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Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22

the worst of it in every battle. His
men are growing tired of being shot
to pieces by American soldiers, and
they no longer possess that bulldog
tenacity that formerly characterized
the fighting Hun.
Upon every battlefield, not only in
this war, but in the wars of the past,
the American soldier has proven him
self a fighter to the manor born.
And in this great conflict he is dis
tinguishing himself admirably.
Ought we not, then, stand behind
him with our all? We can best do
this by conserving those things the
soldier must have. Some of those
things are money, clothes and mu-
nitions, and, just now, bread. We
could afford to do without flour
bread altogether for an entire year,
and the fact is, we may be forced to
do this. If so, it should be done--it
will be done-uncomplainingly by
every citizen worthy place under
the protection of the American flag.
Then, at an early date, we are asked
to subscribe to another Liberty Bond
loan. This will be the third. Here
tofore bankers and business men and
doctors and lawyers have made up
these Liberty Loans. Now, however,
they cannot do so. The war condi-
tions have hit these classes harder
than any other, and, naturally, we
must turn to our prosperous produc-
ing class-those who have been sell
ing their cattle and hogs and mules
and sheep, wheat and corn, tobacco
and hay, potatoes and produce at
prices never before received for
these things. This is the class that
the government has so we'll cared
for in this crisis and this is the class
that will be expected to take liber-
ally of the third Liberty Loan.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
100 BUSHELS SOFA
BEANS BRING $3.50

Mr.. W. B. Pritchett, one of the
live-wire farmers of this community,
who lives mile east of Dresden,
delivered 100 bushels of sofa beans
to a dealer at Martin one day last
week, receiving the sum of $3.50 for
the lot, or $3.50 per bushel, we are
informed
Two wagons were required to
transport the 100 bushels of beans
to Martin. This was, perhaps, the
largest single sale of these beans
ever made in the county. This bean
is being grown extensively by our
farmers, and though the seed may
appear little high in price, yet it is
the cheapest thing we can grow.
The bean is being utilized for vari-
Gus purposes, besides being an ex-
cellent hog feed.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
GIRLS! LEMON JUICE
IS A SKIN WHITENER
How to make creamy beauty lotion
for a few cents.

The juice Of two fresh lemons strained
INTO o bottle containing three ounces OF
orchard white makes a whole quarter
pint OF the most remarkable lemon skin
oeautifer at about the cost one must
Day for small jar of the ordinary cold
creams. Care should be taken to strain
'he lemon juice through fine cloth so
10 lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion
will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is used
10 bleach and remove such blemishes as
Ereckles, sallowness and tan and is
the ideal skin softener, whitener and
neautifer.
Just try it! Get three ounces of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and make I'D
. quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant
lemon lotion and massage it daily into
the face, neck, arms and hands.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

w. B. Simmons, Complainant, VS.
Gladys Simmons, defendant.
In the Circuit Court of Weakley
Couny, Tennessee
To Gladys Simmons:
A bill for divorce has been sworn
to and filed in this court, which bill
AYERS that you are a nonresident Of
the state of Tennessee and resi-
dent of the state of Alabama, SO that
the ordinary process of law cannot
be served upon you. This is there
fore to notify you, the said Gladys
Simmons, defendant in above styled
cause, to appear before the Circuit
Court Of Weakley County, to be held
at Dresden, Weakley Couny, Tennes-
see, on or before he first
MONDAY IN APRIL, 1918,
and make defense to said bill filed
against you or the same win be ta-
ken for confessed and proceeded
with ex parte as to you.
This Feb. %, 1918. m1-8-15-22
W. w. HOUSE, Clerk
Maiden & Bowden, for Compl't
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
DISTINGUISHING THEMSELVES

The Enterprise has not the least
shadow of doubt but what he al
lies will win his great war. Nor
have we the slightest doubt that Am
erican troops will do the greatest part
of the winning, though we do not
for a moment discount the great
work to be done by our allies in the
trenches; but we do believe that the
final victory will be due in the main
to the bravery, the endurance and
the accuracy of American Sammies!
Very recent events on the wes-
tern front lead us to believe this
stronger than heretofore. In every
test to which they have been put
the American boys have proven the
metal that is in them-they have
won every battle, They have so
completely frustrated the Huns that
it is now believed by many that the
great spring battle so long boosted
of and so long and laboriously pre-
pared for by Germany will never ma
terialize.
The fact is American soldiers have
the German troops on the run and
the war may be won any day. The
enemy seems to be completely de-
moralized. He did not expect what
American troops are pouring into
him. He poked fun at our "babies,"
as he was wont to call them. But he
has changed his poke, and instead is
bringing into action his most astute
resourses-His biggest and best gen.
erals, his most deadly weapons, his
best troops-and yet, he is getting
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
Catarrh and Bronchitis

Mrs. Rosa a. Kiss, S1S Clinton
Place, Kansas City, Missouri, writes:
Il was very sick with catarrh
and Bronchitis. ! also had a cold
In the head. ! used Peruna and am
well pleased with the results. 1t
has done me a great deal of good.
/ do not need any other medicine. /
can cheerfully recommend it to any
one who is troubled with catching
cold frequently or any one who has
a chronic cough or chronic catarrh.
Those wishing further particulars
concerning my case may write me.
Be sure to enclose a stamp and
will answer"
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
A MODERN ROAD LAW

Weakley county sOrely needs and
must have a modern road law, and it
is incumbent upon the people that
they bestir themselves to that end.
The time is rapidly drawing near
for selecting legislative candidates,
and whoever is selected for direct
representative, floterial represen-
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
W. SIS.

l have Rhode Island Red hens for
sale by the dozen, including one male
with each dozen hens. Rhode Island
and White Leghorn eggs, per Is,
$1.00.-J. M. Cornell, Sharon,
Tenn. 48-4t
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22

!, Every kid knows the Brakeman, who
goes through Town like this on a
String Of Cars, and every kid wants
to be either a Brakeman or Pirate
when he Grows Up. The Brakes
chief Amusements are waving at the
Pretty Girls and throwing Small
Tramps or the Train.
Dresden enterprise and Sharon tribune. (Dresden, Tenn.) 1907-1997, 1918-03-22
-W.S.S

The Enterprise covers Weakley
county like the dews Of heaven If
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
THE UNINTERESTING TIME IN LIFE.

I'm getting and old
1 have passed Life's day of gold,
And I'm nearing where the evening breeze is
signing!
Age-dear fe1low!-seems to say:
1--WE have come long, long way,
And there's little left for us that's worth the
trying!"
We have made our journey by .....
Rocky pathways-Age and l.
And we've shared whatever Fortune ehanced the
giving;
Happy we have been and glad
Luckless too, and drear and sad,
But we've cheerful been and known the love of
living
Now we've reached the end at last
Youth and Happiness are past
Tasteess now the cheerful words of sage and poet:
you are DID," the echoes say;
Though we're silent on way,
In the hearts of US It's very well we know it!
Not by gray are we betrayed,
Nor features do they fade;
It's apparent moro in success at wooing;
We can still charm maids of Six,
And the girl" of Forty sticks.
But the Queen OF Twenty-one-theres nothing
= seAn d Waus 4 4, sasaie lEvsaius New.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
Harper's Magazine Heads
Periodical Roll of Honor

Edward J. osBrien. the noted literary
critic of the Boston Transcript. has
just made public his annual list Of the
best stories OF 1917.
While the scope OF his analysis is
limited to frst-class publications. his
roll of honor list for fiction writers is
3ealously priced by those admitted to
membership. and as religiousiy dis
counted by those left outside the pale.
The reading public accepts his verdict
as a definite and comprehensive stand
ard based upon intelligent criticism.
Harper's Heads List.
BY percentage Of distinctive stories.
Mr.. O'Brien ranks Harpers Magazine
first in the list. and first honors arc
also accorded the same publication for
the number Of distinctive stories.
Wilbur Daniel steele and Batha-
rine Fullerton Gerould are still at
the head OF their craft. But dur
ing the past year the ten publish
ed stories by Maxwell struthers
Burt and Charles Caldwell Dobie
seem to promise a future in our
literature of equal Importance to
the later work of these writers.
Sherwood Anderson and Waldo
Frank emerge as writers with a
great deal Of Importance to say. al
though they have not yet fully
mastered the art of saying il. The
three new short story writers who
show most promise are Gertrude
Nafe and Thomas Beer. whose first
stories appeared in the Century
Magazine during 1917. and Eliza
beth Stead Taber whose story. The
Scar" when IL appeared in The
Seven Arts attracted much favor
able comment. Miss Edwina Stanton
Babcock and Lee Foster Hartman
have both published memorable
stories.
or the lack OF humorous writers,
Mr.. OBrien says: Il do not know
whether IT is an effect of the war
or not, but during 1917, even more
than during 1916, American maga-
zines have been almost absolutely
devoid Of hunor. Save for Irwin
S. Cobb, on whom the mantle Of
Mark Twain has surely fallen, and
for Seumas O'Brien. whom Mr..
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
Be Patient.

Possibly it needed shock such as Mr.. Car
field gave US to make US realize that we are at
war. We have been too self-centered, too well
satisfied with conditions they were. Too few
realize that the Kaiser's submarines came to our
shores once or twice, more times. If they did
damage it was because we not then at
war. They may come again, they may elude our
cruisers, and they may kill our children as they
have killed other children.
We are too sure of ourselves of our ability to
meet this crafty enemy. We raise howl that
extends across the seas when those in authority
deem it necessary to act to save or conserve our
fuel, We might profit by thinking-and remem-
bering the stores in Paris have been heatless for
years; that only old men and women and children
left in the towns and cities; that hundred
thousand homes have been devastated; that mill
lion soldiers at this moment knee deep in rat
hidden trenches.
We have seen boys march away in health, and
II they come back at all they come shell shocked
zrmlesss legless, blind-a horrible sight. Il makes
you realize what war is-and il makes you think
how pitfuf IS an this criticism of those who are
doing their best that you may not experience such
suffering.
The country must awake. must be awakened
to the fact that we really m this warthat war
is Just what Sherman said ID yae-shat We ssn.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
From Mr.. McAdoo.

The best possible impression would be made
if the "workess Monday" plan was abandoned after
a few weeks of experimentation. If it could be
done without the admission of retreat from rather
indefensible position but because the traffic jam
longer required drastic measure, it would
be the best possible tonic for the public mind
Director General McAdoo is responsible for
the reassIring word that the Garfield idea may be
modified or done away with long before the
nounced schedule time. The Fuel Administrator
believed that it would be necessary continue his
program until March 25.
The spirit of resignation with which the Amer
lean people accepted the incubus does them credit
and it must be said that real patriot begrudges
the sacrifice involved if he is once convinced that
it was necessary for the salvation of the country
from transportation point Of view. When the
President issued his statement in solid support of
the Fuel Administration most criticism ceased,
pending the test of the results achieved.
We hope that the forecast of Mr.. McAdoo is
correct and that Americans may be spared further
sacrifice unless it is absolutely necessary that the
plan continue.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
How He Succeeded.

This is the year of wedding, especially serv-
ice weddings, that much ado is not apparent
about hymeneal knots of yore, at least in Wash
ngton, which has led certain young to win
a young lady who ariStocratc, SEEM
ingly unapproachabe, unwilling to daily with
such intimacy as love might engender, that the
millions in her possession attracted but her cold
ness and aloofness repelled would-be swains. The
young lady is Washngtonian, with Philadelphia
strain, perhaps a touch of Quakerism. Even young
and unattached diplomats paid court to her, in all
the known and most deferential ways, but al
though the columns of society periodicals occasion
ally limited at coming international engage
ment nothing ever came of it.
Then, presto, out of the West came young
in uniform second lieutenant, whose name
and ring plighted before the altar to the very
human young woman
This young man is not rich, was trained at a
camp not far from the Capital, is engaged in so
prosaic work train routing, was, and yet has
succeeded where the so-called elite of the world
failed. And the reason for his a Sc
cret until his bachelor dinner, which consisted of
a simple repast and some drinks in the bar of a
prominent hotel just before the lid clamped on
D. c. At the fourth drink, maybe the fifth his
friends began to congratulate him for the steenth
time and then the subject changed to the cause
of his success.
And an unsuccessful sutor, since married hap
PLY to another girl said:
"You got accepted, you lucky mani l pro-
posed to her once, and she turned me down. I'M
agne me, on my knees, holding her hand and kiss
ing it reverently-were you your knees, too?"
"Not very WE'LL" said the prospective benedict;
"she was sitting them
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
If BACK HURTS
Begin ON SALTS
Flu.h the Kidneys at Once When
Backaehy or Bladder Bother,.
Meat Forms Unc Acid

No mPn or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake ~
flushing the kidneys occasionally, says
uric acid which clogs the kidney pores
80 they sluggishly flter or strain only
part of the waste and poisons from
the blood. then you get sick. Nearly
all rheumatism. headaches, liver
trouble. nervousness, constipation,
dizziness, sleepiessness. bladder dis
orders come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache IN
the kidneys or your back hurts. or IA
the urine IL cloudy. offensive, full OF
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended oy a sensation Of scaIding. get
about four ounces OF Jad Salts from
any reliable pharmacy and take a ia
blespoonful in a glass OF water before
breakfast for a few days ana your
kidneys will then act fine. This ia
nous salts is made from the acid OF
grapes auo lemon juice. combined
with lithIa and has been used for gem
erations to flush clogged kidneys and
stimulate them TO activity. also TO
neutralize the acids in urine so IL no
longer ca uses irritation, thus ending
bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure: makes a delightful effervescent
liJhia-water drink which all regular
meat eaters should take now AMI
then TO keep the kidneys clean and
the blood pure, thereby avoiding seri-
Gus kidney complications.-Adv.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24

done. There is work enough which
cen be subdivided and scattered. to
keep the shops. mills and factories
of the country, both large and small,
fully occupied.
Every bit of this which is done
helps the business stability Of the
country-an important element. 1t is
said that the cost plus fixed charges
is less for a large concern than for a
small one.
The results. therefore. by the sug-
gested method. could be of little or
no detriment-probably a benefit to
the product which the nation must
have. Smaller business would be on
firmer basis and the stability to
business thus obtained would be a
gain far more than offseting a little
additional trouble. There is also an
advantage I'm making as many as pos
sible feel in the harness and pulling
a share.
'Of course some big concerns would
not be doing quite so large a volume
of business, but such concerns are
sure to be fully occupied in any event.
while any effort giving them all the
business there is. without distinct
benefits to the country resulting as it
would be in peace times.
Let the small business man do a
part of the work.
THE OBSERVER
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
Real Yankee.

You cannot keep the Yankee down, no matter
where you put him.
At one of our camps in France, the boys had
been struggling, since their arrival, with French
"pie." When you order pie, in France, you get a
contraption of the rag-ends of meat and vegetables
soaked in gravy of unknown origin and contained
in shell of galvanized iron crust 1t is 5000 miles
away from pie like mother used to make.
Suddenly, one day recently, genuine American
pies with NICE tender, white flour crusts, appeared
for sale in the camp. They cost $40 the piece
but every boy with $40 was willing. Somebody's
gold mine.
Officers now looking for the shrewd Yankee
soldier boy who got hold of some flour and
promoted" private pool with the French bakers
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
Speaking Of SpotEghts.

When the spotlight seeks the truly great. there
is one at. R." who is there" The best-trained
spotlight in the world could not miss him-no, not
even on Lost River
When Dr. Garfield signed his name to docu-
ment in a national crisis at. R." was not storm
tossed in Kansas He was on his way to the home
of the spotlight, and when it tired "dodging" the
incompetents and reached the center of the stage,
there he was-dee-lighted
Mr.. Chamberlain, real statesman, was on the
stage at the same moment, but it developed that
he was only the props" There was no wavering
in that spotlight Turned on "T. R." it quit
"roamin' in the gloamin'" of popular discomfort,
and its full rays beamed on the ever-ready self
confessed Moses of the nation.
It's wise spotlight that knows who to spot
light. And "T R." is there yet--so is the spot
light.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
The Back-Fre.

With circums tantial detail, reports come OF a
general strike of a million and more munition
workers in Austria-Hungary; of the impending fall
of Count Czernin because of the Prussian rejection
of his mo annexatons and indemnities" policy
at Brest-Ltovsk of the Emperor Charles cloister-
ing himself at the Schoenbrunn palace, foreseeing
the political crisis coming which will force him
to choose between continuing mere tail to the
German dachshund and throwing in his lot with
his own people.
The world has blundered deeply before this is
thinking that Austro- Hungarian conditions bad
they have been for year and more, could be
brought to the pitch of forcing dissolution of
the central empires. 1t is determined not to fall
into the again, and for that reason
the development of economic attrition is Austria
is awaited passively, with detached interest,
not to allow it to influence the military side of
the war upon the Germanic peril.
breakdown of Austrian industry now might
not affect the to a material extent for months
to come. Austria has nothing to fear her
eastern frontier; she might fall into general
military decadence without weakening Germany to
the extent necessary before decisive defeat be
inflicted upon her.
But if the flame of revolt against militarism
now rising in the ramshacke empire of the Haps-
burgs-the sparks of which undoubtedly came from
Russa-can penetrate into Southern Germany, into
Bavaria and Saxony, and thence to Prussia, then
indeed the is good as over for that will
mean the dethronement of Junkerism. Brushing
aside the hectic flush of patriotism, getting down
to the real mind and soul of the German as
individual rather than mere pawn in
war-making machine, there is hardly any doubt
that he has been permanently cured of his de-
menta-the dementia of a paying business,
of conquest, of world-power, of Nietsche super
philosophy, of organized, scientific slaughter.
If his faith in the power and omniscience and
character of Fritz's military masters be
shaken, the rest is easy. The allies could then
leave the war to take of itself
1t is to be hoped that the hash the Germans
are making of their negotiations with the Bolshe-
wiki will contribute nightly to this educational
process among, the Germans, but the world
will know what is happening in Germany until the
deuge comes
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
One. or the Other.

"The people must go go under."-Lloyd
George.
This is the whole thing in a nutshell, and there
is no other alternative.
Especially does it apply to the American, people.
We must fight, save, sacrihce-go on-with all our
might and soul go under, for entered the
war to secure permanent peace and that is what
Prussian mitarism will not permit, if triumphant.
The allied nations could and would have to pay
the bulk of their indemnity in territory. We would
pay indemnity in cash What CASH. The earn
ings of the common people. Add to billions of war
cost billions of war indemnity and picture to your
self the peace in our country under forced colec-
ton of the total from the common people!
The people have got to go with this for
all that's in them. go under for all they've got
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
NORTHWEST NEEDS
SHIPBUILDING MEN

Only experienced shipbuilding
men should seek employment in the
Northwest, the Federal employment
warned yesterday.
Reports of labor unrest, and
shortage, and ]. W. W. agitation,
the service reported. are exaggerat-
ed. Five classes of workers are
needed however, for the Oregon
shipyards. These are shipwrights,
shipftters. caulkers, boilmakers
and machinists. The first three
classes are reasonably certain of
employment. Others should first
address the service here and await
advice. Loggers are needed in early
spring.
There are now seventeen wooden
and five steel shipbuilding concerns
in Oregon, employing $1,000 men.
They have a capacity for ninety
ships. Other yards will be built
shortly, it was stated.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24

Of the army. This force will be used
to replace the regular army and Ma
tional Guard forces now used in en-
forcing the alien enemy order issued
by President Wilson
Capt. George NJ. Silverthorne. IN
fantry. national army. has been pro-
moted TO be a major by the War De-
partment, It was announced
Mai. william A. Starrett, Engineer
Reserve Corps. has been made the
contracting oficer by the War De-
partment for the construction Of ONCE
buildings for the War Industries
Board. the United States Food Ad-
ministration and the Ordnance De-
partment This work will be under
taken by Maj. Starrett in addition to
his other duties. He has been on duty
here since his appointment to active
service.
The resignation OF Mai. John A.
Devron. Medical Corps. National
Guard Of the United States Oouisi-
anal accepted by the President, Jan
uary 10, 1918. has ben announced
by the War Department.
The Washington herald., 1918-01-24
Natures Hint.

William Charles Macready, in his diary, made
this sage observation:
Nature provided with two and one
mouth. Why don't we take the hint?"
We pass it along to distinguished friends
in the government of the country, and to such
others as are not even in the class of Mark Twan's
friend of whom he said: "He was a good extempo-
rzneous listener"