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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23
CAPT. jim. MEROhEy
SOLDIER OF SOUTH
ANSWERS LAST CALL
ONE OF THE STATES LEADERS
FOR BETTER FARMING Sue
CUMBS TO ATTACK.
ORIGINATOR OF THE SILO HERE
Erected Nearly Generation Ago the
First Wooden Ensiage Saver Built
in the State; Was Active In Al,
Good and Progressive Works.
(Monday's Daily Herald,)

Captain John n Meroney, secretary
of the local bivouac of the Confeder
ate soldiers, president of the Maury
County Farmers Society, long identi.
fled with the agricultural life of the
state and county and one of the first
citizens of his community for more
than quarter of century, died to,
day from the effects of an encounter
last week with an enraged bull, com.
plicated by an attack of pneumonia.
Capt Meroney's death was not UNI
expected for little hope of his re.
covery has been held out since the ac-
cident. He was advanced in years
and while active all of his life he
lacked the vitality to resist the com
plcations that came from his harrow.
ing experiences with the bull, and to
all that was coupled case of pnep-
monia that made the end we'll night
inevitable.
Few men have bern more highly
esteemed in the community and in the
county than John N. Meroney. His
word was always a bond. He was
kind and considerate neighbor, de-
voted friend and citizen above re-
proach. For four weary years Capt.
Meroney followed the fortunes of the
Southern Confederacy with yalor and
fidelity. He was IN the same COM
mand with the late father of General
Harvey H. Hannah.
Capt. Meroney entered the Confed-
crate army from East Tennessee and
came to this county after the close of
hostilities. For more than a genera
ton he lived at Dark's Mill. He was
one of the most public spirited cit
liens in the county being active in
all good works. He was progressive
farmer and erected on his farm at
Dark's Mil more than a quarter of a
century ago the first wooden silo ever
built in Tennessee. He was a famil-
lar figure at all county and state farm
ers conventions and was ever the ar
dent advocate of the silo He preached
ensilage from one end of the state to
the other.
During the administration of Gov.
Hooper Capt Meroney was attached
to the staff of the commissioner of
agriculture and toured the state lee
turing on the advantages of the silo
For a great many years he had been
president OF the Maury county farm
ers society, and since the death of the
late Major John T. Williamson he has
served as secretary IF the Confeder-
ate camp and bivouac here. He en-
joyed the affections of all the mem
bers of both organizations
Nearly half century ago Mr.. Me-
roney was married and was blessed
with a number of children all of whom
have attained majority He was in
tensely patriotic, deeply religious and
kind and hospitable.
The funeral arrangements will be
announced tomorrow Cakes & Mich
OILS.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23
TAX COLLECTIONS
TROSTtE ADk|SON
SURPASS RECORDS
MORE THAN EIGHT HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS GATH
Erred IN FOUR YEARS.
PAST YEAR BEST OF ALL
Nearly Quarter of Million Is Runo
Up During the Twelve Months on
Maury County's Big Cash Register;
Books All Balanced.

All former records for tax collec.
lions in the county trustees office
have been distanced during the past
year. Collections from the assess,
ments of 1917, for the year ending
June 80 aggregated no less than $780,
900. This is an increase over the
previous year, to that time the best in
the history of the county, of more
than $4,000
During the four years that he has
been the official tax gatherer of Mau-
ry county Trustee John w. Addison
has gathered in $S17,355 which is
about 100000 more than was ever
before collected during any quadren-
ium. Trustee Addison collected the
taxes for the year 1914, 1915, 1916 and
1917.
The lowest years collections by the
trustee in the past four years in 1915
was only $1S4,063 was collected. The
next lowest was the previous year
when total of $1S9,193 was rung up
on the county's cash register.
The collections for the assessment
of 1916 aggregated $214,099. The trus-
tee has long since settled in full with
the state on last years collections and
everything is now in readiness to turn
the books and office over to j. Ross
Burns on September g
The books of the trustee balance to
a cent and have since Mr.. Addison
and Deputy Trustee Cathey have been
in office. The books have been
era times and no errors found.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23
MANY RAIDS MADE ON
RUNNERS OF BLOCKADE
ELEVEN CADILLAC FIGHTS ARE
ADVERTISED BIZ COL. AMlS,
u. S. MARSHAL.

So active have been the agents of
the United States government in rum
ming down and capturing blockade
runners that United States Marshal
Jonas T. Amis has no less than eleven
notices in this mornings Tennessean
advertising the libeling of that num-
Der of Cadillac Fights. Much of the
raiding has been done by Maury coun-
ties, L. L. Davidson and Thomas Me-
Lean, of the secret service, having
participated in many successful cap
lures.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23
YOUTHS MUST REGISTER
HERE next SATURDAY

cry boy in the county wha has had
twenty-first birthday between June 5
and August "a of this year must pre-,
sent himself and register on this
date. Failure TO register will subject
the guilty party to serious penalties
under the selective draft act. 1t is
estimated that not more than fifty
youths will register in this county.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23
PAINTING FOR ny" HUT

A panoramic painting of New York
harbor by Robert Chandler, famous
American artist, forms the stage cur
tain for a new double Red Triangle
hut just opened at Tours, France.
The American Y. NJ. C. A. provides
the stage attractions also through its
Americas "Over There" Theatre Lea
que of which George NJ. Cohen is pre-
sident.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23

All youths who have since june 5,
last attained the age of twenty-one
years, must register on next Saturday.
Registration books will be open at
one place only in Maury county and
that viii he in the office OF Clerk
and Master Mora B. Fariss on the
second floor of the court house. Ev-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23

practically every prominent official in
England is to be present. 1t is said to
be an occasion very rare. Tomorrow
we take lunch with the lords of the
admiralty, at which the first lord of
the admiralty presides.
Il cannot write of our movements
or contemplated goings. No one has
ever received more courtesies than
have been extended to us. Last night
Admiral Sims told me that the king
had made special enquiry and mani
tested a personal interest in meeting
us, and he had at the request of the
king sent him a memorandum for his
information.
1--WE have been using our time in
visiting the naval activities here, both
English and American. They are
enormous.
Il would be glad to write you of our
trips here and give you details but ]
cannot However, when | see you
will tell YOU
Although the letter is to his wife
it is formally signed 81. P. Padgett,"
as if to total stranger. Explanation
of this seeming aloofness is given in
the following postscript:
under the rules | must sign my
name and not merely
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23
WHOLE LEGuME CROP !.
FAILED AUGUST 1ST.

Colonel Archeaus Menalous Hughes,
now sojurning in Washington after a
half century or more OF political activ-
-
ity in Tennessee. was down In these
"diggins' short time ago and per.
pretrated this enc: :.
Il met fellow from Moore county
the other day and in an unfortunate
moment asked him what he thought
of the democratic primary election.
He replied with some heat: I voted
for Rye and Peay and Bean and the
whole d. crop was total failure
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23

HUNTINGTON-The two-year old
child of M. and Mrs. James Var
brough died from the effects of drink
ing carbolic acid. The poison was
given to the child through mistake by
its father.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23

about thirty five acres of exceptional
ly fine melons. This company also
handled all the other melons grown
and this it has done for several years
most successfully.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23


or breaking the skin with the finger
nails is responsible for a large
amount of the loss in storage. If tha
haul from the field to the storage
house is very long, spring wagon
should be used. In no case should
sweet potatoes be loaded in sacks, or
loaded loosely in the bed of a Wagon
Crates should be used,
When storing sweet potatoes Tor
commercial purposes specially con-
structed storage house should be pro
vided Immediately after digging, the
crop should be put in storage aud
light firing should begin. When the
entire crop is in the house, the inter-
ior should be heated to a temperature
Of from IS to 80 degrees for ten days,
or until the potatoes show signs Of
sprouting slightly, after which the
temperature should be reduced to SO
degrees and held there as uniformly
as possible during the rest of the win
ter.
Home storage of smaller quantities
can be handled in a number of ways,
but no bruised potatoes should go into
any kind of storage.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23
Hickman Goes
To Camp Pike

Lester Hickman will leave this
afternoon for Camp Pike. Ark. He is
sent by the local exemption board.
Camp Pike slocated out from Little
Rock.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-08-23

Herald Cheap Column Ads Pay.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08
Sight Of Two Life-Ti

The sight of two life-times is
"The Birth Of A Nation"-that
of your father and mother, If not
directly your own, and, also. the
sight Of all sights to be seen
Monday, March II, at Jen-Dike
Theatre.
1t is nearly three hours of his
toric tableauX, nearly three hours
of smiles and tears and warm
heart throbs and gripping pangs
of sadness, a panorama of life
and love that preceded the first
shot on Sumter and then the
break-the south declaring for
states rights on secession, the
north as one man rallying to the
only, both sides. to emerge
from it's four trying years later
full of hatred and rancor and
work against each other more
ignoble crimes that is Griffith's
Birth of a Nation. i"
The awful days from 81 to the
end of the terrible Reconstruc-
ton period in the south has been
reproduced and taken in living
photograph by a modern wizard,
d. w. Griffith, in his twelve reel
spectacle, The Birth of a Ma
ton" and is being shown thruout
the land with all it's accompany
ing battle shots; it's signing and
whispering music; it's darky real
ity in the snowy cotton-fields
before the warts loves and its
passions, it's glories and its
hatreds, and every citizen of the
Republic should see it and realize
thereby what Lincoln's deeds
and American history truly and
really mean.
A nation may have been con-
ceived with Washington's tri-
umphs-but it was born out of
the better understanding be-
tween the North and the South,
which only came after long heart
aches and struggles.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Master Chas. R. Fish, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph S. Fish of
Woodruff, Utah, has been here
on avisit with his grandmother,
Mrs. Adelaide S. Fish. Master
Fish and his mother have been
visiting in this section for some
time. We understand that Mas
ter Fish's father was the first
native of Snowflake to receive a
university degree, the University
of Utah.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Let it be known that whoever
sends in notice advertising a
found or lost" or "strayed"
or anything of the kind, that
whoever orders the advertise
ment printed must pay for it.
Occasionally notice comes in
with request to publish and
charge to the owner of the
found, +" lost" or "strayed''
article or animal. But, here
after we will not publish any
notice of the kind unless the
party ordering the notice agrees
to pay for such. Don't forget
this.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Corp. Harvey Ballard has been
kept busy during the week eat
ing 6 o'clock dinners, if not at
the home of his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. H. Ballard, he is invited
to dine with other relatives
Mrs. Taylor Hunt, or Mrs. Bur-
ton Smith and others.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Local reader advertisements
are charged for at the rate of 10
cents per line, and each line
averages five words. If money
accompanies orders for local
readers, estimate at five words
to the line, signature and head
ings as one line each.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

We are in receipt of the sad
news of the death of Mrs. Ernest
Reidhead which occurred at Lin
den early Wednesday morning.
Two small children and the
husband survive and many rela-
tiVes aud friends to mourn the
loss. Burial was made at Linden.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Miss Frances Smith of Mossley,
Canada, is in our city visiting
with her sister-in-law, Mrs. Eliza
T. Smith.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

In spite of the advance in cot
ton goods Bushman is selling his
stocks at the usual reasonable
prices. Call and make your Sc
lections while the assortments
are complete. 3-8-tf
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Bushman has just received a
shipment of dress materials for
party or street wear, as we'll as
ginghams, bleached and un-
bleached sheeting, towels, main
sock and Indian linons. 3-8-tf
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Mr.. Updike is to be congratu-
lated for being able to secure
Triangle service for his Tuesday
night shows. In connection. he
will show a good clean comedy
and the Ford Educational! Weekly
His Saturday night shows will
present the best dramas produced
by the World Film Corporation.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

We have just received a beauti-
ful line of zephyr ginghams, in
Guiding stripes, plaids, checks,
and plain colors- s-Bushman.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

by Whose Hand?" A movie
that has thrilled many big city
theatre audiences, with Edna
Wallace Hopper as the star, will
be screened at the Jen-Dike
Theatre this Saturday night.
This story has been considered
by competent critics as among
the cleverest of the age. Whole
sections of Sunday newspaper
editions have been given to
featuring by Whose Hand. :"
and yet the story has never
grown old.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Homer F. Bushman is still con-
fined to his room sick. The lit
tie son Lyman also continues sick.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

Wednesday evening, at the
home of Mrs. Eliza Rogers, a
party was given in honor of Mr..
and Mrs. Aashel Smith, Mr.. and
Mrs. Andrew Rogers. Quite a
number of our towns-people were
present. Another feature of the
gathering was that Mrs. Ellen
Smith, who will shortly move to
Utah, she and family being
present as guests of honor.
The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-08

We havesa new line of ladies',
mems and chiIdren's shoes, cot
ton, mercerised and silk hose.
Mems Khaki shirts, corduroy
and Khaki pants; unionsuits and
L. D. S. garments. Step inside
and inspect our new line of kitch-
en- untensils.
3-1-tf A. C. M. l., Snowflake.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25
GtOrgjG'S War on PruSSaGn Ticks

An intensive campaign to rid Georgia of the
cattle tick within the next two years would be
valuable service we'll important con-
tribution to the States prosperity. There is no
enemy to beef and milk production like the blood
sapping Prussian tick. 1t is matter of official
record that since the beginning of the tick eradca
tion campaign ten years ago. cattle raising and
dairying in The South have improved anywhere from
fifty to hundred per cent. During that period
the under quarantine because of tick infection
has been reduced from more than seven hundred
thousand square miles to less than three hundred
thousand, while the proftableness of cattle indus
tries has Increased in proportion.
Some of the most remarkable and most bene-
fetal work of this kind has been carried in Geor
gia District after district where the prevalence of
ticks formerly kept the cattle sorry Pharaohs
lean kline have been freed completely and made
famous for their herds and dairies There still,
however about sixty infected counties. AS long as
they remain the States output of food for war
needs will be that much lessened, and millions OF
dollars that might be flowing in for agricultural and
business enrichment will be sucked away by char
acteristicay German insect.
1t is to remedy this situation that the intensive
campaign is proposed The time originally allotted
for freeing Georgia from the cattle tick was six
years, but the urgency of conditions has i'm
PEELED the officials to seek accomplish it in two
This can be done if the Legislature will grant the
comparatively small appropriation required. Money
so spent will be a profitable and patriotic invest
ment.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25
THE AMERICAN RIFLE By Frederic J. 'Haskin

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 21-The recent
wv announcemnt that more than million and
half rifles have been produced in this
country for the of the United States army will
probably put to rest for all time the controversy
and the misunderstanding it engendered, over the
supply of rifles available for our troops. In add-
ton to these recently manufactured rifles, we have
in use 100000 Springfield rifles which were on
hand when entered the war. AS only ABOUT
half of the in army carry rifles. we now
have enough of them to supply force of two mil
lion men, including the wastage for year Our
average rate of production is 7941 rifles day.
The truth about the rifle situation has been
obscured by the dust and fuss of partisan conten-
ton. The public was told on the one hand that we
had "a broomstick army" and on the other, that
there rifle for every recruit. The real story
of the American rifle in this war is known 10 Ou'
few
To understand that story it is necessary to go
back to the beginning of the in Europe. AT that
time the British government was just getting ready
to manufacture a new model of rifle A short
time before, the Germans had discovered that a
cartridge with a pointed bullet would shoot
straighter and farther than one with blunt 0ul-
let. Accordingly all the principal governments be
gan manufacturing pointed bullets. But when the
British tried to shoot pointed bullet in their reg
ular army rifle (the 1903 Enfeld) it didn't work;
the bullet turned somersaults in the air and othel
wise misbehaved BY putting little piece OF
aluminium in each bullet, the British succeedeo IN
restoring the balance of their missile, so that the
rifle they had would shoot it, but this was MAKE
shift and ap expensive one. AccorulneE, 49,
set to, work and designed new rlIle' DorIo"t ti
freely from our Springfield model and IRON Ine
German rifle.
When war broke out in 1914, the British had
a fine rifle-on paper. They did not have any con-
siderable quantity of rifles actually made,
and only small supply of the old The Ger
mans had caught John Bull with his shirt on, so
far as rifles concerned.
Immediately the British agents rushed to this
country with their designs for rifle, but al
tered to shoot the old British 1903 ammunition ip
stead of the 80 had been intended. This had
to be done in order that all of the British rifles
would use the same ammunition, for much con-
fusion would be caused if an army had to use d1f-
ferent kinds of ammunition In its rifles
The very best gun factories in the United
States given contracts for the manufac-
ture of the new British rifle. The immediate
suit unexpected delay. The American man
ufacturers competent, but it took much
longer to evolve a quantity production of rifles
than anyone had realized. 1t nearly year
and a half before rifles were shipped from this
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25
Getting Our Stride

1t only week ago that General Peyton
c. March. Chief of Staff, announced that we had
upwards of eight hundred thousand troops in the
war zone. Now he reports that there
than nine hundred thousand. This is inspriting
evidence of the swiftpess with which America
moves, now that she is getting fairly into her
stride
To transport approximately hundred thou
sand soldiers across the Atlantic within a week
betokens efficiency in divers forms. 1t is highly
remarkable considered merely as a performance
OF shipping. year ago we were at the bare
beginning of a merchant feet, and the tonnage
of our Allies was paying fearful toll to the Ger
man submarine. Yet, have managed in the
meantime to get nine hundred thousand soldiers
overseas together with their immense cargoesl of
equipment, and to keep them we'll provisioned The
greater part of this task has been done within
the last six months. fact which strikingly shows
to what extent we have gained, and continue to
gain, momentum.
As in shipping, in every other province of
war preparation evidences and prophecies of
achievement multiplying There will be
million American soldiers in sFrance, or just
across the Channel, by the end of June; and one
month later there will be, all told, three million
under Considering what this means in the
way of industrial and financial as we'll mil
itary mobilization and the workmanly patriotism
which 1t reveals, we have cause for sober and
grateful pride in country.
But what has been done thus far is merely
foundation and starting point. We are now
getting prepared for unlimited expansion. BY
next January we shall have upwards of a million
and half or even two million men lover there"
and perhaps as many as three million a year
from now. In the meantime steps will be taken,
through whatever extension Of the draft ages
may be needful, to an ever available and
virtually inexhaustible supply of man power, not
simply for the battle front. but for that equally
important army behind the army. Americas
will is steeled for victory the all-suficient and
righteous victory that will mean the end of Prus-
sianism and the beginning of fairer world.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-25
DON'T BE A SLACKERESS

over, cutting according to our CLOTH" and see
just how far can make our goods go. We
follow the example of the woman who said regu-
larly with her stitches she wove in prayer.
We can still start garden. Let put At
least few feet of ground under cultivation and
grow all we can. Even if live in city, ground
enough for a garden somewhere is for the
asking With the present recognized need of pro-
ducng all the food that can be raised, owners ev-
erywhere' are generously giving the use OF thelr
vacant ground as evidence of their patriotism. So
don't let US be afraid to ask for our share Even
if in a suburb where you cultivate but once OF
twice a week, it will thrive. Let us raise all We
can, eat while it is fresh as much as we can, ana
then dry can all we can By SO DONG we save
that much tax on the general production
A friend of mine who had never grown even
a radsFt last summer started with only the help
of her nousemaid. little war garden that gave
her fresh vegetables for family of four, up to
THANKSGIVING, canned and stored root crops to
last all winter and-won silver trophy at a 10
cal garden show
into War Savings Stamps. We mustn't think that
because we have invested in some nice-Iooking in
terest- bearing bonds that we can go mapping AS
one of Pershing's men, appealing to a crowd on
Fifth avenue the other day, said, when we go
over the top once, we DOM lie down and think
we've done our duty No. AS soon as we are
able, we're up and go again, I've been
wounded four times For Gods sake, help us!''
Women of this grand United States of Ameri-
ca, let unite. do much wherever
stand. and show the Germans,-military staff
and common people-that they have second army
to fight that will prove as invinclble as the bear
of glorious arms abroad.
Don't be a slackeress!-OliYe Hyde Foster of
the Vigilantes