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The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-01

AUNT" POLLY BOWMAN
DIES AT AGE OF "a YEARS.

Aunt Polly" Bowman, age 81
years, one of our oldest and best
known citizens, died at her home
in this city Saturday morning.
Old age and organic heart dis
ease was the cause of her demise.
She is survived by one sister, Mrs.
Sarah Bradshaw, five grandchil-
dren, of whom JAS, Elmer and
Owen Bowman are three, and one
great granddaughter, Miss Hazel
Sudberry.
Mrs. Bowman was born near
Coliierville, Tenn, but had resid-
ed in Fulton county for more
than 40 years. She was q MEM
Der of the General Baptist church
and a good Christian woman.
Fuaeral services were held at
the family residence Sunday by
Rev. r. c. Douglass, after which
the remains were inferred at
Sassafras Ridge grave yard.
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Don't forget that winter
cold. Get . 25c box OF Stone :
Cold Tablets-the renaDie' is
cold remedy.
Mrs. Binford, of Brownsv,i, N;: :
visiting her children Joe and MIS-
BIanch Binford-
Mrs ]. A. Thompson ana
daughter, Mildred. spent fradas
in Union City.
Mrs. viii Curtin, of memphis
Is visiting her sister, ME- ~
4. PhippA --->--
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YOU NEED A
SPRING LAXATIVE.

DR.. Kings New Life Pills Will
remove the accumulated wastes on
winter from your intestines, the
burden of the blood. Get that slug
gish spring fever out of your COM
plexion. Get that vim and snap
of good purified healthy blood
DR.. Kings New Life Pills are a
non-griping laxative that aids ma
lures process, try them tonight.
At all druggists, 25c. Advt.
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BIG BALD EAGLE.

w. c. Reed brought over from
Missouri, Thursday, a big fine
specimen of bald eagle, which had
been winged by Riley Bennett.
The bird measured z feet and
6 inches from tip to tip. On ac-
count of the broken wing, he had
to be killed and will be mounted
Residents of Mississippi county
say there are several eagles in
the undeveloped section, but wild
ones are becoming very rare in.
deed in the Mississippi valley.
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Try Our
J FRESH MEATS
O. H. MOORE

Mrs. w. r. Phipps was called
to Union City last week to the
bedside of her father, Sam Moss,
who was critically i'll. The end
came Saturday morning.
Morphine has gone up In price
until the drug is now quoted at
s cents grain or $302.64
pound
Don't buy Field Seeds until
Won eef the Hickman Hardware
prizes. They carry only the best
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-01
SENSATIONAL BARGAINS
IN MISS. COUNTY LAND.

Here is the proposition you've
been looking for. Fine "cut-ov-
err land in Mississippi county, at
about half what you ought to
pay. Buying cheap Land makes
more fortunes than any one
thing.
These lands are all in the New
st. John Levee and Drainage Dis
trict, right across the river from
Hickman. The levee protecting
all these lands is now being built.
They are fine soil and being pro-
tected by a leyee, makes them, at
the price, very cheap lands, and
on the terms offered any indus
trious man can own q farm.
But, as the building of this levee
is sure to increase land values, You
viii have to act at once for land
like these now selling round $2O
to $50 an acre. II you own Land
in this district, whether improv-
ed or unimproved, and want a
loan, write 10 or call and see
US.
Here are some good "cut-over
land bargains:
II 2-96O acres near Bayouville,
10 miles of Hickman, price $40 an
acre. This can be had in 80 acre
tracts at $40 to $25 an acre. Id
cash, balance at 6 per cent m
terest.
3-14OO accres, near BayouviilA,
with 400 acres In cultivation, sew
eral buildings, school on land.
Price $28 an acre. 1-3 cash, bal
ance on long time at 6 per cent in
terest.
$40 acres, on Hickman and
New Madrid road, so acres
deadened off. Price $18 an acre,
l-3 cash, balance at 6 per cent in
terest. The big drainage ditto
il now being dug, running thru
No. 2-3 and 4.
$500 acres miles south of
East Prairie. Price $50 an acre.
with $3.50 an acre cash, balance
long time at per cent, but pur-
chaser will be required to re-
duce not less than N of land TO
cultivation each year.
$3.50 acres IL miles from
, Hickman, near Hickman and New
Madrid road. Price $14 an acre,
I ~ cash, balance long time at 8
lper cent. The big drainage ditch
. runs thru this land.
;. 9-487 acres, about half way
between Hickman and East Prai-
rie. This has about 1900 feet
per acre Of good oak, hickory,
elm, and gum timber. "A big ditch
runs right thru this land and the
timber can be cut and the logs
floated down the ditch to the nv
er ~ miles, and money realized
out of this timber to pay Tor this
land at the price. Price ~ an
? acres. 1-3 cash, balance on long
thine at 6 per cent interest.
Il For paTtjculArs write o ell
lat Courisr office. -,
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TRACE OF H. WALKER.

Through an article in the Cou-
rier. G. b. Walker thinks he has
probably located his missing son,
Howard, in Oklahoma A wire
to a friend of Howard IS brought
back a rather suspicious answer
and the authorities have now
been asked to make a search OF
the town. Indirect information
was to the effect that Howard
was working in q restaurant.
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LAcoNIAs SINKING IS
CONSIDERED OVERT ACT. >


coma BY the German submarine
Vas stated officially yesterday 10
constitute a clear-cut violation of
American rights.
Conclusive official Information
az the State Department shows
mat two American women lost
'nelr hNes, that of four other A
hierican among the passengers
anu the IL among the crew saved.
~ was only By good fortune and
'hSt the vessel was sunk without
warning, in direct defiance of all
the principles for which the
United States has stood.
Consul Frost 5 reports from the
SURVIVORS show that the vessel
was struck by first orpedo
without warning at 10 80 Sunday
night, loO miles off Fastnet. The
engine was stopped as the ship
listed TO starboard, wireless calls
were flashed broadcast and six
rockets were sent up. Thirteen
boats with Passengers and crew
got away in heavy sea.
About 20 minutes after the first
torpedo, the reports add, and
while some of the boats were
stu nearby, second torpedo was
driven into the vessel which sank
three quarters of an hour after
the original attack. The small
boats with survivors pitched a
bout during the long hours of
the night until rescue ships
came up. During this time the
two American women, Mrs. Mary
+. Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy,
OF Chicago, died of exposure and
were buried at sea. There were
several other deaths, not of A
mericans.
No further fact are needed by
this government, it was stated Of
fieially. Officials are entirely
clear in their belief that Germany
has committed the acts which
President Wilson has said it
was impossible for him to believe
IL would commit.
Both Whit House and State |
Departent officials seem 90 feel
that the answer must come from
Congress The president, the.
pointed out, asked for authority |
TO take steps to prevent just such
an act at the very moment when
the first news was coming over
the cables.
Naval officers are puzzled by
the fact that the Laeonia was tor
pedoed at night. IL has been an
accepted condition of submarine
warfare heretofore that the u
boat were hampered by darkness
and that ships in open waters
were in little danger at night.
IL is submarine practice to re-
charge electric storage batteries
at night, and it is regarded as
probable that the boat which tor
pedoed the Laeonia was on the
surface engaged in this operation
when the liner came along.
oOdhC Dtn0tOio bCtAtNC thas e-'N
only source of doubt lies in the
attitude of Senator Lafollette,
whose course now suggested the
possibility of filibuster. With
adjournment only a few days
off, one senator might easily talk
the bill to death and force an ex-
ira session. The Wisconsin Sena-
for has not committed himself fur
Their than to say he did not think
any action should be taken until
the country was given a chance
to see the proposed legislation.
After the cabinet meeting 1T
was stated that the President had
no present intention of addressing
Congress again; that he felt that
the situation rested with congess.
1t is rather generally believed,
however, that if delay continues
until adjournment is at hand, ne
will make a further move.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-01

An extra session of the Senate
will be S.lled March 5th Il
sw~sr in the new men and con
firm nominations.
The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1917-03-01

Adrian Minitree and wife are
NOV ing into the home of Tom
Dillon and wife.
Get Sunday papers st Roper
| & AQuino'a-Olin Tilmans agt
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grandfather
ard the with which read law and the other
grandfather obedience family traditions took his home
and provided for helpless child The deeds of virtue well
the sins of the fathers visited the children the
third and fourth generations Consequently wish under
stand and his work. is know how he
about and what there is back of him.
The people Pennsylvania blended than those
Of of the other American colonies Biologists and breeders
alike have learned the law Of nature that the of allied stocks
leads the of vital activities To intebreed
called keep strain is to further development
Substantially all of American residents of Penn
sylvana few from New Jersey and almost all of
lines they to the the earliest settlers But
them Dutch English Germans Welsh Sweies Scotch
Irish and French Huguenot though in the main blood
English. The paenal line Dutch, name which orig
mated somewhere in the neghbohood Gorcum, Holland
Pannebakker maker of tiles The earliest the
family tells a man who was burned
to death and wife who drowned for heresy Utrecht
1863 In those days they gentle with the The
family in Pennsylvania endric Pannebecer was
born March 81 1874 He in 1899,
there moved Skppack 1902 the for Matthias
Van Beber for the sale of the lands of the latter eber town
ship. He later bought the township and became
Bebber and Lodowc Ch stan Spoge of the three Dutch
PATRONS of Pennsylvania He and laid out
the early upper Philadelphia Montgomery County
have his bill to the Penns for surveying number of their
1733 with the of Thomas Penn for its payment
stood three anguages-Duch German and English He had
library of books He thousand land
pretty script drew deeds devised much
that of Van Rensselaer, New York There biography him
prp' and when book sale brings $25 wife,
Eva Umsta the lower Rhine neither marriage
of his Jacob who miller the Skppack that of
his grandson Matthias who moved the Pickering Creek
Chester County, effected notifications This Matthias
born rather broad He MILL
still standing and four five farms. He commissioner
appointed by Act of Assembly provide for the navigation the
River Schuyki He Bishop of the Mennonites using the
three languages of his grandfather and preaching with oquence
and strength He several contributions of -four and
the Philadelphia when the yellow fever devastated the
in 1793 will be the of the committee 1t
him that people funeral
he had the largest funeral and the longest will that time
the No better evidence could have
his His Matthias grandfather born in 1887
spent his days the Pickering owning the mill He
poy and it be- little but he had for
demanding those around him show respect Rch
respectable and written of the family his time
1926 and 1927 he member of Assembly The organization
which effected bring the Incorporation of the Pha-
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Her grandfather Patrick Anderson commanded company IN
the French Indian time the Pennsylvania Mus
Battalion the War of the Revolution participating
battles of Long Island Brandywin and Germantown He
of Anthony of Chester County Minute
Men in l775 He also for four member of the Assembly,
Masonic history having been of
Lodge No. 1850, and is claimed by Mr. Sachse
have organized the first lodge the Continental Army. is sald
that his teeth double all around something often said Of
aged but rejected by dentists He married three times and bel
Epcopaan Christ Church in Philadelphia His great
grandfather James Anderson from the Isle of Skye in S
believe he could write his H1
sold fixed term from the ship Thomas Jea
preacher in the Chester Valley for his
sage running
marrying daughters He the first settler
Pickering where he built log hut beside spring When Pa
the mother occasionally udged the Vn
miles, visit her relatives Indian sucksd
took the baby In this instance, others
Revolutionary War brought to the front family Of native
which heretofore obscure. The blood which
the alliances Andesons that Of the families q
(wesh). Morris (Welsh) and Bartholomew (Bafthollgi
Hugueno). asSz f1 <<s*151
tcoNTINUEp M0NpAxYlnyAA42 u
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the centennial anniversaries, the
publication of the Origin of Species,
the introduction of electricity into
the industries and the discovery of
the North Pole. ! have been brought
into relations with the Presidents,
from Lincoln to Roosevelt; with the
Generals Grant, Sherman, Hancock,
Sickles, Howard and Sheridan, and
have corresponded with Darwin, lie
Compile de Paris, DeHoop Scheffer.
Bayard Taylor and Lloyd Mifilin.
have made addresses at Stony Point
and at Gettysburg. l have presided
over the Law Academy, the His
torical Society of Pennsylvania, the
University of Pennsylvania, a court,
and the Commonwealth. I have
walked one hundred and seventy-five
miles on stretch and have ridden
down Pennsylvania avenue from the
Capitol to the White House at the
head of ten thousand men. ! have
carried on my back at one time
twenty pounds of putty and at an
other musket. have made pills
in Kensington, thrown a load of
wood into a Chestnut street cellar,
kept the books of an oil company,
moved weeds in a meadow, gathered
a great library, written eighty
books and pamphlets, tried men for
murder and sent sixty-six criminals
to be hanged. Therefore is this
story begun.
1t pleases the vanity of men who
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CHAPTER I
AnceStrU

THE life of every has we'll as an interest for
his fellows No matter how humble
the truly told they hepuness
The book Of the old gossip Pepys has outlasted
oener reprinted than another
Scientists search with the stone
which long forgotten threw
lost lives may be reconstructed.
My life has been somewhat evenul and certain sense
representative 1t presents antheses
the War of the Rebellion decline euphuism
War such thing having been ever the
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have been done by the author him
self had not illness and death pre-
vented, there has been no such edit
ing Of the autobiography as the
signers Of the letter perhaps feared
might occur. No such editing was
ever contemplated. Whatever or
whoever mRy be maimed,. the book
goes forth "scot Free" 1t will be
seen that the criticism is essentially
OF policies and of principles and of
conduct growing out of erroneous
conceptions, that where it seems to
be most personal the criticism is
based upon something broader than
personality and that the abundant
praise has also an underlying
foundation. At the close of his
gubernatorial term, and not before,
as an expression of his personal good
will, Governor Pennypacker gave
dinner at the executive mansion to
the newspaper correspondents at
Harrisburg. The timing of the
courtesy was a characteristic ex-
preston of his sense of propriety
and Of the absence of personal feel
ing in his previous conspicuous effort
70 bring the publication of news
papers into line under the law with
all other commercial activities.
In his notable biography of Gov
ernor Pennypacker, printed in 1917,
Hampton L. Carson, Esq, the his
torian Of the United States Supreme
Court, says of him that he was "a
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY o1A PENNSYLVANIA
BV. Jd7Ue7 WP277XOdChor
9N /ezzASy7t7Miay Most Jealous
~ and E7ex8eHc Governor
Ssss5sSsssf8aees22y2 3 e

ncoporaors that road He representsa
Chester County the Constitutional Convention Of 1887 w
prepared Constitution for the State When the Whg party
its county meetings West Chester he presided In his
of the old Dutch life almost entirely disappeared EngA
alone spoken the household and his children other
The German books which had lost their utility
to servant The old German family Bible banshed the
house. and there his all its
remember childhood spending Christmas tie
house Memories of the Pez Nco still fingered hung my
stocking beside the stone fireplace the end of which stood
long wood bx but what put into ginger cakes and store
candy There kitchen which
goosebere black asparagus onions
lettuce and Strawberries in beds nterspsed with bright
coored flowers Two large box bushes in the front yard In
the back yard fringe There
meadow front Of the house stretching to the Pickering and the
outlook to the Va)ey Hills There paor spare
with hghpo bedead, stately and chill Water brought
pipes the house from distant spring of the nozzle
of into trough continuously, which wonder
who had nothing like anywhere else; but the
up long fight steps the Kitchen
The only indication of in the house prof Pae
Museum, i the
regarded vanity to be condemned There was
muc cards niquty and there devices for
other The mental attitude stiff and cheeres but
virtues incuated The letters written the ddacc
and religious and they tell much about going meeting
hearing The welfare of the continual subject
of contemplation There liquor kind used during the
lives of grandfather grandfather father that
the housewife would have cutgass bottle filled with lavender
brandy the shelf of the closet the room
to be ready in cases of emergency.
The Pennypacker Fighting Stock
My grandfather like his father, Mennonits
Meeting at Phoenxve and he paid the having
OF at west
My grandmother fond reading Poocks
grandfather in his marriage doubtless without
result brought about change the
Anderson born February 1884, whose
opposite side of the Pickering Creek He her token
of esteem little porcelain box with mirror the under
of the lid which box still Her father Anderson
hunted with the Indians, justice the
Assembly Presidential Eector and Congress
1903 to 1907 His heads the list those
voted for the Louisiana Purchase He three the
Revolutionary Army before he age
became an ensign and lieutenant of militia taking the fight
at the Warren Tavern His portrait is exant;
wrote local history He six height
his rmness of will such him
arbitrary.
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of the life to believe that they have been
the architects of their and that the results due
their ndviduale The thought Countless
infinite unrecognzed forces required
make His character and his physique he nherts what he
accompshes depends upon conditions that surround him
upon the weight hand the logic Of his BRAIN
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great and good Mr. high standing at the bar
and citizen his lofty conception of public duty his long
acquaintance with the subject Of his memoir his intimate knowl
ge acquired Attorney General Of Pennsylvania from 1908 to
M OF Governor Pennypacke motives plans and acts give to
words quoted weight which they could derive from no other
living source ISAAC R. PENNYPACKER.
The Brunswick news., 1917-05-17
HOLLvEG TRIED To
LEAVE HIS job
HE WENT TO TIE GENERAL
HEADouARTERS AND OF
FEReD TO RESIGN.

London, May ia dispatch to the
Evening News from The hague s5v.'
the Berlin Deutsch XeitunS, he on!-
cial organ of the anneXationists, de.
olares that DR.. Won Bethmanatloll-
weg. the German imperial chaAccllp1,
went TO the general headquarters re-
Gently to offer his resignation. The
spondent adds that the Hcglin-
ger Tagehlatt Indicates that the roaiG-
nation was not accepted
Berlin parliamentary circles. Tho
correspondent continues believe thar
the emperor and the junlicr party
wished to close the reichstuB aad so
nuiiiiy the plans Of the ccaalitution.
al committee for electoral reform.
yha chancellor, it appears, cnpoach
this muZ2ling plan, and probably
threatened TO resign il II was pdt III
operation"
The Brunswick news., 1917-05-17
RUSSIAN FOREIGN
MINISTER RESIGNS
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT IS
UNABLE TO ACCEPT FIRST
CONDITION OF COUNCIL.

Petrograd May 1G.--F Foreign Min
lSter Paul N. Milulton has rcBignod
leaving the cabinet altogether M
Terc@cEtcnko minister OF finance
has been &ppoiatAd fcroiBn minister
md A, +. KerensHy, previously mia
lister of justice, has been named min
iSter OF war and marine.
The provisional government. which
is considering the conditions undc,
which representative OF the Coun
ell of Workmen's and Soldiers Dep
uties will consent to enter the cabi
net. has decided that it Is unable tu
accept the first condition. This call
cd Tor the enunciation of a foreigI,
policy looking toward general
peace, without anneXationsi or indem
mites, as soon as possible. The GOV.
ernment considers it necessary Ia
confirm to the unity of all allied
fronts
TO the financial and economic re.
forms mentioned i'll tho Council OF
Workmens and Soldiers Delegates
the government raises no objection.
regarding it as a part of its task 10
realize such reforms.
The Brunswick news., 1917-05-17
CAPT. J. N. YOUNG DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS

After an illness, which covered a
period Of many months, Capt. j. N
Young, Of the A.. g. and A.. passed
away al the Rawlings aanitarium at
8andcrsYille Tuesday Brights disease
was the cause of his death. The fu.
neral Will occur today at Quitman, the
family burial place.
For many years the deceased had
been resident Of Brunswick, and
was among the most popular railroad
men in the city. He was genial and
had a good word for everybody with
whom he came in contact lie was
80 years OF age, and, besides his wild
ow. leaves two sons Edwin, OF this
city, and Morton, Of New York, and
three daughters Mrs. Iheland, of
Jacksonville Fla; Mrs Estes, Of TO.
ledo, O., and Miss I.ayinia Young. Of
Atlanta
Mrs Young, widow OF the deceased
was shocked when she learned of the
death OF her husband She received
a letter from him only the day be.
fore, saying he was improving rapid
IS ard would soon return TO Brnna.
wick well man. She left for OUT.
man last night TO attend tho funeral
today.
The Brunswick news., 1917-05-17
Very Anxious That Distribution
and Production be
Regulated.
SOME LEGISLATION WANTED


Washington, May 16. Members OF
the senate and house agricultural
committee today reported to their
colleagues that President Wilson is
unusually anxious for early passage
of legislation to stop speculation i'll
foods and regulate. production ard
distribution.
The food situation ranks sccont,
only to the army and navy il i'm
portance for the war, the president
told the committee members at q
white house conference last night.
1t seemed possib!et oday that all
food legislation pending in congress
will be reatranged in three admin
istration bills, one providing Tor a
food survey and stimulating prciuc-
ton. already under consideration in
the senate; another regulating dis
tribution and prices, and the thrN
authorizing system Of preferential
shipments.
Attorney General Gregory today
discussed phases of lthe federal iaY"'-
tigation into high food prices witN
Robert w. Childs and George w. An
derson, special assistants in CHARGE
Of the inquiry.