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The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1918-01-11
IF YOU are looking for paying re-
suits in business, have the con-
fdence to advertise,
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.
Roy E. SPARco) Before E. L. Auburn,
" Justice of the Peace
A. G. GAMBLE of Polk County, Tenn.

In this cause it appears that the defend
ent. A. G. Gamble is justly indebted to the
plaintiff, and is nonresident of the State
of Tennessee, so that the ordinary process
of law cannot be served on him, and an
original attachment having been levied on
his property and returned to me, it is there
fore ordered that publication be made in
the weekly Polk COUNTY REPUBLICAN,
newspaper published in the county of Polk,
State of Tennessee, for four weeks, COM
handing the said A. G. Gamble to appear
before me, at my office in Ducktown, on
Saturday, January IL, 1913, and make de-
tense to said suit, or it will be proceeded
with ex parte.
E. L. AMBURN, Justice of the Peace.
This December Il, 1917.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1918-01-11
M EN- WANTED
BY TINE
Chattanooga Railway { Light Co.
FOR MoroRmEN AND CONDUCTORS

Having had strike of its employees
it is changing the personnel of its men
and will employ men between the ages of
l8 and as years sufficient to operate its
cars.
Appear in person or address letter to
II. Anderson, superintendent of Railway
Dent. $40 Market ST., Chattanooga, Tenn.
The Polk County Republican. (Ducktown, Tenn.) 1914-191?, 1918-01-11
I telephone Courtesy

The people who get the greatest
amount of good out of their telephons
are those who talk over it as though face
to face.
Courtesy smooths out difficulties and
promotes the promptest possible connec-
tons.
The operators of the BELL System
are trained to be patient and polite under
all circumstances, but they will do better
work if they meet with patience and
politeness on the part of the telephone
users.
The fact that you cannot see the
operator or the other party should not
cause you to overlook this. The best
results come through the practice of
mutual courtesy.
The voice uitb The smile ulns
CUMBERLAND TELEPHONE MTA
AND T1Ize ';!.;.,,,,:. COMPANY Cd
BOX $50, ATHENS, TENNESSEE.
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a careful count, and he says there
are about 40 trees to the acre-that
is, good-sized trees. These trees
comprise oaks, naples, beech and iron
wood trees. There are also few chest
nut trees and elms."
'The man did not count any spruce
trees, did he?" asked Mrs. Bowser.
According to this statement, he did
not find any spruce trees at all, but
just the sort mentioned.
II thought it might turn out that
way. Your Mr.. Riley is sharper,
my dear"
That's it-that's it. Begin your
faultfinding! Call a man sharper
because he is willing to show you
how to make small fortune. Mrs.
Bowser, if you are going to do the
usual thing, you will drive me into
leaving this housed"
81 hope it won't be as bad as that,
but there is certain thing you have
not posted yourself about The land is
covered with hardwood trees. You
can't make woodpulp out of beech or
maple or oak or hickory or any trees
that, list mentions. You can make ak
handle, wagon spokes and veranda
chairs out of hickory, and you can
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FORTUNE WAITS FOR BURNS
Heir OF Civil War Volunteer Who
Never Returned Can Claim
WindfaiI.

New York.-Boyl Page Mr.. Burnsi
Paging the Mr.. Burnses Of the coun-
try is precisely the task confronting
j. M. Sacklin of No. 5 Beekman street,
who is In charge Of large SUM of
money seeking an owner-frst name
and present whereabouts unknown.
Here is how 1t happened:
When Lincoln called for volunteers
in 80 David Burns, then living at No.
135 East Twenty-First street, this city.
stopped his work and marched off TO
battle. He was in such haste to re-
spond that he notified no relative and
made no disposition Of a tidy. bank &C
count.
David Burns never came back. His
unclaimed earnings lay in the bank,
swelling by the increment of interest
until now they represent large for
tune even in these days. The windfall
is awaiting the claim of the right MIR.
Burns.
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LESSON TAUGHT BY
YEAR OF THE WAR

sliders. Aroused now to the solemnity
of our task, the duty will be perform
ed to the end-victory Yet only when
every one does his full share shall that
victory come.
War Is Grim Work.
Urge haste, urge thoroughness. urge
unremitting effort Take the war seri-
ously, for war is grim work, and we
have an enemy who thinks of nothing
but efficiency. Our soldiers are not on
ly to be amused, but armed and taught
to fight. Insist that this comes first.
More guns, more ships, more air
planes! Is your congressman or SEN
ator tagging? Punch him up. Act ev-
cry day as if your life and your wife
were in danger. They are! Speed up
the war!
Have you learned that waste is
treason?
Upon us our allies depend not only
for men and munitions but for food
and clothing. If our permanent liberty
is to be won, they must for a while de-
fend it for us, till we, too, can fight.
Shall we waste, then, while they
want? While they are to be fed and
clad, waste is treason. Save wheat,
save meat, save WOOL The war needs
everyone's strictest economy.
The good ship Democracy is sorely
beset by the storm. Shall the passen-
gers revel while the crew starve? Di-
vide! Divide, and save the ship lest
all be lost!
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TURKEY RAISING
GOOD SIDE Line
Requirement of Range Usually
Limits Production of Big
Fowls to Farms.
BRONZE VARIETY IS POPULAR
Birds Are Especially Adapted to Grain
and Stock Farms Where There Is
Ample Ranging Ground
Astounding in Feed

For those who are favorably stu
ated for raising turkeys, more profit
able side line scarcely can be found
Plenty of range is necessary to raise
turkeys, so this usually limits the op
portunity to the farms. Turkeys are
| included in the department of agricul.
lures program for increasing poultry
production, and specialists of the de.
partment point out how and where in.
creases can be obtained.
Turkeys are especially suited to the
grain and stock farms where there is
ample ranging ground Astounding in
such. turkey food as grasshoppers and
other insects, weed seeds, waste grain
such as is left in the fields after har-
vest, and nuts of such varieties as
beechnuts, chestnuts, pecans, pine nuts
and acorns. On such farms the pres
emit prices of grain affect the turkey
raiser but little, for with the excep-
ton of what is used at fattening time
the feed consumed Is largely Of such
a kind as would otherwise be wasted.
Raise More Turkeys.
With but little additional outlay to
the farmer many more turkeys could
and should be raised, federal special
lists say. The small number of turkeys
per farm in the United States is sur
prising. According to the census of
1910, which is the latest that has been
taken, only 1871 per cent>of the total
number of farms reported any turkeys
at all, and on those farms reporting
turkeys an average of but slightly over
four breeding turkeys was found per
farm. Some farms by nature of the
crops grown ON them or because of
unfavorable surroundings are not
adapted to turkey raising, but most
farms could easily handle a breeding
flock of from 10 to 10 hen turkeys
and tom, raising from rs to $50 each
year at good PROFIT.
Throughout the middle West, where
most Of the turkeys are raised, 1t is
unusual to see flock of more than
SO on farm, although In Texas, where
more are produced than In any, other
state, focks Of several hundred are
rather common. In sections of the
Southwest and on the Pacific coast a
few persons have engaged In turkey
raising on large scale, rearing
thousand or more every year. There
are not, however, enough turkeys
raised on the Pacific coast to supply
the local demand. This Is true also of
the Atlantic coast states.
Owing to the fact that the Bronze
turkey is the heaviest, it is more
popular among turkey raisers than
other varieties. Since turkeys are sold
by weight the heaviest birds bring the
greatest returns, When a large num-
Der Of people are to be served, as in
hotels, restaurants, and boarding
houses, the demand is for heavy tur-
keys. For family use the demand is
for small or medium-sized birds. IN
less they are to be marketed locally
among customers who demand small
birds, 1T is far more profitable to raise
the heaviest. Regarding other charac-
teristics, it is quite generally asserted
that the Bronze is the hardest variety,
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that the Bourbon Red and White Hol.
land are the most domestic, and that
the White Holland is the most prolific.
These qualities are possessed in diff
ferent degrees by individuals of every
variety, however, and can be devel-
oped by proper management and care
full selection Of breeding stock.
Work Of Turkey Hen.
A turkey hen that begins laying in
the middle of March will usually finish
laying her first litter early in April,
her second late in April, and her third
litter about the third week in May,
depending upon the number of eggs
she lays and the promptness with
which she is broken up on becoming
broody. Some turkey hens can be
made to lay four or five filters, but
this is not usually advisable as poults
Matched later than June do not have
chance to develop for the Thanks
giving and Christmas markets and are
not sufficiently mature the following
spring to be used as breeders.
Turkey hens can easily be broken
of their broodiness by combining them
for two or three days to a coop with
a Stat bottom. They will mate soon
after being let out of the coop and
begin laying in about week. Turkey
hens and chicken hens usually are
used to incubate turkey eggs, although
incubators are quite generally used
where turkeys are raised on large
scale.
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tower. The explosion of the second
bomb was followed by several explo-
sions within the submarine, which dis
appeared.
Sank Two Others.
Diving from a height Of 1000 feet
to 1000 feet, another seaplane drop
ped depth charge on the spot where
submarine had disappeared. When
the water subsidized, the shape Of the
submarine could still be seen below the
surface and a second bomb was drop
ped, after which the ship disap-
peared."
An enemy submarine with two per-
iscopes and about 200 feet in length
was sighted by seaplane on patrol
duty. The seaplane descended $500
feet to height of 80 feet and dropped
two bombs as the German submerged.
One of the bombs made direct hit
just behind the coming tower. The
submarine turned upside down and
sank. Oil and wreckage later came
to the surface.
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Truths Brought Home to Ameri.
cans by Great Fight for
Democracy.
ALL CAN SHARE IN BATTLE
Send Your Dollars to Government
Rout Our Enemy Within Our
Gates-Your Patriotism
on Trial.
BY GELETT BURGESS of The Vigil.
ianteS,

BY eELETT BURGESS of The Vigil.
|. What have you learned from this
first year of the war?
Have you learned that no peace is
possible but one founded upon the tri-
umph of democracy?
Germany'S faithlessness to her
treaty agreements in Belgium has had
its sequel in her deceit in Russia. Ger
mans frightfulness is the deliberate
policy of autocracy in it's design to en-
slave the world. All pretenses of lib
eral reforms have been drowned in
the rising lust for world-conquest.
Intoxicated by self love and ruthless
| ambition the kaiser and his war lords
seek to bring all civilizations under the
reign of brute force. Nation after ma
ton has fallen their prey. If we are
to survive. that malign doctrine Of
| might-makes-right must be destroyed
forever.
Have you learned that you, too, can
fight in the battle for freedom?
Lend your money to the Liberty
Loans; give 1t to the Red Cross. Every
| dollar lent the government helps equip
soldier; every dollar to the Red
Cross succors him in his time of need.
Il you are patriot you can no more
keep out of these drives" than, if
soldier, you could refuse to go over
the top into No Mans Land.
Dollars Are Soldiers.
Dollars are soldiers, tool Your dol
lars will fight to end the war. Each
private may think his own worth small
but all together they make an army.
Your dollar seems small, but if each
does his share the war will have suffi-
cient backing.
For your boys sake, if he is "over
there subscribe! You would not re-,
fuse to help pal? Well, you have
million pals! Help them,
Have you learned that the enemy is
herewith US, too?
The soldiers blood, in the trenches,
is not only drained by flying shells-it
Is sucked by rats and lice. Here at
home we have human vermin preying
upon us. Just as evil and insidious rs
the trench pests are the prO-German
spies and propagandists and the paci-
fists who seek to impede or discoun-
tenance the war. Watch them, watch
for them, seek them out
Let no seditious word or act go un.
reported. Let the alien enemy SUBJ
ject declare plainly where he stands,
whether he is for us or against us. If
German born, urge him to join the
League for Americans of German Orig
in and thus manifest at once his In
eradicable love for the fatherland and
his devotion to his adopted country.
Those who are not for us are against
us!
Have you learned that your patriot
ism is being tried by your faith and
your works?
Be not cast down by defeat Spread
no rumOrs of calamity. When the dark
days come, encourage the timid and
fearful, reprove the alarmist and back
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make furniture out of other hard
woods, but you can't make wOOdpulp.
You can steam me Of the wood and
bend In most "ly shape you wish,
but you can't soften them into wood
pulp.
"Why-why-I thought" STAN
mered Mr.. Bowser.
you thought that woodpulp could
be made of any tree" interrupted
Mrs. Bowser.
"And l thought right! I tell you,
woman, if a mistake has been made
here you have made it. What right
have you-a woman-to claim to be
so well-posted on a matter that you
surely know nothing about? Why,
with all my experience l have never
been in paper mill. And you talk as
if you have been in twenty,
But woman can read as well as
man." protested Mrs. BOwser. zone
need not go near a paper mill to un-
derstand that you can't dissolve q
hickory AK handle into pulp. You
can split it into a hundred pieces, but
you cannot make fibrous matter of
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it. Go out and see anyone you wish
about 1T, and IL he don't tell you as !
do ! will never again object to any of
your plans"
Yes, i will go OUT exclaimed Mr..
Bowser, as he brought his fist down
on the reading table, "and / Will let
half dozen men decide who is the
ignoramus in the case. II you know
more than do"
Mr.. Bowser went out. He inter
viewed the carpenter, grocer. a
butcher and builder, and, though
they didn't call him names. they
looked at him with amaZement and
contempt that hurt his feelings.
The builder went so far as to saw
that he might as well buy out a junk
shop and try to sell the old iron, brass
and copper to the papermakers and
the grocer intimated that as long as
there were such men In the world
the price of butter and eggs conld
never be brought down to the old
standard
Mr.. BOwser realized just what
would happen when he re-entered
his house, Mrs. Bowser would be
reading book. She would lay that
book down with a smile of triumph.
and she would expect an apology
from him. He would feel crushed
and Inundated, and, though she
would not crow over him, he could
not hold his head up again for a
week.
Mr.. Bowser fingered by his gate.
He also fingered on the front steps.
He turned the doorknob quietly and
he walked in without his scuff OF
the feet, Yes, Mrs. Bowser sat there
with a book. She laid the book down
with smile, but she said:
"Mr. Bowser, a rat has gnawed a
hole and found his way into the
Won't you set trap for him
tonight?"
That was all-all except that Mr..
Riley hasn't sold that woodland to
Mr.. Bowser yet.
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to his visitors. indicating his vigor de-
spite his great age. He is red-cheeked
and his head is covered with thick
silvery hair. His eyes are clear and
bright and he takes long walk every
day for exercise.
Roberts is of English and Welsh de-
scent and distant relative of the
famous British soldier, Lord Roberts.
He was born in Peach Bottom, Lam
caster county, Pennsylvania, March 2,
1917, He fought through the Civil
war and takes keen interest in the
progress of the American army In the
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BOwSer.'S
Little Plan
He Is Going to Reduce
the Cost of White
Paper One-Half
BY M. QUAD.
'seesesesssessesssssssssss

BY M. QUAD.
When Mr.. BowSer came up to din
ner the other evening there was let
ter awaiting him which had come in
the afternoon mail. 1t was a letter
from a postmaster up the state. He
opened 1t, and expressed a great salts
faction. He had no particulars to give
out, and Mrs. Bowser had learned to
repress her curiosity.
Half an hour after they had gone
upstairs Mr.. Bowser began pacing
the floor, as he always does when he
has got little scheme on hand. By
and by he suddenly made up his
mind TO unbosom himself, and he sat
down and drew the letter from his
pocket and said:
Mrs. Bowser l hold a fortune in
my hand"
HAS some one died and left you a
legacy?" she Queried with q smile.
Il have left myself a legacy" he
continued, land l am going to tell
you about it, although l think have
made an idiot to do so. l should have
been worth millions and millions of
dollars had you not discouraged me
whenever / got hold of sure thing.
You will probably do so in this in
stance, but, by the seven seas, shall
go right ahead in spite of what you
say"
"Well, If it's so serious as that per-
haps you hadn't better tell the story"
"But / shall tell 1t, that you may
see what a golden opportunity has
presented itself, but any time l wish
TO stop short / shall do so. Mrs. Bow
ser, you have read about the scar
city and the consequent high price of
white paper, haven't you-indeed, Of
all kinds of paper?" -
81 have" was the quiet reply.
''You know that paper is made of
woodpulp?"
81 do"
"They take wood and soften it I'D
in some way so as to make a pulp
Of It. This pulp Is then treated so
that it becomes sort of mash, and,
out Of this mash they make paper.
do not understand exactly how it's
done, but IT. is done. There is ire
mendous scarcity of trees. and that's
why paper is at higher price now
than was ever known in this country
before. You follow me, don't you?''
"Yes, I understand everything"
'"The papermakers have tried in
vain to find a substitute for this
woodpulp. They have even ground
up old hats. They can make wrap
ping paper out of bootlegs, and
straw stacks and a kind of grass,
but nothing but woodpulp makes the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-26
SINKS SUBMARINE
UNDER HEAVY fire
Seaplane Persists in Attack While
SheIIed by Six German
Ships.
THREE OTHERS DESTROYED
British Airmen Calmly Drop Bombs
as Enemy Shells Burst-Depth
Bombs Prove Effective When
Aviators Sight u-Boats.

LOndOn.-Under heavy attack from
three German submarines and three
German destroyers, a British seaplane
recently persisted in her efforts
against another enemy U-boat and sue
ceeded in sinking 1t before being dam
aged by the fire Of the other enemy
warships.
The seaplane was on patrol duty at
8 80 o'clock in the morning when a
submarine was sighted on the surface
with a man standing forward by the
gun. Increasing her speed, the sea-
plane dropped to an altitude Of 600
feet and released bomb.
AS she swooped around to repeat the
attack shell from the U-boat burst
in the air so feet from the propeller.
1t was seen that the bomb had made
a direct hit, big rent being visible
in the deck Of the submarine. Just
then out of the mist ahead three more
enemy submarines. followed close by
three destroyers, appeared.
Attacked by Six Vessels.
All six vessels maintained hot fire
against the seaplane. However, q sec
ond bomb dropped on the disabled u
boat. 1t exploded Is feet ahead of
the bow OF the submarine. The whole
craft shook and then sank quickly in
n pool of oil, bubbles and wreckage.
The seaplane, having no more bombs,
and as the destroyers were coming
near. returned to its base
Seaplanes also have accounted for
three other submarines. In one case
two large seaplanes attacked subma-
rine on the surface, with two Germans
standing on the coming tower. One
plane dropped a bomb to the starboard
of the U-boat while the other placed
one sQuarely in front of the coming
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Bulletins on Poultry.


The following publications of the
United States department of agricul.
tural relate to poultry culture. The
Farmers Bulletins are available fol-
free distribution by the department:
81 Standard Varieties Of Chickens.
2S7 Poultry Management
800 Pheasant Raising in the United
States.
1852 Capons and Caponizing.
52S Hints to Poultry Raisers.
$50 Important Poultry Diseases.
$50 Boys and Girls Poultry Clubs.
574 Poultry House Construction.
$50 Natural and Artificial Incubation
Of Hens Eggs.
624 Natural and Artificial Breeding
Of Chickens.
632 Simple Trap Nest for Poultry.
6S4 SQUAD Raising.
697 Duck Raising.
767 Goose Raising.
791 Turkey Raising.
SOL. Mites and Lice on Poultry.
These publications are for sale by
the superintendent of documents, gov
eminent printing Office, Washington,
D. c., at the prices named:
Guinea Fowl and It's Use as Food"
(Farmers' Bulletin 234) Price, s
cents.
Commercial Fattening of Poultry"
Department Bulletin Ply Price. 10
cents.
White Diarrhea Of Chicks, With
Notes on COccidiosis in Birds" (B. A.
/. Circular 1881 Price. 5 cents.
"a System of Poultry Accounting"
(B. A. /. Circula 176.) Price, 5 cents.
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THE LITTLE LAD

BY Agnes Lee Of the VisiIantea
To me it's always the little lad
Afraid to speak his name.
But he was one of the first to go,
When his heart received the flame.
He used to steal from the shadow3
room,
And ever the lighted stair,
If dismal tales were being told.
But he won the Croix de Guerre.
He .clutched my hand when the thun
der broke.
He paled at the lightnings glance.
But he met the Teutons face to face
And fell with the sons of France.
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paper they want to make most, and
whole forests have disappeared in
the last two or three years"
"Yes, / have read about 1t several
tines" said Mrs. Bowser. "Youl
coming fortune has something to dc
with the woodpulp, hasn't ity'
at has all to do with it, my dear
as you will soon learn. About q
month ago q stranger came into my
Office and introduced himself as Mr.
Riley. He wanted to 60 to war and
become great general, but he could
not do so unless he could make Ger.
tain business arrangements. He owns
tract of woodland, comprising 1000
acres. 1t was worth SIS an acre, but
he would sell it to me for $40, and give
me plenty Of time to pay for it. That
is, am to pay him half down in cash
and he takes mortgage on the land
for three years. Those are very favor
able terms, and they could not have
been offered me, except that Mr.. Riley
was anxious to be general"
"Well?" was the query.
1C Suiu tldL dUOuI IL uOZcu
paper manufacturers were after that
woodland, but he would give me the
preference. There are trees enough
on that land to keep 10 paper mills
going night and day for year. The
new supply of woodpulp will bring
down the price Of white paper fully
80 per cent. 1 buy that land at $40
an acre. hold 1t six months and
1 am just as sure to get $25 for 1t
as the sun rises"
II do not take anything for
granted. / am too good. a business
man for that. Mr.. Riley could not
give me the number of trees on his
thousand acres. l put him off and
wrote to postmaster to get me
a man to go over the land and do
the counting, and here is his report.
1t is more than satisfactory, and Mr..
Riley will be here tomorrow night
and we will close the bargain. / will
read you tire report. The man made