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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22

16-TN. slab and mill wood for sale.
lsley Lumber Company, 18th st.
and Puyallup river.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-08-22

THE BROADWAY, Rms. 25c up, S1,b0
1874 Broadway. Main 205s.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03
Farmers are Warned.

At the request of one of our
farmer readers, we publish the
following swindle which is being
worked in Kentucky by transient
potato buyers. The plan worked
by these sharpers is as follows:
The buyer calls upon the farm
er and offers to buy his crop, in
the ground at tempting price,
usually about a dollar per bushel,
and makes a small cash deposit.
The farmer is bound by the
agreement not to dig his pota-
toes, and later, if the price hap
pens to be high enough so that
the buyer is able to make a. good
profit he comes and harvests the
crop and takes his profit. On
the other hand should the
price be low the buyer never
shows up again. The farmer is
helpless. He does not know
where to find the party to whom
he sold his crop, and he dare not
dig and market them, as he has
contracted not to do So, and the
spuds must lie in the ground and
go to waste, and all the grower
has to show for his labor, is the
small deposit made at the time of
signing the contract.
The swindle has been so thor
oughly exposed that it is not
likely that any of these schemers
will attempt to buy crops in this
vicinity, but if they do, give
them a good swift kick in the
rear central portion of their anat-
omy, and then set the dogs on
'em.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03
What Information is Desired.

Information is desired as to the
best type of containers for vari-
Gus products; the methods of
handling and packing; the most
efficient types of cars for ASS
during hot and cold weather; de-
vices for cooling, heating, and
ventllating the same, and special
precautions to be taken with par
ticular classes Of goods; round
housing methods or other hous-
ing of cars to secure additional
protection en- route or at terni-
nails; railroad inspection of per-
ishables and cars, and accuracy
of thermometers used; kinds of
heaters and advantages and dis
advantages; Icing requirements
and regulations; protective value
Of wrapping paper; acceptance
regulations as to low or high
temperature limits; best form of
waybill TO. secure attention en-
route and at terminals; salvage
or restoration processes, protect
i've methods to and from depots
or cars on track: and sug-
gestiOns as to Weather Bureau
service to meet the requirements
OF shipper. merchant and car
rier.
A publication similar to the
one now contemplated. issued
several years ago by the wealth
er Bureau. had a wide demand.
Changing conditions have neces-
stated the revision of this publi-
cation.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03
Farm Management.

We may not know just what is
meant by the subject of Farm
Management" but we all know
the meaning of the statements
tits all in the management"
and "he is no manager.
Every farmer must work out
a safe and profitable system of
farming. This system must pro-
vide:
1. Practic ally ali the food and
feed necessary for home use.
2. Crops in the rotation to
transfer nitrogen from the air
to the soil to be used by succeed
ing crops.
3. At least enough good live
stock to consume the roughage
that usually goes to waste, pro-
vide a full years work for men
and horses, and furnish an abun-
dance of milk, butter. pork, pork
products, poultry and poultry
products for home use.
A. Mares engaged in farm
work and colt production. This
will save the money paid out for
mules and horses, but the great
est profit will come from secur-
ing in this way sufficient work
stock for economic crop produc-
ton.
5. The most prolific seed for
planting purposes.
6. Acid phosphate for soils de-
fcient in phosphorus and lime
for soils needing lime.
z. Labor-saving farm imple-
ments and machinery for the
most economical production of
crops.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03

and treason ever planned by any
country against another with
which it is not at war.
Under the guise of friendship,
and the protection which our
neutrality, under the most pro-
vocative circumstances, afforded
him, this william with the smiI-
ing cheek" sought money to de-
bauch Congress, and to inter-
fere with the expression of
American opinion on the protec-
ton of American rights. Never
were the uses of diplomacy so
prostituted.
The United States however,
has not alone suffered from Prus-
sian deception.
There is the incident of the
German ambassador to Buenos
Aires, maintaining the outward
appearance of friendliness to.
ward the Argentine Republic,
whilst at the same time sending,
under secret code, the fiendish
message ''Spurlos versenkt,"
Sink without a trace.
AS the war continues other ma
tiOns furnish evidences that they
have been included in this net
work of falsehood and intrigue,
and yet the Entente Powers,
which have sorely suffered alike
from German barbarism and Ger
man duplicity, are asked to con-
fide their honor in a treaty of
peace with the Imperial German
Government, while Kaiser Will
helm is its ruler!
Let mo peace with autocracy"
be the slogan-no peace until the
Government that is without hon
or or without scruple is crushed
and powerless for generations to
repeat the wrongs it committed
against civilization. Elizabeth
town News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03
Whatsoever a Man Think
eth.

All sin comes from the mind,
as all moisture comes from the
sea Rain, snow. dew and mist
all came from the ocean depths;
so unkind words and wicked ac-
tions flow from evil thoughts.
Worry is a sin of the mind,
Forethought is virtue, but use
less anxiety shows lack of faith.
To worry about the things we
cannot help is to ooubt TIE Faith
er's care for US. He clothes the
lily and feeds the sparrow
watches over US.
Selfishness is a sin of the mind.
1t s a small mind that can think
only of self. Men are great or
small in proportion as they learn
to think with and for others.
Some think only of self, some of
family. some of the local church
or city. Jesus felt and thought
in world terms.
Mental laziness is one of the
most common sins. Failure to
read grow as we might, is a sin
against ourselves. We have no
right to stand still, to be salts
fed with present attainments.
Each year should find US able to
do more because we have be-
come to know more. :
To fill the mind with cheap
thoughts is sinful. Cheap amuse-
ments, trashy novels, meaning
less conversations, appeal to the
superficial in life. Life is real
life is earnest, F." and we should
think great thoughts. read good
books and listen to those who
can thrill and inspire US.
We cannot entirely control the
thoughts that will come into our
minds, but we can say what
thoughts shall remain there.
Strange thoughts and enemy
ideas may wander into the pal
ace of the mind. but they cannot
find an abiding place. if the
mind is filled with good thoughts.
The mind is guilty of sins of
omission as well as sins Of com.
mission. We should not read
unwhoIesome books, nor should
we neglect to read the best in
literature. We should not speak
evil, nor neglect the opportunity
to say a kind. helpful word.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03

During the long and trying
period that the United States
attempted to maintain its posi-
ton as a neutral, Senator La
Toilette advocated every meas
ure which would surrender our
rights and opposed every meas
ure to protect and defend them.
With the country at war he
declined to follow Mr.. Bryan's
patriotic example of whole-heart-
ed support to the Government,
but has consistently, and with
out exception voted against ev-
cry bill, whose passage was vi
tai to the prosecution Of the war.
He was one of the twelve Sen
ators who opposed the Armed
Neutrality resolution; one of the
six against the War resolution:
one of eight against Food Con-
servatiOn; and one of four
against the War Revenue bill.
Others Senators. with traitor
GUS tendencies, have supported
some and opposed others of the
war measures, but Senator La
Toilette is alone in his infamy in
having used his vote and what
ever measures of influence he
has to defeat every legislative
enactment. first. that would
maintain the self-respect of the
American government, and, sec
ondly, that would enable it to
cope with its enemies on the
battlefield.
Not contempt with his infa-
nous record in Congress, Sena-
tor LaFollette goes upon the
stump making sedition speeches,
declaring that the wrongs which
Germany did to US were only
technical" and that we ought
to supinely submit TO them and
be at peace today.
This may not be sedition un-
der the construction of the Els
pionage Act, but if it cannot be
invoked the American people are
demanding that this serviceable
ally of Imperial Government feel
the sting of public outrage and
resentment.
The Senate can expel a men,
Der by two-thir1s vote, and it
should improve the opportunity
at once. -E.Town News.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03
German DupIlCity.

German duplicity vies with
German barbarism to make the
Imperial Government the most
hated and dishonored of all ma
lions.
From the hour that a solemn
treaty with Belgium was brushed
aside as a scrap of paper" un-
til Count Won Bernstorff was ex-
posed as the head of a vast spy
system in the United States Ger
many's dealings with neutral ma
lions has been continual story
of broken faith. r.
The shameless revelations of
Bernstorff's activities are i'm
portant only as they pile ev-
idence upon evidence.
The Zimmerman note, in which
a plot for the dismemberment of
the United States was barred,
added to hundreds of minor Incl
dents, had already convicted
Germany of attempting the most
audacious programme of intrigue
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03
The Infamy of LaFOIIette

Every consideration of nation
al unity and strength demands
that Senator LaFollette be ex-
PEELED from Congress.
Honored with a high position,
and under oath to support the
Constitution, he is an enemy to
the country more dangerous than
the Kaiser's legions.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03
Atrocities Described.
(NEw YORK SUM

The Rev, DR.. Jewell Dwight
Hills delivered in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, yesterday the
first of series of six sermons
on "The Crimes and Atrocities
of Germany" DR.. Hills has
just returned from an extended
tour of the European battle
fronts.
The clergyman told of many
barbarous acts with which the
public is familiar, and then said
that in company with others he.
had made a tour of Eastern
France, armed with photographs
and afidavits.
In Gerbeuiller, standing be-
/
side their graves, | studied the
photographs of the bodies of fif-
teen old men whom the Germans
had lined up and shot because
there were no young soldiers to
kill" he said. Il heard the de-
tailed story of woman whose
boy of fourteen, being nearest
the age of a soldier, was first
hung to a pear tree in the gar
den, and when she cut the rope
they poured petrol on him and
set fire to him. While he stag
gered about like a flaming torch
they shrieked with laughter"
DR.. Hills told how the Ger
mans had driven 275 women and
children into a church tower of
which they mounted a machine
!, gun, knowing that if the French
attacked them they would kill
their own kin. After several
days. hunger the beleagured peo-
pie got word to the French that
they preferred'deat to the in
dignities they were suffering
and asked that the church be at
tackled. In taking the place the
French killed twenty of their
own wives and children.
The pastor pointed to pile of
documents before him and said
they were the records of more
than 1000 atrocities. He also
had, he said, letters taken from
the bodies of German soldiers
bearing out the stories Of rapine
and wholesale murder related by
the French and not at first be-
lieved by the world at large.
One of these letters said:
In Vendre all the inhabitants
without exception were brought
out and shot. This shooting was
art-breaking, as they knelt
down and prayed. 1t is real
sport, yet it was really terrible
TO watch. At Haecht l saw the
dead body of a young girl nailed
to the outside of a cottage by
I her hands. She was about four
'1teen or sixteen years old"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1917-10-03

PLEDGE CARD FOR UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION.
10 THE ADMINISTRATOR:
join the
Administrator home,
Street
to be paid
pledges Membership Window which ds
| ered receipt PLEDGE
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
FARMERS PLEDGE LOYALTY
Large Standing Army In Times OF
Peace is Opposed.

The National Farmers Union
held its annual meeting at Jones'
boro last week. The following res
Olution was adopted by the coDven-
ton:
we pledge our utmost loyalty to
our government in the great strug-
ele in which the nation is now en-
eaeed and we assure the govern
ment and our soldiers that back OF
them in their service we food pro-
ducers stand united for the prose-
cution of the war to a successful
end"
The body also voted that we are
unalterably opposed to large stand
ing armes in the time of peace, and
protest against any form of univer-
sal military service"
1t was also urged that farm boys
in the camps be given furloughs to
return home and help gather the
crops.
The Rural Credits Committee en-
dorsed the federal farm loan act,
but suggested that congress be Pc
titioned to amend the law so that
the landless and homeless man
may borrow as much as 80 per
cent of the value of the land he
may buy for a home up to limit
of $4,000, the government to issue
three per cent bonds to take care
of such loans and charge the bor-
rover four per cent interest.
The Legislation Committee said
that the burden OF the war should
not be placed upon the future GEN
erations by intereSt-bearine bonds,
only as fer as is absolutely neces.
sary. The committee said that
such money should be raised by
general taxation so far as possible
on coneested incomes, war profits,
inheritance tax, and a graduated
system OF land taxation.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
THE ECOURTS

Circuit Court, Northern Dis
rict-First Monday in January
md Second Monday in July
southern District-Second Mon
lay in February and August.
County Court-Third Monday
n January, April, July and Oc'
ober. Northern District, ,-4tt
Monday in January, April, July
md October,
Probate Court-Northern Dis
5rict-Third Monday in March
June, September and December
southern District Second Mon.
day in March, June, September
md December,
Chancery Court Southern Dis
trict-First Monday in May and
November. Northern District
Second Monday in March and
september.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
OEEICIEL-
Congressional

Congressional
Member Of Congress 2nd District
W. A. OLDFlELD.
Judicial
Judge of tho 10th judicial Cir
cult, j, B. Baker,
Pros, Atty,.'-J, G, Ashley
Judge Of the Chaneery Court
G, 7 Humphries.
Senatorial,
Member State Senate, Secon
Distriet-H, l., Ponder,
County.
Representative, s, Ln shaver,
Sheriff, J. II, Klrtlcy'
Clerk, i, A. Boyoe,
County Judge, W, T, Horn,
Treasurer, j, l., Gyngard
Assessor, E q, Davidson,
urveyor, j, =, Eoson,
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

AIS ~ impossible to mako II conform
10 Sor wishes, If you are Interested
IN work of this kind and want aseIsl.
snoe In getting the work started
please write 10 the Exchange plyl.
sion, old statehouse, Little Rock,
Arkansas,
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
Have II Handy For Croup.

Grandmothers and mothers who
have raised families Of children have
learned from experience that 1t pays
to keep q bottle NJ Foley's Honey
and Tar In the house ready for en-.
erseney 1t gives prompt relief
from dreaded Group attacks, checks
coughs and colds, and relieves
whoopine cough, A safe medicine
no opiates, Barnett Drug Co,
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
Directory
CHURCHES

CHRISTIAN-Service every
Sunday morning No regular
pastor.
MISUNDERSTANDING as
follows: Second Su, day in the
month, morning and night, the
third Sunday night, The fourth
Sunday morning. Rev, j. w.
Jenkins, Pastor.
SUNDAY SCHOOL-At the
Methodist church every Sunday
morning at 10 o'clock. Every.
,ody invited to attend. o. c.
shaver, Superintendent.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
STATE NEWS BRIEFS

Lee Robinson, 12-year-old boy
of Harrison, was thrown from a
pony he was riding few days ago
and received injuries which pro-
duced his death.
Hopping a freight train at New
Orleans, La, to return to his mother
at Bradford, Cecil Higeinbotham, IS
years old, slipped under the car
wheels. Both feet were mashed so
badly that amputation was neces-
sary. The lad ran away from home
a few weeks ago, leaving Bradford
with carnival company
A 7.months.old baby of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. E. Eller of Earle, Crittenden
county, was burned to death a few
days ago. The mother placed the
baby in a chair in front Of a fire.
place while she went to the garden,
When she returned the child had
fallen into the fire and was burned
so badly that death resulted before
a physician arrived,
Possible activity of alien ene-
mics is indicated by the number Of
cotton Gins, warehouses and COM
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
Complaint Almost Gone.

"F'oley's Honey and Tar is great,
writes L. W. Day, 65 Campbell Ave-,
E., Detroit, Mich. 1t relieves bron-
chitis quickly. My complaint is al
most gone and | hope never to
have it again" Time and exper-
ience have proven that there is no
better medicine for coughs, colds or
Group. Get the genuine, Barnett
Drug Co,
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

presses burned this season. State
Fire Marshal Bruce 7. Bullion has
become so concerned by these dis
asters that he has sent out 22,OOO
circulars suggesting that armed
guards be employed at all such
plants and other methods taken as
a precaution against the work OF
incendiaries.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
PROTECT YOUR CATTLE FROM
ANTHRAX AND BLAoklgo,

Anthrax Anthrax can be con.
trsllsd successfully by vacoInatIng
with serum and spore vaccine, spel
olal permission must be had from the
state Veterinarian before treating for
this disease.
Black Leg Black Leg affects
calves under two years old, but ael
dom attacks older cattle, Fer ia
control cattle are vaeeinaied with
Black Leg Pellets or Black Leg Fil
trate' Black Leg Filtrate Ia The mos,
successful treatment
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
GENERAL NEWS
TOLD IN A FEW LINES
Happenings In All Parts OF
The Country Boiled Down
To Brief Lines.

SNAlCl VI boiioo, iSno'' AANo NAANA>
his son Robert, $500 for every Ger
man he kills. The son is now with
Pershine in France.
A special congressional commit
tee has announced that according to
estimate, motorists will pay $685.
O95,OOO in automobile license fees
during the year 1918.
Under the Federal farm loan sys-
tenn, $7,354,0OO was loaned to
American farmers during October,
This max es a total Of $21, 100000
loaned to farmers since the system
was organized IS months ago.
Ernest Rioux, a storekeeper of
North Attleboro, Mass, lost $96 that
had been left in bag of beans sold
by a clerk. The money was return
ed to the storekeeper by Chester
Gay, a boy who had purchased the
beans for his mother. The lad was
rewarded.
Authorities in Seattle, Wash,
believe they have unearthed plot
of German origin in the arrest of
DR.. j. H. Gordon and a Russian
woman, The pair are charged with
plotting to perform throat operations
to make men unfit for service un-
der the conscription law.
Germans captured by the United
States troops may be kept in France
to do farming and other necessary
work in that nation. France has
made this request of America, and,
as the expense of transporting pris-
oners will be great, the request
doubtless will be granted.
John Long of Lebanon, Pa, was
shot in the right shoulder by one of
his dogs, while cunning. About to
start home, Long whistled for the
dogs, and one of them leaped into
the seat of the automobile, acciden-
tally dischareing both barrels Of a
shotgun. Long lost his arm.
During a temporary fit of insanity
Mrs ANNA Hausele, of Greensburg
Pa. shot and killed two of her child
ren, wounded two others and then
shot herself. Her own wound, how
ever, was not fatal. Before the
shooting Mrs. Hausee sent note
to her sister saying that she was
going away soon"
Five and a half million people Of
the United States are illiterate. Thi,
figure includes only those over ten
years of age who are unable to read
or to write. In making this report
the Bureau Of Education explains
that this condition is due largely to
the foreign elements and our limit.
ed capacity to meet their needs.
After county jailer Tom Davis, Of
Memphis, Tenn, had shot AL Goines
in fight resulting from GoneS an.
ti.American remarks, Circuit Judge
r. H, Dudley instructed the grand
jury not to indict Davis, but to re.
turn a true bill against the Pro. Ger.
man. The jailer shot twice at an,
other Pro-German, but missed both
shots. u thought Tom was a bet.
ter shot" remarked the judge.
Although the father was born In
Germany and the mother soon after
her parents arrived in America from
Germany, Mr. and Mrs. William
Grey of Portland, Oregon, have civ.
en- seven sons to fight the kaiser
Two of the sons are in the navy and
five are in the army, All seven
volunteered, Edward and George
twins, are with the field artillery in
France Mr., and Mrs, Grey have
l8 children living,
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
A Coward And PoItroon

The man who would not fight for
the restoration and to ovenge poor
Belgium Is not a paelast, but Is a
coward and a poltroon, Samuel
Gompers, labor leader.
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30

- Haataz
Sharp County record., 1917-11-30
LODGE:

f, & A. -EveSi'l
Lodge No. l43 me'a
night before the thlFo \
and Saturday night "
first Sunday in each n%
G. L. Cogeh
j. r, Me''d'
r. A. M.--Rural V''
meets the third sa'u'pN
In each month 4
| s. p. Turn'N
! ]. R, Me'',I II
I. O, O. F,-Ev'a.I
Lodge No, 200 meets "
night Of each week
Ed Wasso''
J R M''"
REBEKAHs-oF'v,. oF'v
No, s45 meets the ''TE
fourth Friday 0'S'
month.
Mrs. Myrtle B''., ,,,,,
W, O. w.-Ev''0''' N
Camp No sS7 m.,11... "
and fourth satuF'' NJ
each month, I,..
E 4. DlcNe''
0, G, sh'"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1917-01-26
MoIla Biurstedt.

Bjurstedt is capable of strokes that
would pose many of the best male
players.
One of New York's tennis experts
recently declared that Miss Bjurstedt
could not win from at least the first
100 male stars. Paul Treanor, we'll
known tennis player Of Washington
and one who would be listed among
the first 40 players recently declared
that in practice play Miss Bjurstedt
frequently took sets from him when
he worked at his best speed. Other
male players who have played the
woman champ have said the same.
1t would be interesting if Miss Blur
stedt could be induced to tackle the
mems singles and try to find her rat
ing among them. There are many who
are sure she would rank well up with
In the first 40 and since the women's
title has been so easy for her she
might find 1t little more exciting.