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The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
CANADIAN POTATOES CON-
ING TO UNITED STATES

Newspapers from potatoraising sec
tions as far distant as Alberta, Can
ada. report large stocks of potatoes
still in the hands of the brokers, and
that there is really no adequate rea
son for the excessive potato prices in
the Eastern cities.
The Calgary Telegram of March l re-
ports that buyers have shipped out
thirty cars of potatoes within the las.
week or ten days and that a St Louis
buyer has purchased over a hundred
cars of Alberta potatoes, and there is
still a very considerable supply.
The chief difficulty of buyers is to
get cars to handle this merchandise
and the car shortage rather than the
crop shortage is the chief cause OF
high prices
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
"EVERYWoMAN" COMES
TO LEXINGTON AGAIN.

Henry w. Savage's "Everywoman'
Company. one of the largest dramatic
and musical organizations on tour will
return to Lexington for two days OH
Monday and Tuesday, March 10 and
90 There will be a special matinee
Tuesday.
"Everywoman" is unique form of
entertainment, combining in one ire
mendous spectacle, opera, drama and
musical comedy. Mr.. Savage is bring
ing his own great organization, the
one and only "EverywOman" Com
pany, which is now making a seventh
triumphal tour of both the large AMI
smaH cities.
The title role is taken this year b.
the young and beautiful Paula Shay.
acclaimed to be the greatest Every
woman" Mr.. Savage has ever had
There are p speaking parts, large
choruses and ensembles and special
orchestra is carried on tour.
Over four million people have wit
messed "EverywOman." 1t has an en-
crossing story, telling of the advent.
ures that befall young and beautiful
woman Of our day who sets out from
her home in search of love. Her
quest leads her into strange places
At one time she is behind the scenes
of a metropolitan theatre, herself the
leading actress, a petted favOrite; a,
another she is holding high carnival
in her SumptuouS apartment at mid
night, the toast of the hour, surround
ed by her worshippers and satellites,
at still later period she had paid the
toll for her dissipation and alone and
friendless, she wandels the city streets
at midnight on New Years Eve as rois
terers are celebrating the passing o!
the old year and are welcoming the
advent Of the new. The production is
on a huge scale.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
'~s>>>>>>~>~>>>e
MILLERsBURG
Miss Florence Vimont

Miss Florence Vimont continues
very much the same.
Miss Stella Hurst has returned
after spending the winter in Florida
! MIR. A. H. Smedley returned We'd
nesday after a three-weeks' sOjourn al
Dawson Springs.
During the electrical storm Tues
day night the big barn on the farm o.
Mr.. w. w. Shannon, near town, was
struck by lightning and badly dam
aged. The barn was filled with shee,
at the time. seven of them being killed
! by lightning. The barn was partly
! insured in the Hurst Home Insurance
Company.
MIR. William Becraft. aged seven
ty-one, died Monday at 2:30 p. M, al
his home near here, after lingering
illness of a complication of diseases
Mr.. Becraft was one of our most
prominent farmers, and has been il
failing health for some time. For the
past two weeks he had been confined
TO his home, and his family and friends
realized the end was near. With tha
exception Of a few years when he re
sided at Jacksonville, ILL.,, he had liv
ed in his fathers home where he was
born. He was one of family of sey
eral children. and is survived by two
brothers. James and Dink Becraft, who
reside in Missouri. Several sisters
have preceded him to the grave.
Early in life lie was united in marri-
age to Miss Reynolds, of Jacksonville,
ILL.,. and for a time resided at that
place. Later he returned to his old
home. where he spent the remainder
of his long and useful life. He was
a retiring, unassuming man, a citizen
who was interested in everything
about him. and was a lifelong mem
Der Of the Methodist church. Two
children were born to he and his es-
Unable wife-Mr. w. r. Becraft, who
died some years ago, and Mrs. J. T.
jefferson. VINO resided with her father
Some years ago while Mrs. Becralt
was on a visit to her family at Jack
sonville, H.. she was stricken with
pneumonia and died. The funeral o.
Mr. Becraft was held at 2:30 Tuesday,
at his residence, conducted by Rev.
3. G. Horton, of Lagrange. formerly
pastor Of the Methodist church al
MillersburC. \ large cOncourSe of rel
atives and friends followed the re
mains To their last resting place in
the NilleTsburg Cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Halves, Of Chi
cage. H. were guests of their grand
mother. Mrs. America Butler Monday
and Tuesday. Mr.. HAYES w9s united
few days ago in marriage to Miss
Sales. OF tina city, and while out OIL
their bridal tour spent day and nigh'
with his grandmother. He is a for
mer Millersburg boy. and he, with his
bride, were the recipients of numerous
congratulations. Mrs. Butler is ali
attractive young lady, well known
here, as she has visited here in the
past. They went from here to Ash
land, where Mr.. Halves will attend TO
some business for the Pig Iron Co. he
represents.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
ADVERTISING RATES

Display Advertisements, 800 per
inch for first time; 30 cents per inch
each subsequent insertion.
Reading Notices. 10 cents per line
each issue: reading notices in black
type, 20 cents per line, each issue.
Cards of thanks. calls on candi-
dates, obituaries and resolutions, and
similar matter, 10 cents per line.
Special rates for large advertise
ments and yearly contracts.
The right Of publisher is reserved
20 decline any advertisement or other
matter for publication.
Announcements for political Offices
must invariably be accompanied b.
the cash
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
EVERYTHING GOING UP EX-
CEPTING COFFEE AND TEA

Retail food prices in the United
States advanced - Per cent. in the
year ending with January Is, as shown
in statistics prepared by the Bureau
of Labor statisican The increase was
greater than for the three years pre-
vious combined. The four years gain
was 80 per cent.
Ever food staple except coffee and
tea advanced during the year. Onions
ard potatoes led with increases OF
more than 80 per cent.
Some CT the advances were: Sirloin.
per cent; round steak, s per cent;
rib roast. s per cent; chuch roast, Z
per cent; pork chops, 10 per cent;
bacon. s per cent; ham, 4 per cent:
lard, % per cent; hens, 4 per cent;
salmon. per cent; eggs, 80 per cent;
butter. Is per cent; cheese, q per cent:
milk. IL per cent; bread, Is per cent;
-four. SO per cent: corn meal, % per
cent; potatoes, so per cent; onions, IS
per cent; beans, 80 per cent; prunes,
8 per cent; raisins, 16 per cent; sugar,
is per cent.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
EDITORIAL MUSINGS.
~~<>>>>>>>>>>>
Teaching Citizenship.

Il is announced a: Pittsburg thar
the public schools will establish a de
partment for training in citizenship
This is probably designed for children:
and aliens. But many leading citizens
need very much TO attend such q
course
IL they obey the laws. many people
thing they are good citizens. When
the caucuses and primaries come
around, they forget all about it. Some
small knot of politicians thereby be
come able 10 put over" hand picked
nominations
Not more than 10 10 % per cent. o.
the voters usually take part in making
nominations, the elections will take
care OF themselves. Those who STAY al
home give as excuse that they are
too tired. have other engagements. OF
that the machines have set up the
whole proceedings so that il is a farce.
That just suits the machine. who base
their fabric on these indolent habits.
II is not enough 10 attend primaries
and elections. il no attention is given
to the issues thereof. a man will de-
hberate for days over a business deal
Involving only a small sum. But he
will prepare for act as an elector
merely by reading newspaper head,
lines. Or he will depend on chance
conversations with men he sees on the
street These men may be as ill in
formed as himself. Consequently
many voters at the polling booth find
the names of candidates entirely un
familiar. They know nothing for or
against them. good or bad. Thus
they vote hit or miss. is it any won
der that all forms of government are
inefficient and costly?
An attempt TO teach citizenship in
schools then should not be merely i'm
pairing facts. knowledge of the civic
structure amount TO little. What Is
needed is az idea OF government
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
LET FOR U. S.
AERIAL WARSHIPS

WASHINGTON. March 15.-The
United States took the first long step
toward the formation of dirigible
airship navy Monday, when the Navy
Department bought sixteen of the non
rigid type. The contracts were award
ed as follows: Curtiss Aeroplane
Company, Buffalo. three. with power
plants, for s122,250; Connecticut Air
craft Company, New Haven, two, for
$4,000; Goodyear Tire and Rubber
Company, Akron, nine, for $500, 900,
B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, two,
for $4,000.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
YOU NEED A SPRING LAXATIVE.

Dr. Kings New Life Pills will re.
move the accumulated wastes of win
ter from your in:estines, the burden
Of the blood. Get that sluggish spring
feeling out Of your system, brighten
your eye, clear your complexion. Got
tiat vim and snap of good purified
healthy blood. DR.. Kings New Life
Pills are a non-griping laxative thar
aids natures process. Try them to-
night At all druggists, Csc.
(adv-mar)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
JUDAS HAD EDGE ON
UNPATRIOTIC SENATORS

The twelve apOstate Senators who
had the supreme nerve to try and
block the Presidents armed neutra,
ity bill in the United States Senate
have been numerically fayed and
flouted from one end of the country to
the other, but il is very doubtful if
even the best things Henry Waiter
son has written about the bunch
could exceed in satire and bitterness
this contribution to the COurier-Jour
nal from the pen Of Mr.. Graham Nc
Farlane, of Clarksville, Tenn.
I'm comparing the Congressional
Twelve Apostates with Benedict Ar
mold and Judas Iscariot, the press is
doing an injustice TO two men who.
being dead, cannot defend themselves.
"Arnold's expedition to Quebec
showed great military ability and mas
nificent physical courage. Feeling
aggrieved at what lie thought faint
recognition of his services and falling
under the influence of the "pacifists."
he committed treason, and his name be
came a byword forever.
Judas was poor devil to whom
thirty pieces of silver looked like a
fortune Had Judas been in receipt OF
the salary Of q United States Senator
he might have resisted the temptation
to betray our Saviour.
He also had the decency to hang
himself"
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
HOW TO PREVENT GROUP.

When the child is subject to at
lacks of Group, see to it that he eat:
Il light evening meal, as an overload
ed stomach may bring on an attack
also watch for the first symptoms
hoarseness, and give Chamberlain
Cough Remedy as soon as the chill
becomes hoarse. Obtainable every
where.
(alv-mar)
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
CHINA READY TO JOIN
AGAINST THE GERMANS

PEKING, March 1.-THE Senate
has approved the severance of rela
tons with Germany by vote OF 15i
to 81. 1t is expected that the govern
ment will take action to this effect at
once.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16

needs. The pupil should be taught
about the evils of existing government,
and given a desire to help on better
things. He should be taught that no
man is a good citizen who does not
vote regularly and intelligently.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16

Electrical devices connected with an
advertising mirror cause advertise
ments to mysteriously appear on its
surface and obscure the features OF
persons looking at it.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
New Subscribers
Installed BY The Paris Home
Telephone & TELEGRAPH Co.
PARIS EXCHANGE.

PARIS ENCHANGE
157 Ball, Joe, residence Virginia
256 Bddle o, Twentieth Clifton
2S9 Foenee wae Fhsn Avenue DIVISION
SO Frank, Julian, residence, Winchester Pike
o and and
1872 o. l., residence, Bourbon College
461 Gaines, Joe, residence, Clifton Avenue
479 Gault John residence Fourteenth
374 Grimes Elizabeth,
162 Hart, Winston. Merchants Delivery.
2S5 Hertig J.. residence, Thornton Division
209 Huffman, Clyde H., residence Fifteenth Street
233 Insko George residence, High Street
129 Jet, Porter, residence, East Paris
$50 King, l. G.. residence, Virginia Avenue
"a King, Rankin residence, Whites Addition
594 Margoen, H. Meat Market. 613 Main Street
81 Merringer w. NJ, residence Main Street
273 Mitchell Mrs Boarding House Tenth and Main Streets
217 Oberdoer L. residence, Ninth and Pleasant Streets
591 Orr DIR. j. A. residence, Cypress Street
Independent Tobacco Warehouse, S.
2S2 Price Company
1914 Perkins, A. b., residence Liieston Avenue
4S3 Sanders, Miss Mary, residence 1888 Main Street
141 Sale, r. j., residence Houston Avenue
227 Spra;t residence Whites Addition
27S Tankersey Fount. residence Iieson
300 Thacker E. W., residence Parrish Avenue
176 G. O, Warehouse, Clintonvile pike
52S Turner, Robert residence. Henderson Street
251 WOOdfOrd, James B., residence ClintOnvile Pike
2O21 Young Tolie, residence, NORTH Middletown Pike
MIILERsBURG EXCHANGE
145 Fryman. Bert residence Trgg Street
SO Johnson Oscar residence, Main Street
IA Ieggett, Luther residence, Main Street
141 Miller Barber Shop. Main
159 Stone Thomas, residence Pleasant Street
LITTLE ROCK EXCHANGE
As Chanslor, residence, Little Rock
So Gore Chester. residence, Jaeksown Pike
Sc Hanks G. j., residence, Little Rock, Ky.
CIINTONvIIIE EXCHANGE.
Thomas, Austeitz Pike
1913 Weathers, Sam L., residence Cinonvile Pike
SHAWHAN EXCHANGE.
Iail r r, Ky.
Please this out and paste in Directory.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16

What great good has this inefficient
world accomplished with all the time
it gained by sending picture postcards
instead of writing letters?
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16

The path of glory but leads 20 an
other line of trenches.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
&. NJ. THOMAS
FOE RIEE.

FOR SHERIFF.
WILL 9. McCLINTOCK.
Wiz Doc Marshall and Bob Gilkey as
deputies.
L. 4. SOPER
Witt ID. {. Clarke and l.. C. Ashcraft
as deputies.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
AN NOU ~ c e M EMIT.

We are authorized TO announce the
good Democrats below as candidates
at the Democratic primary on August
& 1917, to fill the offices to which
Aey aspire:
FOR STATE SENATOR
LEE w. WAINSCOTT,
Clark County.
GEORGE HON,
Clark County.
A1RA,I RENICK.
Clark County.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY
DAVID n. CLINE.

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
SCHOOLS.
]. B. CAYWOOD.
MISS MABEL ROBBINS,
FOR JAILER
GEO. w. JUDY
THOS. TAUL.
JOHN II. DOTY,
WALKER KISER.
G. T. MASTERSON,
w. o. BUTLER,
: JOHN w. KING,
J. w. HART.
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-03-16
FOR ASSESSOR
WALTER CLARK

WALTER CLARK.
Of Paris, with Jno. !. Redmon. of Nortl
MiddIetown, as deputy.
GEO. n. SpEAKES.
Of Paris. with Lee r. Craven, OF Littl,
Recb at Deputy.
FOR MAYOR
JAMES II. MORELAND.
FOR POLICE JUDGE
CLAUDE r. REDMON,
J. ". BROWN.
p. A. THOMPSON
HARRY l.. MITCHELL.
ERNEST MARTIN
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
Imprisoned Arm.

In the early days of California a thief with his knife slit a hole in a neighborinS tent at the head of bunk, thrust in his arm and extracted q bag of gold dust. He was caught with the goods, indicted for burglary and convicted. His counsel moved for an arrest of judgment and q new trial on the ground that he was not guilty of burglary, for he had not "broken into and cntered' the premises as charged in the indictment. The court refused to grant q new trial but said that in passing sentence he would take the peculiar circumstances into con- sideration. He did so. He sentenced the arm that entered the tent to ten years Imprisonment, but accorded to the defendant the option of accom- panying it there or of cutting it off, just as he should choose.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
i'Dixie."

The song "Dixie" was Written in
 .So3 by D. D. Emmett, and was first publicly sung by Bryant's mintrels, ill New York, at Mechanics hall. The in spring air and the words, which were i'll the darky dialect, appealed to tho south, where the song became popular. tt became the battle song of the con- federacy. There were two other "Dixies," the one northern ballad and the other southern ballad of the Civil war, by Albert Pike, which first ap- peared in the Natchez (Miss.) Courier. The origin of the phrase ''Dixieland" is thought to be in the name of MT. Dixie, a slave-holding New York cit- zen, who moved to the South. His large number of slaves, the story runs, bemoaned leaving their old home, Which they called DiXie's Land. The phrase spread and was appropriated for the Southern states, which were substituted for the original Dixieland The phonetic connection between the word and Mason and Dixon's line also has been pointed out The boundary line to the negroes was Mason and Dixie's" land.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
I,llS,970 WAGE BANNERS GIVEN
 RAISES IN l9l6
Secretary of Labor Reports That Most Increases Game
 After Election.

Washington. Jan. 27.-Sccret tary ot
 Labor William B. Wilson stated today
 that more than eleven hundred thou
 sand wage earners in the United
 States received substantial increases
 in pay in the months of November and
 December, 1916, according to figures
 just compiled.
 With few minor exceptions"
 said the secretary, "all of the 1,11S,-
 970 increases came after election day,
 November 7th, and 931 ,763 during De-
 cember. This is extremely interest
 ing in view of the prediction of 'clos-
 ed shops,' soup kitchens bread lines, etc., should President Wilson be re-
 elected, with which the Republican
 managers flooded the columns of the
 newspapers and plastered the bill
 boards of the country in the last six
 weeks of the campaign. It is signifi-
 cant that of the 1,118,970 of workers
 affected, only 33,3O0, or a little more
 than 3 per cent are employed in the
 manufacture of munitions. It is also
 significant that whereas 66 of the 212 increases noted for November were the result of strikes, only B of the BOA for December were secured through this method
 "I have had prepared from various newspapers and periodicals tables showing wage increases secured by employees in manufacturing and oth- CT establishments in the months men, toned. The figures presented were secured from 45 trade union period icals, AZ labor papers, $ leading trade journals, and over 50 daily newspa- ISh ,.f. +lx country. Great care has been taken to eliminate all duplicates.
 "The reports for November, 1916. show PIP statements of wage increas- es in 38 states. Three of the reports relate to railroads and other inter- state establishments. Of these PIP reports 131 show the number of es- tablishments affected to be 163, and " reports shows 1S7,2Q7 employees af l fected. Of the PIP reports of wage increases 57 are stated to be the re- suit of strikes, 72 by voluntary ac- tion on the part of the employer, and ! for the remaining Y no reason was | stated. The second table shows tho i same information arranged by indus try or ocupation. This tabulation [ shows 77 reports which gave the num- Der of employees affected, the lar gest number affected being in foun- dry and machine shops, 32,436; min ing, 27,50O; iron and steel, 24,oOo; boots and shoes, 1S,500; textile work CTS, 17,950; tanning, 15,000. i
 "Ihe publications examined for the month of December show BOA reports of wage increases. These were for establishments in 3S states, 21 of which were fnr railroads and otho, in terstate establishments. Of the BOA 209 showed a total of 359 ! establishments involved. One hun dred and forty reports showed the total number of employees benefited by the increase of wages to be 931,- 763. Of these BOA reports of wage increases 45 werer reported to be ob- tained bv mutual agreement be- tween employer and employees, 33 as the result of strikes, 172 by volun- tary action of the employer, and for the remaining 54, no reason was giv- en. The second table shows the same
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28

information tabulated by industry or ocupation. This table shows that the largest number of employees benefit ted were in iron and steel, 341 500; textile workers, 20S,350; garment workers, 112,300; workers in electric al supplies, 60,000, munitions, 35,OO0; boots and shoes, 33,730; telephone and telegraph service, 23,000; paper man. ufacturing. 23.115.
 :, "ln the reports from which our figures were compiled there was no uniformity in stating the amount of increase, II and in large proportion of the cases It was not possible to deter mine percentage. In the cases where the increase was stated in the the form of percentage or where a per- centage could be computed, the pre- Vaiiln" increases were from } to 10 per cent"
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28

 utilization is concerned. It is pointed out that millions of barrels of oil is lost, and that condition equally as bad exists in connection with natural gas and many other natural resources.
 Chicago is beginning to reap the tesults of thrift campaign through . system of municipal junk co1lec- tion, sorting and then selling it after competitive bids have been received by the city. This old scrap iron, copper, lead and wire that formerly was consigned to the junk heap has increased the munic- ipal revenue over $100,00O in the past year.
 School No. 10, Indianapolis, Ind, has been very successful in its ex- periments in teaching thrift. The class began by making observa- tions of a pupils waste during school-time with regard to his own materials, tune and energy. They extended this, then, to the equip
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-01-28
LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT
By 6. w. STRAUS Pre5iaenf Ams,.aan Soe:fly 10, 7A,ih

ment furnished by the school far academic work, manual training, and domestic science. Pupils com peted with one another to see who could make tablets, pens, pencils and other essentials last the long est.
 Waste in the house was the next phase discussed. It included waste i'll the choice of amusements, read ing, and in methods of home study and of performing what they termed their chores" The re- ports of the fortunes realized by associations and municipalities in the conservation of the dump heap and the reports of the local fire marshal were introduced to show the waste through carelessness of preventab1e fires. The Civics class made some investigation as to To- cal waste of natural resources and visited some mills and factories to observe thrift methods.
 Magazine and newspaper arti- c1es on the subject were read in the English class where stories of success through thrift were re- lated. likewise themes were writ ten on various phases of the sub. ject.
 The most concrete example of the subjects possibilities has been the amount of money made by selling old newspapers and maga- zines they had collected.
 Through all these simple me- diums the pupils of this school have added a new word to their vocabu1aries-Thrift, and it will prove, as it has proven to all its devotees, the foundation stone to successful careers.