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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
Wants It Bone
Dry.
Sprinkles Pool Room Floor
With Whiskey.
Floor

On last Monday evening Mr..
Bob Pattie, who having decided
that he wanted the bone dry law
to 90 into effect sooner than the
1st of March so he decided that
he would get rid Of what he had
and pouring it into sprinkler
he sprinkled the pool room
floor with the liquid and about
that time the sheriff came up
and Bob was taken before Squire
|. 4. B, Roddy and fined for being
under the influence OF whiskey
to too great a degree, and after
a lecture Bob decided that he
would sin no more and was sent
on his way rejoicing.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
w ants Reunion
Changed.

Mayor W. T. Robertson of
Montgomery, Ala, wired the
following official invitation to
Gen. George B. Harrison, Com
mander-in-chief, United Con
federate veterans, to transfer
the confederate reunion from
ashington, ID. @. to Mont
gomery:
Montgomery saw the birth
of young confederacy. Without
assistance from any other COM
munity, the city of Montgomery
extends to the United Confeder-
ate veterans an earnest invi-
tation to hold their reunion here,
so that the people may show the
gratitude and affection in which
the cradle of confederacy holds
its noble heroes"
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
Entertainment

The School Improvement Club
will offer Musical and Literary
program, at the Dixie Theater,
Tuesday evening March 9th, at
8:15 o'clock.
The program will be given by
Miss Lilly Ben Pope, as Reader,
who will give the beautiful
Spanish story, s'The Pretty
Sister of Jose," in three acts.
Miss Pope is from the Oadek,
Conservatory Of Expression in
Chattanooga and is very force
full reader. Miss Marjorie Tucker
is the violinist and is also from
the Oadek Conservatory.
Mr.. Morris will give group
of piano numbers and be the
accompanist. He is Organist and
choir Director at the University
of the South, and has appeared
here before with the University
Glee Club.
Alfred r. Virgins, Baritone,
has had eleven years of Teaching
and concert experience and will
give some heavy classical as well
as lighter numbers. He is the
present Teacher Of Singing at
the University Of the South.
This is a fine program and
should draw q large ,rowl.
L Admission will be 1Octo students
! &c ..te,sstyt Its ssatillt,. iatl =
On another page will be found
the program.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
A Letter From The Judges
of the Supreme Court of
Tennessee.
Nashville, Tenn, Feb. % 1917.

Nashville, Tenn, Feb. % 1917.
To the People Of Tennessee:
We believe that the study of
Gods Word is necessary to de-
velop strong Christian character
that every person ought to have
the blessings that result from
such study, and that the Sunday
school is an efficient agency for
the promotion of systematic
Bible study.
We note with interest the fact
that the Tennessee Sunday
School Association has designated
Sunday, April s, as Go-to-Sun-
day-School Day and that Cover
nor Rye has proclaimed and set
apart said day as Go-to-Sunday-
School Day for Tennessee.
We join with the Governor in
urging all Tennesseans, as we'll
as visitors within our borders, to
attend the Sunday school Of
their choice on SAID day.
We suggest to the Sunday
school workers that they care
fully prepare for a proper obser-
vance of said day and see that
every visitor gets such a cordial
reception that he will become a
regular member of the Sunday
school. Let us make this the
beginning of a new era in the
Sunday school work in Tennessee.
d. L. Landsden,
A. s. Buchanan,
Samuel @. Williams,
Sid r. Clark,
Grafton Green.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
Leg Cut off In
Motor w reck.

While coupling cars at Coal
mont Monday morning at the
the minec, Hoyt Allen was SER
iofsly injured by the Motors
running together, cutting off one
of his legs and pretty badly
mashing him up otherwise. He
was taken to Sewanee that eve
ming and at present resting easy.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
School Closed for
Two Weeks.

The Shook School was closed
here Tuesday for two weeks on
account of measles raging and as
it seemed that about two-thirds
Of the scholars were absent from
roll call Monday morning it was
thonght best to close it for a
short period.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
Bit by Mad Dog.

A son of Mr.. j. @. Henley was
bitten by a mad dog Sunday and
was taken to maidstone at
Manchester for treatment Mon
day. At present the boy is all
rightand will be up in a few days,
Geo. Tanner, Of Hubbards
Cove, was the guest of s. "A.
Henley Monday.
FL. Cooper, of Burrough Cove,
was here Tuesday.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
You Need A Spring Laxative.

DR.. Kings New Life Pills will
remove the accumulated wastes
of winter from your intestine', ;,
the burden of the blood. Get
that sluggish spring fever feel
ing out of your system, brighten
your eye, clear your complexion.
Get that vim and snap of puri-
fed healthy blood. DR.. Kings
New Life Pills are non-griping
laxative that aids natures pro-
cess, try them tonight. At all
Druggists, 25c,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
Spring Colds Are Dangerous.

Spring Colds Are Dangerous.
Sudden changes of temperature
and underwear bring spring colds
with stuffed up head, sore throat
and general cold symptoms. A
dose Of DIR. Kings New Dis
covery is sure relief, this happy
combination of antiseptic bal
sans clears the head, soothes
the irritated membranes and
what might have been a linger-
ing cold is broken up. Don't
stop treatment when relief is
first felt as half cured cold is
dangerous. Take DR.. Kings
New Discovery till your cold is
gone.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01

Mr.. Van Rhor, travelling sales:
man for the Handley-G Goodman
Meeks Co., will move here with
his family next week and will
occupy the Pattie place on
College street.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
Nothing Wet But the Ocean.

ta
JOHN SIMPSON,
bootegger upurned barrel and loudly bemoamed his
fate
Why I'd rather be dead he ercey ad haa to live in bone
dry State,
this very long, this business where sha
ows lurk,
Tat I'll to quit selling booze fcr I've done
got how to work..
He spang the floor with bearike head bowed like
battling ram;
81 shall leave this dun State to it's meay fate, I'm going
Alabam,
Arrived the portals of that Domain he with madden
ing sneer;
say you're all in wrong so just trot along nothing
doing here
In Mississippi just the same he beat it for Arkansas
But he found that the Proh had got there first with prohibition
law.
Virginia he chased himself that land uleps
song,
But he saw glance that there wasn't chance 80 he dn stay
very long.
And in West Virginia he cody met with disdanfu and cold
rebuff,
And they told him with JOY, NO. no. boy we've the
long tune between drinks Governor said as he waited
his glass to refill,
the other replied, with the drops
to be some longer STILL
Through both Oarolinas the booegger man. staggered with
soul full Of grief
With heart that dreay weary but
yet We could find no relief
gone there at the frst
For the fellows down there all quite the square
sessed with an undying thirst
But the breeze through the tall Southern pnes
to whisper with each mournful sigh
We antum State you're years late-bone
dry bone dry, BONE DRY!'
Muttered h e whole South in troes Of droh but
state anywhere,
Is that Florida land with it's Palms and it's Sand ah II know
make hit there
he took the quest hopes behest into
old Jacksonville,
And at the station, by that Davis creatonTe Pen
nsula Package Bill"
With ow mournu howl from his poor broken heart sank
down in utter collapse,
Not vistage of hope remained to him now faint
perhaps,
stranger drew nigh the in his eye stepped UP te
inquire of the cause,
And the bootegger gent with soul and rent mrm red
sadly "Them bone dry laws,
Can tell me- kind Sir of place that wet? sick OF
the places that aint
81 have wondered this land with winning hand till I'm
broken disgused and faint"
Then the stranger replies and with eyes, or he
too, had thirst of his own
81 sorry Your Grace, but name place where the
Temperance Seed not sown
And the only place that suggest where man of Won,
calling might go
Is to the western and umpn the Gulf Of Mexico
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01
For Sale.

Single Comb Buff Orpingtons
Buff eggs $1.00 per setting of
Is eggs.
Best to Lay. Best to Raise.
Best for Sale. Best for the Table
See Mrs. A. L. Hibbard,
Tracy City, Tenn. Phone 122.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01

If you want your moneys
worth of reading literature, try
our 4 magazines and this paper
all one year for $1.25
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01

If you are interested in our
special clubbing proposition
call us and we will send our
representative to see you.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01

MRS GRUNDY---A char
cter in Morton's Comedy
"Speed the Plough.---Stahd
ard Dictionary.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1917-03-01

Advertisements must have
merits or they viii not be
accepted. Mrs. Grundy has
a large and increasing cir
culation.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
FROM MISSOURI

Missouri is the only State in the
Union in which are located two Fed
eral Reserve banks, those at st. Louis
and Kansas City. 1t is also the only
State which is represented in the
United States Senate by two sucn re-
markable persons as "Gumshoe Bill
Stone and Jim" Reed, and in the
House by Champ Clark who says tha'
in his district the people see no diff
ference between conscripts and en-
victs. Can it be that it was because
of such representation that the Kan
sas City Reserve district fell short
of its allotment of Liberty Loan sub
criptions and that st. Louis only
achieved its quota? 1t looks as
though the time had arrived in Mis-
souri, for a thorough house-cleaning
and general waking Philadelphia
Record.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
MASTERY OF THE AIR

With every allowance for his nat
ural enthusiasm on the subject of
| aeronautics, the case for numerous
and formidable American "air navy
| made out by Mr.. Coffin to the Senate
subcommittee on military affairs is
highly convincing. 1t is hard to de-
eide sometimes just which expert is
right in saying that his particular
branch of activity calls for concen-
tration of energy and resources. Mr..
Hoover is certain that to win the
war we must bring about absolute food
control, General Goethals is equally
convinced that the war cannot be
won without intensive shipbuildng
to defeat the submarines. Army men
see victory only in the training of a
numerous body of well-equipped
troops. And each expert is right in
his way. We must do all these things
if We are to win speedily and dec;s-
lively. Nevertheless, Mr. Coffin's "air
Navy plan is worthy of adoption.
In the airplane building contest be-
tween France and England on the
one hand, and Germany on the other,
a state of virtual deadlock prevails.
Neither side has been able to gain a
permanent ascendancy over the other.
By concentrations on a single front
our allies have sometimes been able
to gain temporary mastery of the air,
but on the whole Germany has man
aged to hold her own. That deadlock
in the air will never be broken unless
the United States throws into the bal
ance her vast resources for building
aircraft and training aviators.
Mr.. Coffin asserts that we could do
both on a tremendous scale. 1t would
cost lot of money, but it would be
well worth it. One need not be an eX-
pert to realize what complete aerial
domination would mean to the allied
cause from a military point of view
1t would constitute an American con-
tributiOn to the war, unique, impress
sive, decisive. The plans are ready,
made in coordination with the Brit
ish and Canadian bureaus. All Mr..
Coffin needs is the authority and the
money to go ahead. Both should be
given him with the minimum of delay.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
AMERICA TRIUMPHANT

The triumphant oversubscription of
Liberty Bonds is worth a mighty ar
my to the Allies. 1t is a clarion no.
tice to the world that American dol
lars, as well as American men. are
enlisted for the war. 1t sounds the
certain and sure doom of Prussian
brutality and Prussian feudalism. 1t
warns the Kaiser that by far the
earth's richest nation stands with op-
en- pocket to pay for the last shot
needed to vanquish his last soldier.
For every two dollars which our coun-
try summoned to support our flag peo-
pie offer three dollars. But that is
only the beginning. There are ten,
yes, twenty more dollars, behind the
three already offered which if need
be can be swiftly mobilized for our
own and our allies requirements. Our
nation responded magnificently, and
every part of it so responded, to this
first call for money. The Liberty
Loan is not only a success, but a
triumph, and the spirit behind this
Liberty Loan means death to those
governments which seek to deny lib
erty to all nations, great and small
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

Estate of Charles s. Tribbitt decd
Pursuant to the order of Frank F
Wallace, Surrogate of the County OF
Cumberland, made on the twenty,
sixth day Of April, 1917, on applica.
ton of the undersigned Administra.
tor OF said deceased, notice is hereb,
gwen TO the creditors of the decedent
debts, demands and claims agoins+
the estate of said deceased nndar
oath, within nine months from IN.
date of such order, or they will b:
forever barred from prosecuting y,
recovering the same against the sub.
scriber. '"D
Dated April 26th, 1917
UR1AH LORE. Administra.
tor OF the Estate of Charles
s. Tribbitt. Decd.
J. Ogden Burt. Proctor.
5-2 9w
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
FOR THE RED CROSS

The appeals of war are many and
constant. 1t calls for our young men
and to that call we have made our
response giving nearly 10,000,000 to
choose from. 1t called last week for
contributions of money and the Lib
erty Loan of two billions dollars was
oversubscribed. This week $100,000,
900 is asked for to supply the needs
for the large work of the American
National Red Cross for its prospec-
tive work on the battlefields of Eur
ope.
Many thousand devoted women are
giving their time, zeal and energy to
Red Cross work at the present time.
There is, however, much to be bought
and much to be done. Skilled work
is necessary in Red Cross work and
the workers have to be trained. Some
of the Red Cross work is analogous
to that done for the Union leaders by
the Sanitary Commission of the Civil
money and the country 5lossomed
with Sanitary Commission fairs to
supply it's exchequer. The Red Cross
is a better organized and more expert
body, with a clearly defined field of
operation. 1t will supply soldiers
needs that the Government cannot so
well attend to. 1t will do this in a
sympathetic spirit and should have
at it's instant command the money
necessary to do its work promptly
and WELL
This week is dedicated to the work
of getting together 100000 for
the Red Cross. 1t is very big sum,
but if all will contribute in proper
ton to their means, their feelings of
and their patriotism, the
money should be easily secured.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
CLEAN MOVIES

Something has happened in khe
movie producing world. Instead of
advertising new films as daring"
"audacious", etc, producers are an
nouncing them as "clean," whole
some" "for all the family, just as
if the clean films were really the
more popular.
In the past, producers have COM
plained that they couldn't put on
clean films because the public de-
manded excitement, thrills, and
slightly questionable stories. The
public wondered a little at this, but
in it's usual meek way it didn't say
much. A large proportion of movie
fans fell off, however, and even those
who actually craved the excitement
began to be bored by the abnormal
type offered them.
So now it's to be clean films. There
can be lots of pep The American
public really likes that just as il
likes real thrills. But if producers
have become as wise as they seem tc
be, there won't be the cheap and de.
grading thrills of year ago.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
SINGING THE NATIONAL HYMN


We have been rather easily discour-
aged in trying to sing "The Star
Spangled Banner" as our national an
them. In the first place, most of us
were taught America in school. We
knew the words and the tune was
easy to sing. "Tne Star-Spangled
Banner was neglected until it be-
came the national song, because it
was harder to learn
There have been many versions of
the tune, too, so that with any large
group of people trying to sing it to-
gether, there were apt to be various
renderings of time and tune.
This confusion is no longer neces-
sary. A version of the song has re-
Gently been published in New York,
adapted to a chorus of mixed voices.
1t is the same version that the bands
of the United States Navy use. 1t is
also the version adopted by public
school music teachers throughout tne
country.
We're all going to be a good deal
more familiar with our national an
them before long. And when we know
all the verses and sing the same YER
sion, We'll suddenly realize what a
truly fine anthem it is. AS l.. Camil-
lleri director ne tho Now Sino;uo Co
ciety of New York says, "The Star
Spangled Banner is beautiful, youth
full and virile; it is singable." Let's
all get busy and sing it!
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
FOR MASTERY IN THE AIR


An av1auon program calling for the
expenditure of $6O0OO0,OOO may we'll
be war economy. Both combatants
have used every exertion to gain pre-
ponderance in the air. and on the
whole with a pretty even balance of
success. If of late our allies have
had shade the best of it, the more
reason why heavy reinforcement of
their flying forces might hasten vic
tory if not determine it.
The aeroplane is the eye Of an ar
my and considerably more. 1t has
replaced cavalry for scouting and
surprise attacks on marching troops
and on communications. Bombing
specialists carry aloft a menace COM
parable only to extremely mobile
heavy artillery. The conviction
grows, here and abroad, that the air.
plane should be increasingly used, at
whatever cost, to search out and de-
stroy enemy bases and fortresses.
Except in individual cases such as
Boelke's, the German military sys-
tenn and personal temperament do not
seem to fit the conditions of air fight
ing. Iron discipline in the mass is
for the sea and the surface of the
land; the man in the flying machine
is his own Captain. Such a demand
for self-reliance and daring with the
capacity for quick decisions as the
lonely air sets up should suit the Am
erican fighter.
Hitherto we have rested content
with inventing the aeroplane and let
ting Europe develop it. But it does
not take SO long to catch up in the
air as it does to build battleships or
heavy artillery. We have the mater
ial for the planes; we have the mon
ey to build them and men to fly them.
Beat the "Boche" in the air and the
war is long way toward being won.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
PEONIES AND ROSES

The American florists having devel-
oped the American Beauty rose in
red and now in white also, and hav-
ing given this gift of June an opu-
lence that is not reached anywhere
else, have now turned to the peony
and out of the familiar garden annual
are creating sort Of tempestuous
bloom that in color and form rivals
the chrysanthemum of the autumn
surprising it, however, in odor and
in size of blossoms and general as
pect. Moreover, as in the case of the
dahlia, while the great masses of COL
or are part of the scheme of develop
ment, still the tendency toward what
might be called the single style of
flower, with its artistically negligent
arrangement of petals, is marred and
some of the finest specimens belong
to this class of sports and hybrids. In
large effect equaling the hydrangeas
and the chrysanthemums at their
greatest size, the peonies, coming at
this time when they have few large
flowers to dispute their pre-eminence,
are easily the most regal of the early
summer treasures Of the garden, and
their magnifcence is tribute to the
American experimenter, who when he
sets out to do it makes himself felt
in the floral world as in all other
lines of endeavor
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
HONOR TO WHOM HONOR is DUE


In the general jubilation over the
oversubscription of the Liberty Loan
just recognition ought to be extended
to those whose unselfsh and incon-
spicuous labors have made that great
and gratifying result possible. To
the banks of the country in particu-
lar great credit is due. They not only
opened their facilities freely to the
public for the placing of the loan, but
the individual officers and employees
of these institutions have worked
night and day to make the nations
answer to it's enemies SO decisive and
final that there can be no mistaking
the earnestness with which it is
standing behind the President. The
men who have devoted day and night
to the loan cause, either in public
speaking on stage and pulpit or in
the less exciting clerical labor which
so vast a task involved, have been
patriotic in the fullest sense Of the
term. They have done their bit and
done it well.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21

The idea of sending a Congression-
al Committee to see what is going on
at the battle front in France has
penetrated one Congressman's thought
foundry. There are safer places to
which junket could be made at this
time, and if committee is sent care
should be taken to select members
who have no talent for anything but
junkets.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
RAINY DAY WORK

Enrolling 100000 men, raising a
$2,OO0,0O0,OOO loan, sending General
Pershing and an army staff to France,
putting mission in the Winter Pal
ace at Petrograd and a few other
things like that-thats the record of
Is rainy days in June. Now watch
Uncle Sam when the sun joins hands
with him!-New York Herald.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
NOTICE Of yErTIENE1T

NOTICE. Is HEREBY GIVEN. THAT
Inc accounts OF the subscriber. Frank
p. Smith, surviving executor and
trustee of the estate of lanes T n
Smith, deceased, will be auditad ANA
stated by the Surrogate. and renortaJ I
to the Orphans Court or Cumher,an% %
County for settlement On Fr;Sen du tha
sixth day of July next at the @ hour 'ne oe
ten o'clock in the forenoon Vui u
Dated June 4th, 1917
rnANh ~ p. SMITH, surviving
gig ~ e eAeou'or ond trustee of the
deceased. Nnien'
George Hampton,
. Proctor. s-5sv
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
VERY REGRETTABLE

The Kaiser seems to be rather fixed
in his opinions, and we suppose when
it's all over he'll think, provided the
esteemed French conclude to leave
him in full possession of all his fac
ulties, that the explanation of the
general result is that God has made
another of His unfortunate mistakes
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS,

Estate of Clara L. Cansdell, deceased
Pursuant to the order of Frank f..
Wallace, Surrogate of the County of
Cumberland. made on the tenth day
of May, 1917, On application of the
undersigned Executrix of said de-
ceased, notice is hereby given 70 the
creditors of the decedent to bring in
to the subscriber their debts, demands
and claims against the estate or said
deceased, under oath, within nine
months from the date of such order
or they will be forever barred from
prosecuting or recovering the same
against the subscriber. .... '.I
Dated May 10th, 1917.
.tt ELLEN l.. CANSDELL.
Executrix
Leverett Newcomb, Proctor.
h-11 Qw
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21

The Kaiser's airships are killing
OFF so many little children that the
future demand for German-made
dolls is not going to be what it was
in past years. Before the war Ger
man-made dolls and other toys were
found in pretty much all lands on
the globe. They will not seem so
pretty hereafter.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1917-06-21

Nicholas Romanoff, late Czar, is to
be given the right to vote the same
as any other citizen, under the pro-
posed universal suffrage in Russia.
What a pleasant time the division
worker will have when ne pulls Mr..
Romanoff's door bell and asks him
to come out and vote for the organi-
xatiOn.