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Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
LOCAL BOARD NEWS
One Of the Busiest Weeks ia the
History Of the Board

This is a very busy week with
the local board, one of the busiest,
in fact, in the history of the board.
The new registration entailed much
work for the board, even prior to
the examination and classification
of the registrants.
Under an induction call twelve
men we're entrained last Sunday
morning for Camp Wheeler, Ma
con, GA. This bunch consisted OF
white men, class one men and men
in group 9. especially qualified for
special or limited service. No men
qualified for general military SER
vice weae indicted under this call.
Following are those who left:
Samuel Curtis Rumley, William
j. Campbell, Elvis Seavers, Leon
ard Vickers, Harry Clifton Nor
gan, Willie Paul Hansbfo. Will
liam Oscar Morgan. John Everett
Adams, William Floyd Mcclure,
Enly Hollowell, Olger Dickerson
and Lee Roy Forrest.
Clarence William Currin, of
Mckenzie, was entrained last Sat-
urday afternoon for Fl. Ogle-
thorpe for a few days training.
He will then be sent to some
special work in limited service Coz
nected perhaps with the registra-
ton.
Thirty-ive registrants stood the
physical examination here last
Tuesday. DR.. j. H. Williams, a
member of the medical advisory
board at Mckenzie, assisted DR..
j. B. Cox in the examinations.
A meeting of the chief registrars
of the county was held at the court
house Monday. The purpose of the
meeting was to furnish them with
necessary material for the regis
tration, discuss the rules and come
to an understanding about the de-
tails of the work. 1t was really q
get-together meeting so that they
might understand the rules alike
and work in harmony.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
Fighting Mechanics

The training detachment Of
Fighting Mechanics, at Ten
nessee Polytechnic Institute has
entrained for concentration camps,
after eight weeks of intensive
training in technical courses. One
hundred men from Tennessee, and
one hundred men from Kentucky
composed the detachment. They
we're divided into groups, some
taking auto me Ss1ics, some
radio operation, sce carpentry,
aud some telephone line con-
struction. The men in the de-
tachment were exceptionally ca
pable in their work, and cultured
gentlemen in their conduct. These
men are in every way entirely
worthy of the highest praise, and
of the traditions aud ideals of the
United States army.
Tennessee Polytechnic Institute
is now busy place in preparation
1 for a heavy enrolment of regular
students, and for a unit of the
students, army training corps.
preparations are being made for
enrolling large number in each
II the Collegiate and the Vocational
section of the corps. The tech
meal courses offered, add the
proper atmosphere for rapid de-
eVelOpment necessary to successful
progress in the students army
training corps.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
AlIen--Eryin

Homer Allen and Miss Winnie
Erwin, both young people Of the
Trezevant community, motored to
the home of Esquire j. E. Bryant
of that city, and we're married in
the presence of a few special
friends, Mr.. Bryant performing
the ceremony. The bride is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs, D. N.
Erwin, and the groom is the son
of Mr.. and Mrs. j. g. Allen.
They are fine young people and
their many friends wish them well.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
mrs. Martha Park

Mrs. Martha Jane Cole Park
died last Saturday night at the
home of N. H. Lewis. in the Fiji
teenth district. Some time ago
she hurt her hip, which gave her
much trouble, but she had about
recovered from this injury. Sat.
urday she was in apparently as
good health as common. That
night she was sitting in her chair
and without warning she died. The
immediate cause of her death is not
known.
She was 10 years, i months and
% days old. She was married to
Robert William Park and to this
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
William CLAY Hurt

William Clay Hurt, of Trez-
evant, son of L. A. Hurt, of Hunt
ingdon, died last Monday morning
at 7:45 o'clock, after an illness OF
several weeks duration. He was
with his brother, Isham G. Hurt,
at the time Of his death, and had
been for some time. and had every
attention that the best physicians
and loved ones could give him.
The death was caused from lung
trouble, brought on BY bronchial
affections.
The deceased was As years, Z
months and II days old. He pro-
fessed religion and identified him.
self with tue Baptist church when
young and was a devoted christian
man. He was bright and intellect
ual, kindly in disposition and had
a host of friends. He is survived
by his father, four brothers. Isham
g., LLOYD L.. Haschel, H. and
Henry Grady Hurt and one sister,
Mrs. Fannie Hurt Rumhage.
The funeral services were con-
Quoted at the Baptist church Tues
day by his pastor, Rev. R L..
Riley, and the burial followed in
the Trezevant cemetery. The pail
bearers were Ben H. Hillsman, 9.
H. Wingo, Will Blanks, Gardner
Holmes, Will Hudson and |. H.
Mowen.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
CROP At S1ANDSTILL
Recent Rains too Late for the
Best Results

The cotton crop has held its own,
and probably registered a slight i'm
prCvement in some sections, no.
tably Oklahoma and Arkansas since
the end of August. Says the
Commercial Appeal.
A top crop has started since the
drouth- was broken, but this pros
pect is dependent upon the date of
killing frost. Rain caused con-
siderable shedding, but that was
probably more than Offset by new
growth. Shedding has been
checked.
Picking and ginning have be-
come general, and in somesections
are expected to be completed by
the end of this month or the mid
die of October.
The crop averages from week
to two weeks early. Ginning has
been unusually heavy for the
period since August. l.
Attractive prices are putting the
crop on the market about as rap
idly as it is ginned, but correspon-
dents say there would be a dis
position to hold at only slightly
lower prices.
The portion of the crop that has
been sampled compares very favor
ably with the quality of former
years. There is very little off Fool
ored cotton, bat the length and in
some instances the strength of the
fiber has been reduced by the
dronth.
Labor is scare and high. Any
thing like a protracted spell of wet
weather or other element delaying
picking for long might produce ar
actual shortage with serious results.
Thrift and Economy
Through the various agencies
at bis command, Maj. Rutledge
Smith, Chairman of the State
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
Y. M. c. A. rIeeting

DR.. B. G. Dodds and Hon. j.
Sam johnson went to Chattanooga
last Monday to attend a conference
of Y INCA. war workers. They
have led the Y.M.C.A. work ia
this county and have done some
efficient work for the cause. While
in Chattanooga they intended Wis
ting some of the army camps near
that city. They expected to be
gone three or four days.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13

You will need need war savings
stamps when the war is over-buy
hem now.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13

Thrift and Economy
Through the various agencies
at his command, Maj. Rutledge
Smith, Chairman of the State
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1918-09-13
OFF FOR CAMP
Thirty Young Men Entrain Last
Friday

Last Friday afternoon at 4:4C
o'clock thirty craftsmen from thi.
county entrained for CamE
WadswOrth, Spartanburg, S. q.
TO train for general military ser.
vice. Those leaving consisted d
che following young men. and !
large number Of their relatives anc
friends we're here to see them de.
part:
Jefferson franklin Lilly
Barney Daniel WiIes
William Phillips Taylor
Samuel Howard Leath
Sam Cecil Oxford
Bax Ridley
Dolphus r. Perritt
John Rufus McLemore
Henry Croker
Clarence Isaac Traywick
Allie Hulon Vancleave
William Archell' Abbott
Jesse Lee Arlington
Charlie Morgan McCrory
John Lester Thompson
John Bell Sparks
Howell Adams
Genie Franklin Hawk
Gordon Sparks
John McGarvin Smothers
John Roy Martin
Mckinley Allen
William Henry Patton
William Jackson Jamison
Lawrance Laslie Melear
Joseph Gordon Adamson
Noel Vickers
Herman Weathers
Willie Travis
Willie Lais Darnell.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
/. r. T. Employees Will
Ask Salary Increase

Members of the Brotherhood of In
terborough Rapid Transit Employees,
$4,000 men and women in all. are to
ask for 10 per cent increase on
their present wage scale when their
current contracts with the company cx-
pire on August /.
This WAS announced yesterday at the
regular monthly meeting of the station
men of the subway and elevated lines
in Greensboro hall, 1856 East Forty
second Street.
The elevated employees met in the
morning and were presided over by
John A. Weir. president of the station
mems local. The subway employees
gathered in the evening, with John A.
Phelan, president of the brotherhood,
as chairman. Both bodies voted to de-
mand the 10 per cent increase.
The present pay per hour of station
men is: Ticket agents, twenty-eight It
cents; porters, twenty-one cents; gate
men, twenty-five cents, and special Off
GERS. twenty-eight cents.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
Soldiers 81 Bill Opens
Y. M. C.. A. Drive

The coming drive of the Y. M. C. A.
for a 100000 fund for war work has
been started, trifle ahead of the
schedule. The first 81 bill has
been received by the National War
Work Council of the Y. M. c. A. 1t
came from Sergeant A. D. Abrams, of
166 Seventh Street, New York, dis
charged from regiment of engineers
because of wounds.
Accompanying the dollar is a letter
from Sergeant Abrams telling of his
experience with Red Cross Triangle
worker in base hospital in France
where he was recovering from his
wounds after six and half months OF
service at the front.
"As my pains were pretty bad, the
surgeon gave me a dose of morphlne
to put me asleep" Sergeant Abrams
writes. "I soon woke up, though, IN
pain again, and this time the attending
rurse could not give me any more
morphine. What she did was to rush
out of the ward and come back with the
unfailing Y. M. C. A. man, who seeme,c
to be ali loaded up with phonograph
a number Of records, two funny maga
zines, half a dozen books, some writing
paper and envelopes, pen, ink and
box of postage stamps.
"My feelings when saw that mar
coming toward my cot cannot be de.
scribed here. Suffice it to say DOM
know to this day where the. pain dis
appeared to, or how, and when ssar'ee
to get we'll"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
Form Organization to
Protect Child Health

School children are not to be nec-
lected in the nation wide campaign for
the saving of child life this year. Per
sons, interested in the welfare of the
child who has passed the age when he
is surrounded with the safeguards of
infant care. have formed the Child
Health Organization to "keep the
school children in good physical re-
Iair."
Malnutrition, ovcrwork and indus
trial conditions which undermine the
health of the child will be fought by
the new organization, which will strive
too, to institute better preventative
health methods among growing chill
dren. In this connection physical ex-
aminations will be provided SO no child
can drop down in the health scale un-
noticed.
The movement comes after a slow
realization that war conditions have
borne most heavily on school children.
Many persons in the organization were
connected with the examination of
children in New York City last winter
for malnutrition, which has been on a
steady increase since the price of food
has gone up.
Franklin L. Lane, Secretary of the
Interior, has indorsed the movement
and will cooperate in it's work The
offices of the organization are at 289
Fourth Avenue, with DR.. Emmett Holt
chairman of the Executive Committee
and Miss Sally Lucas X. Jean, director
of field work.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
Suburban Travellers
To Pay Higher Fares

A general increase Of suburban fares
from New York, both by railroad and
water transportation, was allowed yes
terday by a decision of the railroad
administration at Washington.
The discrepancy in fare between east
and west bound traffic on the Hudson
Manhattan tubes was adjusted by
an authorization of q fat rate of 81
cents from New York to Newark The
Pennsylvania Railroad, which controls
all eastbound travel, has been per-
mitted to charge the present fare for
several days, while the competing line,
by a previous order of Director Cen
eral McAdoo, was forbidden to accept
more than II cents for the same nine
mile trip in a westward direction.
Railroads operating ferries between
New Jersey points and Manhattan and
Brooklyn will be allowed to increase
the fares an average of cents. The
new rate will not go into effect, how
ever. until after an investigation of
the earning capacity of the ferries. The
Hudson River Day Line and the Balti-
more and Carolina Steamship Company
also were granted the privilege of in
creasing rates.
Protest against a boost Of fare from
to 10 cents between stations in Jer-
sey City by the Central Railroad was
made by the Jersey City Chamber of
Commerce. 1t is urged that the excess
will work an unnecessary hardship on
toilers employed in war work plants.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12

have been compelled to realize that
much of 1t was not war essential
1hefe are children in New York to-
day whose fathers have gone to war or
whose Dig brothers now at the front
were khe main support of the family
Inc mothers have gone to work and the
children have gone to the cutters, with
nc one to see that they are properly fed
or kept out of harmful ass ociation. We
decided to use all the resources of our
otganlzation to keep such children hap
PLY and healthfully cared for this sum
mer.
Have Lists of Needy Children
we have obtained list Of children
whosc nome conditions are especially
unhappy or who are suffering from
malnutrition. These lists have come
from public school teachers, Catholic
priests and the Association for Improy-
ing the Condition of the Poor. The
school will be entirely non-sectarian.
The Young Women's Christian Associa.
ton merely loans it's building to us for
the daytime, and has nothing whatever
u, TO DO with the conduct of the classes.
The American Red Cross is expected to
send US an additional list Of children
VINO arc on their home service records.
I'VE have ten teachers supported bv
the league who will take the resnonsi.
biity for caring for the children. teach
ing them gymnastics and directing
their recreation. We need besides
these ber of volunteers who will
assist in caring for the children,
We also need, more than anything
else, money. Twenty dollars will pro.
vide food and care for one child. We
have waiting list Of four hundred
This charity may not be so picturesque
as adopting Belgian baby or feedinc
the sailors, but it is just as necessary ''
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
Drive for Nurses
Wins 174 Recruits
In Days Efforts

The central committee which is con-
duclng the campaign for $4,000 Red
cross nurses announced yesterday
that it has gone on record as indors-
ing rank for nurses serving in the
army The committee contends that
rank Is necessary to increase efficiency
in nursing. "If rank is established for
American nurses thousands of Young
women will receive the title of lieuten-
ant or captain, as in the Canadian
army" said Miss Isabel l.. Evans, chair
man of the Manhattan Local Commits
tee on Red Cross Nursing Service.
The committee is determined to reach
the hundreds Of professional nurses in
New York City who are enrolled upon
commercial registries.
At the booths established by the Red
Cross the nurses in charge were ques-
toned yesterday by hundreds of young
women. all eager for overseas service.
Miss Frances l.. Lurkin, in charge of
the booth at the Pennsylvania Railroad
Station, said she turned away count
less young women who did not have
the necessary year of high school train
ing or it's equivalent.
A typical case, said Miss Lurkin, was
that of Mrs. D. Hoag, of Deer Pond,
N. j., who after enrolling yesterday,
placed her cight-year old child in a
boarding school in order that both she
and her husband could offer themsclve
for service.
The Bureau of Nursing of the At
0ontic niuioior +LoA
nurses were outftted yesterday at the
Washington Square Methodist Epis-
copal Church, 1873 West Fourth Street.
Two hundred and forty-one nurses had
been equipped previously
At Atlantic Division headquarters
sixty-five graduates of recognized hos
pitfalls signed application blanks, three
enrolled at 389 Fifth Avenue and five
at the Brooklyn chapter of the Red
Cross. In addition 450 young women
declared their Willingness to study to
become nurses.
A series Of recruiting meetings will
be held nightly in all the high schools
of New YorkCity, and speakers, for the
most part wounded soldiers and nurses,
will be assigned to the different booths
The first of these speakers, Lieuten-
ant Howard, made an appeal to large
satnerlng yesterday afternoon at the
booth at Fifth Avenue and Forty-second
Street.
Other speakers will make an appeal
to a mass meeting Friday evening at
Carnegie Hall.
american nurses receive $50 month
for home service and $50 in foreign
lands. as compared with $16.50 a
month received by English nurses and
S14 received by the French.
The bill just passed by the Senate
increasing the salary of army nurses
is held up by the House Committee
pending the question Of rank for nurses
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
Air Police to Hunt
City's Light Spots

An army officer and Allan A. RYAN,
special Deputy Police Commissioner.
VII ny over New York City next Mon
gay night to note the bright spots and
II determine the danger from possible
|.N raids. Hospitals and orphan
|ss..ums ss.. Will be especially noted. that
Ssssy ;s precaution for making these as
taken. '''' az A's''V may De
W.T.. ~. Ryan returned yesterday from
,;.I ,;sIsangton after comforting with Off
Sm Of the War Department, who are,
H. IL. 'ald' IN complete accord with Po-
I,k I commissioner Enright's order
ss.llsssnlng the city. Commissioner En-
ssa,, ,xa. said yesterday that the order
'Islo continue in force for some time.
commissioner Enright said he had
ys"eo yau a protest over the telephone
sss sa a man who declared he repre-
Essso Coney Island business man.
sSmplained it was unfair to Coney
ii,,aaa iiwaa 70 order lights out when a short
Iaace down the coast the lights of
sr. s beach are as strong as ever.
NJ ssS;mlsssioner ;nl Enright replied he had
A,,s ,suriwsdiction over Long Beach, but
t;sr,. all seaside resorts within the
confines must obey the order.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
Liquor Ban Urged
In the Interest
OF Public Health
DR.. A. D. Bevan Says Drink,
Like Plague, Must Be
Eliminated

CHICAGO, June l1.--National rro-
haoition for the benefit of military and
civil populations alike, the necessity of
each county in the United States send
ing quota of 20 per cent of the medi
cal men into army service, and the
withdrawal of physicians generally
from association after the war with
German scientists until Germany has
purged herself of guilt, were features
OF OF the address of DR.. Arthur Dean
heVan, OF Chicago, installed tonight as
president of the American Medical As
sociation.
Or: Charles Mayo, Rochester, Mimi.
retiring president; Surgeon General
Braisted, U. S. NJ; Assistant Surgeon
General Rucker and medical emissaries
from the nations of the Entente at
tended the war meeting of the associa-
tlon to-day, in addition to hundreds of
physicians and surgeons from all Sec
TONS OF the country here for the sec
tlonal meetings of the association,
winch begin tomorrow.
In his address DR.. Bevan paid spe-
cial tribute to the work of Surgeon
General Gorgas, and called attention to
tne TACT that the army death rate has
peen less than ten per thousand in the
moblllzation camps, twice as good as
the record held by any country prior
to this time"
The health of the mon is better
looked after III the army and navy than
IL is when the men were still in civil
life he declared.
drink the greatest single factor that
can be controlled in the interest of
public health, DR.. Bevan said:
In the slow evolution of civiliza-
Ton many great wrongs became so in
'renched that it required centuries OF
eecucatlon to extirpate them. Among
these great wrongs, too long tolerated,
none mas done more injury to mankind
than drink. Now the swiftly moving
course OF events is writing the death
warrant of autocracy, and rule by 'di-
vine right and science and education
should eliminate not only plaques and
epldemics, but also the curse of drink
from the world"
Other speakers at the meeting to-
night were DR.. Mayo and Governor
Iowden of Illinois.
The house of delegates of the asso-
clatlon to-day adopted resolution urr-
ing President Wilson to retain Maior
General Gorgas as surgeon general, de-
oPieS tiic 1dCL ne Will Cedcn TeClreN ent
age next October. Another resolution
calls upon members to further the con-
duct of the war by confning their
prescribing to products owned and
manufactured by loyal citizens of this
country or the Allies whenever the in
ferests of the patients permit.
Major General Gorgas in a statement
issued to-day gave unqualified approval
OF the proposal of the association to
give women doctors and surgeons en-
gagged in war work the same military
rank as male medical officers.
DR.. Justin Godart, chief of the medi-
France, brought message of hope and
confidence to the assembled physicians.
France knows. there is long. hard
struggle ahead before we reach vic
tory he said. "but we have complete
confidence that we can hold the line
until America arrives in force. Then.
for complete victory"
New-York tribune., 1918-06-12
Mrs. A. C. Vanderbilt
Becomes Bride To-day

Several weddings of Importance are
scheduled for to-day, among the most
notable being that of Mrs. Alfred G..
Vanderbilt and Raymond T. Baker, Of
Washington. The ceremony will be
performed on the lawn at HOLLYWOOD,
the country place of Mrs. Vanderbilt
at Lenox. The bride will be given
away by her father, Isaac Emerson, Of
Baltimore.
The. marriage Of Miss Dorothy Gill
roy. daughter of the late Thomas F..
Gllroy, one time Mayor of New York.
to Thomas Frederick Allen Bibby. son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert K. Bibby. of
Liverpool, England, takes place today
at the Hotel Plaza. The ceremony
will be followed by small wedding
breakfast
Miss May Coffey, daughter of John
V. Coffey. OF this city, will become the
bride of Thomas Collier Bradley in St
Maiachy's Church, in West Forty-ninth
Street. The ceremony will be per-
formed at 10 o'clock by the Rev. P. A.
O'Mara.
Miss Frances Catherine Heddell
daughter of Mrs. Laura Heddell, will
be married to George Franklin Plymp-
ton. U. S. N. r. F., too day at her home
in Hackensack, N. ]. The ceremony
Will be performed at o'clock by the
Rev. DR.. Arthur johnson.
The marriage of Miss Margaret Field
Groves, daughter of. Dr. and Mrs
Charles A. Groves, of East Orange. N
j.. to Lieutenant A. c. NJ. Azoy, ir.
also Of East Orange, takes place at q
O'Clock in the First Presbyterian
Church, East Orange.