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Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
KNITTING REPORT

The Baxter unit has raised money
for yarn and this week sent sweaters
to the following boys: Carlos Dyer,
Fred Blankenhorn, Lemme Burton.
Anthony Husn, Arthur Grogan, Bethel
NARROW, William V. Cole, jeff Rag
land.
The Cookeville unit has furnished
for Lewis H. Carr, Wade Bussell, Os-
car Walker, Clifford Pinkston, Thur
man Huodleston, Flem Cumbee, Lieut.
Zina Mitchell, Clay Barr, and now
have several done waiting for friends
to send in addresses. Several Of
these have been knit by friends and
relatives of tho men.
The women of Boiling Springs COM
munity raised enough at an enter
tainment TO buy yarn for five sweat.
ers and will send them to boys from
that neighborhood.
Please do not think anyone is after
credit for this work but all turn in
and maze it a Putnam county unit.
Lee Seminary community all doing
their bit with the rest. Committee.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
WoMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY

At ,ecent meeting of the Wonl-
ans Missionary Society of the Meth
odist church a very enthusiastic busl-
ness session wa held in which the
finances of the year were all rounded
up, cur LIST quarters report sent in,
our Christmas box sent away and the
officers for the ensuing year elected
as follows: Mrs. T. X. Sisk, presi-
dent; Mrs. o. D. Massa, first vice
president; Mrs r. j. Craig, second
vice president; Mrs. Flora Noonan,
recording secretary; Miss Leona
Byrne, corresponding secretary; Mrs.
Benton Stanton, superintendent of
social service; Mrs. J. M. Dowell, su-
perintendent of publicity and mission
study; Mrs. Oscar Watson, treasurer;
Mrs. Dow Slasle, superintendent of
supplies.
The attendance at this last meeting
of the year was good and everyone
expressed herself as willing to begin
on new years work with new in
terest. Jan. 7th We meet with Mrs.
Massa.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
NOTICE

Wanted, all the stockholders of the
Farmers Union Supply Co., of Cooke
willie, Tenn, to be present at our next
meeting, which will be held at Cooke
vile on Inc 18th of jan, 1918, at 10
year. We will thank you all to be
present and hear our report read for
the year row closing, and cooperate
with us for another years business.
If you want a business of any kind to
reach uccess you will have to get be
hind and push with all your might.
Please remember the date, jan Is,
1918. Yours truly,
E. T. BUCK, Sec. and Treas. 81
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
HEN DAY FOR WAR WORK

At the suggestion OF Miss Elizabeth
Epperson, chairman of finance for AL
good, the woman's committee of the
council of defense put On Putnam
county hen day Saturday that proved
quite a success in Cookeville and AL,
good, the two towns putting it on
Other ,owns will have day later
About 800 was made in each town
donations and this money will be
spent for yarn to knit sweaters, wrist
let's, ETC., for the boys who have left
from this vicinity to serve their coun-
try. Tnirty or forty outfits have al
ready been sent and more will be sent
as finished.
The hen reception committee in
Cookeville was made up of the fol-
lowing ladies: Mrs Geo. Guthrie,
S. s. Neal Mrs. Edward Neal, Mrs. A.
]. Collie. Mrs. Jess Barnes, and the
hen swe1e received at the Arlington
hotel and sold to the Morgan Produce
company.
In Algood Mrs. J. T. Moore, Mrs. c.
H. Hickman, Mrs. Sam Powell, Mrs
Oscar Clark, Mrs. Henry Pointer, re-
ceived the hens at Harp & Pointers
store and the Algood Produce COM
pany bought them at good market
prices
The money from the hen day will
be truned over to Mrs. Fred White in
Cookeville and Mrs. ]. T. Moore in
Algood, chairmen Of the knitting de-
partment of the Red Cross and also
of the Cauncil of Defense, and will be
knitted things for the Putnam county
boys in and around each town. The
other towns OF the county are asked
to take up the same work, and if we
outfit our own boys, it will help the
Red Cross work that much, and leave
more in our treasury for bandages,
gauze packs, etc., that are so badly
needed abroad.
A Red Cross teacher will come to
Cookeville Immediately after Christ
mas to instruct any women who de-
sire to learn, the first aid work, then
the work should go on in the Govern
ment building at Cookeville and in
every town in the county until the
war closes.
The hens and other donations will
be received for the yarn fund at any
time now or in the future also until
the war closes. Let each do our bit.
As chairman of the Putnam county
woman's committee, Council Of De-
fense, | wish to thank both of the
above committees for the splendid
work done on the hen day. Also to
thank Mr.. and Mrs. Cooper of the Ar
lington hotel, the Morgan Produce
Co., Harp & Pointer and the Algaod
Produce Co., foI their very great help
in making the day a success. l also
wish to thank all who were kind
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
WORTHY OF THOUGHT

Idlcness is bad for the idle, bad fol
those that pay to surporl the Idle
That is why governments rise Will.
the people work and fall when toe
many parasites live on the workers
This country has been building VI
a good large minority of parasites
private car dweilers, candidates fol
the "non-shootable" uniforms. gentle
men and allies whose chief hardship
in war is that they can't go to Europe
but must stay home and see their
own country on thePacitic coaft or in
Florida.
This war will make it more difficult
to join the parasite class Of do-noth-
ings, and 20 that extent the war will
do great favor to the United States
Republic.
1t is well to remember the sayin (
of Prudhomme and repeat it occasion
ally, "Monarchies are destroyed by
poveryt. Republics are destroyed by
wealth..
In monarchy, whel the majority
become tco poor, they kick out the
king that has infiic ed poverty upon
them.
In republic when the minority be-
come too rich they get sick of repub.
4... \ Il
eide to get rid of it-at about the
same time the mass of the people g'e.
rid of them sometimes unpleasantly.
Times.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
Christmas Means Love.

We cannot picture it without seeing
the spangled Christmas tree girt with
the faces Of gleeful youngsters, glad
parents and happy bodies returned
home from town or far metropolis. 1t
sounds like bells and cracking logs
and shouts of children. And even our
old, round shouldered sorrow ridden
planet, with his eye knocked out on
his cheek, pauses to smile from sea
to sea, and love is everywhere rejuven-
ated.-James Whitcomb Riley.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
GET YOUR LICENSE

County Court Clerk W. o. Watson
has been appointed by the govern
ment to issue license to any person
wanting t,H buy explosives. The fee
is only rs cents, but you must have
the licel-e before you can buy any
dynamite or other explosive.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20
Christmas Greens.

A quaint old writer thus spiritualizes
the practice of Christmas decorations.
$50 our churches and houses, decked
with bays and rosemary, holly ivy
and other plants which are al .-ys
green, winter and summer, signify and
put us in mind Of his Deity-that tn
child that now is born was God and
man, who should spring up like ten
der plant, should always be green and
fiourishing and should live forever
more"
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20

enough to help gather in the hens for
the ladies. Upon such hearty coop
Grafton does the success of any work
depend We thank you each and all.
Mrs. JOHN EPPERSON.
Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1917-12-20

Hon. i A. Ligon has given up the
matter OF nomination for circuit court
judge, following an investigation into
the election in Trousdale county, and
Judge c. F.. Snodgrass will be declar-
ed the nominee
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
SAYS SALARY
ADJUSTMENTS
ARE NECESSARY
Game Must Be Put on Basis
Where Owners Can Elk
pect Fair Return
(Ry Associated Press.l

New York, Jan. 80. - President
Tener of the National league, reply
ing last night to complaints of Ma
tional league players that their
salaries had been cut. declared a
salary adjustment was absolutely
necessary.
1.-THE game must be put on such a
basis where the men who have money
in the clubs can expect a reasonable
profit on their investment" he said.
Despite the fact that we had a
record attendance, few clubs made
money. The same conditions, I am
told, existed in the American league,
which also had its record attendance.
IF the clubs cannot make any
profits with record attendances, what
can they do in lean years? And no
one can deny the right of the club
owner to expect his baseball property
to yield him a fair income.
The players should be more rea-
'sonable. Salaries were artihcially in
fiated during the existence OF the
Federal league, and players by holding
strike club over their clubs forced
them to pay salaries out of all pro-
portion to what their services were
worth. or what the clubs could afford
to pay. Naturally. such contracts
could not be expected to be renewed
at the war time figures"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
GOLF IS
ROBB[NG
BASEBALL
So Says Jack Hendricks,
Indianapolis Boss-Says
Parks Are Too Large
(By Associated Press.)

Indianapolis, Jan. 30.-Golf is rob-
bling baseball of it's patronage in the
OIL onion Of Jack Hendricks, manager of
the Indianapolis club Of the American
association. Bankers, lawyers and
other professional men, who usually
were counted upon as regular patrons
of baseball, now are spending their
benefit of their own exercise instead
of watching others.
THE falling off in attendance in
the last few years has been appall-
ing" Hendricks said. Il am convinced
that the sport, as regards attendance,
is on the decline. 1t has been ever
since golf became 80 popular. Other
outdoor games. including tennis and
swimming, also are responsible for
taking patrons away from baseball"
Baseball Parks Too Large.
Hendricks also thinks that the pres
ent day baseball parks are too big for
the sincere followers Of the sport to
thoroughly enjoy themselves. The real
Baseball "fan," Hendricks believes,
likes to be close up to the players.
why, in some Of the major league
parks a man who pays 25 cents for a
seat is liable to be sitting in another
county" Hendricks asserted.
THE real dyed in the wool fans
don't approve of that. They want to
sit where they can get close up view
OF the action, not from a block or so
away. It's better to build parks small
er and play to a capacity crowd than
to have them so large that they
usually are only half filled.
IT'S fact that in some parks the
fan who pays 25 cents for a seat is
so far away from the action that he
can't see who is at bat unless. Of
course, he is an exceptional follower
of the sport. g"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
FIRST OF LECTURES
AT ADVENTIST CHURCH


A large number avaiIed themselves
of the opportunity of hearing the first
of a series of lectures on Sunday night.
which are to be given at the Adventist
church, 1917 Fourth avenue north.
In the discourse for the evening the
pastor spoke of the effect of the pres
ent age upon the spiritual life of the
people.
been born a few minutes late and has
been trying to catch up ever since"
said the speaker. He rusheS into a
barber shop, has his barber work done,
clothes pressed, shoes BACKED, buys a
s o'clock edition of the evening paper
at 1880 o'clock, catches fast train and
then when he dies he is known as the
late Mr.. So-and-So. Men developed
into science. spending all their energy.
Astronomy has mapped the heavens
and numbered the stars, but on its sky
charts we find no Star of Bethlehem,
and in it's sky no Sun of righteousness.
Chemistry has split the atom and
molecule and created its compounds.
but it, blinded, sees nowhere in the
material creation the finger marks OF
Deity.
Geology has combed the stratihed
layers of the earth's foundations, but it
has found no Rock OF Ages.
Psychology has acquainted itself
with all the phenomena of the carnal
mind. but It knows not at all the mind
OF Christ.
Physics, with its electric light, has
illumined our cities until the night is
banished; but 1t knows not heeds not
the Light OF the World.
Botany has dissected, analysed,
classified and named every plant ana
flower and tree and fruit over land and
sea, but in its herbarium there is 10
Rose Of Sharon. and in it's flora we find
no Lily of the Valley.
''Mineralogy has sifted the stones OF
the earth, and sounded the depth of the
seven seas. but II has not found the
Pearl OF Great Price.
"In this mad rush after earthly
knowledge and worldly gain. men find
no time for that greatest science, ia
Word of God"
The pastor admonished the people 20
stop and get their bearings.
Last night the pastor spoke on the
subject Of The DEVILS Three Falls.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
News From Sportdorn
Sure, | Am Going Through,
Says Hartman; Declares He
Will Give Battle Before End

"sure, I am going through to st.
Paul." said Fred Hartman, American
driver, tailender in the winnipeg-St.
Paul dog race. shortly after his ar
rival here yesterday afternoon.
Yes, my feet are sore, and am
tired, and my dogs are tired, but that
doesn't make any difference. We're
going through, and it's thirty miles
more before we quit tonight"
Running behind his dog team, Hart
man had made forty miles when he
arrived here at $3.50 o'clock yester-
day afternoon, stopping nearly two
hours to rest, and feed his dogs. He
had gained eight miles on the leaders
since morning. .4
Will Give Leaders Battle.
81 don't say I am going to win" said
Hartman, but I am going to give
somebody battle before we are
through. The real race will be in the
last hundred miles"
Late reports last night placed Hart
man midway between Fargo and
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
DEAL CALLED OFF
Stroud Will Stay al Louisville Instead
Of Going 60 Coast.
(By Associated Press.l

Louisville, KY. Jan. 3O.-The deal
which would have sent Ralph Stroud
pitcher from the Louisville Ameri-
can association team to the San
Francisco club CT the Pacific Coast
league, has been cancelled.
Stroud came to Louisville last year
from the New York Nationals on
condition that he would be traded to
a Pacific Coast team at the end Of
the season. Q. III. Wathen. owner of
the Louisville club, however, has an
nounced that Stroud is satisfied with
his berth here. and has agreed to
terms.
Mr.. wathen also announced that
the Louisville club holds the signed
contract of five players. Wilbur Roach,
Joseph Mccarthy, George Whiteman,
AdoIph Luque and Emilio Palmero.
All OF these were regulars last season.
Athens, Ga, has been definitely Sc
lected as the spring training camp OF
the Colonies.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
GREAT NORTHERN HAS
DEMANDED TAX REBATE
Following Successful Prosecution Of
Grand Forks Case Road
Wants $500. 80.

Alleging that Cass county IN 1915
exceeded the tax levy allowed by Law,
the Great Northern railroad has filed
"a claim with County Auditor w. r.
Tucker for the return to 1t Of $500
which it claims was paid in excess of
the amount that could legally be as
sessed. 1t claims that the tax IL q OF
a mill in excess Of the legal amount
that can be charged.
In Grand Forks county the railroad
company brought action against the
county for excess taxes based on the
same grounds and was successful In
getting a verdict In the courts.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
Cannot Add Corn Starch
to Flour in Bread Making

! you know we only bake for ourselves
and are not doing a wholesale bust
ness, and we thought possibly we
could get a combination with corn
starch. that would allow US to carry
smaller stock"
The department maintains that the
addition of corn starch to flour in
bread making is a direct violation OF
the provisions under the N. ID. Food
law. Any party who offers for SALE
or sells, or has in his possession for
sale, -four containing corn starch, un-
lass it is labeled to show that 1t Is
mixture of -four and corn starch, does
so in violation of the food law OF
North Dakota. Any baker who intro
duces corn starch into wheat bread
and offers the same for sale as wheat
bread, is liable to prosecution for
adulteration. There is no objection to
the use of corn starch or Of any other
healthful products in foods, but the
introduction of these products for the
purpose of deception and fraud, to
mislead the public, to lower and
standardize the article, Is to be con-
demned.
Increase on Flour Only?
The Mediator, a weekly publication
for bakers, says editorially on iu
front cover:
THE gamblers and the foreign buy-
ers near doubled the cost Of flour
the baker has to pay, and must
therefore ask more for bread. Let
the public go after the real causes
and get the real criminals"
This raises several questions, and
among them, whether the price of
-four is in proportion to the cost Of
wheat Or whether. in making up the
wholesale price for flour, there has
been taken into consideration the in
crease in the selling price for bran,
shorts and screenings; that is, the
other mill products aside from the
-four itself Or. has all of the increase
in cost been placed upon the -four
without due consideration for the in
creased return for the mill products?
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
JOPLIN MAY GET CLUB.

Joplin, Mo-, Jan. 30.-Prospects that
this city will be a member of the
Western league next summer is BOOM
ing the local hot stove league" John
Savage, owner of the Topeka club Of
the Western league, recently was here
for the announced reason Of finding q
suitable park. He has been authorized,
it is understood here, to transfer the
Topeka franchise to any city he may
desire. 1t is considered possible that q
new baseball plant will be built If the
team is transferred.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
TRACK DATES ANNOUNCED.
(By Associated Press.)

Chicago, Jan. 30.-The Eighth An
nual Northwestern University Inter-
scholastic track field meet will be
held at Patten gymnasium in Evan
ston, March 30 and 81. Cards have
been mailed to all high schools and
academies in the state requesting that
representatives of the schools take
part in the games.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
Invincibles.
ORGANIZE SEVENTH CLUB.
fRv AaaoefafAd PraSHN

/ Kansas, City, Mo-. jan 36.-Plans
for the seventh golf club in Kansas
City have been completed and, with
the organization practically finished,
the actual construction work of the
first nine Of the proposed eighteen
holes is expected to be under way
soon.
The new organization is the Mi .
burn Golf club located across the
state line in Kansas. The other six
clubs, not including the two nine-hole
courses at SwSpe park, are
the Mission Hills, Hillcrest, Blue
Hills, Country Club. Shawnee Heights
and lakewood.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
nEerIONs AMsWERED,

Singapore is in a position where
nearly all the shipping between Eu-
rope and the far east must pass. The
settlement OF Singapore was started
in 1919 on an uninhabited island. It
is now the seventh port in the world
in the past ten years in the improve
ment of the harbor, and building
docks and warehouses. Although
only eighty miles from the equator,
the average temperature is So degrees.
The annual rainfall is ninety five
inches, well distributed throughout the
year.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
GAINESVILLE, and still going.
Has Had Touch Luck,

Il
Has Had Tough Luck.
Hartman has probably had the
toughest luck of any of the drivers
Losing his lead dog after the first
fifty miles of the race. he has been
forced to run beside his sled, having
run 201 miles in reaching Fargo. No
wonder that his feet were sore.
And besides, Hartman was forced
to ride one of his dogs, leaving but
three in the team for part Of the dis
lance.
Morrill, Called In.
F. S. Morrill, supervisor and care
takens part of whose work was to
see that the dogs were supplied with
fish, was called in to st. Paul yester-
day afternoon, leaving Fargo on No.
4 Of the Great Northern.
It was Morrill, who made a midnight
trip to HARDWOOD Sunday night. TAX
ing UP a supply Of food for men and
animals when it was found the racers
would be unable to reach Fargo with
out rest.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30

The photograph is being used to
teach singing. Records are made Of
the pupils singing, and then he is
permitted to hear himself sing the
song. He is then better able to judge
his efforts. In this way singers and
orators may try out their songs and
speeches on themselves before offer
ing them to the public.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
PLAN MANY IMPROVEMENTS.
(By- Associated Press.)

Columbia, No. Jan. 30.-More i'm
provements on Rollins Field, the ath-
letic stadium of the University of
Missouri here, are planned as the re-
suit of the successful football season
last fall The gross receipts of the
games were $23,217.58 while the ex-
penses were $12,140S7. The announce
ment also set forth that more than
$4,000 had been expended on the
field within the last seven years, all
of which came from profits during the
football season. z....
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30

In the latest bulletin Of the food
department. bulletin No. 10 Of volume
Nv just off the press, DIR. e. F. Ladd
state food commissioner, holds that ii
is not permissible under the pure food
laws of the state to use corn starch in
the making of bread in order to get
a loaf that will hold it's moisture.
In this bulletin DIR. Ladd says:
There are those who are endeavor-
ing to induce the bakers to make use
of corn starch in wheat -four for
breadmaking so as to standardize the
loaf of bread and bring it down to the
minimum volume, thus, introducing a
cheaper product as an admixture into
a more expensive article of food.
AS bearing on this point there was
recently received a letter from one
Of the bakers Of the state, which reads
as follows:
I'VE note that some of the large
bakers are finding the present -four
quite heavily loaded with gluten, and
to offset this gluten which makes the
loaf of bread dry out quickly they are
using corn starch. We never have
undertaken to use anything Of this
kind, as we buy Montana hard wheat
-four and mix it in certain proportions
with the North Dakota made -four
and in that way get loaf of bread
that will stand from two to three days
without getting dry. The Montana
hard wheat seems to be a little softer
and holds moisture much better. While
we cannot make as large and as good
loaf of bread from it alone, we like
the mixture.
1--WE are writing you to ask you ii
by using corn starch to hold the mois-
ture we would be violating the provi-
sions of the pure food law. The rea-
son we are considering this is more
because it is hard for us to carry the
Montana -four, as we have to buy in
carloads and their cars are very large
as the minimum car Is 225 barrels
and from now until the first of April
our bread business is rather small, as
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30

The White House has the most COM
plete electrical system in any build
Ing in this country, There are in the
mansion nearly ITO miles of wires,
providing for 5000 lights, bell sys-
tenn for the president and his family,
burglar alarms, fire alarms, and a
power system which supplies current
to fans and an elevator.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-01-30
TEARNEY CALLS MEETING.
Inrr AnunnfnfnN pronr

Chicago, Jan. 30.-A. r. Tearney,
president Of the Three I baseball
league, issued a call for a meeting of
the club owners to be held in Chicago,
on Tuesday, Feb 6. President Tearney
said the meeting was for the purpose
of discussing the schedule and other
affairs of the league.