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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
Parks.Griffith.

On last Saturday afternoon
Hon. s. J. Parks. cashier of the
Peoples Bank of Etowah, left his
desk and with hasty steps went
to his residence to groom and
array himself for his approaching
nuptials that afternoon with Miss
Elizabeth Griffith. a charming
woman of Monroe county.
When he stepped to get his
wedding attire, which had been
airing on porch, 10 and behold
it was missing. The gravity of
the dilemma in which the missing
garments precipitated his soul was
soul was perpleXing, lacerating
and grievous to be borne. He
was bound by sacred agreement to
clasp hands with his fancee under
Hymens holy bower that after
noon and his time for preparation
was short, Thoughts of confu-
sion, anguish and nettled indigna-
ton flashed thru his mind with
the touch of the lancets of an in
furiated swarm of bees. His de-
throned reason cnthroned to his
rescue and suggested liberation
and patience. This catastrophe
is one of Chick Wilson's jokes, =
was his first thought, and his
throat swellcd with uprising words
Of anathemas that were stihed on
the verge Of vocalism. A lady
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
Old Fort Consolidated
School.

The extension meeting held at
this place Saturday evening by
the Polk County High School
faculty was attended by a large
crowd. A very interesting pro-
gram was given. The audience
madifested special interest in the
bread making demonstration by
Mrs. O. K. Barnes and in the
special music directed by Miss
Wilson. These meetings are APP
preciated very much; they tend
to draw the interests of the COM
munity closer together and to
unite those of the community
with the high school.
Old Fort Consolidated school
will suspend this week for cotton
picking. Misses Oneal and Love
will spend most OF their vacation
visiting. Prof. Moore will per-
haps be in Benton most of the
time.
Everyone is loyal to Uncle Sam
in so far as saving food is con
cemed.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
Benton Route |

Miss Nora Wiley, who had been
| in i'll health for some time, died
at her home last Saturday. In
torment was made in the Brock
cemetery Sunday afternoon after
| funeral services conducted by
Rev. T. M. Hicks.
Miss Ella Mae Biggs is some
what i'll,
Hubert Wilson and sisters,
Misses Mary Kate and Carol, who
are attending school at Benton,
spent the weekend with home
folk.
Miss Iona Haney, after spend
ing few days with Miss Toga
Liner, has returned to her home
near Athens.
Mrs. B. Z. Biggs spent Sunday
with Mrs. Tressie McClary.
Mlr. and Mrs. levi PostoS Of
Tasso are spending a few days
with Mrs. Postons father, Will
Wiley.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. L. Lillard ac-
companied by Miss Bertha Bar
nett and Arthur Pack of Engle-
wood, visited Mrs. LiIlard' s par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Quinn
recently.
Mrs. A. Morgan is visiting rela-
tives in and around Ducktown
this week.
Mrs. Mayme Woody is very i'll.
Judge Lillard and daughter,
Olga, of Blount county, are visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Newt Lillard,
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
More Men Leave
for Training Camp

VIM. Deal, G. w. Roberts, Joe
Millsaps, James Parm and Tom
Davis were drafted recently and
left Wednesday night for military
training camp. Tom Slack was
exempted, the local board having
been notified of his exemption
Wednesday afternoon.
Henry P. Mcclure and Harvey
Hughes. two Others who were
supposed to have gone, have not
been located.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04

sitting on the veranda Of an adj
joining house stated to him that
a boy whom she thought worked
for M. l.. Hutchinson who operates
clothes cleaning and pressing
establishment had removed his
clothes. 1t very soon developed
that the boy gathering up clothes
for cleaning had made a mistake
in his order and got Mr.. Parks
clothes for those of another. After
short delay the clothes were re-
covered and the tempestuous soul
of Mr.. Parks, which was like a
raging sea driven by high winds,
instantly subsidized to the gentle
ness of the placid ocean in a state
of quietude. Notwithstanding the
delay Mr.. Parks was on schedule
time to fill his obligations and
therefore took the lovers leap and
has now entered with his life
partner in the holy beatiaude Of
marital life. If there is any in
cident in life more than another
that may beset a aanss pans and
goad his indignation to Heat
Of resentment, it is the obstruc-
ton of the progress of his matri
monial affairs. John
P. Green in Etowah New Era.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
Obituary..

Miss Nora Wiley, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Vim. Wiley, was
born November |, 1886, and died
September %, 1917. She pro-
fessed faith in Christ and united
with the VI. f. Church, South,
at Taylor's school house about
the year 1904 and lived a consist
ent Christian life until death.
Her mother proceeded her to
the celestial city some years ago.
We believe that mother and
daughter have been reunited in a
home where there is no sorrow,
separation. sickness nor suffering.
She leaves a father and eight
brothers and sisters to mourn
their loss. Father, sisters, bro
theirs, weep not-for your loss is
Nora's eternal gain.
We laid her to rest in the Brock
cemetery on Sunday September
80 at two p. m, there to await
the resurrection of the righteous.
A large number of sorrowing rela-
tives and friends followed her re-
mains to the resting place. The
writer conducted the funeral SER
vice. T. NJ. Hicks.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
Benton Property
For Sale Cheap

A 4-room dwelling and two lots
S0xl60 feet.
Two vacant lots, good level
house sites.
A small 3-room house and an
acre Of ground,
A. 4 room dwelling and an acre
of good land.
Half cash or good notes, balance
OH time. Your rent three years
will pay for a home.
WILL HARRISON,
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
Another Game Friday.

City High of Chattanooga will
be here Friday for a scrimmage,
and Judging from the excellent
condition of the home team, they
will get some pretty good exer-
else. Two or three of the home
boys have sustained slight injuries
but they have almost recovered,
and by Saturday will be in fine
working order.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
LOCAL AND PERSONAL

The Benton cotton gin will be
ready to do business on or before
October 10th,
Miss Mona Arp of Vonore, a
sister of A. R. Arp, is visiting in
and around Benton.
Parker T. Harrison and others
of Prendergast were in Benton
Tuesday.
M. w. Franklin and wife, of
Parksville, recently visited in
Magee and other points in Mis-
sis ,ippi. The trip was made in
Ford. They report delightful
time.
Jesse L. Rymer of Archyille is
in town today (Thursday)
DR.. A. S. La Rue will be in
Benton every Tuesday and We'd
nesday prepared to do all kinds of
Dental Work. Will be located at
the Prince Hotel. adv
Miles and Ben Cross and ALT
Burns went 'possum hunting Mon
day night, bagging one dozen
'possums. One of the animals
escaped, but they brought in
eleven-a good nights hunt.
]. b. Taylor, Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Pannell Jr., all Of Norwood, Ga,
are in Benton today (Thursday)
Mrs. w. N. Rogers, who has
been visiting in and around Ben
ton, returned to her home at Iowa
Park, Texas, Tuesday.
The cotton gil formerly owned
by X. A. Harrison and located
three miles north of Benton has
been sold to a party at Tellico
Plains and is being shipped to
that place.
Rev. T. NJ. Hicks will preach
at Oak Grove next Sunday after
noon at 2;30. Subject, God
Little Flock. "
August McClary, who holds a
very lucrative position with the
Tennessee Copper Company at
Isabella, spent a few days with
homefolk here recently.
Prof. J. l.. Brewer spent a day
or two in Knoxville on business
this week.
James Ramsey, who has been
in Oklahoma for some time, is
back home in Tennessee.
O. w. Muller Of Hiwassee Col
lege passed through Benton one
day this week.
Mrs. Mamie Slack, of route |,
was in town this week with her
husband, Tom Slack, who was Sc
lected for military service but eN-
emptcd an hour or SO before the
selected men left for camp,
NOTICE...All persons are
hereby Warned against
fishing, hunting or in .dny
way trespassing on the
Wetmore Farms.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-10-04
County Court.

Quarterly court met Monday and
transacted routine business. A
sum sufficiently large to carry OH
the canning club and demonstra-
ton work was appropriated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
Insurance Against Loneliness z. l.. George in Harper's Magazine.

I believe that marriage is the only insurance company that issues policies against loneliness; in an amended fu- turc 1t will probably issue policies against companionship. but just now we must take marriage as 1t Is. Marriage is most potent in the case of women, be- cause their old age is more terrible than that of man. Even their middle age is cruel. for on the whole. a man is worth what he is. whilelga woman is worth what she looks; when middle-aged and g spinster. she seldom looks much. Be- sides. as she grows older, and presumably because she leads celibate life. while the bachelor does not. she develops nerves; men develop fat~-life is easier when you are fat. Because she is rerv- ous she is less welcome and less young than her male contemporary. and for that reason she becomes imprisoned within herself, Confined SO much to her own mental society. she becomes even more egocentric than man. It is not that the bachelor exhibits many altrustic quali- ties; it Is only that he exhibits them a little moro freely. mainly because the bachelor is often well-to-do and the spins ter seldom. He suffers in other ways from the ease of his life, from the little claim that Is made on him to self
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

Writing in Harper's Magazine, Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy gives a vivid picture of the martyred President Ma dero and his wife as she saw them for the last time on leaving Mexico. "October 5.
 "This morning I went up to Cha- pultepec to say goodby to Madame Madero. The President was standing there as I drove up, his auto waiting to take him to the palace to a cab inet meeting. I thought he looked sli ghtly --- very slightly troubled, though had feeling that his head was still in the morning clouds of the dazzling day.
 T ina zine there has been little or no change in his psychology along the lines of practical statecraft. His true habitat is the world of fancy, where he feels himself protected and led on by benign powers as definitely as was Tobit by the angel. A state of mind like that can be very compelling. and he may witness what the unkind say is his pet ambition--his own apoth- eosis.
 'The dim progression of Mexican events seems to have left his spirits untouched. One man with a dream at plea sure but I felt like leaving him pocket edition of Le Prince
 T thought Madame Madcro showed the strain or that climb rom obScur- ity and prison up the via triumphalis to the presidential peaks. The flood of morning light as we sat on the terrace. did not spare her worn and anxious face. have an idea that shc is very practical but it Is not her practicality. but her husbands dreams. that brought them to Chapultepec. It's a situation to discourage common sense.
 'She was, as always. courteous and friendly. We spoke of the work she is just now especially interested in. for the amelioratiop of the Mexican wom- ems lot--the organizing of the lace and embroidery industry a Ia Queen Elena, in Italy. several years ago.
 T felt how frail her body, but how determined sher will. as we embraced in the dazzling morning. About us were the perfume of the rare and lovely shrubs of the patio, the splash of the fountain. the singing of birds, the lustrous hills. the shining vol canoes: that crystal air enfolded us. closer than human touch. but beneath us was the restless city and the shift. ing will of the Mexican people,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
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 We especially want to send if to those apparently hopeless cases. where all forms of inhalers,. douches, opium preparations, fumes, patent smokes" etc, have failed. We want to show ev- eryone at our. own expense, that this new method is designed to end all difficult breathing, all wheezing, and all those terrible paroxysms at once
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

England. are some remarkable natural brine baths which have done much to restore these unfortunate victims of the war to their normal state.
 The treatment consists of a number Of baths, such as douche, needle and spray Men who are able to swim are en- couraged to use the swimming baths There are a number of these In cases of rheumatism and frostbite much relief has been obtained through the use of brine spray and massage The attendant has a hose attached to his arm so that he can massage and spray the patienta
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

forts to please, so that each may in turn eondone the things which dispIease. (At this stage do not call me materialist. We are not talking of idealism, but of marriage as a social system. Marriage has nothing to do with love; all it can do is occasionally to coincide with it.)
 In this mutual sacrifice marriage finds it's chief strength, which is mutual sup port; this support may take an evil form, that of "ny spouse, right or wrong" but in the main it is the maker of respons- bility without which there can be no lib-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

sacrifice. In that way he escapes certain dangers. for self-sacrilcc is answerable for as many tortures and as many wrongs as the hysterical accumulations of self indulgence. Self-sacrifice is often noth- ing but shameless debauch. It is a debauch in which few of the unmarried indulge, just IS selfishness is another debauch for which the married have little opportunity. Oh, I plead no moral case. The unselhshness of the married is not so Christian as all that only when two peo-
 pie live together they have to make ef-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
Brine Baths for Shell Shock

From the Popular Science Monthly
 Many officers and mon are returning to England suffering severely from shell shock and other ailments contracted in the trenches The peculiar nervous con- dltion in which these men find them selves is difficult to treat. At Droitwich,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

at tho same time This hose is used 10 spray the more delicate portions of the body. At the same time. stronger spray from wall-shower keeps the en- tire body well abused. At first the brins spray is applied warm. The invigorat- ing effect is soon felt, however, and att- CT a few treatments the patient is abls to stand a cooler temperature
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

erty of heart. no strength, no constancy. Just as liberty alone fits men for liberty. so can responsibility alone fit them for responsibility.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16

Recently 10000 dozen eggs were landed in Wellington, New Zealand, from California, and sold readily in that market at 54 cents a dozen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
A Portrait of Madero

Writing in Harper's Magazine, Mrs. Nelson O'Shaughnessy gives a vivid picture of the martyred President Ma dero and his wife as she saw them for the last time on leaving Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-16
100 Cut Glass
 Vases

worth up to $7.5e each. They are cutt in the bestt styles of cut tings. Special CD no for this sale OAsCC
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1917-10-12
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Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1917-10-12
INJUNCTION SAID
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Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1917-10-12

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Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1917-10-12
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Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1917-10-12

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The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-08
NEW TYPE OF LOCOMOTIVE.
Monster for Union Pacific Will Draw
Train Two Miles lono.

"A new type of freight locomotive
has been built for the Union Pacific
system by the Baldwin Locomotive
works" said Mr.. ]. P. O'Brien, vice.
president and general manager of the
O.-W. III & N company. 1T Is of
massive construction, and in its opera
ton will take the place of two loco
motives of different types at present
in use on freight trains.
The total weight of the engine and
tender is $4,000 pounds. The driving
wheels are ten in number and have a
diameter of SO inches. The engine is
coal burner, with a fuel capacity of
seventeen tons and tank capacity of
10000 gallons.
The new locomotive is capable of
hauling, on a level track, 2293e tons.
or a train of S05 modern 5O-ton freight
cars loaded to capacity. In other
words it is capable of hauling a train
more than two miles in length. The
capacity of the Mikado, one of the
locomotives to be replaced, is 15.553
tons, or 207 GERS"
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-08
The Slump in the Price of Lead and the
Causes Which Were Responsible for 1t
Engineering and Mining JournaD

care of itself if a little patience be ex-
hibited. In lead, where the govern
ment has kept it's hands off in the
matter of price fixing, we have seen
consumption reduced by the natural
deterrent of high prices that consum-
ers did not care to pay, whereas in
copper the government is curtailing
consumption by strong arm tactics,
telling consumers that they shall not
have it and, Incidentally, wrecking
the machinery of the whole market
We imagine that the swiftness in ma
tural curtailment of lead consumption
is due to the fact that with respect
to large part of that consumption
there is less of a gap between the
ultimate consumer and the producer
than there is in the case of other
metals. 1t is a simple thing for hun
dreds of thousands of citizens to say
that they will postpone contemplated
painting and, once they have so de-
cided, the corroder, and through him
the producer, feels the reduction in
demand very promptly.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-08
SAFETY AND SANITATION
RECREATION, EDUCATION
IDEAL INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS
FOLLOW FAMOUS LABOR
TROUBLE.

Industrial democracy as practiced
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron COM
pany under its Industrial Represen-
tation Plan and Agreement" has made
substantial progress during the last
two years, according to a Denver cor
respondent. The object of the plan is
to promote harmony and good will
between the company and it's employees
ing of the employees and their families,
and the communities in which they re-
side. The success of the plan should
be an object lesson worthy of careful
study by the officials in control of 9TH
Ell large industrial and mining enter
prises. Under the plan each mining
district, as well as the Minnequa Steel
Works, is provided with committees on
Industrial cooperation and concilia-
ton, safety and accidents, sanitation,
health and housing and recreation
and education. These committees are
composed of an equal number of rep
resentatives of the employees and Of
the company.
How Plan Was Adopted.
The industrial representation plan
was adopted at the companys mines
in October, 1915. by vote of 2404 to
442, and was adopted at the steel
works, May 4. 1916, by 4 vote of 1921
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-08

soeiai ahairs are encouraged. BASE.
ball parks have ben fitted up near 90
Minnequa plant and elsewhere Posa
have been organized, bapdstoas
erected, and the clubhouses ana nus
buildings provided. High son,,
standards are being maintained no :.
installation of wash rooms and both
houses at all properties of the con,
pany in accordance with plans o.
proved by the advisory board. Dr,nt
ing fountains are being installed n
all camps. The success of the ent,ra
plan has been fully established and
the company has reason to be propd ~
its record.