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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-03-16
GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL,
SAYS CAMDEN'S MAYOR
To the People of Camden, Tennes-

To the People of Camden, Tennes-
see:
The Tennessee Sunday School
Association has designated Easter
Sunday, April s, as GO to-Sunday-
School-Day."
Our beloved Governor, Tom G.
Rye, has issued a proclamation in
which he says:
believing implicitly in thegreat
work now being done in our Sun
day schools, desirous of encourag-
ing the efforts of those who are
contributing their time, energy
and money TO this holy cause, and
being advised that the Tennessee
Sunday School Association has
designated Sunday, April s, as
Go-to-Sunday- School Day: Now,
therefore, I do hereby proclaim
and set apart April s, 1917, as Go
to-Sunday- y-School-Day in Tennes-
see. On that day | earnestly urge
all Tennesseans as we'll as all visi-
tors within our borders, to attend
the Sunday school of their choice"
Now, therefore, I, G. B. Holla-
day, Mayor of the town of Camden,
following the example of the Gov
ernor of the State, hereby proclaim
and set apart Easter Sunday, April
s, 1917, as Go-to-Sunday- School
Day for Camden. [ do hereby
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-03-16
BILL INTRODUCED TO
AMEND TOWN CHARTER

3. BY adding to section 6, SUBJ
section 4, and the 9th line thereof,
after the words taxable property"
the following, "Unless an increase
over sixty cents shall have been
authorized by vote of the quail
fed voters of the town as set forth
above"
4. BY adding at the end of sub
section 6 of said section 6 the fol-
lowing, "and for these purposes the
Board of Mayor and Aldermen
shall have the right of eminent
domain and may condemn proper
ty for aud of said purposes, as pro-
vided by sections 1914 to 1867,
inclusive, of Shannon's Code of
Tennessee"
5. BY adding at the end of SUBJ
section 3 OF said section b the fol-
lowing, "and to prohibit and sup
press the running or operation of
pool rooms, pool tables or billiard
tables in said town"
6. By adding at the end of said
section 6, the following, after sub
section 19:
20. "To assess property for taxes
within said town that is liable for
State and county taxes that may be
omitted and not assessed by the
State and county.
FL. ITO provide the town with
water and lights by water works,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-03-16

A bill to be entitled an act to
amend an act entitled, can act to
incorporate the town Of Camden in
Benton County and to define its
rights and powers" the same be-
ing Chapter $50 of the Acts of
1893.
Section l. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State Of
Tennessee, that an act passed April
IL, 1903, entitled Gan act to in
corporate the town of Camden in
Benton County, and to define it's
rights and powers" the same being
Chapter $50 of the Acts of 1903,
be, and the same is hereby amend
ed as follows:
l. By striking out of section 4,
in the 7th line thereof, the words
"one year" and inserting in lieu
thereof the words "two years."
2. By adding to section 6, sub.
section 3, the following: "Pro-
vlded further, however, that the
tax levy may be increased in such
an amount in excess of one dollar
en- each one hundred dollars valua-
ton of taxable property in the
event the same shall be authorized
to be levied on vote of the quail
fed voters of said town voting in
favor thereof at any special or
general election called for that
purpose"
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-03-16

urge all the people Of our town and
visitors within our borders to at
tend the Sunday school of their
choice on the said Go-to-Sunday-
School Day.
In testimony whereof, I have set
my hand and caused the seal of our
town to be affixed on this the ninth
day of March A. ID. nineteen hun
dred seventeen.
G.. B. HOLIDAY,
Mayor
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-03-16
State Examinations.

The schedule for State examina-
tions for rural teachers for 1917 is
as follows: Friday, March 80,
spelling, arithmetic, writing, read
ing, grammar. Saturday, March
81, physiology. reading circle, ge-
ography, United States History,
Tennessee History. The examina-
tions for the various groups of the
high school wffk will be held the
same days as Il elementary exam
nations.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-03-16

Send The Chronicle The news OF
your locality.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1917-03-16

Rub My Tism, aptiseptic, relieves
Rheumatism, Sprains, Neuralgia,
etc.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
SOME MORE SOCIAL.
lSTlC GOVERNMENT.

Over at Port Arthur. the elevator en-
ployes struck last week and this stopped
all buying and shipping of wheat in the
! northwest. The season of lake ship
ments will soon close and the situation
was serious. The government then STEP
ped in and took charge of the elevators.
The employees had not returned to work
on Tuesday. The government had
stated that strikes against the. govern
ment would be treated as treason, but
they have not attempted to enforce that
as yet.
The general principle involved is seri-
GUS however.
We have had some situations like this
in our own country, though not so dir
ectly serious to so many.
Is the time coming through war, or
possibly other conditions, that the gov.
ernment shall take charge of all public
utilities and that every employe shall be
forced to practically take the oath of al
legiance to the government, enrolled in
the ranks of industrial soldiers, and be
subject to the same or similar penalties
for desertlon or other acts of disobedi-
enceP
We have heard much of the taking
over such utilities, like the coal mines
and steel plants, because of the acts Of
the owners or managers; shall we carry
that doctrine down so as also to govern
the strikers who take advantage Of war
conditions to raise wages3
We are not arguing that this ought to
be SO. We are only calling attention to
possibilities. and possibilities that may
mean much in the future when the final
struggle comes that shall bring a ''per.
manent peace" between labor and capi-
tai.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12

ships Of the German navy. How true
the details given is only q guess as such
news comes VI roudabout way. But
the mutiny Was discussed IN the Reich
stag and three member were Socialist
accused of completely.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
TUWNLEY AND
HIS WHITEWASH.

Once in the long ago, this writer who
was then boy on board ship, had 6
monkey. just little monkey about as
big as a cat, but who was still monkey
with all a monkeys mischief, joys and
sorrows, of which latter he had many
One pleasant day pot of paint was lef,
within his reach. No one was around
and the monkey Immediately began te
investigate the nice soft ooze of white
lead. He plunged both arms to full
length into the sticky mass and then
withdrawing them he attempted to
wipe his hands upon the soft fur of his
body. The result may be imagined
The owner finally rescued the little ami
NAL and much resisted bath was ad.
ministered
History repeats itself. Down at st
Paula couple of weeks ago Nh. Townley
got mixed with some pacifist white paint
and has been busy ever since trying to
wipe himself clean on his own fur and
has succeeded just about as we'll as did
the monkey. The more he wipes him
self the more he smears himself. Hence
this memorial OF the mischievous mon
key.
Through his personal newspaper or
gan, Townley admits in so many words
that Toilette was ''unwise" foolish
and said things that he would not have
said If he had not gotten mad. But he
also says in another editorial that La
Toilette is very patriotic individual,
etc. He also says that there we're thirty
six other speakers and that they said
things which we're not reasonable, and
this should wipe Townley's hide clean
There was once man brought before
the justice for stealing. One witness
swore that he personally saw the prison
Or take the goods. On rebuttal, eleven
witnesses came forward and swore that
they did not see the prisoner steal the
stud. The justice decided that the pre-
ponderance Of evidence was in favor Of
the accused and let him 20.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12

We have gone to war with every ex
pectation of winning. Nobody stops te
think of the other possibility. We mus,
and shall win Is the prevailing idea and
that is good way to 60 to war.
But, it is also we'll to look at possibili.
ties. 1t is poor military policy to des.
plse the enemy. That has been one ol
Germany's mistakes in the present war.
They were SO confident of their great
superiority in almost every way they
never dreamed of successful defence
from their foes.
We are now as confident of success as
we're the Germans. We may be mis-
taken. Germany has still many possi.
bilities though we are glad to say not
probabilities. But many things may
happen that would change the present
appearance of the war, that cannot now
be foreseen.
A few months ago, few persons
thought such thing possible as the
breaking up of the Russian empire in
the midst of a great war by local .revo.
luton.
We are fighting with France, Britain
and Italy but we are not their allies.
We have no treaty Of alliance with them.
Suppose they conclude separate peace.
OF course they are in honor bound to
take care of our interests as we'll az
their own; but they might not do it.
Where then should we be if they made
an independent peace within the next
three months?
The war would then be transferred to
the sea. The German navy. which as
yet is intact, against the American
navy. II our navy should fail what
might happen to our coasts, not to guess
at results farther inland?
What would be the relative condition
of this country to Germany in case Of
any "German peaoes"
A little thought by the reader on these
lines may help him realize that We are
at war, that it is everymsn's war, and
that every man and woman is definitely
and directly interested in the results Of
this war. Not so much in what We
shall do to the enemy as what the enemy
would do TO US. In fact. the latter Il
the real basis of this war. Il isn't that
We are wanting anything from Germany.
but that We fear what Germany. and
German skultur" might do to us Il they
win the var. S5, 4
You are thus directly interested.
What are you doing to help win the wary
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
THE PROGRESS OF THE WAR

We were writing last week that we
we're looking for an advance of the Brit
ish in Flanders and while we we're writ
ing the advance was being made. 1t
was on a six mile front and in some
places went two miles forward. Some
four thousand prisoners and some guns
were taken. The gam was not of so
much land as it was that the land taken
was mostly high ground and therefore
of considerable strategic value.
Rain followed and converted the soil
into a quagmire and Mondays dispat-
ches said that further progress by the
British was impossible. but Tuesday, .
and Wednesdays dispatches gave news
OF still further advance through what
had seemed an impossible swamp. The
latter foray was about two thirds of a
mile and brought the British troops con-
siderably nearer their final objectives
which are undoubtedly the submarine
and aeroplane bases held by the Ger
mans on the Belgian coast. We look to
see even desperate attempt of the Brit
ish to advance still further in this local.
ity and doubt If cold weather will stop
the fighting here, until either the Ger
mans are compelled to withdraw or
have stopped the British by entrench-
ments or force of arms.
These later assaults of the British
prove still more certainly that the days
of trench fighting are over and that no
matter what earthern or concrete de-
fence and shelter is constructed, that it
is only questionof time and guns when
they are destroyed. AS this would also
be true on either side of the warning
armies, the recent successes of the AL
lies proves that in the artillery fighting
they are clearly the superiors.
The captured German prisoners, as
we'll as diaries and letters taken from
them and the dead, prove that the Ger
man soldier is no longer hopeful Of sue
cess.
The left flank of the victorious Brit
ish section Of the army in France and
Belgium is now held by French troop
who are carrying the line forward in
alignment with the advance Of the Brit
ish.
The Grown Prince still hammers his
head against the Verdun stone wall
about every other day.
italian and Russian dispatches only
speak Of artillary actions. As time goes
on and no further revolutions are occurr-
ing In Russia Il begins to seem possible.
that things msy simmer down to . set
tlement By the factions 1t least until,
aftsf the war. Tho most hopeful
iRn u that while soms of them desiy
psacs With Germany, mono Of thsm
want ! (3ssnsn pescs',. !. ,.5ss
YsstsrdAy's Aispa te.d of : rather
sssioss mntisy scoss,iss on ssvsrsl
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
Weeds Eaten by Indians.

Many of our common weeds and wild
flowers were used by the Indians for
food. The Jack-in-the-pulpit was one
of them. The Indians cooked and ate
the root, and sometimes the Jack is,
therefore, called Indian turnip. They
also boiled and ate the red berries that
the Jack shows in autumn.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
Parsnts' Interest il Children.

Psychology pronounces the law o4
interest from parent to child to Be true.
Therefore, II parents desire their, chill
dren to succeed n music or IN any
other subject, the surest way 10 obtain
that success d 80 fake nnore than u
passing Interest - their ~ Vsr, and -
TIT thsys psacties IT, stddies NhleA
ars dss1neA g ins1rs tA1t s1ce I
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
Official Directory !
IA ] Gronna
/ p J McCumber
5John NJ. Baer

. oena'ote P McCumber
U s Kep1esen- John n. Bael
tative /
GSxssnSsat Gssutensnt c1yernos1A r1aais1 Kraabel
. Secretary of State-Thomas Hall :
State Auditor-Cari r Kositzky !
Attorney General--Wm LANCER !
missioners- cRas H " Fieick
shpt Of Pub Inst.E TAYLOR sa.. !
Com Agr & Labor-John N HaRan j
Judge. :. s.,,.~. ! & I 81: si:s; sS;':..:.
Court son ]
HBE HBsssss sss: +:
Judge 7th Jud. Dist-wJ Kneeshaw +.
} STATE SENATOR
} Walter Wexford
REPRESENTATIVES !
, (Wm Pleasance .
) 4'' D's'' J o'connor
COUNTY OFFICIALS :;
States Attorney-Wm McMurchie ]
Clerk of Court D Winlaw !
Sherif-Chas Atkinson 4
Auditorium. W. Felson I
Treasurer-Hugh Gibson !
Register of Deeds--Geo koadhouse I
County Judge-H G Wick. .
Surveyor-Herman Campbell !
Supt of Schools-Charlotte Jones .
Coroner-Frank w. Deason :
, Public Admin'r-Geo Peterson
(1st-A b Purdy, Toilette .
2nd-J S Staples, Concrete .
Soun1ty 3rd-Adam Norton, Caval'r :
Co"rs 4th-W ] Watts Leroy
l5th-Jos Morrison Drayton :
CUSTOMS OFFICIALS
Alex. Morrison, Collector .
Robert Morrison Special Deputy
4 4 + T Woa1 Ma5yey worth Deputies
Err Russell Immigration Inspector
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
Master Of the Fiddle Bow.

Al newspaper, under the headline,
"S9me Fiddler" reported violin re-
citM as follows: "Then Mr.. McB pre-
sented To Wild Rose by Mcdowell
and Spanish Dance by Granados.
In these selections the artist displayed
wonderful command of the bow,
changing its position with such skill
and rapidity as not to interrupt the
melody"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
"chanoino patesI' on Hen..

Chah0Ih0 OateS" on Hens.
Cold storage is not the cnly solution
Of the egg problem. Early Matched pull
lets Of the American breeds that be-
gin to lay in the fall is one that prom
ises to make good. In order to Change
the dates" on hens an incubator will
probably be needed.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
Trees Grew Once In lev North.

wv" 0"SS VT tVy NVTSH.
Lofty trees once inhabited Green
land and nearly all of the inhospitable
northern lands. Trees Of the same
sorts as are growing today are found
as fossil remains in countries where
the climate is now so. harsh that
scarcely any tree will grow even
few inches high.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
Ne chanes.

Physician our case 10 such, mad.
On, that time alone will effect ! cura.''
Are Randall Then II 10 hopeless
fcr ! never have even Avs minutes
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12

Three aBarieyeorns" In Inch.
The inch was formerly subdivided
into three ''barleycorns," these divis-
ions being originally the length Of .
well-dried grain OF barley.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12

GERMAN LOSS TO DATE Is 35%.
1t does not seem to me that enough
Americans perceive CLEARLY the direction
in which war events are moving. Their
attention is still fixed upon trenches and
trench lines. They are still thinking of
breaking the German line. But this 10
not the present Allied problem. To
illustrate: II Germany should lose
l,50O, 600 men by the end of the fourth
year OF the war, that in that fourth
year in killed or permanently disabled,
her total permanent loss for four years
would be just about half of her able
bodied male population, UP to date
Britain, aside from her colonies, has
lost hardly more than million against
the Germans 100000. The German
loss is 35 per cent, the British IL per
cent. II Britain lost another million
this year, that is, as many as in all three
previous years combined, her total loss
would be only about quarter of her
able-bodied male population as against
80 per cent for the Germans.
Remember that the two nations are
!! the real industrial and commercial rivals
of Europe, and at the end of the war, if
one has lost half, the other only quar-
ter of its wealth. producing population,
even it in all else the war is draw, 1t Is
easy to see where the victory will lie.
Human loss is, practically speaking,
irreparable, and 1T is the human loss of
Germany that is becoming impressive.
Moreover, Britain has beside her home
population, the male populations of her
great white colonies, whose percentages
of casualties will be still lower than her
own. Looked at flom this angle 1t will
be perceived why Germany is losing not
only the war but her future after the
war, far more important thing, while
she still holds her front in France and
Belgium.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
'rmously higher upon the German.

ormously higher upon the German.
Germany, by using enslaved popula-
tions, by using prisoners, has BEEN able
to put far greater percentage, Of her
manhood on the firing line than her op-
ponents; this has enabled her to hold
off her enemies, and still enable her to
do it, but it has also compelled her to
use up q far greater fraction Of her
human capital and thus cripple herself
in the after-war recovery.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1917-10-12
in CASE OF DEFEAT.

We have gone to war with every ex-
pectation of winning. Nobody stops to
think of the other possibility. We must
and shall win ls the prevailing idea and
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-08
Live Stock Market

National Stock Yards, st. Louis, H.,
Aug. IA material decrease in re
ceipts, due to last weeks drastic
rrice decline. was most welcome. The
trade Throughout on all classes OF
steers and she stuff was fully Csc per
cWt. higher than last weeks close.
Coed Hogs Make New Price Record
Top $16.65.
Decreased marketing for the past
few days has worked wonderful iu.-
provemcnt in the hog situation. This
applies, however, TO the well fatted,
weighty swine, which are scarce.
These have advanced from day to day
and in making a top of $l665, all
former price records were broken ON
this market. Pigs and light weight
stuff, which made up the big part Of
tcday's supply, moved slowly and
show no Improvement. We quote:
choice hogs $50 pounds up $500 to
$lG.G5; mixed hogs 100 lbs up SIG
to $l6.25; 100 TO $50 pound pigs STATS
to $3.50; lighter pigs $3.50 to $14.50,
best rough hogs $40 to SIS; habitat
rough hogs $40 to $3.50.
Lambs Advance-Sheep Unchanged.
The lamb situation was no eGcep-
ten to the general improved cOndi-
tion surrounding the entire market
today. They sold actively and fully
e cents per hundred higher than last
weeks low point, while sheep sold
steady. Good to choice lambs $3.50
to $13.G5; medium to good $l2,50 to
$l3; coed cuIls $3.50 to $40; skippy
culls Sc to So; fat sheep $3.50; chop
pcrs and bucks, $3.50 Gamers $3.50;
breeding ewes $40 to $13.25.
Good rains have fallen in many sec
tio:ns The past day or two. 1t is cur
opinion that breeding ewes, stock
sheep and stockers and feeder cattle
will have an improved demand and
that prices will advance.
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK
COMMISSION COMPANY.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-08
CONFERENCE PROVING
BENEFICIAL TO SHIPPERS

Atlanta, Aug. Very practical and
very gratifying results already are
flowing out of the recent conference
between the railroads and various At
lanta trade bodies for the purpose Of
conserving freight car supply, and it
is stated by the railroads that they
have begun to note very marked eff
feet on car supply even at this early
date, although the conference was
held only four days ago
The average capacity Of the Ameri.
can railroad freight car is forty tons,
but the average load is only seventeen
tons, or only 43 per cent of the capaci-
ty, while 81 per cent Of capacity goes
to waste. The average time Of load
ing and unloading freight cars is four
days for each car each trip. This ap-
pallng economic waste" due mainly
to so-called commercial conditions or
ccnyeniences of the trade, is ire
mendous extravaganza in time of
peace, and in war it threatens the
safety of the nation if continued
Here are some of the ways in which
Atlanta shippers and receivers of
freight are undertaking to aid the rail
reads in making the war supply per
form an increased transportation ser
vice
Loading of commodities to full ca
racity: ignoring trade units" and in.
sisiting that orders are filled to full
capacity OF war; clubbing together
and ordering full cars where no sin
gle dealer can handle a car lot; in
sisting that the retail trade buy in cal
lots, or club together and but in cal
lots; specifying that small car viii
suffice, when it will, so that large
car will not be furnished unnecessa
rily; loading cars as soon as they ar,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-08-08
ONLY SPEEDY ACTION WILL
PREVENT EXTRA SESSION

Atlanta, Aug THE Georgia legis-
lature may escape an extra session
by speeding up action on the appro-
priaton bills at the last moment, but
it will do so by a mighty close shave.
Counting today there are only eight
days left before the closing date fixed
by law. The house is still at work on
the bill revising the general tax act.
1t may finish today, but the probabili-
ties are that it will not, as there is a
big fight on Section IA, which seeks
to lay tax on all mortgages held by
persons, firms an corporations out
side the state.
After this bill goes through the
House it must be read three separate
days in the senate, ana there is bound
to be lengthy debate on its various
provisions laying taxes on proies-
sions and occupations and all man
ner of business concerns If the sen
ate gets involved in such lengthy
debate on the bill as the house has
been struggling with for narly a week,
the chances of an extra session are
greatly increased.
After passing the tax revision bill
the house must finish the appropria-
ton bill by Saturday. or an extra SEES
SIGN is certain. 1t must be read in
the senate the first time ON Monday
referred to the finance committee and
reported back for Il second reading
Tuesday, and must then be passed by
the sfnate Wednesday. II The house
gets t rough with the appropriation
bill this week it will be doing 4 vast
deal better than it has done on the
tax revision bill, which is far less i'm
portant and q bill on which there is
much fewer differences Of opinion.
Should the appropriation bill fail TO
get through The house and through
the senate by the last day OF the SEES
SIGN. an extra session would be nee
essary. as the state cannot operate
without funds.