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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
MONDAYS HERALD
WAS GREAT BOOST
WAS IN EVERY WAY A CREDIT TO
THE COUNTY AND TO
THE DAY.

That issue of The Herald Monday,
Jackson Day, was surely a great boost
for laury county" said one of the
most prominent citizens of the county
this morning. "The news was well
displayed and well written, the edito-
rial reference was good and appropri.
ate and true and the. advertisements,
too, were creditable. Especially was
The advertisement Of Figuers of value
to the county. never saw an adver-
tisement that gave in better form the
advantages of the county than that.
The paper from cover to cover was a
credit to a great people"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
COUNTY CRIMINAL
COURT IN SESSION
NUMBER OF OFFENDERS PLEAD
GUILTY AND SUBMIT AND
TAKES FINES.

Judge j. T. Mcknight opened his
County Criminal Court Wednesday
and devoted the most of the morning
to the hearing of the case of the State
against Anthony Dodson, colored, for
failure to provide for his children. At
the hour of going to press the case
was still occupying the attention of
the court.
The following cases have been dis
posed of by the court by the defen.
iants submitting and accepting the
fines and costs:
State VS.. Willie B. Rankin, selling
liquor without license, thirty days on
he county road and $4,000.
State VS.. Joe Alternately, carrying
weapons, $4,000 and costs.
State VS.. G. E. Hight, carrying weap-
ons, $4,000 and costs.
State VS.. Frank Cheek, carrying
weapons, $4,000, and costs.
State VS.. J. w. Nokes, carrying
weapons, $4,000 and costs.
State vs.. Bob Crutcher carrying
Weapons. $4,000 and costs.
State VS.. Lynch Perry, carrying
weapons, $4,000 and costs.
State vs.. Bob Dodson, carrying
weapons, $4,000 and costs.
State VS.. John Gamble, public
drunkenness, $3.50 and costs,
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
PRINCIPAL MATTER TO COME UP
AT THE ADJOURNED SESSION
SATURDAY.
SOME OBJECTIONS Are MADE
Provision For Special Levy On All
Wagons and Teams May be the
Subject Of Vigorous Attack by
Number of Citizens.

Amendments to the proposed road
law will be the principal matter to
occupy the attention of the solons at
the adjourned session on next Satur
day morning. Having gotten all of
the elections out of the way at the
meeting on Monday morning the mem
bers will have an abundance of time
in which to dispose Of the road law
There is sure to be long debate
over some Of the proposed amend
ments. A number Of citizens have al,
ready expressed an intention of ap-
pearing before the court and asking to
be heard upon different phases Of the
proposed law. From present indica-
ions that amendment which proposes
to levy a road tax upon every wagon
and team in the country will be the
subject of the most opposition. Two
or three very prominent citizens who
have given considerable study to the
question have declared that they will
urge the court not to approve this
change. ...
The usual accounts and appropria-
tons will also be before the court for
attention. Formal appropriations
must also be made to cover the work
on the bridges that was authorized at
the last session of the court. 1t is not
improbable, too, that the court will
adopt resolution protesting against
the enactment of the proposed free
text book law.
An adjournment will probably be
taken during the afternoon so that
the members can have the opportunity
to hear Prof H "A. Morgan, dean of
the college of agriculture of the Uni
yersity of Tennessee.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
SPLENDID AVERAGE
PAID FOR DUR0cS
WILLIAMSON SALE
FIFTY HEAD BRING NEARLY $1,000
AT PUBLIC AUCTION AT
CULLEOkA.
ONE HUNDRED FIFTY FOR SOW
J. B. Farmer, Of Wilkes Places, Sc
cures the Top Hog, an Extra Fine
Observation-Disclosures Crowd in Attend
ance and Bidding is Spirited.

One of the most successful hog sales
ever held in the county was that held
by James r. Williamson at his farm
at Culleoka on Tuesday. Fifty-five
head Of registered Duroc Jersey hogs
were sold and the average price for
the entire lot was $54. The hogs prob.
ably averaged 200 pounds or a. little
better, which shows that the fine quail
ity Of the individuals and their splen-
did breeding We're duly appreciated by
the buyers.
The sale was a success from every
standpoint. The attendance Of local
people was large and there were a
number of buyers from distance.
More ideal weather was never known
in January than that of Tuesday. The
sun shone all day and it was pleasant
out of doors. The hogs were in splen-
did condition and attracted the ad-
miration of all, both the buyers and
the spectators.
Among the prominent buyers from a
distance who attended the sale were
Mckee Brothers, of Kentucky, prob
ably the most noted breeders of Duroc
hogs in the South and from whom Mr.
Williamson has purchased several OF
his head of foundation stock. They
bought a number of fancy head.
A Maury county breeder, J. B. Farm
err, of Wilkes Place, topped the sale
paying $3.50 for an extra fine SOW that
was the admiration of every one. The
bidding on this SOW was very spirited
and while the price was high, all
agreed that Mr.. Farmer had obtained
bargain.
This marked the first exclusive auc
ton sale of Duroc hogs held in Maury
county in many years. The fifty-five
head brought nearly $4,000.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
INSTALLATION OF
R. A. M. OFFICERS
WILLIAM CAKES MOST EXCEL
LENT HIGH PRIEST-OTHER
OFFlCIALS.N

At the meeting of the Royal Arch
Masons, Lafayette Chapter, william
J.. Cakes was installed as Most Excel,
lent High Priest, which place he will
hold for the coming year Mr.. Cakes
is one of the youngest Masons in the
lodge from years of service, but is one
Of the best posted and most active
members of the lodge, and his Undue,
ton into the office of Most Excellent
High Priest will no doubt mean new
life in the Chapter. The other newly
elected officials were also installed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
MUCH INTEREST MANIFESTED IN
BATTLE ROYAL BETWEEN
SCHOOLS.
RUME.f GG ESPECIALLY STRONG
Game To Be Played Friday Night At
I 7:30 O'clock in the Gymnasium of
The High schooI-Locals Practicins
Both Night and Day for the Contest.

Basket ball fans are waiting anxious
ly for Friday night when the strong
Hume-Fogg basket ball team, hailing
"from the capital city, will battle with
the quintet of the Central High School,
This will be possibly the strongest
and fastest battle of the season as the
Hume-Fogg followers claim a cham
pionship team and when two cham.
pions meet there is always a battle
royal. The locals have not forgotten
the football game between the two
schools this fall in which they lost
by one lone point after holding the
lead almost throughout the game and
gaining considerable more ground
than their opponents, and they are
going to put all that they have in this
battle for supremacy. About the same
lineup will be used as was used last
week with only a possible change.
The team has been practicing especial
ly hard since the game of last Friday
night and with finishing touches put
on the rest of this week they will be-
in the best condition that they have
been in this year. Not satisfied with
the afternoon practice, most of the
members have been coming back ut
night and going through drills that
are sure to prove effective against the
. visitors. Hume-Fogg generally puts
out good teams in all kinds Of ath-
letcs, but especially in basket ball,
which is their strong point, and this
year is no exception; the team that
they will bring with them is strong,
fast, experienced and have played
with each other several years. The
locals have the advantage of playing
on their home grounds, where they
are used to the goals and with the old
school spirit behind them to yell them
to victory. One of the largest crowds
is expe cted for the game that has ever
been in the High School gymnasium
at one time and special arrangements
will be made for the seating OF all.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
cHlNk GORDON AND NATHANIEL
WADE SAID TO HAVE TOLD
WHOLE STORY.
FROM Side tOMBS TO TURKEYS
Robbed Hen Roosts, Private Houses.
Stores, ETC., They Are Said to Have
Told the officers-Were Caught in
Decatur, Alabama.

In capturing Chink Gordon and Ma
thaniel Wade, both of them gentlemen
of color, in Decatur, Ala, Sheriff Grit
fin has taken into the tolls of the law
two of the smoothest petty thieves
probably that have operated in Colum-
bia vicinity in many years. Both ne.
groes, it is said, have confessed to the
officers that they have been guilty of
numerous trepidations, many of which
were not even suspected by the per-
sons who were yictimized.
They have, it is declared, confessed
to fondness for chicken and turkey
roosts that netted them many fowl
during the holidays, also to love OF
both gew gaws and substantials at
three or four of the stores of Colum-
bia and to articles of clothing taken
from a number of the residences OF
the city.
Ever since the turkey roosts of Will
Alexander on the Pulaski pike and
the henery of W. T. Sowell, on Ninth
street, were raided last month, Sheriff
Griffin has been on the lookout for
the two negroes IN question. He had
communicated with the officers in a
number of cities and furnished descrip
tons of the suspects. The chief OF
police located them at Decatur and
notified Sheriff Griffin, who mediate
y despatched Chief Mclean to tina,
>lace. Mr. Mclean knew the negroes
| and they are said to have made a
clean breast of everything to him.
They admitted to having taken tur
keys from Mr. Alexander's, chickens
from w. T. Sowell and others, boots
from railroad employee, leggins
shoes and gloves from the store Of
| Mahlon CARRIER, sweaters and gloves
and caps from the Racket and also g
large number of side combs and Other
small articles from all of the five ant
ten cent stores of the city.
Sheriff Griffin feels that in the cap
lure of these negroes and their subse
quent confession he has gone a Ions
way toward solving many of the petit,
offenses that have been committed il
| The city and country.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
YOUNG SENT TO THE
WORK HOUSE STEALING
RIDES ARE RELEASED
CASE PRESENTED TO CITIZENS
BY r. 1. HAYS AND FUNDS
SUBSCRIBED.
MANY contribute very FREELY
Sum Sufficient To Pay The Fines And
= Cost Are Readily Secured From
Many Generous Hearted Citizens to
Whom Appeal is Made.

Struck with pity over the plight Of
two young men, boys rather, who had
been sent to the county work house for
stealing a ride on a freight train Of
the Louisville & Nashville railroad, R.
L. Hayes, the well known mule buyer,
took the matter up with number Of
sympathetic friends and collected
sum sufficient to pay their costs and
fines apd they have been released
from the county bastile.
Mr. Hays stated that the boys told
straight tales, that he did not believe
that they were or intended to be GRIM
inals and that he did not think that
they should be kept incarcerated with
older and more hardened criminals for
such small offense. He Immediately
took the matter up with friends and
as result sum sufficient to pay the.
fines and cost was collected and the
boys were permitted to go their way
in freedom with the gentle admonition
from Mr.. Hays to sin no more.
The donors to the fund for the re.
lief of the boys were r. l.. Hays. W.
E. Jones, w. C. Salmon, J. C.'Voorhiess
! Jno. T. Akin, Jno H. Murphy, VIM. B.
| Greenlaw, Columbia Insurance Agen-
cy, Horace Rainey, Columbia Bank &
Trust company, Arch w. Lipscomhs
Robert Pillow, E. F. Dunn, Charles A.
| Wright, G. w. Davis, S. G, Patterson.
w. B. Jones, Mora B. Fariss, S. A..
Hays, William P. Ridley, Charles A.
Parker, ST., Joseph F. Brownlow, Hem
ry o. Fulton, The Herald. E. H. Ayress
| e. H. Ayres, Jr and A. z. Hughes.
Speaking of the case, Mr.. Hays
said: 81 do not believe that young
men, who have not been guilty Of any
more serious offense than riding on
freight train should be sent to the
work house, there to suffer the indig-
nifty and the contamination of associa-
ton with bootleggers and petty
thieves. am sure that these young
are not criminals, hence my interest
in them"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
AMERICANS MAY
LEAVE BORDER
RUMORED THAT DATE Is FIXED
FOR WiTHDRAWAL-lANSlNG
GIVES OUT DENIAL.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-What rs.
expected to be the final meeting of the
Mexican-American joint commission
will be held Saturday or Monday.
Plans for the meeting were made
Tuesday by Secretary Lane, acting for
the American members, and Alberto
J. PAM, representing the Mexicans,,
when Mr.. PAM delivered a letter ac-
knowledging the receipt of the Ameri-
cans reply to General CarranZa's lat
est refusal to ratify the protocol
signed at Atlantic City.
Mr.. PAM and Mr. Lane agreed that
further negotiations by the commits
sioners were useless, although care
had been exercisedAsby the Mexicans
writing the letter to the American
commissioners to avoid any such adj
mission. Mr.. PAM expressed the de-
sire of the Mexicans for one more
meeting, at which he indicated that
his colleagues would ask for contin-
uation of the conferences.
There was another report late Tues
day of an agreement on a date for the
of American troops from
Mexico. but it was denied by Secre-
tary. Lane, and at the state depart
ment 1t was said the administration
had arrived at no decision regarding
the withdrawal of troops or the send
ing to Mexico of Ambassador Fletcher.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
ACT WOULD GIVE THEM RIGHT
TO VOTE FOR PRESIDENT
AND CITY OFFICERS.
MAY REPEAL The BOWERS ACT
Bill For That Purpose Is Set For spe-
cial Order in the Senate on Tomor-
row at 1880 O'clock-Committees
OF the House Named,
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Jan. 10.--In
the senate bill to repeal Bowers
law was set for 1870 Thursday.
The bill permitting women to vote
in municipal elections and for presi-
dent and requiring that they shall pay
poll tax and that they shall be re,
CURED to register as, is done by male
voters was set as special order for
II o'clock next Wednesday morning.
House committees were announced
and house adjourned until 1880 to-
morrow.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
THE BIG SEMl-ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALES
LAUNCHED ON THE TWELFTH OF MONTH
THE j. RosENrHAL CO, ANDERs BROS FOSTER MAuRY
DRY GOODS OPEN THEIR DOORS AT $3.50 O'CLOCK FRI
DAY MORNING SEEKERS.

BEGINNING next Friday morning at
$50 o'clock the stores of Anderson
Bros. & Foster. Maury Dry Goods Co.
md the ]. Rosenthal Co. will throw
1pen their doors to their friends and
ustomers and for the fourteen fast
;elling days they are going to offer
heir stocks at greatly reduced prices.
advance of the opening several
thousand circulars have been sent out
w the firms announcing the sale and
in today's Herald will be found the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12

large advertisements Of the firms.
AS stated in their advertisements
they are offering many articles at less
money than they can be bought on
the market today. This is a great
opportunity for the ladies and men OF
the county to lay in supply of dry
goods, shoes, white goods, sheeting
pillow cases, towels, ETC. In the pres
ent face of the advance of the prices
Of cotton materials the merchants are
offering the very greatest of advan-
tage to the public.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
GARRY TBAW
IS INDICTED
CHARGED WITH ASSAULTiNG BOY
WITH WHIP-eENCH WAR
RANT ISSUED.

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.-Harry K.
Thaw, who was released fifteen
months ago from an asylum for the
insane, where he was sent after he
killed Stanford White. was Tuesday
indicted here charged with kidnapping
Fred Gump. Jr.. Of Kansas City, Mo-.
I youth Of nineteen, and assaulting
him with a whip.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
WERE HERE MONDAY
NOW UNDER ARREST
HUNTSVILLE PARTY TAKEN INTO
CUSTODY AT FAYETTEVILLE
FOR KIDNAPPING.

HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Jan. 10.-L. j.
Breed, contractor Of this city, eloped
to Fayetteville Tuesday with Miss
Georgia May Harris. Their purpose
was to get married. Guardians of the
young woman, who is an heiress, OBJ
tanned a-warrant for Breeds arrest on
a charge of Kidnapping and he and
Miss Harris we erbrought back to
Huntsville last night Breed was or
dered 10 Jail, but was not locked up,
bail being allowed in the sum of $500.
| The elopment caused a sensation. The
Young woman's mother is away on her
honeymoon, and Breed claims that be
fore she left she gave consent for her
daughter to be married to him.
Party In Columbia.
Sheriff Griffin received a message
from Huntsville Monday to look out
for the party, and while he was talk
ing over the phone and receiving the
Subscription of the car and party, Dep
Ilty U. S. Marshal Davidson stepped
into the Office and hearing the coz
Eersation told Sheriff Griffin that he
bad seen such car and party in Law
fenCeburg, and Sheriff Griffin thinks
nat he saw two ladies in Columbis
Monday answering to the description
iven over the phone. Sheriff Griffin
elephoned to Lawrenceburg and 10
,ted the car there and got warran
pr the arrest of Breed, but failed t.
stch him there.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-01-12
DIR. M, M. COOK
IMPROVING FAST

DIR. M. M. Cook of Santa Fe, who is
at The Kings Daughters Hospital
with typhoid fever, will be able to go
home Saturday.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-08
BRITISH IN PALESTINE KNOCK AT GATES OF HOLY CITY;
u S. MISSION IN ENGLAND TO DONNA TIE WAR CONFERENCE
REVOLT FLARES UP IN RUSSIA TEUTOMS GAIN IN I7ALl
Thanksgiving, 1917
By the President of the United States
of America
a qroclamation

1t has long been honored people
in the fruitful autumn of the praise and Thanksgiving to
Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies
nation That follow in the midst of
the tragedy of world shaken by and immeasurable das
the midst of and peril because amidst
the darkness that has gathered about the
blessings God has betowd blessings that better
than of mind and prosperity of enterprise.
We have been given the opportunity mankind
we once served ourselves the great day of of
by taking against tyranny that threat
encd and debase everywhere joining
other free peoples demanding for all the nations of the world
what then demanded day
nation but to defend also the rights of free through
out the world there has been vouchafed full inspiring
the resolution and spirit of action We
been brought to mind and vgor of
counsel and action has been revealed
should especially thank God that in such circumstances the
midst of the greatest enterprise the spirits of have
tered have, but observe reasonable
cable abundance with which supply
those associated with well light
about The great duties of a day a
national spirit Us. We shall again or
wonder what stuff made of.
And while render thanks for these things
Almighty God spirit we NAV look al
to Him for guidance that be
spirit and of that by His minds
be directed and hands strengthened that His
Tune liberty and security and and the comradeshp
common justice be vouchsaed all
Wherefore, l. Woodrow Wilson, President the United
States of America do hereby designate Thursday ae day
OF November next day of thanks
ve the people throughout the upon day from
their ordinary occupations and in their several
OF worship to render thanks to God the ruler Of
In witness whereof have caused
the seal of the United States be affixed
Done in the District of Columbia 7t of November
in the OF Lord thousand
and of the independence States of America
the one hundred and forty-second.
By the President:
ROBERT LANSING, WOODROW WILSON
Secretary of State
The Washington herald., 1917-11-08
WILL USE FORCE
TOFEED "SUFF"
Miss Paul, on Hunger Strike,
Must Eat, Says Jail
Physician.

Forcible feeding has been decided
on to save the life of Miss Alice Paul,
chairman of the National Woman's
party, recent suffrage picket and hun.
ger strike prisoner now for a seven
months term in the District Jail.
To a fellow suffragette outside the
window OF the Jail hospital she
shouted last night that she had been
threatened with feeding by force, and
the Jail physician confirmed that
later.
He said that forcible feeding was
a measure within his discretion and
that he would resort to it if il should
become necessary. As Miss Paul has
refused TO eat since Monday and is
reported TO be in a serious condition
as q result of her abstinence, it is
likely some nourishment will be ad-
ministered forcibly.
No doubt is felt by the suff-agettes
here that Miss Paul will continue her
hunger strike at whatever cost, as
she underwent forcible feeding the
greater part of month in Holloway
Jail in England as a co-workcr OF
Mrs. Pankhurst.
Miss Paul's hunger strike is the re-
suit of denied demands that all of the
suffrage prisoners have the privilege
accorded to other offenders in the
Jail. that OF purchasing food for them
selves.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-08
C. OF C. PUSHES
VOTE CAMP AIGN
Names Committee to Join
Fight for Suffrage in
the District.

Supporting the drive for District
suffrage, the board OF directors of the
Chamber of Commerce last night
adopted the resolution of the Board of
Trade calling for a joint committee
to petition Congress for the "Ameri-
canization" of the District.
The board voted unanimously for
the adoption of the motion of Isaac
Cans, which would place the two
strongest civic and commercial Or
ganizations of Washington side by
side in the fight for the Districts vote.
To soIdify Campaign.
If the Monday Evening Club, the
Federation Of Citizens Associations
and the Retail Merchants Association
accept the invitation of the Chamber
of Commerce and the Board of Trade
to send ten delegates to the joint COM
mittee of District organizations on
suffrage, practically the entire Dis
trict will be represented as unit
when the fight begins on Capitol Hill
The ten delegates named to the suf-
CONTINUED on PAGE TWO.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-08
MEXICAN Revolt
GERMAN PLAN
Movement Is to Cripple
Great Britain S Oil Sup
ply in Tampico.

The government received no confir-
nation last night of alarming re-
ports from the border of the raid
spread of the Felix Diaz revolution
in Mexico. But two things were made
plain. These were:
1. That the Diaz revolt is regarded
as a German effort to cripple the
allies through a possible stroke
against Great Britain's oil supply
from the Tampico fields.
2. That these fields and the port
of Tampico must be kept open. Not
only England, but France and Italy
especially the latter, face oil short
age.
1t has been creditably stated that
England. foreseeing a possible stop
page of oil. has acquired sufficient
stores to maintain her fleet at the
highest efficiency for a long period.
For numberless other requirements.
however, especially her field trans
port system, she must have great
quantities OF oil.
The Washington herald., 1917-11-08

Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. j. Recount
possibilities entered into the wet and
dry situation late tonight With tile
result of Tuesdays voting still in
doubt, it appeared the outcome would
be determined by a marginal hand
full of votes which may be less than
100.
With a decided dry trend marking
the late returns through the early
hours today there was a sudden
switch to the vets when the Hamil-
ton County board OF elections con-
flrmed a claim by L. H. Gibson. OF
Cincinnati. State manager for the
anti-Prohibitionists. that mistake or
10000 in favor of the dry had been
made by the board in its calculation
of the Hamilton County figures Tues
day night. Correction Of the totals
on the basis of the changed Hamfi-
ton figures puts the vets in the lead
with 246 precincts. all Of them con-
sidered dry. yet to be reported.
The figures for $50 precincts show
for prohibition 1926: against. 5oo.-
e35. This gave the vets a lead Of
1850.
When the later precincts began re-
porting. the drys cut down this lead.