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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-13
Records of Whitman County


Grand Lodge OF WASH, A. y. u.
w, to Claude d. Westacott ct ux.,
real mtge.
Rumely Products Co. TO A r..
Vannice, chattel mtge.
F. A. Williams to J. w. Robinson,
conditional bill of sale.
Mrs. ]. Ii. st. Lawrence to Wilcox
Grange No. 14l, conditional bill of
sale
Bill of Sale
G. l.. Gleason to Henry Marti, live
stock, implements, etc, $3.50.
II. c. Bilger to f. E. Kennel, pho
tograph business in Colfax, $500.
Jas. IL. Blaine to w. F.. Smith &
Son, threshing outfit, $1400.
Conditional Bill of Sale
H. NJ. Maxwell to j. c. Sunderland.
household goods in Tekoa, $3.50.
APRIL 2, 1917
Patents
United States to /. o. Stuart eh
swQ, swq swq 26-13-37.
Deeds
|. A. Crisp ct ux. to G. M. Nc
Gregor, trustee, lots /, 2, 3, 4, blk 2,
Martins add, Garfield, 81.
ColfaX Investment Co. to Belle
Hayes, tracts /, 2, Grand View add.
Colfax, $500.
Geo. A. Schy ct ux. to Sarah T.. In
giles, nwq, nh swq 33, swq swq swq
IS, except, part seq seq 80, part nh
neg 32-20-39, $14,726.
First Christian Church of Guy to
Virginia v. Dunagan, lot 4, blk s.,
Albion. $40.
Mortgages
Belle Hayes TO p. b. Stravens,
tracts /, =, Grand View add, ColfaX,
$4,000.
Sam Bruce ct TX. to Tekoa State
Bank, eh nwq, lots /, 2, 18-19-46,
$500.
j. +. Day to Farmers National
Bank, Colfax, one-third crop on j.
w. Mccall place in 8-1G-42, live
stock, two-thirds crop swq 5, nwq s.
1912, $500.
j. W. Gaines to NJ. Freeman, live
stock, etc, $3.50.
Releases
A. l.. Hill to Leon Brown ct ux.,
real mtge.
Northwestern & Pacific Hypotheek
Bank to Perry G. Gully, real mtge.
Burlington Trust Co. to Geo. A.
Schy, real mtge.
Bills OF Sale
Hugh Taylor to G. |. Roberts, au-
tomobile. 5000
Frank McClenny to Elmer McClen-
ny. live stock, buggies, etc, 81.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1917-04-13
STATE FEDERATION
OF WOMEN'S CLUBS
Mrs. Salon Ghadd pfsaatHa
Clubwomen of Washington:
Mrs. Scion Shedd, President

Clubwomen of Washington:
Our governor has proclaim ed Fri
day, April 10, Arbor and Bird Day
for the State of Washington. The
conservation committee, Miss Lulie
Nettleton, chairman, urges the clubs
OF our state to observe this day with
proper and appropriate programs. 1t
| is the day when our schools should
hold fitting exercises, band our peo-
pie should be induced to plant trees
and shrubbery, to clean up their
premises and vacant lots, to build
and place birds houses, for as Cover
nor Lister states in his proclamation,
LAS the physical surroundings and
environments of our citizens are
beautified and made more attract
| i've, so will the citizenship be broad
ened and strengthened"
Mrs. r. G. McCredie has been APP
| pointed to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Mrs. James S. Nc
Kee as Washington's director of the
General Federation of Women S
Clubs. Mrs. McCredie is represent
ing us at the council and executive
board meeting in New Orleans this
week.
We are joyous over the appoint
ment of Mrs. James S. Mckee to the
board of regents of the State Uni
versity Mrs. Mckee is we'll equipped
for the office and the University is
to be congratulated on securing so
able a woman for the board of re-
gents.
Both Mrs. Mckee and Mrs Nc
Creole are among the best known of
our clubwomen, both having served
as president of our State Federation,
Our chairman of Baby Week, Mrs.
n. S. McCready, urges that everyone
read carefully and thoughtfully the
letter appended hereto, in which our
state commissioner of heath hearth
ly endorses the better baby week
campaigns.
Cnrdiallv yourc
Evening star., 1917-09-12
The Evening Star Newspaper Company
l1th ST. and Pennsylvania Avenue.
A Short Conference Likely.

Says Leader kitchin, who will sit in
the conference on the revenue bill:
II am pleased with the outlook for an
agreement There are many just and
good changes in the Senate bill to which
] heartily subscribe. There are others,
of. course. which ! do not approve, but
the outlook for ironing out our differ
enees is good.'
This probably promises a short con-
should be protraeted. AS The Star
pointed out yesterday, the present rev
cnue problem calls for very much more
money than the problem the House dealt
with four months ago, or than that the
Senate finance committee dealt with
some weeks later. Treasury estimates
have put different and graver face on
the matter.
The House conferees have followed
the Senate's proceedings, and so know
all the arguments that have been made
in support of them. Those arguments.
therefore, need not be repeated in con-
ference. After they have been replied
to by the House members, and replies
made to the replies, the voting should
begin, and the task closed. No material
changes are expected.
At one time gossip had it that North
Carolina politics might show in the con-
ference; that Mr.. Kitchin had his eyes
on the Senate, with the intention of con-
testing with Mr.. Simmons the seat now
held by the latter; and that as they
would meet in the conference, and diff
fered as TO the details of taxation, their
senatorial campaigns would be inaugu-
rated at once.
The gossip found small acceptance
Such n step by two experienced poll
tieians seemed most unlikely They are
members of the same party, and prod
ucts of the same economic school. Both
have exercised themselves on the stump
and elsewhere against protection and
trusts. But the war has brought about
conditions either scrapping or suspend
ing many old theories; and many public
men today are not at all certain as TO
what the future will demand in the way
of legislation on any leading subject,
and least of all on the subject of rails
ing revenue. The only thing now plain
is that a good deal of revenue will be
necessary, and that the government
must be supplied with the neeessaries of
life.
1t is an interesting conference, and
might well be, though of course will not
be, held with open doors. But there is
no prospect of deadlock, or of any
result giving the President moments
pause in the matter of his signature.
He will sign promptly.
Evening star., 1917-09-12
Russian Civil War.

Civil war is now raging in Russia. and
the end cannot be seen. kornilotf. re-
voting against the orders Of the pro-
visionai government, has turned against
Petrograd the|forces which should be
facing the Germans, and is striking to
besiege the capital. Klcmhovsky, named
by Kerensky as kornilof's successor as
commander chief, has joined Korni-
loft. The army is divided in its al
legiance. and presently the world may
be treated to the spectacle of Russian
forces failing each other while the for
eign enemy sinashes his way toward the
vital points of the land, the munitions
plants, the naval bases and the great
grain fields.
Two men are now in opposition in
Russia, kerensky and Korniloff. Of
neither of these the world bevond knew
anything before the revolution o. SIX
months ago. Kerensky sprang into the
situation unheralded, AN obscure LAWYER
socialist with a clear vision, Il ready
speech and a dauntless courage. He has
held Russia together during this half
year as perhaps no other man in the
land could. Treachery and cowardiec,
faction and fanaticism, have risen to
confound the patriot seeking a formula
for the government of the liberated
people.
Korniloff may prove to be the
stronger man, and to have the stronger
support. just what his motive is today
cannot be clearly seen. He may be for
the revolution, striving to restore order
by temporarily breaking it, Or he may
he a reaetionary, seeking the restoration
OF the old regime. Or he may be moy-
ing toward an opportunity for personal
advancement, n Napoleonic figure, 4
"man on horseback" He takes an enor-
nous risk when he turns upon the pro-
yisiona1 government with a powerful
Evening star., 1917-09-12
Picketing and the Maine Defeat.

People are prone to search for the
| causes of certain effects. Take, for in
stance, the result of the Maine election
on the suffrage proposition, which has
been defeated by over two to one after
stirring campaign in which such in
tluences as that of Col. Roosevelt and
President Wilson were exerted in behalf
of the proposed amendment. The tend
toward the extension of the suffrage to
women Why did Maine so emphatically
reject the amendment to the state con-
stitution!
Immediately comes forth the sugges-
tion that this was an expression of re-
sentiment on the part of the people
against the course of that faction of the
sufragists who persist in pieketing the
White House as means of coercing the
President to urge upon Congress the
adoption of federal constitutional
amendment. That there has been great
indignation on this score is plain. The
Maine election was the first occasion
since the picketing became a national
nuisance on which public opinion could
be evidenced
1t is unfair to judge a cause by the
course of small majority of fanatical
advocates, whose methods are disap-
hr, ,fr
right and must come in this country
The organization which conducts the
pieketing at the White House is q very
insignificant fraction of the women who
are working for suffrage in the United
States. By at least ninety to one
the unlawful. tactless, at times Sc
ditious practices of these militants
are condemned by the suffragists them
selves. But the Maine people would not
discriminate. They coupled pieketing
and its impudent defiance of the law
and the dictates of patriotism with suf-
frage in general, and by an overwhelm-
ing vote refused to accept the principle
of equal franchise, which is justified by
every consideration of equity and good
government.
This Maine result should be lesson
to the militants. But it is to be doubted
if they will accept it. They persist in
their law-breaking despite the admoni-
tions of common sense. And speaking
of searching for causes for certain eff
fects, what can be the cause of this
fiagrantly futile, almost imbecile per-
sistenee, which is so obviously hopeless
of results? Is it political, or is it
pathologicaie
Evening star., 1917-09-12
SWeden,s Kindness to Germany.

| Pending full examination Of the
| Buenos Aires incident by the govern
| ment at Stockholm it is interesting to
note that the Swedish foreign ONCE
| stresses the fact, in its preliminary
statement covering the general matter
of the use of it's cables, that "the tele-
gram mentioned in the American state
ments was written in code, and in trans
mitting it the Swedish minister was by
that reason unable to decipher it." In
other words, under the arrangement,
Germany could put on the. cable at
Buenos Aires anything it pleased, in
its own code, and pass it along as Swed
ish. Not even the Swedish minister
could tell what he was sending, doubt
less over his name. He was not only
acting as Germany's agent of transmits
sion, but acting blindly. He might be
sending the most flagrantly improper
messages, messages indeed calculated to
harm his own government. The German
charge at Buenos Aires might even be
sending word to Berlin for the destruc-
ton of Swedish ships sailing from
Argentina for home. The improperly,
not to mention. the danger, of this ar
rangement is obvious. Evidently the
Stockholm government sees it now. 1t
should have seen it long ago. The toll
erance of this practice of transmitting
everything the German envoy rendered
for the cable, presumably over the sig
nature of the Swedish minister to in
sure its passage through allied hands as
inviolate, in itself argues a strong in
clination toward the Germanic interests,
which is not the least embarrassing fea-
ture of the present affair to the Stock
holm government.
Evening star., 1917-09-12
Naval Announcements.

Inasmueh as the government is, very
PROPERLY, supervising all news an
nouncCmcnts relating to war operations
in which American forces take part. it
is undeniably incumbent upon it to take
every preeaution to prevent mistakes, so
that it, statements. when given forth.
may be accepted at full value as abso-
lutely trustworthy. Unfortunately in
two cases this precaution has not been
observed. and in consequence public
confidence is shaken, and the press is
reduced to a state of uncertainty re-
specting the value and the reliability of
the official declarations. One of these
occasions was the now famous "elabora-
tionn of Rear Admiral Gleaves' report
port fleet and its convoy, put forth as
AN Independence day gift to the Amer
lean people. The other is the announce
ment of yesterday of the sinking of six
German submarines by American de-
stroyers conveying merchant fleet,
which later proved to have been in truth
merely the probable sinking of one. 1t
is now explained that the mistake was
that of u typewriter, who, in copying
paraphrase of the official dispatch, sub
stituted "all' for lone" and "were" for
"was," an error which may be attribut-
able to imagination stimulated by en-
thusiasm, but which is difficult to un-
derstand in the case of trained copy
ist. This erroneous copy was immedi.
ately handed out for publication with
out veri6cation, and the correction,
Evening star., 1917-09-12

enemy in his rear smashing in toward
the capital. Perhaps he thinks to win
his victory over the Petrograd organiza-
tion in season to turn upon his foreign
foe with the prestige Of conqueror.
Russia cannot count for much if any
thing as a war factor for months to
come, however the internal strife may
end. Winter is close at hand there.
Field operations cannot be conducted by
either side on a large scale. Perhaps
this is the most advantageous factor in
the situation for Russia itself, checking
the German advance while the internal
diseord is brought to a climax and ad-
justment follows-if this revolt is hon
est, and not pro-German.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

time later, was by . peculiar chance de-
iayed several hours. The commission Of
these blunders would not, Of course, JUS.
tify the newspapers in ignoring the regu-
lation forbidding the publication Of news
about the naval forces, save as it comes
from the Navy Department. It does,
however, put upon the department the
imperative duty Of being absolutely &C.
curate in every announcement, even if
it takes the services Of trained proof
readers and copy editors to insure cor
rectness.
Evening star., 1917-09-12
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
The Girls of Maine.

Way down in Maine. Way down in
Maine,
The girls declared their answer plain.
They say. Where banners brightly float
Just now they do not care to vote.
They want to knit, they want to read
And ponder on the nations need.
They want TO sew, they want to toll
To aid the heroes of their soil.
They want to lift the cheering cry
AS trains of troopers hurry by,
And dedicate both mind and will
To the great tasks they must fulfill
Full we'll they know the gratitude
They now inspire will be renewed
In other days when peace shall stand
Safe. with their counsel and command
Then all too slight the land will deem
The politicians empty dream
AS a reward for loyal heed.
The women gave in hours of need.
With brains that toll and hearts that
beat.
With willing hands and tireless feet
The girls of Maine have made this
note:
I'VE are too busy now to vote
Evening star., 1917-09-12
Sympathy.

Don't YOU feel sorry for a feller that
has to stay in jail" said Meandering
Mike.
"Only fur one of them" replied Plod-
ding Pete, "an' that's the warden. He's
the one that has to work all day maxim
the prisoners comfortable an happy an
then sit up all night fghtin' the poll
ticians that want to throw him out of
his job
Evening star., 1917-09-12
Kerensky and Kornilof
,m the New York Times

From the New York Times.
Kerensky, like korniloff. is convinc-
ed that the first step toward freedom
and strength must be deliverance from
the peril of anarchy and utter disor-
eanization which now besets the Rus
sian people. Russia has need of their
united strength, and Kerensky's dis
missal of Gen. korniloff from his army
command because of the generals de-
mand that the civil and military power
be surrendered into his hands is very
likely only the beginning of period
of new and perhaps more violent dis
turbance in Russia.
Evening star., 1917-09-12
An Approval.

''Your colleague uses a great many
classical quotations
"I approve of them" commented Sem
ator Sorghum. "They're the only OBJ
servations he makes that are in any de-
gree reliable.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

The American inventor did a good
piece of work in holding out on the
depth bomb long enough to keep the
Berlin war promoters from stealing it.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

The slightest effort to push Mayor
Thompson along toward the United
States Senate will be nationally re-
sented. Chicago ought to bear her own
burdens. The United States Senate has
had troubles enough.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

The fact that women wear furs in
winter does not tempt the males of So
ciety to proiong the straw hat season
beyond the frost line.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

Monarchies are far more ungrateful
than republics. Count Luxburg may ex-
pect to find himself sunk without leav-
ing q trace.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

Events in Berlin have not verified the
impression so assiduously cultivated
here that Bernstorf has great pull
with the Hohenzollern family
Evening star., 1917-09-12

As government that has gotten itself
into most difficult entangling alliance,
Sweden is perhaps entitled to some
slight forbearing sympathy.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

The discovery that the I. W. W. has
100000 revives the old query, "Where
did you get it 7" with more serious sig
nifcance than it held in the days of
Boss Croker.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

Sweden is another European nation
that had to be careful not to let its
citizenship know what its officials were
up to.
Evening star., 1917-09-12
In and Out.

"You spend a great deal Of time in
your automobile"
"No," replied Mr.. Chuggins; "not as
much as / spend outside it, fixing it up"
Evening star., 1917-09-12

Every German soldier bent on inyad
ing Russia should provide himself with
an account of Napoleon's retreat from
Moscow.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

Appropriations are framed on the well
known principle that the American dol
lar either lets proposition severely
alone or backs it to the limit.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

1t probably would have made no diff
ference if the pieketing ladies had sus-
pended operations to take charge of the
campaign in Maine.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

The next Prussian peace hint should
be prefaced by an apology to the world
for bombing hospitals.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

Mr.. La Toilette apparently regards anv
idea as a good one if it will start an
argument.
Evening star., 1917-09-12

For Il man who was reported in pre-
earious health Kerensky is proving a
tenacious fighter.
Evening star., 1917-09-12
RepressiOn.

The blind obedience which they say
The call to death itself must heed
Means blind assistance some dark day
Evening star., 1917-09-12
Serious Reflections.

"a man is happiest by his own fire
side"
"He is, if he can, keep his mind off
! the cost of wood and COAL
Evening star., 1917-09-12

German diplomacy is hampered by
lack of discretion in its publicity de
paFtment
Evening star., 1917-09-12
Dropping German.

From the New York World.
And to think that Hoboken of all
places should have dropped German as
part OF its public school courses!
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-01

Rev. w. H. Rymcr will fill his
regular appointments at the Bap-
fist church next Sunday, morning
and night.
DR.. Andrew Johnson humOrist
furnished the second number of
the Ivceum course here Wednesday
night, delivering a very interesting
lecture from the subject, Eli and
Dennis.
Mrs. Junior Blackwell, wife of
Taylor Blackwell, of Prendergast,
died Wednesday morning. An
inquest was held by Esq. Russell,
the jurors being w. A. Woody,
J. G. Balm. Boots Hood, Jep Rog-
ers, Bill Stone and Frank With
row, who reported that death was
caused by something similar to
dropsy. The deceased was
daughter of Bob Love, who, along
with his other children, has the
sympathy of host of friends.
The "spooks" walked, Hallow-
cen and also Hallownight, and
on the morning after, when the
populace Jared forth into the street
bales of hay were languidly sitting
in automobiles. store doors were
wired, all store and business signs,
if movable, were removed. Three
spooks, one tall, another small,
and the other the happy medium,
the News Offices sign
to parts unknown and set the steps |
in such a position as to make a
delightful entrance to the pike
road. DR.. A. S. LaRue's sign
was removed from its usual place
Of abiding, and next morning
boldly heralded from the ground
story of the court house that DR..
.aRue would be there every Tues
lay and Wednesday,
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-01

Mrs. John Watkins of Cleveland
died Sunday and was buried al
Smyrna Monday, after funeral
services by Rev. w. H. Rymer.
She was a daughter of John Prince
of Cleveland.
Please note the ad. of the Eckles
Town Improvement Company, on
another page, introducing probably
the biggest event ever pulled off
in Benton. Messrs. Eckles and
Cobbs, the managers, are genteel
and progressive business men and
have a record OF having managed
several successful sales of this
kind. The date is next Thursday,
November s.
w. N. Morgan, of Servilla, was
a recent visitor to Copperhill.
Calvin Snyder of near Ocoee
died Wednesday night from a
complication of diseases. He was
we'll known and respected through
out the section,
J. w. Firestone, formerly a res
ident of near Parksville but for
many years a citizen of Arkansas,
came recently for a visit to his
old home.
Mr., and Mrs. N. A. White, NJ rs
Walter Hutchins and Frank I.ill-
ard have returned from Philadel-
ohia, Pa. Messrs. White and
Lillard have resigned their posi-
ions there. Mr.. White has ac-
,epted employment in Chattanoo-
"a.
On Wednesday a district meet
ng of the Army Y. M {. A. was
leld at Etowah for the purpose of
naugurating campaign to raise
tnds for that institution. The
starts November II and
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1917-11-01
Sale of Land.

Nora Joyce BaAsett et ii,
In the ChalEery court at Benton,
Tenn.
In obedience to 4 decree of the
chancery court at Benton, made
in the above styled cause, | will
on Saturday December lst, 1917,
III front of the court house door
in Benton, sell to the highest and
best bidder the tracts of land in
said decree, described as follows:
A certain tract of land being in
the first civil district of Polk
county, Tennessee, containing
one hundred acres more or less.
Beginning at the southwest cor
ner, thence east to a blackjack
tree near the neWground, thence
northwest to a stake, thence
southwest to a stake at the
branch, thence southeast to
stake, thence south to the begin
ming; being a part of the south
west quarter of section five, fraC-
tional township first west of the
Meridian in the Hiwasscc dist
riot.
Also one other tract in the first
district of Polk county, Tennessee
containing twenty-five acres more
or less, being part of the south
west md nomh-west quarters of
section five, first fractional town
ship, first range west of the Me
ridian in Hiwassee district Be
ginning at the southeast corner
Of the southwest quarter thence
north one hundred and eighty !
five poles to a black oak bush |
near the big road, thence with the
big road nearly south about
twenty-five to a rock, by the side |
of the road, rthence with a condi- |
tionaI line running with the fence |
about one hundred and ffty-seven |
poles to rock near 4 blackjack |
tree, thence east about five or six
poles to the beginning.
Terms of Sale: 20 per ct cash,
balance two equal payments six
and twelve months with interest
from date, Good personal secu-
rity will be required of the pur-
chaser and lien will be retained
on said property as further Sc
curity.
This November LIST, 1917.
A. J. Williams, c. & NJ