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The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
MEETING
NOW IN PROGRESS
SPLENDID SERIES OF SERMONS
By REV. GROVE OF MEMPHIS
Large Crowds Attend New Presbyte-
rian Church and are Greatly Ed
fed by the Scholarly Discours-
es of Noted Divine.

For the past ten days revival serv-
ices have been in progress at the new
Presbyterian ehurchs which, by the
way, is one of the most attractive
church buildings in West Tennessee.
Rev. William Grove, pastor of the
Idlewild Presbyterian church of Mem
phis, is doing the preaching. Rev.
Grove is one of the most scholarly
ministers in Memphis and his sermons
of fiawless diction are full of gospel
truth and conviction Large crowds
have attended the services during the
past ten days and the entire communi-
ty of church-going people has been
greatly edited and strengthened in
Christian faith.
DR.. Grove has endeared himself to
the people of this community irrespee-
tive Of denominational lines and his
labors here will be productive of untold
good.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16

.IneSe meetings Will give Lne farmers
an opportunity to discuss some of the
most important factors of profitable
farming. Business men who attend
will see, as they have not seen before,
the relation of the business of farm
ing to other businesses. Women will
meet in separate places where that is
possible, and will discuss the subject
of farm gardening.
Meetings have been so placed in the
county that farmers and their families
will find it easy to attend them. Every
person in the county will likely try to
get to the meeting nearest his farm.
Some will perhaps attend two meet
ings, where that is possible.
For this campaign the speakers will
be divided into teams and several
teams will come to each county. To
Haywood county will come some Of the
strongest men and women in the coun-
try. Among them will be DR., TAFT
Butler, editor of the Progressive Far
mer; Miss Virginia P. Moore, director
of woman's work in the state; DR..
Robert Jay, hog cholera specialist of
the state department Of agriculture;
R. N. Crane, poultry specialist Of the
division Of extension, University of
Tennessee.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
DISTRICT CONFERENCE
MEETS AT STANTON
WILL CONVENE ON MONDAY,
MARCH 5
Bishop Murrah viii Preside if He Re.
turns from Cuba in Time: In His
Absence Presiding Elder John
st0n Will be in the Chair

The Brownsville District Conference
of the Memphis Annual Conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal church
South, will convene in Stanton at 2:3C
p. m. on Monday, March 5, 1917, and
will be in session for two days.
There are twenty-three charges in
the district and these charges have
selected more than two hundred del
gates to this district meeting. Those
elected to represent the Brownsville
church are, Rev. C. A. Waterfeld,
preacher in charge; DR.. r. H. Mahon,
supernumerary; Rev. B. 7. Peoples,
superannuate; F. R. 0gilvie, Sunday
school superintendent; d. V. Bond,
lay leader; Judge John R. Bond, ]. o.
Bonner, VIM. Kinney, G. w. Lyle, E.
C. King and DR.. D. l. Dupree, delegates
DR.. H. B. Johnston, presiding elder,
has extended an invitation TO Bishop
Murrah to be present and preside over
the conference, and if the bishop re-
turns from trip to Cuba in time, he
will be present In case the bishop
does not return, DR.. Johnston will
preside.
The conference has been called sever
al months earlier this year than has
been-the custom in the past This is be-
ing done in order that it may be held
before the farmers become actively
engaged in their spring work, and with
the hope that the attendance may be
larger than if it should be held later.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
HELPING poor WHITE TRASH

We hope that hearty welcome will
be given to all new-coming tenants
and renters in our community. 1t is
manifest that no church or Sunday
school can neglect giving such a well
come if it is worthy the name Christ.
ian, nor can any individual of gener
Gus spirit neglect this duty. And ever
if you find cases where the parents
seem shiftless and careless, do not lose
faith in the children. Moreover, il
there is spark of race pride in you1
being, never let yourself utter the
most discreditable phrase that is com.
mon in the south-"poor white trash" "
Rather let US remember that the index
to the power and possibilities of every
boy and girl is found rather in his o.
her racial heritage;-let us remember
that in the blood of every child born
of our race there beats the spirit of
the long centuries of toll, struggle,
achievement, discipline, moral res.
traint and spiritual aspiration which
make up the body of Caucasian civili-
zation, and no one knows when or
where or in whom the genius of the
race may again "burst full-blossomed
on the thorny stem of time"
Welcome the stranger-children into
your school and your Sunday school,
and the parents into your church,
Sunday school and farmers club, and
ask for their cooperation in everything
that makes for education, cooperation
and progress in the community.-The
Progressive Farmer.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
REV. Ell. ATWOOD
RESIGNS PASTORAIE
OF THE BROWNSVILLE BAPTIs1
CHURCH, EFFECTIVE MAR. i
Accepts Call to Pastorate of Baptis
Church at Dyersburg, Tenn: Has
Served Local Church for Past
Six Years: Regret Felt

Rev. z. L. Atwood, pastor Of Il
Brownsville Baptist church for
past six years, has rendered his resie
nation to take effect March |, and has
accepted a call from the Baptist church
at Dyersburg, Tenn.
Deep regret over Rev. Atwood's do
parture from Brownsville will be fell
not alone by the Baptist congregation
but by every citizen of this communi-
ty,
While he has been the pastor Of the
Baptist church, he has always shown
friendship, and deep, sincere fellow
ship for all our people, irrespective 81
denominational lines, He has been i
pastor in all that the term implies. He
is never too busy and the weather neY4
er too disagreeable, for him to find
time and way to visit the sick. the
distressed and the needy. He is al
inveterate worker, looking after every
phase of church work and never salts
fed with what has been accomplished
there is always something more to
be done. 1t is this reason, doubtless
in the main, that prompts him to seek
a broader field in which to lfbor fef
his Master.
While we, the people of Brownsville
deeply deplore the loss to our comutalE
ity, we congratulate the people a
Dyersburg on securing such a paAtgfs
and citizen He is i Christian
tlelkasn III all-fes pecs x. Wora |.
donEaeAee. esteem ard sal j M N
people. IN
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
HONOR ROLL

The following pupils Of the Wood
land school got their names ON the
honor roll last month by making an
average Of 80 or more in their studies
Ninth Grade-oceil Clark, Mary
Coburn, Kathleen Clements
Sixth Grade-Joyce WhitelaW, Kath-
ryn Norvell, Rosa Lee Joyner.
Fifth Grade-Katie Stanley.
Third Grade-Annie Pearl Curtin,
Louise Wilson.
Second Grade-Deward Thomas,
James Curlin.
First Grade-Theresa Curtin, Beu-
la Haynes, Conyers Norvell, Ir.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
NONRESIDENT PUBLICATION

Il NONRESIDENT PUBLICATION
dc. g. Burton ct al VS.. Mrs. Ida Leith
Killebrew--In the Chaneery Court
n of Haywood county, Tennessee, Il.
q D. No. 2,414,
d In this cause it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to that the defend
ant, Mrs. Ida Leith killebrew, is
nonresident Of the state of Tennessee
and a resident Of the state Of Missouri
so that the ordinary process of law
cannot be served upon her, she is,
therefore hereby required to appear
on or before
The Fourth Monday in April, 1917
before the Clerk and Master of said
court at his Office ia Brownsville, Ten
nessee, and make defense to the bill
filed against her by c. G.. Burton ct al,
or otherwise the bill will be taken for
confessed as to her 1t is further or
dered that this notice be published for
four consecutive weeks in the States
Graphic, a weekly newspaper pub
lished in Brownsville, Tenn. This
February Is, 1917.
]. T. GRAY. JR., C. e NJ.
A. NJ. Mari, Sol for Complts. IA
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16

.oads in which it is clearly sho"t
tba+ much of the so-called regulatory
measures only tend to place heavle. .
avnenses upon the carriers without an
bapof;ts whatever to the public.
For instance, the caboose Oh
sua;~h+ train has been the subject o
nnnaerous measures by state leglsIa
t0ras and these measures have place
burden Of thousands upon Thousand
Of dollars upon the railroads W''hos as
onv known benefits accruing to u
general public, and without lncreasn,
tbe' safety or efficiency of the carrier
To illustrate: Most states are sa'l
sed with two-wheel truck caoooS
4 hnt fifteen states have decreed tha'
! fonr-wheel truck is necessary
0 ro roanv states taboose eighteen 1e
e in length would violate no kno, y,
!. statute, but thirteen states nave 81
d emnlv decreed that 4 regular
= ,, boose shall be twenSSfour feet loI 10.
IS while Mississippi insist on 2 twen' ,'
ID eight foot caboose, and Name Wa, va,
IS ,aro twentv-nine. Eight states nd
t. oven ave- regulated the width OF the
he boose platforms, and IN other ,'t sI4
I'd cobooses cobo must be of such construct
IS STRENGTH as to be equivalent to
In ooO-lb box car; in others equal to "
sc, of 100 oOO-lb capacity,
ed In some states passenger eoat
n nnst have cuspidors at ever OF
'er seat, while in adjoining states
is hans. the legislatures may have |
ar h;h;ted I,IF, the use Of cuspidors in coz
es, Other states require screens ems
zach ea coach windows and the adJo'I
LIE state says they must not be USED
ar Some of these instances are e'te
He 4,e article above referred to as an
ON gnment in favor of the unlileatlo,
tic regulatory measures and iaV1Is
rst -. ant roonlation as opposed 10
Politics is livening up in Haywood
now and all sorts of combina
lions of candidates for the various
county Offices are being discussed.
There will doubtless be many candi-
lates in the field and several hot races
will likely be pulled off,
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
u all accounts not palu 2 !,

H{34atS 0cty ~ W ca t1AAtt fftfENA&
|EIIeese, Since the end Of August, thefs
Iias been no cheese on the market. Il
ks said that considerable quantities art
1being imported from Holland, but il
goes apparently to the front except
for small quantities allowed the res.
taurants and hotels.
Another serious reduction of avail
able foodstuffs has been the expropria-
tion for control by the government o!
all canned vegetables. Four or five
weeks ago the dealers were permitted
to sell a fractional part of their stock
but only two cans on each bread card
Permission to sell a further part is ex-
pected to be granted again soon, but
the dealers are to be compelled to open
each can before selling it, so as to
force the buyers to consume it at
once and not hoard it.
The weekly allowance of meat of all
kinds in the greater Berlin municipal-
ties runs from 1-2 to 8 ga ounces.
The cheaper varieties cost about sixty
cents a pound; the dearest 72 cents.
One of the most serious deprivations
continues to be the lack of fats and
oils. The weekly allowance of butter
and margarine together is little less
than three ounces person. Oil is so
expensive that it is out of the reach of
the great majority. The Associated
Press correspondent paid 1912 for
about two-thirds of pint of hazel-nut
oil to be used for frying. Goose fat
costs $3.50 can of II 3-5 ounces, and
is the only fat except vegetable oils,
that can be bought without a card.
This insufficiency of fats in the daily
ration shows itself in an almost con-
tinuous hunger. The correspondent
experienced this himself in the first
days of his visit remarked on it.
II feel hungry all the time," said
the person addressed.
Extending his Investigations the
correspondent heard similar express
sions from all side. The most bitter
complaints came from soldiers at home
When the writer last visited the front,
in July, the mems rations were ample
in every respect, and there is no reason
to believe that the same is not true
today The soldier at home thus no
tices the difference more keehly than
do those who have had gradually to
accustom themselves to one depriva-
ton after another.
There is deadly monotony about
meals in the average household
Breakfast generally consists of rolls,
marmalade (often made Of pumpkins)
and a decoction Of roasted acorns, rye
chicory and what not that goes by the
name Of coffee. There is no real cof
fee left. Some tea at high prices is
still to be had, but the poorer people
drink q brew of linden blossoms, rasp-
berry leaves or other shrub or trees.
for the second breakfast" there is dry
bread.
Dinner generallS.cons of pota-
toes with salt, some Kind of boiled veg
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
TAKE NOTICE.

/ have been appointed executor for
the estate of Abraham Green, deeeas.
ed, and notice is hereby given to al
who have accounts against him to pre-
sent same to me at once.
10 r. I. JOYNER, Executor.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
las Go -Sunday-Schoo Day.
"A SEEMS NEAR--AnERICAN SCHOONER SUNK
Next Wednesday, February 2lst

etables and, on perhaps two days of
the week, tiny piece of meat. Fish
takes the place Of meat on other days,
unless one can buy a goose at S1.56 a
pound (they cost $500 a pound just be-
fore Christmas), a duck at S1.44 a
pound, turkey at $l.S2 a pound, or a
hen at Sl.08 to Sl.20 a pound.
Comparatively little game comes on
the markets, apparently going to the
hotels and restaurants.
Supper is the problem in the average
household. Generally there are no po-
tatoes left over from noon, and If
there are there is no fat in which to
fry them. The usual German supper
before the war consisted of cold meat,
sausage, cheese, bread and butter and
beer, There is no meat, no cheese and
no sausage, no butter on four or five
days of the week, no more bottled beer
and many saloon keepers refuse to sell
beer to be consumed off the premises.
The beer moreover, is all but undrink-
able.
There remain then, only bread and
fish, fresh, smoked, dried or canned.
And here the problem Of cost is addel
to that of monotony. The writer paid
in BerlinSl.20 a pound for ordinary
lake trout and "a cents pound for
small fresh water bass. Dried salted
fish costs Sc cents a pound and smoked
eel $1.92 to $2.40 Smoked goose breast
costs $500 to $3.50 a pound and boil
ed shrimps are 72c. Once in every
four or five weeks the city authorities
place on the market small tins of sar-
dimes, one of which may be bought on
presentation of the municipal 'labens-
mittelkarte' or provision card. Each
family, no matter of how many men,
bers, has only one of these cards, The
sardines thus sold may. be had for
about Az cents for the small tin.
In the open market they cost from
81 cents for sardines in tomato sauce
to ~ cents for sardines in OIL One
smoked herring from six to eight inch
es long, costs 20 to % cents. A can Of
alleged shredded veal bought by the
correspondent was more than half gel
atine and cost ~ cents. Its gross
.kaieyht WAS d naund
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
FROM WOODLAND

As our former correspondent from
this neighbbrhood has moved away
"katydid" will send in few items OF
interest to some Of the readers Of the
States-G Graphic
Mr. Burney Dickinson's barn was
burned Sunday night He lost some
4 live stock md large supply Of feed
stuff.
!. Mr. and Mrs Leland Riddell return
! led te their home at Indianapolis, ind
Z Sy5adau aJfer spen4iuR sasgfal wes,s i
11sll et krlss alsssss - -
Mrs. tabI j elyeFt ap the
Miss Hasstina Gurlin of JacIisou
spent Saturday and Sunday With her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w H. Curlin
Mack Shaw Of Mercer was a visitor
IN our neighborhood Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Hudson are
spending the winter with Mrs. .Hudson's
Mr. and Mrs. Gabe Selverton.
Mrs. Earl Barrier is visiting her
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Mann, near
this week.
On last Wednesday Mrs. J. c. Dick
nson entertained large number of
friends with shower for Mrs. Oscar
pentecost, a very popular bride of
his month. Among the visiting
guests were Miss Mona Dickinson and
Miss Perry from Crockett Mills; Mrs.
Spencer King and Mrs. Pearle Hudson
md daughter, Alberta of Brownsville.
Mr.. John Curlin is quite sick with
grippe.
Miss Lillian Yelverton visited in
last week.
Mrs. Will Wilson visited her daugh-
er, Mrs. Earl Christy at Bluff Greek
asst week.
Our school is growing. We have
our teachers now, and each one has
Ter hands full.
Mrs. j. G. Norvell has another board
r. Miss Voltermann of Brownsville,
Who has been employed to teach in
he Woodland school.
KATYDID.
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
co TO THE MEETING
NEAREST YOUR FARM
Methods of Profitable Agriculture to
be Discussed by Prominent
Farm Speakers.

Next week is one for the big farm
meetings all over West Tennessee and
this county comes in for its share.
The meetings planned for this coun-
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
KATYDID.

4 D. W. Harris, publisher of the Alamo
Weekly Guide, has been appointed dis
ltrict deputy state commander of the
Maccabees. He has two counties,
and Crockett-in his district,
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16
FOOD SCARCE
IN GERMANY
CONDITIONS RAPIDLY CHANG,
ING FOR WORSE.
Many Staples Disappear: Government
/ Control Keeps Potatoes and Bread
to Moderate Level: Cost of
Living Very High Indeed

Stockholm, Jan. 20.-Food condi-
Mons in Germany have changed great
.riy for the worse in the past five
ehonths. The correspondent of the AS
,asociated Press, who had been away
rafom Germany since the first week in
.rkugust, has just returned from a stay
arH three weeks in Berlin. He found
urhat many staples of food had alto
ikether disappeared from the market,
tslthers had grown so dear that they are
Iubeyond the reach of any but the we'll
\ ko-do, the daily allowance of potatoes
i had been reduced to ten ounces, and
4 1hat either a shortage of flour or a
r rFisordered distribution of it among the
Il bakers had resulted in long queues of
ifsnyers standing for hours in front of
L the bakeries.
i Maximum prices of the foodstutfs
hontrolled by the government are still
,INery low for potatoes and bread, and
,l<Dmparatively low for meats. Pota-
H@es cost only Y cents the standard
Mlshel of sixty pounds and bread
Little less than 1-2 cents a pound.
Jpt the potato allowance is insufficient
III persons who have little but bread
\ 10 potatoes to eat, and has to be eked
with turnips.
has been hoped to allow one egg a
fssAesl each two weeks in Greater per-
bh but the last one-egg allowance
IA hassfe some five weeks ago and an
The states-graphic. (Brownsville, Tenn.) 1???-1984, 1917-02-16

A.. IHIA
-. G Akp manY and ~
AssateT has laNeis tie pfistsH III iaa.aFsi !
sweetening eoIfee ard tea IN private
homes, as well as restaurants Min
is ordinarily available in limited guam
titles only for invalids, and very aged,
and small children.
The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-11-27

city is evidently actively in the har-
ness in Trinidad, Colorado, to which
place he went to accept a pastorate,
as one may judge from a letter re-
ceived by The TIMES last week, too
late for publication then.
He tells of the great interest shown
by everybody in the war and the en-
thusiastic manner in which all work
ed for the raising of a large Y. M. c.
A. fund in Trinidad. Historical mat
ter in regard to early settlements and
practices is interspersed with the pa
triotic parts of the letter, which fol-
lows:
Trinidad Colorado,
November 10, 1917
Editor Times:
We are glad to receive word from
Twin Falls through your paper, and
will venture to give your readers a
word from us.
We like our city and church very
much indeed. Trinidad is a city of
four railroads and five electric lines,
with about 10000 population, but 1000
of whom are English speaking. There
are about 1000 Italians and 1000 Mex
leans, who never saw Mexico, in the
city. 1t is said that AZ dialects are
spoken in the county of Las Animas.
With this great foreign speaking pop
ulation the Presbyterian church is the
only Protestant church doing dork
among them. We have a mission to
the Spanish speaking and one to the
Italians. The First church is helping
to purchase a Ford for the use of the
Italian minister and building lot for
| the Spanish church.
The war is the only topic of CONVEX
sation. l was called to address the
AID Club, composed largely of the
members of the Chamber of Com
merce, on the Second Liberty Loan,
and, in the drive for the Y. M. c. A
fund, | spoke to a crowd of Cokedale
people one night and to about 500 al
! Berwind the next night. Berwind has
Y. M. c. A. building, the gift of Mr.
Rockefeller, who, since the Ludlow
strike of a few years ago, has been
doing everything possible for the
miners. Y. M. G.. A. buildings are
found in almost every one of the TWEEN
ty or more camps in the county and
John d. Jr., gives about two thirds OF
the cost of a church, Catholic or Prot
estant, where needed. Besides the
wage received now runs from Sc tc
SIS per day. No wonder that at Ber-
wind, the crowd, composed of Italians
Spanish, Austrians, Syrians and few
Americans, within a few minutes
| pledged over 800 to the Y. NJ c. A.
which was increased to $1,000 the mex
day. Would it interest your readers
to say that of the LOG to enter the
service of the country from these Goa
camps, over one-half are such names
as clearly indicate their foreign blood
My own congregation has 3S boys
now in the service of their country
The city and county at large was ask
ed for $1,000 for Y. M. c. A. At thii
writing we are nearing $4,000, thu
camps and city being pitted agains
each other to see which raises most
New Mexico and southern Colorad
was settled $50 years ago by Spanis