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The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-12-06

Old Papers for Sale at The
Times Office.
The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1917-12-06
House And Lot For Sale.

6 room house aid 3 lots, good
barn, aud out buildings. Apply
to Ihos. Stokley, Clay City, Ky.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13

are trimmed and burning, and we, the
undersigned representative citizens
OF Grenada, take pride and pleasure
in bearing testimony to the fact that
Grenada College is one of those bea-
con lights.
II 1t be true, as some of the best
authorities on sociology now assert.
that our social life is one of our grav-
est problems, then there can be no
argument about the college life of a
student being, next to the home, the
}snost importantc factor in moulding
{fhe character of the student; lit
therefore behooves the parent to
choose with great care and caution
the college where the daughter is to
be placed.
Inc work and Management of Gre
NADIA College comes under our obser-
/ walton daily. 1t is good. yea. ex-
ceilent. There is nothing narrow
about it. 1t takes a broad view of
the demands of this progressive age.
We know President Countiss inti-
mately. He is possessed of an abun-
dance of Christian intelligence and
saneness of judgment as well as
Christian zeal. He knows the rules
OF business and is prompt in all of his
dealings. He is a man of affairs.
He is imbued with the noblest aims
and purposes and with an ambition
to serve his day and generation wise
ly and well. He is an aggressive
man. Taken all in all. we unhesi-
tatingly state that there can be no
better place found for the young girl
to spend the first years of her col
lege life than at Grenada College.
And. briefly summarizing few of
the many advantages of the College.
we submit, without the solicitation
of the College authorities, the follow
ing facts for the benefit of the par
ents who have daughters to send to
College:
!. The health of Grenada is unex-
celled.
2. The health record of Grenada
College is even better.
3. The College is supplied with ar
tesian water from overfiowing wells.
4. The standards of Grenada Col
lege are being raised from year to
year.
5. The number of students is not
'O iai &c tudN eIS Stuutlll
is lost sight of.
6. Grenada College comes just as
nearly taking the place of the home
as it is possible for a college to do.
7. Its graduates under the present
management all have good positions
or are married.
8. The great Importance of the
physical care and development of the
students are objects of daily solici-
tude.
E. w. Peters, N. j. Carothers, W.
B. Hoffa, L. L. Hodges, R. NJ. Lawson,
j. L. Hamilton, w. M. Cook. j. l..
Barnard, W. R. Todd. j. A. Roane.
Geo. r. Grant, Edgar Underwood, O.
F. Lawrence, H. w. Baker, J. w. Will
lis, John L. Miner, A. T. McElwrath,
j. C. Wilson.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13

of the twelve wilful men who by fill
bustdring defeated the armed-ship
resolution. He was one of the six
men who voted against the declara-
tiOn of war. If there had been a roll
call on the Bond Bill he probably
would have voted against that.
Mississippi itself has its eyes on
this perosn, and from some of the
most enlightened sections of the State
he has received iron crosses and
highly suggestive contributions de
scribed in the dispatches as thirty
pieces of silver" To rehabilitate
himself with people sick of his
demagogy and his pro-Germanism
he now appeals to the consecrated
men and women favoring prohibition
to rise up their majesty against the
President of the United States, who
deefated crooked attempt by the
Representatives of those consecrated
men and women TO hold up a neces-
sary war measure.
This is Vardaman's last ditch. and
he knows it. The lost cause of the
Confederacy and the "nigger" elect.
ed him. The lost cause of he Kaiser
will defeat him, prohibition or no pro
hibition.-New York World.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13
EDGAR UNDERWOOD
At SMOKER.


Mr.. Cheermun -
My thoughts run this evening in
honeyed words and sugared phrases.
look out and see the birds in these
days flying TO the mountains, the
hawks seeking the tallest trees and
the eagles roosting among the stars
and sez ! TO myself, What do it all
mean" ] shall not tell the several
answers that come to my mind-for
you know travelling man must
have more than one answer for the
same thine-but one is that the trav-
cling men are out and after every
thing that's going" so these birds
and fowls must go higher.
AS ! look into the noble faces of
my comrades here this evening. how
ever much ] may want to curb and
restrain my eloquence, just can not.
l must be eloquent. The thunders
may roll. the hghtnings may flash.
but my eloquence rolls on and on.
My thoughts travel this evening on
the milky way and it is my hope hat
I the ambition and the aspirations of
this crowd may ascend TO the further
most star, that they may roam among
the celestial planets. slide down close
to Venus and finally tie to the cordial
part OF the most famous comet. The
cause we are assembled here to pro-
mote is q most laudable one and you
know me well enough to know ,tat
/ am always there with the goods
when Il comes to aiding anything for
the girls and pretty women. There is
nothing in the world that appeals to
me like pretty girls and but for the
high regard have for the limitations
of good society and the fear, too.
that ! might be misunderstood. |
would endeavor to take every pretty
girl ] see in my warm embrace.
Yea. sir. would lift her on her pink
toe tips and plant one squarely on her
lips. But ! am forgetting myself.
My impetuosity and sentimentalism
often lead me into eXcessiveness of
speech. ] am with the purpose of
this meeting. | subscribe TO every
thing that has been said or that may
be said. ! promise to talk the Col
lege more and more. to walk for the
College more and more and to sing
for il more and more.
| am pleased with the looks of this
assemblage. | am sure that the per
spicacity of this crowd would open
the loquacious volumes of any mans
ejaculatory powers and that however
immune he might be to an intimacy
with correct English. it would be
bound to flow from him in copious
draughts like molasses out of the
bunghole of barrel-did ! say bar
rel? Wen. maybe l meant demij John
By the way. fellow citizens. expect
to lubricate myself to Louisville,
Kentucky. next week, and to bathe
my feet in the torrid essence extract
ed from corn and rye and promise
now to take a glass of water for every
one here present every morning. You
know. my friends. they have water
in Louisville. Excuse me. Mr.. Cheer
nun, from further elongation of
my hyphenated remarks. The war is
on and President Wilson says we
must conserve.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13
JUST WHY, HE DOESN'T KNOW

Our Junior Senator seems to be
opposed to everything President VIII
son favors. Just why this is so we do
not know; but it would seem that un-
der the present conditions he would
at least favor a food bill when the
consumers of the country are being
held up and robbed. Nardaman is
,iustifying himself with the idea that
the farmer is getting good price for
his produce. True. and he is entitled
to all he can get; but it doesn't stop
there. The price of wheat, corn, ETC..
usually advances from 80 to 100 per
cent after it has left the producers
hands.-Koseiusko Herald.
Senator Nardaman. of Mississippi.
may represent the sentiment of his
constituents in that state by trying
to hinder every move made by the
administration to help win the great
war in which we are engaged. but
we do not believe it. If he does. then
the once proud loyal old state. the
home in years gone by of some of the
greatest statesmen the South ever
produced. should hang her head in
shame. Mississippi. of all the other
states in the Union. is the least un-
tainted by foreign blood, and it is not
natural that state whose popula-
tion is so overwhelmingly American
would be so un-American in criti-
cal time like this as to sanction the
action and utterances OF Jas. X.
Vardaman in the United States Sen
ate.-Guntersville (Ala. Advertiser.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13

in charge of our housekeeper. She
will be up Monady with my birds and
Polly parrot.
could ride out. / had to sell my
furniture also, therefore left them
IF you see poor Alfred remember
me to him. Surely His ways are not
our ways, or His thoughts as our
thoughts We would think it were
better for him to be taken and those
SO useful and beloved allowed to live.
"Mr. Lincoln is well and feels much
happier since he has me with him, as
he is left like myself, all alone. Mrs.
Kelley and his sister, Hattie, who
married Mr.. Talbert, are both dead
also Mr.. Talbert and old Mr.. Lincoln.
Bertha is all that remains to US. She
married the only child of H. ]. Hen
sits, the wealthy retired merchant of
Boston. He is said to be worth
IS, 100000. They are very fond of
Bertha and want them to live with
them, but the DR.. is splendidly fixed
at Dubuque, Iowa, and does not wish
to move. The old folks live in an i'm
mensat house and Bertha is not strong
They both think it best to- remain
where they are and I think they are
wise.
"When you write please address me
as above and not to the Col office.
He is so forgetful and it is over two
miles from here. / forgot to tell
you that Mr.. Kelley is Judge of the
Supremem Court Il think) at Sacoro,
N. NJ. We hear from him quite Of
ten. Where is Mr.. and Mrs. Adrian
Thomas now? know John died of
yellow fever. Has B. F. married
again, and where does he live?
Hoping to hear from you soon,
and a good long letter, too. You
must remember me to your husband
and sons. Am very glad they make
you SO happy. Home is poor place
if love is denied. With much love to
yourself from
"Your old friend,
"L. L. PRICE,"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13
S. E. GILBERT COULD
HOLD ON NO LONGER.

Mr.. S. E. Gilbert, who was Drained
by Vol Brock, negro prisoner, in
the Jail in Grenada on the night of
June IL, died in the Winona hospital
on Thursday afternoon of last week
at 6 o'clock and his remains were car
ried to Coffeeville and out to the
family burying ground and laid to
rest the next afternoon. Quite a
number from Grenada attended the
burial and many more would have
gone had a rain not come up just
about the time the automobiles were
ready to move and made the roads
dangerous for automobile travel.
Mr.. Gilbert was an upright citizen
and a dependable friend and a good
and useful man. He had made an
excellent deputy sheriff; in fact he
did his best in any duty he undertook
to perform. 1t was indeed pity
that a man whose life promised so
much of usefulness should be taken
by a worthless and tO-be dreaded ne
gro. Mr.. Gilbert was a member of
the Baptist church and in this as in
all other things had endeavored to
live up to the obligations he had as
sumed He was obliging and ever
ready to do kindness or to serve a
friend. He was a good husband and
an indulgent father and true in all
life's relations. His memory will
long live in the life of the citizenship
of Grenada, all of whom genuinely
sympathize with the sorrowing wife
and little daughter over the untimely
death of their husband and father.
Mr.. Gilbert never regained MS
mind sufficiently to discuss with any
degree of coherency anything after
the fatal night, yet he knew his wife
and other members of his family.
Everything that was possible to be
done was done for him, and it is in
deed remarkable that he held out as
long as he did.
The Sentinel sincerely sympahtizes
with the bereft wife and little daugh-
ter.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13
AS SOME VIEW
SENATOR VARDAMAN.

When people are moved to speak
of the decline and fall of the United
States Senate. they usually have in
mind James X. Vardaman, who came
into Office in 1918 on promise that
he would secure the repeal of the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments.
Finding these articles of the Con-
stitution mores secure than his hold
upon his constituency, he relapsed
into obscurity until the European
war gave him an opportunity to an
tagonize American rights and defy
American sentiment. He was one
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13
$3.50 REWARD OFFERED.

Sheriff w. H. Crowder. of Grenada
county, received telegram from
Gov. Bilbo stating that he would offer
a reward of $500 for the capture
and conviction of the negro Vol
Brock. who killed former deputy
sheriff S f. Gilbert of this county.
1t is believed that this reward. in ad-
dition to what has been offered To-
cally, will put somebody so persist
emily on Brooks trail that he will
soon be in the tolls of the law. If
il is possible to have Brock in custody
by the time the summer term of the
circuit court of this coutyn convenes,
on the fourth Monday. speedy dispo-
sition could be made of his case
In addition to the above. $3.50 has
been offered locally.
Description:
Age about "a years. color not vel
low or black, but brown skin. Med
ium slender built. weight about lao
pounds. Height about 5 feet S
inches. Slight droop to entire body
when standing. Very slight knife
scar under right eye. Wears about
number 8 shoe.
Suffers with bladder structure
please notify physicians as he has tc
have water drawn from this cause.
Registration card. number /, Dis
trict i. Hardy, Grenada County, Miss
feature of the meet, there had beer
entertainment provided for others
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13
SPEECHES AT COURT
HOUSE LAST NIGHT

Revs f. A. DeMiller and j. r.
Countiss. of Grenada College. made
addresses at the court house in Gre
NADIA last night Thursday. July 12)
fuller details of which will be given
next week.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13

The Sentinel has been requested to
announce that the third quarterly
conference of the Methodist church.
Grenada charge. will be held on Sa.-
urday evening of this week by Pre-
siding Elder Felts Mr.. Felts will al
so fill the pulpit at the Methodist
church Sunday morning. Everybody
invited to attend the services.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-07-13

The boys had the best drill last Fri
dav night they ever had. Subscrip-
t;ons are now being received to buy
lieutenant James A. Blount a uni
form.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1917-01-20
DADDY'SEVENING
UEAIR TALE 81
b. NARY GRAHAM BONNER
PARTY IN ELFUANO.

"Enaud.~ said Daddy. "was very
gay last evening. a> IA, Elves had a
party"
What sort of party?" asked tho
Children.
"A Bonfire, Dance, Picnic. Nutting
Party, FroIic, all In one
"Oh, dear said Nancy that sounds
like more than one party"
How did they ever succeed in hay
ing all thatT' asked Nick.
In the first place" continued Dad
dy, they had beautiful BONFIRE made
of sticks and leaves and dry logs. And
then they danced. But | am telling
you this story too quickly. for there
was 50 much to each part OF tho
Elves Party
The Fairies, the Gnomes and the
Brownies were all Invited 10 the Elves
party, and SO was Mr.. Giant AMI old
Witty Witch.
"Old Witty Witch, SO named because
Of the funny Stories she could tell. and
because she WAS the dearest old Witch
in the World. sat hy the Bonfire. and
holding some of the little Elves and
Brownies and GnomeS in her lap. she
began 10 tell them WOuIrouS happen
ingS which were taking place back ia
the flames of the Bonfire She told
them what the Sparks were saying,
and when the great loud Crackles
came She told them what they meant.
after she had told Stories for
long time, they asked Mr.. Giant 10 tell
them some. So he stretched ont his
great, long Legs. and after clearing
his Throat 50 it reSounGed through the
Woods, Mr.. Giant commenced and told
them many of the Dangerous Escapes
he had had which they enjoyed hear
ing about--eSpccially because Mr..
Giant was really Safe and Sound with
them
Sometimes he would get them so
excited and frightened that he would
laugh hard and say. But then / got
out of that Scrape quite all right and
the Elves, Brownies. Gnomes and Wit
ty Witch would laugh for all they
were worth.
AFTER the Stories had been told
and the Bonfire had been watched and
gazed into for a long, long time the
Dance began.
The Elves danced with the Fairies.
and the Brownies danced with the
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1917-01-20
Good If Kept Busy.

tunity To hold ticket Ia some remote
destination. Even the nervous person
declared that she would be glad to
travel SO the end OF the line in such
good company.
VIII Ethe train did at last get To the
end of the line. after eight hours of
travel the mother took of the three
children that had aroused the appre-
tensions of the nervous woman. They
were very tired hut still gaud-natured
and ready for any new excitement that
might appear above the brink of the
next moment. And the nervous lady
she had forgotten To be worried.
When travelling by land or by water
or when staying at home in the city
or cOuntry-the troublesome child is
usually the child that does not know
what Ia ito with himself and the good"
child is the one that is occupied When
our grandparents said Satan finds
some mischief still for idle hands
to do" their theology or demonnlogy
may have been questionable: but their
psychology was certainly sound. The
rule for chiIdren-travei.
ing or nOt-is. Keep Busy!
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1917-01-20
Ready to Travel.

making way with the giants wealth,
the elder boy contending that 1t was
not really stealing. since the giant had
taken IL from Jacks father.
Then the baby awoke and mother OBJ
served that il was time for luncheon.
This was dispatched in n happy and
leisurely manner. After luncheon had
been cleared away the mother pro-
duced Il couple of "Stampkraft" books
containing Mother Goose" or fairy
tales. with packets of poster stamps"
The selection and comparing and past
ing of these stamps kept the children
busy and the mother was able to give
all Of her attention to the baby. The
older child finished his book of stamps
first, and then watched the younger
one with the superior air of critical
but sympathetic elder
When the booklets were completed
the older child read the stories and
pointed out the suitability of the poster
stamps and their shortcomings. and
The other child did the same with the
Mother Goose" rhymes. Then they
played with the baby for awhile. until
the mother feiJ thar Il was time to
start something else.
she was prepared for the change.
and brought forth queer cOntrivance
consisting of pane Of glass hinged
along one edge to fiat box. The glass
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1917-01-20
SYRUP OF RIGS For
/ CaILg'5' BOWELS
Il is cruel to force nNuSe3tng,
harsh phySC INTO a
SICK Chic.

Look back at your childhood DAYS.
Remember the dose mother insisted
on-castor OIL. calomel cathardcs.
How YOU hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling TO the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children 3 revolt is well-fOmd-
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
II your chiIds stomach. liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup OF Figs" Its
action is positive. but gentle. Millions
Of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy, they know children
love to take il; that it never fails TO
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach. and that a teaspoonfui
given today saves a sick child tomor-
row
Ask at the store for a 5O-cent bottle
OF California Syrup of Figs which
has full directions for babies. children
CT all ages and for grown.ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1917-01-20
0. HENRY'S METHOD OF WORK
the Remarkably Interesting Stories
He Turned Out.

O. Henry I'm his real work could write
only by the light within. There was
No elaborate scheme of preparation 10
take the place of the inspired word.
lie read nothing. or next To it. He IN
vestigated nothing. He saw nobody.
He had no propaganda, no views To eX-
pound. no lesson, in the meaner sense.
To teach. His was not the duh indus
try that investigates. notebook in hand.
the Stun. the factory and the mar
ket place. and turns the mass of accu-
INFLATED fact into the vast cOhtempo-
rary novel that pOurS its slow current
of alluvial mud through the channel
OF thousand pages.
Observation-Disclosures except Of life
itSe!f-GIofouS,y ignorant he was. No
college, not even theological school.
could have m1triculated him. Even of
New York. so they now tell us. he knew
practically nothing. But of little
threads and patches vision of bag
gard face seea tor moment In
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1917-01-20
TRAINING TODAYs
BOYS AND GIRLS
Happy Child Is the One That
Travels Peacefully.
KEEPING HIM GOOD NATURED
Busy Work" for Fidgety Little Hands.
A Set Of Simple Amusements, and
Mothers Train Problem Is Mo
Problem at All.
BY slooNIE M. GRueNeERG.

W HEN the train stopped M the first
W station, the older Of the two won-
en near the end of the car looked out
uervOuoly 20 SOC who Was getting on.
she WAS not awaiting anyone; She WAS
only worrying lest Souc chiidrcu ert
aboard and make the rest OF the trip
miserable for her. Some children did
mother 10 lake ere of them. Then
the nervous woman felt sure there
would hc trouble, and her companion
could not comfort her. she hncW the
children would be- running about and
shouting. that they would be- restless
HHd bother the mother for drink or
for candy. and that they would surely
make her journey miserable. She only
dared hope that they Wuuid not stay
an the train long. And when the train
started OF again, she settled down
comfortably TO good. old-ta>hiOned
frettiHg spell!
And AT The same time the mother
of the three children settled down
comfortably to n whole days travel.
First She called the porter and had
him get table At This she placed
the two older children. with Il box OF
colored crayouS aud some outline pic
turcS The children set 10 work com
pairing notes rs To the color To be- used
for the horses ar ships, AMI babhIin-
continuously about the Incidents Sug
gcSted by the pictures. The youngest
child was given some beads. with
which he played until he fell asleep;
and the mother took occasion To sir
back quietly and rest while there wnS
still chance
When the children tired Of working
with the crayonS the mother dipped
into her baggage again and brought
forth some "cut-Out" pictures, with
two pairs of duI-noSed scissors. Sort
ing the pictures and deciding which
ones were to be attacked first helped
70 eat up some Of the time and then
they were busy nearly an hOur-with
the Interruptions at stations and oc-
caSiOnal glanceS at the moving land
scape.
After short period of relaxation
the children were again ready to do
something. ana the mother suggested
reading story. This seemed To meet
with approval. and the mother drew
forth Il book; the children selected the
story. and the mother read to them.
They stopped To look at the pictures
and To discuss the ethics Of jacks