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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
WILSON KNEW PEACE TERMS
Former Hungarian Premier Alleges
President Wilson Knew Teuton
Peace Terms.

London.-President Wilson knows
the peace conditions of the Teutonic
powers and the entente allies can
learn what they are from him, Count
Andrassy, formerly premier of Hun
gary, is quoted as asserting in dis
patch from Budapest.
The statement attributed to Count
Andrassy was made in recent speech
He said:
"As the entente allies allege that
our peace proposal was only a maneu
yer and was not made with any earn
est desire to bring about peace, am
able to declare that President Wilson
knows our peace conditions and tho
entente allies can learn them from
that source"
The version of the Budapest dis
patch received by the Reuter- telegram
company via Amsterdam quotes Count
Andrassy as saying that the peace con-
ditions of the central powers was COM
municated to President Wilson, the
quotation being as follows:
IF the entente allies reject our
peace offer only because they maintain
that our offer is not honestly meant,
but Is a maneuver, and that they can
not enter into negotiations before
knowing our conditions, they can learn
these from President Wilson, to whom
they will be communicated"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF,
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Save your Hair! Get rs cent bottle
of Danderine right now-Also
stops itching scalp.

> Thin, brittle. colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence of a neglected
scalp; of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing so destructive to
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
of its lustre, its strength and its very
life; eventually producing a feverish-
ness and itching Of the scalp, which
If not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a rs cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store. You
surely can have beautiful hair and lots
of it If you will just try little Dam
derine. Save your hair! Try itl-Adv.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
FOREIGN.

Eleven persons were killed and 40
injured when train loaded with per-
sons returning to Edinburgh, Scot
land, after the New Year holiday col
lided with a switch engine.
The daylight saving plan has been
adopted by the states of the Austral-
ian federation and clocks have been
pushed one hour ahead.
Prof. Boris P. Weinberg of the I'M
perial University of Petrograd de-
scribes a new mode of vacuum trans
portation which has a possible speed
of 100000 miles a second
Capt. John Lauder, son of Harry
Lauder, the Scotch comedian, has
been killed at the front.
The Rumanian cabinet has been re-
constructed under the premiership
Of J. J. C. Bratiano, who also will
hold the post of minister of foreign
affairs.
Gen. Gerard Amanrich, So, COM
mander of the Legion of Honor, who
had retired from the service on ac-
count of his age, has rejoined the
army as private.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
GERMANY DIRECTS
FUTURE OF GREECE
EcRMER MINISTER OF FINANCE
SAYS GREEK ROYAL ARMY
Is AWAITING ORDERS.
ROYAL FORCES TOTAL $4,000
Can Raise $4,000 Men To Enter Con-
Sllct Against French, When Ger.
many Gives the Word to
Make Attack.

Paris.--"The Greek royal army is
only awaiting orders from Germany to
attack the allies" said M. Diomede,
former Greek minister of finance. M.
Diomede now is in Paris on special
mission for Eliptherios Venizelos, the
ex-premier and head of the provisional
Greek government.
"The Greek general staff" added M.
Diomede, was from the outset of the
war constantly directed by Maj. Won
Falkenhausen, the military attache of
the Gefman legation, and 1t is his or
ders the royal army has been carry
ing out since he himself was expelled
from the country. 1t was he who es-
fablished the plan for the distribution
OF artillery munitions, so as to con-
Ceal them more easily from the allies.
at was he who assured communica-
lions between Athens and Berlin and
furnished the German general staff
with information concerning the move
ments of Gen. Sarrall's army, supplied
TO him by the Greek staff. 1t was he
who organized the telephone line be-
tween Athens and Berat, by which the
king is still in daily communication
with the German government. 1t was
he who organized the plan for the
mobilization of the reservists.
mo more than 1000 troops thus far
have been sent to Peloponnesus, while
the king now has in hand $4,000 men.
With the reservists as organized by
NJ. Falkenhausen he can raise an army
of 10000"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS.

President Wilson needed Marcus
Dempsey's plea that his family was
starving when he broke into freight
car and stole $40 worth of flour at
Jonesboro, Ark, and released the
man from the Atlanta penitentiary.
Eleven school children were killed
and Is seriously injured when a cy-
clone destroyed the schoolhsuse at
Vereton, Ok
DIR. Margaret NJ McDougall, after
swatting her husband over the head,
sent him after medicine. While he
was gone she fell from the rear porch
of her apartment. She is in the hos
pitali
Mrs. ]. G. Osborne's $500 prizewin-
ming white Minorca nearly choked to
death getting his head through his
chicken show cage to hear human
being talk chicken talk at New York.
Victor Brown, master of the Ameri-
can schooner George w. Truitt, Jr,
was washed overheard and drowned
during gale off Cape Hatteras on
Dec. Is.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr, cancelled a
mortgage of 100000 on the Westside
Neighborhood House, New York. con.
Quoted by the Young Women's Chris
tan Association, as a Christmas gift.
Twenty goats roped in minutes
and II As seconds was the record set
by A. ]. Hotter Of Brentwood Tex.
in winning $1,000 at holiday carni-
val in New York.
Application by two prominent Mex
lean women in Nuevo Laredo for per-
mission to send across to the Ameri-
can side two boxes containing $685.
900 in Mexican gold.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
SOME FACTS ABOUT BEER.

A pint of beer contains eight-tenths
of an ounce of alcohol, equivalent neur-
ly to tablespoonful of whisky.
While cold beer tastes cool and
pleasant to hot man, it does not cool
him off.
1t heats him up.
The alcohol and solids are burned
into heat.
The effect of alcohol is to send an
excess of blood to the skin.
Whenever a large amount of blood
goes to the skin it causes feeling Of
warmth.
When a man drinks beer he causes
himself to feel hot.
He also actually increases his body
heat.
He increases his chances of sun
stroke at least 100 per cent.-Dr. w.
A. Evans, Chicago.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
PEACE MAY BE FASTENED
Poverty in BeIIgerent Countries May
Be Cause of Fastening Peace
Proposals.

London-The censorship has been
relaxed, not only in the allied coun-
tries, but in the central powers. For
the first time in months it is now pos
sible to write of many things.
Those who expect an early peace
have no reason to feel disheartened by
recent events. The old saying that the
darkest moment of the storm precedes
the calm still holds, This is period
of laundering and blowing, in high and
low quarters, time when thoughts
are readjusted, and fortunately all the
belligerent governments seem to have
decided simultaneously that the mo-
ment has come to remove most of the
censorship restrictions.
The allied war council at Rome.
where Lloyd-George, Miner and Bri-
and are meeting with Boseld, ranks
with the important series of consulta
lions between the rulers and states
men of the central powers. There Is
not single belligerent unable to con-
tinue fighting because OF exhausted
manpower, and there is no immediate
prospect of any of the big powers ap-
preaching such a crisis. On the other
hand, there is not single belligerent
unaffected by the economical situation.
It is important to remember that,
after certain point, economic difficult
ties multiply like mosquitoes in a
swamp That point has been reached
In the central powers. Emperor Charles
ascended the throne with swarm of
economic mosquitoes around his head.
They are now buzzing at such furi-
Ous rate that he Is forced to make dras-
tic changes in the ministries of the
dual empires.
The cry of peace is becoming louder
and or greater volume. Count Tisza,
the Hungarian premier, must go and
his successor probably will be Count
Andrassy, an open advocate Of peace
ut practically any price.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
GRIM | NAL,

James B. Mcnamara, serving a life
sentence at San Quentin for dynamit-
ing the Los Angeles Times building,
was ordered into the disciplinary dun
geon for refusing to work in the jute
mill.
Dr. Eldridge D. Atwood, who killed
Dr. Wilfred E. Harris, president of
the Massachusetts College of Osteop-
athy, in July last, entered plea of
guilty of murder in the second degree
and was sentenced to life imprison-
ment
Six bandits dynamited the vault of
the bank at Hagerman, Tex, escaping
with $500. A posse organized after
the explosion exchanged shots with
the robbers.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
TRANsITORY TALES
TOLD HEREWITH TN TABLOID
FORM.
items Of Interest for Every Member
Of the Household-Some Are
Strange, But True.
ACCIDENTS.

During a New Years celebration at
Louisville, KY, Mrs. Sofia Applehouse
accidentally shot and killed her 49,
year-old daughter Margaret
Two young women and a man were
killed and another man injured when
their automobile was struck by a
freight train at a grade crossing at
Elyria, D.
Mrs. Maria Hoffman, rs years old,
was burned to death in fire which
destroyed her home In Golconda, Ill.
Raymon Torres and his wife, each
more than 80 years old, were electro
cuted at Tucson. Ariz., when they
tried to crawl beneath barbed wire
fence, going to attend New Years
services at the Ancient Xavier Mis-
sion.
Kirk Turner, 16, was shot and killed
by Leonard Daily, IA, at Haywood,
Ok. The lads were playing with a
gun thought to have been unloaded.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
DOM EsTlc.

With the assembling of the Tennes-
see legislature the l.. & N. and the
N, c. & St. l.. railroads announced
that no free passes would be issued
through legislators for constituents.
According to DR.. Simon N. Patten,
leading economist at the University
of Pennsylvania, only rs per cent Of
the graduates practice law after they
leave the university.
Edward N. Hurley of Chicago, chair
man of the federal trade commission,
has Unexpectedly resigned to resume
business In Chicago.
A new bill in congress would divide
the United States into five time zones
instead of four.
Lieut.-Col. Chester Harding of the
army engineer corps, now acting gov
ernor of the Panama canal, was NOM
mated by President Wilson to be gov
ernor of the Panama canal.
Uncle Sans new Chicago dead let
ter office returned $4,000 letters to
the writers and collected more than
$1,000 missent through the mails, on
the first day Of its existence,
Official circles have been much con-
cerned that England intended to
transfer six immense battle cruisers
to Japan at the close of the war. Au-
thoritative denial comes from Toxic.
After struggling with street car,
garment and other varieties Of strikes
New York is in the midst Of the first
general tenant strike in Its history.
The federal reserve board proposed
a rate Of az per cent on s0-day COM
modify paper for the federal reserve
bank of st. Louis.
The price Of all movie admittances
in Minnesota has advanced cents.
Erraged movie fans threaten to boy
colt the movies and force down the
price, as was done In Denver.
To defeat increased rates on sec
ond-class mail matter, Chairman
Henry Of the rules committee will
oppose any suggestion for a special
rule to expedite the proposal.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12


II never drank but three glasses of
beer In my life, and that made my
head untwist ez tho it wuz hung on
the end of a string. wuz told it
wuz owing to my bile being out Of
plum. l guess 1t wuz, for never
billed over wuss than I did when I
got home that mite. Ny wife wuz
afraid I wuz going to die, an l was
afraid I shouldn't, fer 1t seemed ez
everything 1 had ever eaten wuz COM
ing to the surfus. believe If my wife
had not pulled off my boots just ez
she did they would have cum up, too.
ooh, how sick / wuzl Fourteen
years ago, and I can taste it now!
"Some people say beer is not in
toxicating. But IL wuzn't drunk that
mite 1 had sum Of the most natural
symptoms man ever had and kept
sober.
ut wuz about eighty rods from
where I drank the beer to mi house.
i wuz just two hours on the road, and
had hole busted through each of
my pantaloon neez, and didn't hev
any hat, and tried to open the door by
the beli-pull, and hiccouped, and saw
everything in the room trying to get
around on the back side of me. I
sot down leetle too soon and missed
the chair about twelve inches. My
wife said l wuz az drunk ez beast,
and ez / said, I began to spit up
things freely. .....
'If beer is not intoxicating it used
me almighty mean. If ever drink
any more it will be with my hands
tied behind me and my mouth pried
omen"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
PERSONAL.

Trapped in New York apartment
house elevator between two floors.
Nine. Louise Homer sang ada" to
her 1k-year-old son SO he wouldn't
get scared
Because her beautiful red hair fell
out when she blondined it to keen
from being called carrot DOME" Ka-
tie Gottdank of New York sued the
druggist for advising her to do 1t.
John Wilkes Booth, IS, last of the
famous family Of actors, is dead at
Leadville, Colo.
Charles N Brown, living near Car
mi, ILL.,, discharged a pistol 20 years
ago an dthe bullet entered his fore
head. When sneezing recently Brown
felt an impediment in his nose. The
obstruction was found to be the bull.
let.
o. L. McCahoon has asked Lorraine
CO., solicitor how his $1,000 salary as
director Of public safety can be cut
SO per cent.
Charles E. Hughes was elected pres
ident Of the New York Legal Aid So
ciety.
A list Of honors conferred on the
occasion Of the New Year includes
the promotion of Gen. Sir Douglas.
Haig commander of the British forces.
to be field marshal.
Premier Borden OF Canada has &C.
cepted the invitation OF the imperial
government In London to attend q
war conference.
The New York health department
will in the future supply for the treat
ment of lobar pneumonia the serum
perfected by the Rockefeller Institute
Of Medical Research.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
NEUROLOGICAL.

BY order of King Albert, the body
of Emile Verhaeren, the Belgian poet,
who recently was killed, has been
laid to rest in Belgian soil.
DR.. w. c. Kluttz of Ell Paso, Tex,
died of typhus fever contracted while
conducting a campaign against typhus
brought to the border by Mexican
refugees.
L. H. williams, 80, of Centralia, ILL.,,
ended his life by shooting. His wife
witnessed the tragedy.
DR.. Hamilton Wright Mabie, 10, as
sociate editor Of the Outlook, is dead
at his home in Summit, N ]. He is
survived by widow and one daugh-
ter.
John M. Smith, 38 years old, and
his wife, 80, were found dead in the
basement of their home at Blooming
ton, Ill.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
NO UNEMPLOYED IN COLORADO.

A reference to the 'army of unem-
ployed caused by prohibition would
subject one to ridicule in Colorado. Not
for a score of years, says the Denver
Times, has there been such shortage
of men in Colorado's many lines of in
dustry. Every mining camp in the
state is said to be short of help, and
the same is true of the farming COM
munities, and when the mines and
farms send to the city for help they
find the same situation. Labor In
Colorado seems to be very generally
employed" says w. L. Mansfield, who
is in charge of the free employment
bureau conducted by the United States
immigration service. "We are getting
very few applications for jobs"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
HIoh Rates on Submarine.

Berlin (via London) The merchant
submarine Deutschland and her sister.
ships will carry on future voyages spe-
cial mail at rates recalling the trans
continental post in the days of the
iorty-niners. A special charge of two
marks for a postcard or letter not ex-
ceeding twenty grams in weight win
be levied in addition to the regular in
ternational postage.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
SEND HIM TO KANSAS.

Gov. e. L. Philip of Wisconsin, in
the course of an address before an au-
dience in Milwaukee church, was
asked, "What would you do with a
man who had been a drunkard for
sixty yearsY" The governors reply as
quoted by the press was as follows:
"There surely would be course that
would bring out the man in him after
all. There Is one man whom have
pardoned from prison whom feared
would go back to drinking so / sent
him into the center of Kansas. He
can't get liquor there and he is living
a straight, clean life. believe he is a
credit to the community in which he
lives"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
COURT PROCEEDINGS.

The head of Mrs. Florence Arlene
Small, murdered wife of Frederick l..
Small, on trial at Ossippee, NJ H.,
charged with the crime, was shown to
the jury by DR.. George B. Magrath.
Federal Judge Carpenter sentenced
Godfrey Rabbit, 30, to two years in
the federal penitentiary at Fort Leav-
enworth for robbing the postoffice at
Winnebago, Ill.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Captured Many Prisoners.

Paris.-During the course of last
year, according to authoritative fig.
ures, 7S,500 Germans were captured Cd
the French front by the French and
10000 by the British, while in Servia
and Macedonia the entente allied ar
mics took 11,173 Bulgarians and Turks
prisoner. During the same period the
Italian made prisoner 52,250 Austrians,
while the Russians captured more
than 100000 Germans and Austrians.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
MADE IN AMERICA.

Uncle Sam does not hesitate to in.
terfere with the personal liberty Of
paupers, criminals and lunatics from
other countries who want to come to
this country to make it their home. He
puts up the bars and refuses them
admlttance. Is it right then to license
saloons to manufacture these paupers,
criminals and lunatics here at home
and out of our own people?
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
"WE WANT TO GO HOME"
Guardsmen Who Participated in Dem.
onstraton Arrested.

Corpus Christi, Tex.-Gen. John A..
Hulen, commanding the Texas brigade
on border duty, is conducting an inves-
tigation of recent demonstrations of
$50 members of the Second Texas In
fantry, who it is charged broke camp
and paraded the streets of Corpus
Christi crying, 1--WE want to go home"
The participating militiamen, who
were estimated as numbering 800, said
the demonstration was intended as a
prank, and that no ill-feeling was in
tended.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
ProcIaIms Himself "king."

London.-The grand sheriff of Nee
ca, who in July, 1916. raised the stand
ard of revolt against the authority of
the Turkish sultan and drove the Otto,
man garrison out of the holy city Of
Mecca, has adopted the title king of
the Hejaz"
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Oaks lmpoverish Soil.

As an Italian investigator has given
considerable time to the investigation
of the reason for the failure of olive
trees in the presence of oaks, and he
has concluded that it is due TO the Inn
poverishment of the soil by the oak
rather than by transmission of any spe-
cies of infection.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
POLITICAL.

Henry Ford of Detroit, who had adj
vertisements printed in the recent
campaign, has filed with the clerk of
the house a statement showing that
he spent $23,529.
The headquarters for the Progress
sive national convention at Hotel La
Sale last June has just cost George
w. Perkins $4,000.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Three Coast Guard Cutters.

Washington-Three new coast guard
cutters, one Of the stationed at Beau.
fort, N. c., one at Detroit and the 9th.
er at Honolulu, costing together ST.
100000, are proposed in a billa favor
ably reported to the senate by the
commerce committee.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12

Washington.-Hawaii produced 49,.
2S7 tons less sugar In 1916 than in the
previous year, despite an increased
area planted to cane sugar. Returns
to the department Of agriculture show
that the years output was approx.
mately 592,763 tons.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Death Sentences COMMITTED

Vienna (via London).-The death
sentence of four prominent Czechs,
who some time ago were convicted of
treason, has been committed by EN-
peror Charles to various terms of i'm
prisonment.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Trouble Is BEING Settled.

London.-Great Britain has received
Norway's reply in regard to the coal
embargo. and the situation is much
improved. The consensus Of opinion
in the Norwegian press is that the diff
ferences between the two countries
will soon be settled.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Sell No More Treasury Bills.

London.-Following the suspension
of the issue Of excheQuer bonds in
preparation for the new war loan, the
government authorities announce that
there will be no further sale of treas.
ury bills by the Bank of England.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
pobrudla Evacuated.

Iondon-Gen. Frederick B. Maurice,
chief director of military operations at
the British war office, declares that
the latest reports received In London
from the Roumanian theatre indicated
chat the Russian forces had evacuated
Dobrudja without loss.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
SLAYER Attempts Suicide.

Iondon.--Dr. Friedrich Adler, who
assassinated Premier Stuergkh OF Aus
tria, attempted to hang himself in his
cell. according to a Reuter- dispatch
from Amsterdam. DIR. Adler was cut
down in time to save his life, but the
incident may possibly delay the trial.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12

The Nebraska Dry Federation has
drafted number OF additions to the
present stringent laws. among which
is provision that any peace officer
may arrest any one whose breath
smells of liquor.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Inereaslno Armor Plants,

washington-Becau of high prices
quoted by American shellmakers, Sec
rotary Daniels intends to ask congress
10 increase the capacity of projectile
plants for which it already had made
nppropriations.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
Greek Steamer rorpedoed

Brest.-The Greek steamer Sappho.
2,0S7 tons, has been torpedoed. Nine
of the crew we're saved and the fate OF
the rest Is unknown.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12

It's curious, but occasionally wom'
IN who weighs over 200 pounds COM
plains that her soul is starved.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1917-01-12
ARMY CUTS OUT DRINK.

"The army has cut out drinking, just
as every business concern In the coun-
try has cut 1t out" said Col. John s.
Hoover, In charge Of United States re-
eruiting In Texas.