victory, Says French
Admiral.

Washington.-Vice Admiral Coche-
.rine in the French mission here, said
that he had every reason to hope that
we shall succeed in establishing the
closest possible cooperation between
the American and the allied navieS for
the assurance of freedom of the seas,
the protection of trade and the tri-
umph of our rights"
1.-THE United States is in possession
of the most powerful feet in the world
next to the British. and this is bound
to weigh heavily in Fastening the day
when final victory will be wrung from
the foe" he said.
"Your navy is wonderfully equipped,
and really felt amazed when chanc-
ed to see recently some of its units,
among them the battleship Pennsyl-
vania and those trim looking destroy
ers that came out to meet us at sea.
There is no need to praise your naval
personnel. Throughout my long sea
life it has often happened that I have
come across American men-of-war, and
1 am pleased to say that on every such
occasion the very high merit Of the
officers as well as the perfect training
of their men has aroused my intense
admiration.
"What 1 have seen here since my ar
rical serves only to emphasize my pre-
vious impressions. And so am sure
fbot tho American navy iS rpadv t0
support in the most advantageous fash
ion the cause of the allies now shaping
a course toward victory"
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MORE REPUBLICS AHEAD.
Spain, Greece and Sweden Moving,
London Hears.

London.-Republics in Spain, Greece
and Sweden before the end Of the war
were predicted by a speaker at a con-
ference here of journalists representing
the European neutral countries. The
speaker, who had returned recently
from Sweden, asserted that republican
doctrine is becoming popular there.
The conference discussed the political
and economic conditions in the neutral
countries. The effect the Russian revo-
luton had on the countries named was
debated at length. 1t was declared
that republican sentiment had won
MANY converts in the three countries.
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De POTESTAD OFFERS SWORD
Son of Ex-Spanish Diplomat Seeks
United States Officers Commission.

United States Officers Commission.
Baltimore.-R. Z. l.. de Potestad, son
of the late Marquis de Potestad-FOr-
mari, formerly Spanish diplomat in the
United States, has applied for a COM
mission in the officers reserve corps
from Maryland and has virtually been
accepted by the army examining board
at Johns Hopkins university.
Lieutenant Elliott, chief examining
officer, said that although Mr.. de Pote-
stad is past fifty-two he is the finest
specimen of manhood that has been
examined here and has the physique of
a man of thirty. Mr. de POtestad's ia
ther represented the Spanish govern
ment during the settlement of the Gu
ban claims after the Spanish-American
war. He died in Switzerland several
months ago. His son has a large estate
near this city and is an American
citizen
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POMEROY CONSENTS TO WORK
Notorious Life Convict at Last Mingles
With Other Inmates.

Boston.-Jesse Poneroy, the states
notorious life prisoner. abandoned his
objections to the revised terms of his
sentence and for the first time in forty
years mingled with his fellow inmates.
He has been put to work.
When Governor Mccall and his coun-
ell last January COMMITTED that pro-
vision of POmerOy's sentence which
stipulated that he should spend his
days in solitary confinement Pomeroy
objected to the change that made him
liable to labor. His refusal to work
was punished with twenty-four hours
in dark cell and diet of bread and
water, but he declined to yield until
recently.