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McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-07-26
The Red Cross Wants Men and
Women Workers

The American Red Cross will ac-
cept for service ia France a few de-
sirable men for execu i've work and
women for Canteen Hospital and So
cial Service work, who are willing
and able to pay their own expenses
while abroad. As a suggestion, this
an opportunity for business firms to
send as their representative on the
American Red Cross at their expense
capable member Of the firm or an
employe.
Application should be made to Geo.
e. Bennie, Director Of the Bureau of
Personnel Of American Red Cross, al
the State Capitol. Nashville, Tenn.
Federal 800 administrators from
several of the West Tennessee coun-
ties held an interesting conference
with j. l. Finney, educational director
of the food administration at Hender-
son. The following named county adj
ministrators attended: ]. B. Reed,
Weakley county; T. j. Hunter, Harde-
man county; H. M. Williams. Hardin
county; o. L.. .McCallum, Chester coun-
ty; H. w. Hawk. Madison county; D.
T. Barnhill, Carroll; John E. Richard
son, Henry county; Terry Alternating,
McNairy county. Conditions in all
Of the counties represented were gen.
orally reported to be satisfactory.
After the conference j. I. Finney ad-
dressed q large audience of farmers
at the county high school, who had
gathered to enjoy their annual picnic.
Sugar Regulations.
More and more drastic are the sugar
regulations. Beginning July / lee
cream manufacturers, for example, will
receive only 75 per cent OF their form
er allotment tobacco makers ara
transferred from 100 to so per cent;
soft drink makers, chewing gum, etc,
are reduced from so 70 so per cent
OF their former needs, and all are to
be strictly rationed. Hotels and pub.
lie eating places are restricted to not
exceeding three pounds of sugar per
person per ninety meals served. All
households and consumers are like
wise restricted to three pounds pei
person per month. instead Of four
pc..as, the former rule.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-07-26

Come to the Independent Office for
any kind Of legal blanks.
McNairy County independent. (Selmer, McNairy County, Tenn.) 1902-1969, 1918-07-26

ALL KINDS of legal blanks at the
Independent Office.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1918.
RESULT OF THE DRIVE.

History students will remember that
the Franco-German war of 1870 was
decided by the battle of Sedan. By
forced marches the Germans surround.
ed the principal French army, and com
PEELED its surrender. That is the kind
of thing they have been working to do
in their drives of the past three months
But 1t is different proposition. In
lsfO the entire French army included
but $4,000 men. Now our allies have
at least 100000 in France.
The one chance in sight for any such
complete defeat lies in pushing the
English near Amiens, and backing them
up against the channel The fact that
the Huns did not attack at this one
point, where a real success might seem
possible, would indicate that they did
not dare to. 1t confirms the belief that
at this vital point, the English and
French have fully adequate forces.
Driving the allies back 80 miles
where they have open country to fall
back on, makes no progress toward sur
rounding them. The attack king party
loses more men, though it NAV make I'M
FOR that by capturing guns and other
supplies.
The only thing to worry about sucb
an advance is for fear they might get
hold of some important depot of sup
plies. But it does not seem probable
that our allies would have any consider
able portion of their munitions near
enough the line to be in danger of cap
ture.
Arm chair critics blame the English
for not taking the offensive, and doing
To the Germans what is being done to
the English and French. But as the
Germans, by reason of Russia 8 defec-
tion, outnumber the English and French
this would be hazardous gamble now
No doubt there will be one or two
more big drives of the same kind this
summer. But by September the Amer
lean troops, will have made up the losses
of our allies. The Huns will have had
no means of filing their gaps.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10

The grain situation is very simple.
1t should be understood clearly and talk
en- seriously. Here are the facts: On
June LIST there wasn't more than sc. OO0..
900 bushels of wheat left in the United
States. The government, which has au.
thority over all wheat supplies, is going
to ship 30,000,000 bushels of it to Eu-
rope in the next few weeks, because our
allies need it more than we do. That
leaves only 26,OO0,O0O bushels for us.
Not all of that will be actually avail
able. Ordinarily we eat 10000, 600
bushels of wheat month 1t will be
about two months before the winter
wheat from this summer harvest
reaches American consumers 1t IS plain
enough, therefore, for the next few
weeks we can t eat more than one-third
as much wheat as usual. We must try
to eat less than that. And every
American must play fair with his
neighbors by doing his share of the say.
ing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
The Sap Of Spring.

When the sap Of spring is bursting
the letters of winter the general hui
man heart beats high. A few of us
philosophers receive amid the rich but
sober tints of autumn happiness that
we would not exchange for any other
season, but we are minority, and
small. The head of one of the most
important departments at Washington,
who thinks about the processes Of man.
kind, has theory that makes a regu-
lar curve Of the relation Of the seasons
to the appetite for war. AS the buds
open. every nation thinks 1t is on the
edge OF victory. This curve rises for a
while, begins to decline in the summer
and gets well down in the autumn,
The period therefore, when statesmen,
II they had decided to make peace,
could do it most easily, is from the
days Of gOldenrod and autumn browns
to just before the greening of the
buds. The story Of coal, tragic
story to the poor, helps this curve, but
there is in 1t much Of sheer poetry, in
dependent Of more solid things.-Nor-
man HapgOOd In Leslie's.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
Coarse
Grain
Products

We are prepared to supply the New
England consumer in any quantity,
through their regular provision houses,
substitutes of unequaled quality, in
Guiding Barber Milling Company's Rye
flour; Quaker City Flour Mills Pure
Rye Flour; Washburn- Crosby Com
pany's Pure Barley Flour; Pillsbury's
Pure Barley Flour; National Oats Com
pany's Pure White Table Meal; Ma
tfonal Oats Company's Rolled Oats in
90-lb. sacks; Quaker Oats Company s
Rolled Oats in packages, all sizes;
American Hominy Company's Cream of
Maize, which has recently been made
n substitute; Topeka Flour Mills Com
pany's Fancy Corn Flour. Also. our full
line of goods manufactured at our Brat
tleboro plant, including Rye Meal,
White Bolted Corn Meal; Yellow Bolted
Corn Meal. We are installing machinery
TO manufacture White Corn Flour. We
place n guarantee back of our goods
and solicit your valued business.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
FLAG DAY, THIS YEAR.

Friday. June IA, is flag day.
For the first time in the history of
America the flag is being carried in
European countries by legions of fight
ing Americans.
For the first time men of all nation
alities who have adopted America as
their country are banded together I'M
der the flag in foreign lands.
There are many thousands of work
ers in America who have those near and
dear to them in these ranks. and who
are working in American industrial
plants to help win the war. They would
welcome the opportunity to join with
older Americans in paying tribute to the
flag and in pledging loyalty to the
great cause for which we are all fipht
ing.
Not only in industrial plants but in
fraternities and in all other proups OF
men and women there is opportunity fol
n special celebration of patriotic M
ture this year.
BY making the most of the occasion
all of us may receive to the full the les
sons which the day commentaries.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
M0LLUSKS MAKE GOOD SOUP
Thrown Up on Florida Beaches by the
Waves They Are Collected and
Sold to Hotels.

Along the Florida beaches a very
common and familiar kind Of rock is
wholly composed of the shells Of q
small species of mollusk, oval in shape
and half an inch long. 1t is called
"coquina," and is hard on the feet If
one walks over 1t without shoes.
In beds below the line of low tide
are mollusks Of the same kind, alive.
Their bivalve shells are pink, blue and
OF other colors, quite brilliant, so that
In places the beaches are beautiful to
the eye, great numbers of them being
thrown up by the waves along the
shore.
Under such circumstances they soon
die, of course, leaving their pretty
shells to adorn the strand. But there
are always plenty of live ones at the
waters edge, and these are gathered
in quantity at some of the winter re-
sorts by boys who collect them with
rakes and carry them in baskets to the
hotels for sale. 55,at ash5l5.
They are used for soup, Being
pressed to pulp in order to extract
their juice. The latter, strained and
heated, affords a very delicious table
beverage known as "coquina broth"
1t is particularly recommended for In
valids and persons with weak diges-
ton.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
How Scouts Can Help Nation.

Offer your services to some garden
er as patrol. He will be able to pay
you for your labor. Make his crop
the best in your neighborhood. Show
the world that the boy scouts can rise
to any emergency.
Plant garden at home. No mat
ter how small the space. Forego the
flower garden this season. Plant veg
etables. If you have no garden, use
a window box. You will be delighted
with the results, no matter how small
the crop. Do It now.
Offer your services to your teacher
to help in securing the necessary In
formation to establish school and home
gardens. Don't be Stacker.
Ask your city officials to organize to
help conserve the food supply of our
country. Have them offer vacant space
for cultivation. Show your patriot
ism. Arouse theirs.-Scout News and
Bulletin.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
You must be very smart said Mrs.

"'You must be very smart said Mrs.
Cook, the yellow cat. She was some
times called Mrs. Cook and sometimes
Mrs. Chef--for chef is q fine name
for a cook. The yellow cat also lived
In the hospital and she belonged to
the cook. That was why she had been
given her name.
az can tell when it is meal time.
Tor ] can smell the food cooking said
the yellow cat.
ct am always upstairs in the top
ward when it is almost meal time,
said Tiger Cat, and then when it is
really and truly meal time I go and
sit in the elevator and wait to be taken
down to dinner
"And that was perfectly true. For
Tiger Cat would play with the hos
pital children and his special friends
were in the ward at the top OF the
hospital. The kitchen was In the base
ment.
"But three times day, at breakfast,
dinner and supper, Tiger Cat got In
the elevator which they had in the
hospital, and which was always at
the top floor around the hour for meals,
for the matron visited that ward
around that time three times a day. /
zone day Tiger Cat had gone down
to his dinner In the elevator. He had
sat in 1t for hong time before any,
one had taken him down to the kitch-
en-, when at last the matron had come,
and down he had gone to his great
relief and Joy.
HE did not see Mrs. Cook, the vel
low cat. in her place by the stove, and
after dinner ne found the reason why.
Up in a wardrobe. in the matron's
room. Mrs. Yellow Cat was sitting
blinking happily over little family OF
baby kittensr
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

a paper hanger came to paper our din
ing room yestlday, being long paper
hanger with wife pants with different col
ored derty spots on them, and il stood
ther watching him cutting the paper and
FASTING 1T on the wall and making funny
noises between his teeth vile he was do
ing 1t, and after vile | sed, Is it hard
to be a paper hanger?
Its gift, sed the paper hanger. And
he spred lot of paste on the back of a
long strip of paper, and | sed, Can eny-
body be ones
! shood say not, sed the paper hanger,
in the ferst place you half to have the
gift, and in the End place your father
has to be fed on paste insted of milk wen
you're a body.
Was youg sed
Is that Supposed to be rehexion on
my werk? sed the paper hanger.
No sir, | sed WITCH it wasent. and he
kepp on cutting and FASTING and making
funny noises between his teeth, and / sed.
Are you Supposed to make that noise. or
do you jest do it2
You're Supposed to, sed the paper hanger.
And he kepp on doing it, and l sed, Have
you eny children to be paper hangerss
or s, or maybe 9, yes, think have
3 now, and they all take to paste like
ducks to waiter, showing they all have the
git, sed the paper hanger
And he kepp on working and making
noises between his teeth, and after a vile
| sed, Well, if your father has to be one
before you. how did the ferst paper hanger
happin to be one2
Was that your mother called you sed
the paper hanger
! dident heer enybody, l sed.
You must be def in one ear and blind
IN the other, there she goes agen, sed the
paper hanger.
And | went and asked ma if she called
me, witch she sed no, and l told her the
paper hanger sed she did, and she sed. He
probarly wunted to get rid of you.
WITCH he properly did
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10

1t is rather surprising even to Yer
,monters to find that our maple sugar
crop, if retained and used at home,
would supply the entire state for a year
with practically all the sweets needed
for living purposes if we kept down to
the standard on which the nation is now
existing under the rules laid down by
the food administration. Maple sugar
making is a 100000 industry, and
the production for the state in the last
two seasons is estimated at upwards
of 10000 pounds
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
THE BRATlIEBoRo DAILY REFoR,tER MONDAY JUNE TO- 1918
DIFFER OVER ORIGIN OF DOG
whether All Kinds Had 4 Common
Ancestor Has Long Been a Mat
ter Of Dispute.

The ancestry Of the dog has been
the occasion of mrkeh controversy. ac-
cording to Leo S. Crandalrs hook
Pets. Many naturalists have con-
sidered that 1t is descended from a
single ancestor, such as the common
wolf OF Europe. Darwin. however.
leans toward the theory Of multiple
origin, and advances much convincing
proof in support of his belief. It is
widely known that many savage tribes
have dogs. which appear to be simply
half-tamed representatives Of the par
ticular wild doglike animals inhabIting
the same regions.
The dogs of the American plains In
dams closely resemble the small prai-
RE wolf, or coyote; the husky Of the
north country is plainly not far re-
moved from the gray wolf; the Ger
man sheep dog and the Samoyede are
strikingly wolflike in appearance.
Whether our present dogs are the re-
suit of crossing these many simple
derivatives of wolves and jackals
among themselves, or whether there
was an original ancestral dog, now ex-
tinct, with which the blood Of other
species has become mingled, we have
not yet been able to determine, though
SO many prfmordial animal remains
have come to light.
According to st. George Mivart, the
dingo is the only wild dog still exist
ing which meets the requirements of
an ancestor Of our modern breeds.
This species is found throughout Aus
tralia and fossil bones which have been
found show its presence there from
very early times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10

The Reformer IL ON sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
Brattleboro. Brattleboro News Co, C..
w. Cleaveland, 8. l. Purinton (Estey-
ville). Brooks House Pharmacy, Alien 9
Depot Newsstand. Mrs. D. F. Doyle,
South Main Street.
West Brattieboro, ]. L. StockweI. Z
East Oummerston, NJ E. Brown.
Putney. M. G. williams
Newfane. N. M. Batchelder.
Iownshend, G. W. Cutler.
West Townshend, c. H. Grout.
Jamaica, r. J. Daggett
South Londonderry, +. III. Tyler.
South Vernon, K. B Buffum.
Northheid. Mass, Thompson Bros.
Streeter
Hlnsdae. NJ. H., w. H. Lyman.
Bellows Falls, Depot Restaurant.
windsor, W., Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
DADDY SEV[N[|V(
ARY TALL H2
~ MARY GpAHAM BONNER
TIGER CAT.

snow you would imagine" COM
menced Daddy, shat with such name
as Tiger Cat creature would natu-
rally live In the wild forest and spend
all the time a-hunt.ng."
II suppose" said Nancy, you are go
ing to tell us story about a very wild
cat--not exactly tiger, but as nearly
like one as possible"
"Some cats are very much like IT,
gers, / think" said Nick. "And often
they look more wild. though, Of course,
sometimes they. look so sleepy and
comfortable and as If nothing in the
world would make them move"
This cat wasn't wild. though" said
Daddy. ''In fact he was a very sleepy,
lazy sort of cat, fond of eating and
sleeping, of being petted and smoothed
and stroked"
"And why was he called TigerT'
asked the children.
because his markings were so like
a tiger. He was far more lie tiger
in looks than he was like a cat, but
In his ways he was certainly like
what is known as very domestic cat
which means cat who loves his home
and the fireplace. or kitchen stove.
'He lived in q hospital" Daddy con-
tinued.
''Was he ill?" asked Nancy.
"Was that why he was so quietg
asked Nick. "Or did he keep thinking
all the time that he would disturb the
other patients?"
ST suppose In a hospital creature
has to keep quiet whether he is III
or not. because so many are Ill. But
was the cat i'll, Daddy? You haven't
told u.s." added Nancy.
"No, the cat was very, very well
In fact, l don't know that I have evel
seen stronger looking cat. His ful
was silky and smooth and he looked
as IL always he had the best of food
"He belonged to the matron of The
hospital, and how friendly he was
with all the little patients. For the
hospital was for children. Little sicl
boys and girls went there to be made
well and while they were there Tt
ger, the cat. or the cat Tiger, helped
to amuse them and to make the hour.
and days pass very quickly.
"'Some people, Tiger Cat said tt
himself. need all sorts of foolish
time pieces. such as clocks an(
watches. hear the nurses talk abou
looking at their watches to see wha
time it is, and whether 1t is time fol
the children to have their dinner. II
me that is utterly foolish.
"'Now the children, too. are alb
surd, very often indeed. They viii
ask the nurse If 1t is almost dimes
| time! That is quite the most ridicu
| lous thing in the world. l suppos,
it is because they aren't feeling per
fectly we'll and so they aren't as clev
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men in America 8
Fighting Service.

Somewhere on the sea, there is young
man who will always gratefully remember
his shipmates and what they did for him
Attempting suicide while serving on ths
u. S. S. Michigan, he jumped overheard
Two men went in after him. Although
the water was smooth the rascuers hao
their courage and strength severely taxed
The would-be suicide gave them stiff
fight. Swimming and holding on fast
they succeeded in subduing him and bring
ing him back to the ship The rescuers
Walter B. Werner, coxswain, and Paul V
Qumtero, gunner's mate, third class, boil
of the U. S. s. Michigan, have been com
mended by the navy department.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
STATE NEWS NOTES

Allen r. Moore of Fitzdale (Vt.), re-
ported in an American casualty list
May 20 as killed in action, is alive and
back in the trenches, it became known
Sunday. He had written home that
he was gassed and sent to the hospital
for a week, and then put into another
regiment. His brother, Walter g.
Moore, was killed in the same engage
ment in which it was reported that he
was killed. The mother had been pros
trated ever since receiving word of the
death of both sons.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10

We might almost thank Germany for
marines. The loss to shipping is not an
extravagant price for the effect that
the raid has had in waking up the
American people and in stimulating re-
cruiting for various branches of war
service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

II Is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery Of
the paper each night, and II solicits the
cooperation OF subscribers to that end
Prompt reports should be given OF each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing fsllowing the omission in person
by telephone or postal card, thus enahling
the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t is only
by this method that the publisher can
secure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
Very Good Reason

Another reason why man woulc
rather be man and have men friends
than be q woman and have woman
friends is because he knowns that none
Of his friends is going to borrow hi.
hair to go to the theater or a party.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
TO ADVERTISERS.

Transient advertising-Run OF paper,
so cents an inch for first Insertion. 25
cents an inch for each subsequent inser-
double rates.
Space rates on application.
Classified advertisements-Five cents a
line first insertion with so Der cent dis
count for each subsequent insertion
without change Of copy.
Reading Notces-Ten cents per line.
first insertion with so per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
Freddie Knew the Symptoms.

Freddie was visiting tiny new baby
After looking at the baby for lon
time, he came running to his mothe
and exclaimed. 1.-THE baby's little fist
are both closed and it looks as If !
was going to start fight"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
Ship on Girls Back Bar to society.

A ship on girls back is bar to
her entrance into society, according to
State Senator Alfred j. Gilchrist, OF
New York city. The senator declares
that brooklyn girl Is barred from So
ciety because, when ten Years old, q
ship was tattooed on the girls back.
She cannot wear fashionable, low
neck dress because Of the spreading
sails across the ocean on her back.
The senator, therefore asks for law
Imposing a fine Of $500 for any one
who mars youn- waman's beauty.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10
Member Of the Associated pre,,.

The Associated Press IL exclusively
entitled to the use for publication of all
otherwise credited in this paper and also
the local news published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-10

Everything comes to him who waits
He'll even get the earth when he dies.