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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-06-08
NOTICE OF CREDITORS MEETING
In the District Court of the United
States, Eastern District of Ten
nessee, Southern DiDision
No. 224O in Bankruptcy.

In the matter of ]. T. Payne of
Ducktown.
To all creditors of ]. t. Payne
Bankrupt. of the town of Ducktown
County of Polk, State of Tennessee.
Notice is hereby given that on June 2,
1917, the said J. T. Payne was duly
adjudicated bankrupt; and that the first
meeting of creditors will be held at U. S.
Court Rooms in Chattanooga, on June 81,
1917, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, at
which time the creditors may attend, prove
their claims, appoint their trustee, examine
the bankrupt and transact such other bust
ness as may properly come before the
said meeting.
AT Chattanooga, Tenn, this June z,
1917. JAMES H. ANDERSON,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
Jeff A. Hedden, Attorney for Bankrupt.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-06-08
NOTICE..

The First National Bank, of Ducktown,
has changed its title to Miners State Bank.
In SO doing the bank has made no
change in its management, the change be-
ing made solely for the purpose of in
creasing our resources. The bank is
stronger financially and in better posi-
ton to handle all classes of business than
heretofore.
Another new feature in our business is
the opening of regular Savings Depart
ment. Come in and talk over this feature
with us. Yours very truly,
E. C. CRAWFORD, Cashier.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-06-08
NOTICE..

The First National Bank of Ducktown,
located at Ducktown, in the State of Ten
nessee, is closing up its affairs.
All noteholders and others, creditors of
said Association, are, therefore, hereby
notified to present the notes and other
claims against the Association for pay
ment E. c. CRAWFORD, Cashier.
May %, 1917.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-06-08
"WANTED." "

Men and women to learn knitting, card
ing, spinning and sewing machine work.
You can earn form 81 to So per day after
becoming experienced. We pay your ex-
penses while learning. Write or apply,
Appalachian Mills, Dale Ave-, Knoxville,
Tennessee
Are we, or are we not, going to celebrate.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-06-08

Washington, D. c.
Geo. T. Hood, of CopperhilI, was in
Benton, the first Of the week
Dr. /. E. Kimsey was called to Benton,
on the case of Sheriff Abe LilIard.
There were 81 persons registered here,
last Thursday, which makes a good show
ing.
Mrs Pauline Campbell kept house for
DIR. Window Kimsey, during the absence
of their parents in Knoxville.
Clarence TAYLOR went to Knoxville, YER
terday, to meet his his brother, Earle, who
was on his way home from school
Dr. L. E. and Mrs Kimsey were Knox
vile, visitors, Wednesday. when he was
called as witness in the Federal court
Miss Hassel Dabbs, of Chattanooga, and
Miss Mary Penick Gourey, of Harrisburg,
n c., attended the Gourley- Brooks we'd
ding.
trustee Chas E. Taylor has purchased a
Buick machine and turned his Ford over
to his brother, julius, to use in the insur-
ance business.
Miss Florence Yoder received word,
Wednesday, that Walter Yoder had been
pardoned by Governor Rye This was
confirmed by Thursdays papers.
Claude Smith, who was hurt, some
months ago. at Mary Mine is able to be
out. He had hard seige and his friends
will hope that the worst is over
After all, the Honeymoon is merely the
delightful interval during which he thinks
he is married to an angel and she thinks
that she is married to saint
Thursday afternoon Of last week, Mrs.
Ernest Rymer was operated upon for APP
pendicitis. She is reported as doing very
well which will be good news to her many
friends
Oscar Addington, a resident of North
Georgia, was hurt at London Mine, Mon
day, by falling balk ground, and died Tues
day; The remains we're taken to his home
Wednesday, for burial
Mr. Merrimac, representing the Royal
Typewriter Co., entertained the audience
at the moving picture show, Thursday
evening, with songs and music, which
were thoroughly enjoyed.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-06-08
Local and Personal Mention
WEDDING BELLS.

WEDDING BELLS.
The wedding of James Lee Gourley and
Miss Nora Brooks, which occurred on
Wednesday evening June 6, was probably
the most brilliant and impressive ceremony
every taking place in this section.
The bridal procession lormod in the hall
and was headed by the ribbon girls and at
PENDANTS. Then came the best man and
maid Of honor and the ring bearer
Following these came the bride and
groom and The train hearers.
They marched down to the chance
where Rev. Gilingham, of MarryviIle was
in waiting and who, in the old-worId lash
Toned double-ring ceremony, pronounced
them man an wife.
\ reception was held after the ceremony
and the happy couple received the con
gratulations Of their many friends
The presents we're numerous and beauti-
full but lack of space lorbids more than a
mention of them.
'''Tis Thy Wedding Morning" from the
Rose Maiden, sung by twelve voices.
Mendelssohn's Wedding March, played
by Miss Alice Taylor, and "Humoresque"
being played during IL e ceremony.
Decorations, ferns and ivy.
Attendants dressed as follows: Miss
Edith Marchant. green taffetta and geor-
gette. and carrying pink roses.
Miss Lucille Marchant, yellow satin with
oriental embroidery, carrying cream roses.
Miss Hassell Dabb, pink chiffon over
messaline carrying pink roses.
Miss Mary Penick Courley, pink taffeta
with georgette carrying, cream roses.
Miss Ethel Brooks, maid of honor, white
net over blue satin, carving pink roses.
The bride was gowned in whit georgette
over white SAITH en- traine, trimmed with
lace and pearls. The veil was held in
blaze by wreath of orange blossoms.
Little Mildred and Irene Marchant acted
as train bearers. Nola Auburn, Pauline
Brooks, Elizabeth Wyrick and EuIa May
Brooks, Ribbon girls.
The groomsmen were as follows: 0. r.
Taylor, best man, with Miss Ethel Brooks,
w. ]. Hewson, M. d., with Miss Gourley,
K. P. Dyke with Miss Dabbs, L. E. Reese
with Miss Lucille Marchant; r. L. Ander-
son with Edith Marchant
Archie Pearson, ring bearer.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1917-06-08

Work on the new breaker building is
being pushed and some of the steel work
ers are here for that part of the work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

We are willing to state for their IN
formation that some time ago the Eng
lish common law settled this point for
good; it said that "A woman is not a
person in matters of rights and privi-
leges, but she is person in matters of
pains and penalties"
The only question that remains is:
Is it privilege or pain to be obliged
to live under a constitution that you
had no voice in accepting?
Don't you know the answer?
1t is pain for a man and a privilege
for woman.
Why is it a privilege for a woman to
live under constitution she did not
accept?
Because either she likes it, in which
case she has received something she
likes without any effort; or she hates
it, in which case she has an opportunity
of silent, unselfish suffering.
And that is what true woman likes
better than anything else-at least,
so a good many men have told us.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

when he had had a prosperous day, and
in Room 237, on one of its upper floors,
Paul the Peddler was chloroformed by
Mister Felix Montgomery, who, posing
as a jeweller from Syracuse, stole the
$500 diamond ring the lads mother had
found in Central Park.
Alger also speaks of the more aristo-
cratic st. Nicholas and Metropolitan
Hotels, with their imposing fronts, the
former of white marble, the latter of
subdued brown hue, but none the less
elegant in its internal appointments"
Generally he adds, that leach Of these
splendid structures cost with furnishing
not far from million dollars"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

Broadway" where Paul Hoffman pur-
chased many a dress pattern for his
mother. e}ss$sSSsSaS
At S65 Broadway, on the corner of
Franklin Street, was Taylor's Saloon, in
the building later occupied by the Mer-
chants Union Express Company. This
ice-cream parlor was said to be Every
elegant" and attracted Ragged Dick
and Frank Whitney on their tour of the
city. Entering, "they found themselves
in a very spacious and elegant saloon,
respondent with gliding, and adorned
on all sides with costly mirrors. They
sat down at small table with a mar
BILE top, and Frank gave the order"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Ayers New York
Continued from Page Three

price of the violin with which the
young Italian replaced the one stolen
by Tim Rafferty,.
Blocker Street was the realm OF IN
expensive though eminently respect
able boarding houses. Many Of Ayers
heroes moved there from the Five
Points neighborhood when fortune had
taken them under her wing.
"The time had been when Bleecker
Street was fashionable and lined with
dwellings of substantial and prosperous
citizens" runs the description in "Slow
and Sure" THAT time had gone BY
Still. it was several grades above the
streets in the lower part of the city"
1t was in Blocker Street that Paul
Hoffman and his mother sought lodg-
ings after their Pearl Street tenement
was burned, and here Dick and his
friend Henry Fosdick moved as soon as
their salaries as Office boys permitted a
change from Mrs. MONEYS boarding
house in "the far from fashionable
Mott STREET.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Al sos Broadway Was Every
ELEGANT" IcesCreamery

There was novelty in the evening as
pect of Broadway, with its shops and
theatres glittering with light" he
writes in describing The section near
Bleecker Street, in the neighborhood of
the Metropolitan and st. Nicholas
hotels. Along this street were the city's
best known shops: Tiffany, whose
fame as a jeweller is worldwide, had not
set removed to his present magnificent
store on Union Square; Ball & Black,
who maintained a handsome jewelry
store" a short distance below Amity
street, and A. T. Stewards, the large
white marble building at the corner Of
Chambers Street, the largest store on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
"PhH the Fiddler" Did
Some Practical Good

Behind all of Ayers writing he held
to the purpose of interesting the public
in the friendless boys of the city. 1t is
said that 'Phil the Fiddler" resulted in
breaking up the padrone system, by
which Italian boys were leased by their
parents to cruel masters, to whom they
were forced to give their small earnings.
In all Of his stories he pays tribute to
the Newsboys' Lodging House and to
Charles O'Connor, its superintendent.
"The downtown Newsboys' Lodging
House," he writes in MARK the Match
Boy" "was located at the corner of
Fulton and Nassau Streets. 1t occupied
the fifth and sixth stories of the build
ing then known as the Sun Building,
owned by Moses S. Beach, publisher of
that journal"
Alger died in 1899. His life had been
an active one, yet he had always found
time to be interested in his immediate
surroundings. When other writers
turned to the then recent Civil War for
material, Alger described the daily life
of his city. Chronicles of national re-
construction are many. Horatio Alger,
jr., has left us one of the few accurate
pictures of great city in the making.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
THE NEW CLASSICS

["Let the speaker read the second fifth and
seventh chapters of the Book of Proverbs, the
classic stories of Gree and the Sirens, and Mil
toms Samson Agonistes,' and he will realize
how futile and deceptive is the pretence that
giving the vote to women will prevent sexual
crime."-E. P. Wheeler, "The Case Against
Woman Suffrage."l
Gree was extremely naughty,
But she had a certain charm,
And the gods, so cold and naughty,
Viewed her conduct with alarm;
For she lived remote, not lonely,
On an isle of asphodel.
Where the dews, the moisture only,
On the clustered violets fell
All the guests whom she invited,
All who anchored in the bay,
Always went away delighted
If, that is, they went away.
And the rumors of her beauty
Reached the gods, as such things should,
And they thought it was their duty
To reform her if they could.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

the park in 1868, some years after their
visit to it. "a rough tract of land, two
miles and half from north to south
and half a mile broad, very rocky in
parts, was the material from which the
Park Commissioners have made the
present beautiful Enclosure. There were
no houses of good appearance near it,
buildings being limited mainly to rude
temporary huts used by workmen who
we're employed in improving it. The
time will undoubtedly come when the
park will be surrounded by elegant resi-
dences, and compare favorably in this
respect with the most attractive parts
of any city in the world"
Returning from the park the boys
took the Sixth Avenue cars. Sixth
Avenue" Alger says, "is lined with
stores, many of them of very good ap-
pearance, and would make respectable
street for good sized city,"
For amusement Ayers boys loved
above all to go to the Old Bowery or
Tony Pastors. Here Ben, Dick, Mark
or Rough and Ready often finished up
the day and from his seat in the pit
INDUCED in independent criticism of the
acting, as he leaned back in his seat and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Montgomery

munched peanuts, throwing the shells
about careessly."
Barnum's Museum, "a great building
with lot of flags" was also very popu-
lar. Here Paul took his mother and his
brother Jimmy to see Tom Thumb. The
play that day happened to be "Uncle
Toms Cabin" which Alger naively sur
misses most of his readers have seen.
Niblo's Garden, the New York Circus
and Wallack's, where gallery seat cost
thirty cents and London successes were
often performed, were places occasion
ally visited by the boys.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Sixth Avenue, "A Respectable
Street for a Good Sized City"

The Battery failed to impress Ben
any more than Central Park did Ragged
Dick. Here was Castle Garden, large
structure, now used for recently arrived
immigrants, but once the scene Of Jenny
Iind's triumphs. Now it would seem
very strange to have a grand concert in
such a locality. However, Ben knew
nothing of the purposes of the building,
and looked at it ignorantly. The Bat
terry he thought might once have been
pretty, but now the grass has been worn
off by pedestrians, and the once fash
ionable houses in the neighborhood have
long ago been deserted by their original
proprietors, and turned into warehouses
or cheap boarding houses"
1t took Frank Whitney and Ragged
Dick three-quarters of an hour in
horsecar to reach Central Park from the
Aston House, and they were ready to
return as soon as they had reached Fiji
ty-ninth Street.
ut had not been long since work COM
menced upon it, and it was still very
rough and unfinished" Alger writes of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
The Fifth Avenue Hotel
Put a Palace to Shame

In his descriptions OF the Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel Alger reflects the pride which
the city at large took in the building.
AT the junction of Fifth Avenue and
Broadway, facing beautiful park of
two acres" it stood, "a large marble
building presenting a fine appearance
with it's extensive white front. One of
the Queens Palaces" he boasts, lis far
from being as fine looking building as
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. st. James
Palace is a very ugly looking brick
structure and appears much more like
factory than the home of royalty. There
are few hotels in the world as fine as
this democratic institution"
Although Ayers street boys seldom
found their way to church alone, their
benefactors often took them to services.
1t was through his friend Mr.. Greyson
that Ragged Dick attended church at
Twenty-frst Street and Fifth Avenue,
and in a church not far from Union
Square Paul Hoffman encountered his
self-appointed guardian, Mr.. Preston.
Fulton Market, South Ferry. Cort-
landt Street Ferry, where the youthful
baggage smashers" waited for the
trains from Philadelphia, and the piers
of the Stonington and Norwich boat
lines were all familiar to the Alger
family.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Blocker Street In1mOrfaIized
BY Jones the Grocer

In Blocker Street, too, at number
I63. lived Mrs. John Jones, whose hus-
band, as described by Mrs. JOnes's
mother to Ben the Luggage Boy, while
he acted as guide to her daughters
home, sis a nice man, though his head
is bald on top, and he keeps a grocery
store"
Nowhere does Alger describe a quar-
ter resembling the East Side ghetto Of
the present time. Indeed, although he
mentions practically every other nation
atty, not a single Russian Jew appears
in any of his stories.
Corresponding to the modern con-
gested tenement districts were Baxter
Street, miserable lodgings in Worth
Street, in the precincts of Five Points,
very near where the Five Points House
of Industry now stands" and Rector
Street back of Trinity Church.
Baxter Street Alger calls zone of the
most wretched spots in the city, lined
with miserable tenement houses, policy
shops, and secondhand stores. Who
ever passes through>it in>the evening"
he warns, twill do we'll to look to the
safety of his pocketbook and watch, if
he is imprudent enough to carry either
in a district where the Ten Command
ments are unknown, or unregarded."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
AHsiS;2,yszsSzllyyzMz!W
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
By Alice Duer Miller
S'SvaSyG&wSnwH

So they had a booth erected,
In the pure Ionic style,
Carved and grooved; and when perfected,
They dispatched it to the isle.
Yes, these wise Olympus wellers
Sent 1t to that isle remote,
With election-boards and tellers,
And they told that witch to vote.
They had heard that wheresoever
Woman casts an oyster-shell
All her charms dissolve, and never
After can she cast spell
Therefore, tempering their mercy
With sternness wise and just,
They explained to naughty Gree
She might vote-in fact, she must
But their reasonable action
Did not prosper in this case,
Did not alter her attraction.
Did not make her plain of face,
OF her charms it did not heal her,
Did not drive her spells away;
And it seems that Mr. Wheeler
Finds things much the same to-day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Trinity Church Had Some
UnSaVOry NeighbOrS

Rector Street, along which Ben the
Luggage Boy used to pass when seeking
a nights lodging among the cotton
bales on the wharves, Notwithstanding
its clerical name, is far from an attrac-
tive street." Alger declares. Gust in
the rear of the great church and eX-
tending down to the wharves, is col
lection of miserable dwellings,, occupied
by tenants upon whom the near pres
ence of the sanctuary appears to pro-
duce little impression of a salutary
character"
The Bowery, not yet sung as the
haunt of the sweatered tough guy" is
spoken of as "a broad avenue, wider
than Broadway, and lined with shops
Of great variety, but of grade inferior
to those of its more aristocratic neigh
Dor" At its head, then as now, stood
Cooper Institute, opposite which was
the Bible House. "a very large build
ing, covering an acre of ground" In
the same neighborhood was Steinway
Hall, where on Sunday night Ben the
Luggage Boy attended a sacred concert
with his new found sister.
Broadway was source of unceasing
inspiration to Alger. From the Battery
up to Madison Square, or Madison Park,
as he sometimes calls it, his boys travel
time and again.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
Neckfie and Other Stands
on Lower Broadway

Just below Franklin Street stood the
New York Hospital, "a structure sew
eral rods back from the street, with a
large yard in front. 1t was an unusual
sight for Broadway, all the other build
ings in that neighborhood being even
with the street"
Even in Ayers day traffic on Broad
way near City Hall Park was longest
cd. Crossing the street at this point is
easier proposed than DONE" he de-
clares. There is always such throng
of omnibuses, drays, carriages and vehi-
cles of all kinds in the neighborhood of
the Astor House that the crossing
is formidable to one who is not used
10 it."
Ben the Luggage Boy passed Paul the
Peddler's necktie stand on his first walk
to the Battery, although he did not
make Paul's acquaintance at the time.
As he went down Broadway 'his atten-
ton was soon drawn to the street mer-
chants doing business on the sidewalk.
Here was vender of neckties, display
ing a varied assortment of different col
ors, for only twenty-five cents each
Next came a candy merchant, with his
stock in trade, divided up into irregular
Jumps, and labelled penny apiece. Next
came a man with an assortment of
knives, all of them open, and sticking
into a large board, the only shop re-
CURED by the proprietor"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28
The Old Park Row That
RaUQed Dick Knew

Although the Aston House was the
centre of Ayers little world, other
hotels in the neighborhood Of the City
Hall stand out prominently in his
stories. The heater in French's Hotel,
fort Streets, across from old Tammany
Hall and the Tribune establishment"
offered warmth to many freezing lad
on winter nights.
At 81 Park Row stood Lovejoy's
Hotel, a favorite hosiery for transients.
In the "refectory, attached to Love-
Joys" Ragged Dick frequently ate
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-28

Here, too, we may find the explana-
ton as to why the Governor has re-
stored Mr.. Joe Cassidy of Queens to full
citizenship: So as to decrease his indi-
rect influence.
Women are not allowed to practise
law in England. The English Council
of the Bar has selected the present mo-
ment to defeat overwhelmingly reso-
luton to consider the admission of duly
qualified women to the legal profession.
Their place is in the munition fac
tory, on the farm and in the hospital.
They must leave the more sheltered pro-
fessions to Man.
The suffragists of Massachusetts, ac-
cording to "The Woman's Journal"
have discovered that the bill providing
for a constitutional convention says
that the results must be submitted, not
to the voters, but to the people" of
the state.
With an almost insane egotism, they
seem to be under the impression that
this word may mean them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25

boys are expected to progress; but it is
thought all right for girls to remain indefi-
nitely without advancement. Before
engaging young woman once called up
leading insurance official and asked him
if the girl had any initiative. why, we
never expect any initiative in girls he
replied. We simply provide nice, COM
Portable nests for them until they are
married off, When more is expected of
women, more will be forthcoming"
College graduates form the majority of
Miss Wallace's assistants. To teach them
the rudiments Of banking, class is held
every week, and talks are given by officers
of the institution. Then the girls have
the privilege of asking questions. Miss
Wallace herself conducts at Columbia
University an evening continuation course
in indexing, filing, and library work as
applied to business.
"There is great future for educated,
ambitious girls in the larger financial in
stitutions,' says Miss Wallace. ain our
purchase and sales record department
there is a woman who has not made a
single mistake since she came here-she
is phenomenon. She was trained in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"The qualities that women most need
to cultivate to win success begin with the
letter courage, confidence, and con-
science. | mean, of course, that higher
conscience that will not be content to do or
achieve less than the very highest of which
one is capable. A woman who lacks the
courage to grasp opportunity, or the
confidence to shoulder a big RESPONSE
bility, is robbing her employer of her
finest efforts, and herself of the develop
ment that can come only as a result of
constant growth"
Miss Beatrice Elizabeth Carr, who has
graduated from the position of librarian
to that of unofficial partner" of a well