The Dickson County herald. (Dickson, Tenn.) 1907-1979, 1917-07-20

4 The Owl pfintery i the place Il
gel iirs. class printing.
i 5 saved il you buy Auto Tires an,
Tubes from no. Standard Motto
leo.
/ w. l. Chnats and n. III. Crou
stave Il Lumber Co. bought THU
week irs,m w. III. and W.. r. Neb
lett. $40 acres Of timber LANE
between Burns alsd White Bluff
Nh. Choaie will have charge d
| managing ths working vi timher Oh
this tract 81 land and will install /
sawmill ia the near future.
". NJ. Crawford has signed w
for service in the headqaartes,
company oil second Tennessee In
tan.ry; Clyde Collier. Jesse Martin
and Joe Oakley also signed UP in
this regiment. Tney will be ply.
sically examined Friday and those
who pass will probably be called
into service about July 25th.
Arthur Work was here@Saturday
and convinced US of the fact tina.
he ID entitled to the blue ribbon on
raising the largest amount u irish
potatoes to the hill. He informs
us that be dug one hill oil irish cob
bier potatoes that produced forty
potatoes large enough to eat. and
that II was u common occurrence 10
dig hills with 10 to 30 In them.
Can anyone beat thisF
Prof. d. A. English. who under.
went an operation for a kidney
trouble in a Memphis hospital sew.
eral days ago, has sufficiently re-
covered SO as to come home, having
arrived here Friday morning OF last
week He was accompanied by his
ster, Miss Mildred who had been
with him while in the hospital, 1t
is hoped by his many friends that
he will continue to improve and
will soon be fully recovered.
We are in receipt OF a letter from
Dr. n. G. Guerin. who for some
has +een in New York City taking
a post graduate course. His letter
in par, is "a follows: Il will re-
turn home abou, August 10Th. My
stay thus far ln New York City has
been very pleasant and profitable,
My work has not been a child q play
by any means, yet have and am
enjoying every moment OF it, la
addition to my work which ! wrote
you about some months past, |
have taken a special course in the
following branches: Operative Gy-
necology. General Surgery, Surgery
OF the Throat, Clinical Microscophy
and Obstetrics. The amount Of
work | am doing takes many long
hours each day, and now readily
see why my many railroad friends
were bowling Tor shorter hours. |
am now working nights and Sun
days at the Lying-ln Hospital Of
the city Of New York. Many thous-
ands Of babies are born in this hos
pital annually. II is the largest
hospital OF its kind in the world"
Mrs. +. L. Bright 10 in receipt OF
A letter from her son. Leon, who
resides al Guild. near Chattanooga,
in which he stated that he had re.
Gently caught in the Tennessee
river a fish which weighed sixty onas
pounds, and in order to try and
ge, by" with this fish story, en-
closed in the letter several Ash
scales, which were about the size Of
a haIf-dollar. and stated that he
was sending them to give an idea
az to the size Of this cat ~ fish.
Now, who ever heard Of q cat fish
having scales2 Well Youngie,
az he is iamiliarly known by his
many friends, was always quite
fisherman. and this recalls to our
mind the FIRST 6sh he ever caught
When hut a small lad he went TO
Mcfarland y Branch a-fshing and
caught a silverside about six riches
a prouder boy yop never
saw--and when he got home and
started to prepare il to cook, il
on him that there would
not be enough Tor the whole family.
and being OF generous and big
nature. he couldn't bear
the idea Of sitting down tothe table
and eating II alone, so he decided
TO put it in tub of water and wait
until il erowed enough 20 all OF the
family could help him eat it. But
in few days the little fish was
dead. aud from that time on.
Youngie has stuck Ia the adage
that a FISH in The hand IL worth
two in the tub. "