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Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17

ator COMES 10 on line and asks if
you got your party.
Subscriber. Mol
Operator rings for three min
utes and stays on line to see if
Huntingdon answers. They don't,
so she rings at short intervals for
five minutes and waits long enough
to give Huntingdon ample time to
answer. They don't So the OPP
orator rings until she is blue in
the face; the batteries are run
down, and the subscriber has
cramps from standing IN one place
so long waiting for his connection.
Feeling sorry for himself as well
as the local operator, and having
four or five customers walk out of
the house, who are tired waiting
on him, he thanks the operator for
her courtesy and efforts. hangs up
the receiver, rubs his sore joints,
loses his religion and "cuses out"
the whole Of Huntingdon for con-
tending with bunch of operators
who spend their time eating cho-
coIates, gossiping and standing by
the windows to see Mrs. Jones
pass by in her last years hat or
new suit, as the case may be, and
then, when they are listening to a
conversation between Mrs. Jones
and Mrs. Smith, or Jim and his
girl, proceed to ball you OUT be-
cause you had the nerve to inter-
rupt them when you did not want
anything more than to hold a bus
mess conversation. We sincerely
hope that if there has not been
some changes made at the Hunt
ingdon exchange rececently, there
will be. and people put there who
are willing to give the service they
are paid to give; for, as the Paris
Partisan recently said in connec.
ton with the service in that town,
if it could be much rottener the
city health officer would have to
take charge of it.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
u. S. AID

The following appeared in the
papers recently from Washington:
Farm extension work carried on
by the government in cooperation
with the states during the war
would be made permanent under a
bin submitted to congress by Sec,
rotary Houston, who asked for an
appropriation of S., 100000 to de-
fray the governments cost of this
activity. Expansion SO as to reach
allrural communities is contem-
plated, the secretary said.
Secretary Houston also asked
appropriations of 1852, 000'for con-
tinuing cooperation with various
state agencies in supplying labor
to farmers. He said this work
vas essential ia solving problems
that will arise. during the period
Of REIMBURSEMENT.
There is a strong sentiment all
over the country for cooperation
between the federal, state and
county governments for the better
ment ofagricnltural work. This CO.
operation enables the small farmers
TO get the benefit of scientific agri-
culture, whereas otherwise they
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
Observation-Disclosures

LEXINGTON SALTILLOROAD
The following special appeared
in Sundays papers from Lexing-
ton:
The construction of a graveled
turn pike between this place and
SaltiIIo. Hardin county. is an al
most immediate actuality. Cover
ing a distance of thirty miles.
passing through Sardis. the second
larges5 town in the county, the
thoroughfare will prove one of the
most timely utilities projected in
many years The Henderson county
court at its recent session granted
a franchise to a syndicate of cap
italists of this place, Saltillo and
Sardis for the construction of the
thoroughfare. Hardin county is to
grant similar franchise.
This special is reproduced to
show that the spirit of progress in
building good roads is manifesting
itself in some of our neighboring
counties. 1.-THE above road should
be built as indicated it would in
sure the construction of additional
links that would make highway
that would compete very ma
terially with the Memphis-tO- Bris-
tol.
We hope to see work begin on
this Memphis-to- Bristol road some
time this year. There seems to be
no just reason why work should
be delayed much longer, unless
high priced material and labor
should interfere.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
FRIDAY, JANUARY II, 1891
RETURNING SOLDIERS

The brave boys whooffered their
al for liberty, in response to their
country's.call, are beginning to re.
turn bacla home and to civilian life.
They went from the town and city,
the farm and the factory. giving
up their jobs, and when they re-
tirn they will find, il most ID.
stances, their positions taken BY
0sheFs.
1t they fail to get their old jobs
tack they are going to be forced
to begin all over again. Those
who are not wounded are coming
back physically more vigorous
than when they left home. The
education they have received has
made their brains more active. and
they are better men and more
Competent to carry forward the
activities Of peace. They should
be given every opportunity pos
sible to employ their talents, and
whenever it can be done, they
should have their old positions
back. At least they should be
given every consideration pos
sible. 1t is not necessary to coddle
them or make a great to DO over
them. but they do desire and
should have a square deal and
every patriotic man will do his
best to see that they getthis much.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
Notice to Appear

The T. w. Katterjohn Construc-
ton Co. ct al
VS..
The Johnson-P Porter Clay Co. ct al
In Chancery Court at Hunting
don, Tennessee.
1t appearing from the bill in
this cause, which is sworn to. that
defendant, The Machinery Ware
house & Sales Company, has bill
of sale on a certain Thew Steam
Shovel, No. 721, to which con-
plainants hold the legal title, and
is entitled to possession; and an az
tachment having been Used and
levied on said Thew Shovel, No.
721, it is ordered that publication
be made for four consecutive weeks
in the Carroll County Democrat,
requiring the said defendant, The
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
Land Sale
Leland Watkins, ct. al.

VS..
James r. Maxwell, ct. al.
In Chancery at Huntingdon, Tenn.
Pursuant TO a decree of sale
pronounced in the above cause, /
will, on
SATURDAY. JANUARY rs, 1918,
between the hours of | and 4 d. m,
at east door Of Court House in
Huntingdon, Tenn, expose to pub
lie sale 10 the highest and best
bidder, certain tract of land in
the Twenty-second Civil district
of Carroll County. Tennessee, de-
sCribed in tie pleadings and de-
crees, and being the northern half
of a certain tract described in Deed
Book s, pages 800 and 32l, and
being one.half a tract of 80 acres
70 poles more or less. The pur-
chaser will be required to pay one
third the purchase price cash on
day of sale. and to execute his in
terest- bearing notes for the resi-
due in two equal instaIlments, fall
sng due at one and two years, re-
!pectively. with approved PERSONAL
security thereon, and lien will
be retained on the land as addi-
tional security. The purchaser
will have the option to pay off the
notes and stop the accrual of IN
terest.
This january ], 1919.
E A. BRYANT, G. and NJ.
By Gro, MURPHY. ID. G. & NJ.
j. w. MURPHY and L. A. HURT,
Soils. for Complts. 51.4t
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
A Texas Wonder /.

The Texas wonder cures kidney
and bladder trouble. removes
gravel, cures diabetes, weak and
lame back, rheumatism, and all
irregularity Of the kidneys and
bladder in both men and women,
regulates bladder troubles in chill
dren. II not sold by your druggist
will be sent by mail on receipt Of
Sl.OO. One small bottle is two.
months treatment and seldom fails
to perfect a cure. Send for Ten
nessee testimonials. DR.. E. w.
Hall, 1926, Olive street, st. Louis.
Mo. Sold BY all druggists.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17

Machinery Warehouse & sales
Company to appear before ne on
or before the first Monday, the Sd
day of March, next, and mab . de-
Tense to the bill filed against it
herein, or the same will be aiken
for confessed. and the cause pro.
ceeded with ex parte.
This January Is, 1919.
E. A. BRYANT. G. and NJ.
By Geo. I. MURPHY, d. c. & NJ.
j. G. GATES and j. t. PEEIER
Solicitors. l-4t
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
Troops to Russia

Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, military
representative on the American
peace commission, Informed the
of the supreme inter.al-
lied war council definitely that the
United States will not send any
more troops into Russia.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
Card Of Thanks

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our friends and neigh
bors for their assistance and kind
ness shown US during the illness
and death of our beloved wife and
mother.
+. E. GowAN and CHILDREN.
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
ADVERTISING pATns

Dlsplay Advertising 10 cents per inch.
.soeal readers, cents per line. cards Of
s.lanks e cents. Obituaries, resolutions q
sspesl, one-half cent per word. Church
u senool entertainments, where admission
Z charged, cents per line, Of one-half cent
contracts. 'S"s
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17


Hearts desire, they who,
Unflinching, braved the fire,
Across the fields their eyes at
Last shall see through clouds
And mist the hosts of victory.
Such as the following between
local Cumberland telephone sub
scribers and the Mckenzie ex-
change have not been uncommon
occurrences during the past few
months:
Subscriber. Rings central.
Mckenzie operator. Number
pleaseg
Subscriber. Huntingdon please9
Operator rings Huntingdon.
Operator. Did they answers
Subscriber. No nam.
Operator rings once more.
Subscriber waits in vain for
Huntingdon to answer, and oper-
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17

so = lae hlaangdon postofice as seq
oad-elass mail matter
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
roll County Democrat

PsSii's.s Hvs,, Friday a.
: llNdDoN TENNESSEE
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17

III EIdUCU Why ITO
Where lilies bloom
Those flowers fair
For them made room.
Not vainly placed
The crosses stand
Within the brave
And stricken land;
Their honor lives
Their love endures,
Their noble death
The right assures.
For they shall have their
Carroll County democrat. (Huntingdon, Tenn.) 188?-1971, 1919-01-17
They lie in France
Where lilies bloom
Those flowers pale
That guard each tomb
Are sanity souls
That smiling stand
Close by them in
That martYred land.

And muteIy there The long night
Shadows creep from quiet hills to
Mourn for them who sleeep, while
Der them through the dusk go
Silently the grieving clouds
That slowly drift to sea, and
Lately round them moaned the
Winter wind whose voice,
Lamenting, sounds so coldly kind,
Yet in their faith those waiting
Hearts abide the time when
Turns forever that false tide.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-12-31

A BLANK FACED, sinister looking
n door when closed, and from the
street not unlike the blind face Of
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denly clean of children. A wintry stare
had set in.
AS she stood for a moment upon the
topmost step, in her obvious blouse and
the white flesh cleaning through, n
prank of wind lolloped up. eddying
around her. She did not shiver;
walked down the steps and southwark
five blocks until Second avenue meets
Twelfth street The red was so clearly
i>detined now that her cheeks spread
from it stark white At an apartment
house entrance banked on two sides by
a confectioner $ and dyeing and clean
ing establishment. she turned into q
doorway filled with dusk. When she
entered the front room of her apart
ment two flights up. the furniture sank
into the half darkness with the white
keys Of the upright piano grinning
through that darkness. Miss Ictta Riff
kin, in the kitchen scraping q knife
against fish scales, sang as she scraped
/ love my love in the springtime,
/ love my love in the fall;
Through all the changing seasons,
Mmm-mm, mmm-mm, mmm-
mm-m.
Mrs. Rfkin sat down on the edge of
the first chair in the room. She was
trembling now. and sitting there in the
dimnesS Il chill took hold of her and
quick tremors ran up and down beneath
her skirt
love my love in the Springtime,
! love my love in the fall
Her hat. crushed backward against
the wall, fell to the floor and she
scraprd her chair forward TO reach for
it, but sat back again, hugging herself
against nervous ShuddcrS
'Yanci, that youE
| "Ycs-Ictt." "
For the love of heaven, where you
been keeping yourseIf?'
She appeared suddenly in the door
way. the yellow light from the kitchen
for background. sparser and taller in a
long sleeved apron and frankly redo
lent Of herring.
Ugh. lin cold.
Then. what you sittm' here in the
dark for?' ~
Don't, don't, No light--Iett!" :"
With a quick forward step Miss Riff
kin grasped the hunched figure by the
shoulders, shaking her.
"Yanci. you sick? Hancit
''Lemme go. Take your hands off
Quit"
IShe JefKeu DdCh from lH' '!OSt grasp
and moved sideways into the bedroom.
gardant and eyeing her warily,
! ''Ganci, you gone crazy:
"YOu lemme alOncn'
"Yanci, let Hettie light the gas.
| What's got you. darling? Sunstrokei
| HydrophobiaE For Gods sake. WHAT
/ The room sprang into yellow glare
and brass bedstead heavily dressed
in Brussels net over pink, and Il dresser
! festGoncd with the same Brussels net
and laid out in all the German silver
articles of IL woman's articles. A Ger
| tiarcd against the mirror
On the Brussels net spread. She sal
| down loosely with her back round anC
her eyes staring out ahead She wa,
still trembling.
"Yanci, if you don't tell me whats 5
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way be kept lookin' at me. 1t should
What, Yanci?"
But 1t didn't"
''What didn't?"
II just laid back and looked up sassy
and says. We'll, grand old man. | says
to him. / says, lis it the tired feeling
ward for mine| He didn't answer and
kept lookin at my card all the time.
to me. he says, MRS. Rifkin,' he says,
can your husband come here with you
later in the afternoonY All of a sud
den Zett, when he said that, tit was
like somebody had took my heart in
their hand like it was bird. III got
UP out of the chair quiet like and l says,
No, Doctor Stowoski; why?' Oh
oh"
Eyes, yes. darlin'"
''He tapped his glasses on his finger
and kept lookin' out of the window.
a condition there he says to me. A
condition he called it. "A condition /
wanna talk over with you and your"
oh, my darlin'."
What condition. Doctor" l says,
grabbin' his arm. ] hollered it, Zettie ;
! couldn't help It. Oh. my God. right
away from his face something seemed
to tell me something. l-l can I tell
no more. Iett. Can't! I-I-just got
it out of him. somehow. / got it out
of him, getting him where he--he
ouldn't-dassn't lie. He didn't wanna
tell me. But l got it, Zettie-got it
out of him !"
"What Yanci?'
II got something so jaw breaking the
matter with me. darling, you cant say
it after me. But 1 understand. First
time he said, I knew it by heart. Fun
ny. lit never struck me before my
symptoms and all. It's what Lille
LcginskG had, Xett----"
"No. No. No.
"Per-pernicious anemia."
"Yanci, my God. No. No.
"My blood's gone, Zett. All gone
Funny? Turning white. Red cor
cor pus- -clcs all gone. Seen it on a
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got you, I'll go crazy. You been rul
over, girl? Hit in the head? DopedF
She could not articulate but sat there
hef two hands pressing against be
throat.
"Yanci. you been hit in the head
There's your pocka book, they didn'
get that! Looka, Yanci, you're hom'
safe. See, sitting on your own bed will
Iett got you in her old arms
"I--1----'
That's right, darling, tell Zett
Don't let your jaws get stuck like that
Tell Iettie. You was walking along ant
all of sudden"
mo. No. No"
"Yanci, you been TO the grand ole
man? Isis it anything to do will
the grand old man2 Yanci."
Tim gone, Zett."
Gone where? In Gods name, Yanci
gone whereT'
She fell to whimpering and lying for
ward with her face nearing her knees
Gone. You don't know it, but In
gone. Iettic"
"You got something something
catchingT'
She would only weave to and fro
Iplucking up the new coverlet.
'Nanci, you won't tell your Xettie
Your old Lettie you used to come tC
with all your troubles when you was
nothing but little whip stitcher il
the shop. Yanci?"
"l--no-no.
'Yanci, your old Zett. Why Ions
aforc Henry hissef even knew there
was such n person as his little wife
sitting up there at five week taking
orders on me, wasn't you runnin' tC
your old Zettie with everything? Huh
Huh, Yanci?"
"Oh-God."
That time your old landlady down
in Attorney street got to locking you
girls out nights. Remember? And the
lambin | give YOU and that fast GROVE
of girls you got to runnin with. Re
MEMBER And how it Strengthened yol
out. You-you was the great one way
back there for runnin' to your ole
Zettie, all right. You sure was, 1anci
You gone back on your old Zettiey'
"l-Can 't--can't! !!
Remember that time, darlin'. yol
was riding around with that fat ole
geezcr, Jerry Kessler, and l put stoI
to it. showing you how he was riding
YOU to hell in that little slick runabou
of his Remember the night Henry
first asked you to walk out with him
how you came. runnin' to your ole
Zcttie and
ION. God, Xettie, | remember. / re
member. Hold me tight, Iettie. HolC
me tight.
Tears came so fast and flowed Sc
scaldingly over her words that she was
in choking frenzy, beating her small
tight fists and breathing in shudder
drawn deep from the inners of her.
IL went in Xett, went in-yOl
know, iust--iust not thinkin'.'
In where, Nanci|'
lies such an old codgc. Away,
guyin' and kiddin', and II just WASH
thinkin'.'
WHO. Yanci? Who"
Il says to him, says. when tn,
girl let me in. says. Hello grand ole
man, it's fine day for spring hats anC
spring fever Just like that-guyin' .
"Uh huh -
"He-he kinda laughed and kept
pulin' at his beard. ,you-you know
the way he does. Zett."
"Uh- huh ~
'And-and put me over in that kind
of dentists chair next to the window
and took off my hat hisself and kept
smoothing down my hair and me never
thinkin'. and-and--oh, my God, il
should have come over me then, the
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piece of glass he showed me. Nothing
in Gods name can bring 'em back. At
my stage IA year, he said, Zett, a
year at the outside. A year left for
me, Zett, and so much to do So much
to do So--much--to-do ~ And she
fell forward, a huddle.
The minutes marched past. broken
with the sobbing and the strangling
ard the weeping noises Of two women.
A cat with bell on its neck amhie
in humping its sleek sides along Miss
Rifkin's outflung foot.
Hes lynn, Yanci!"
The grand old man don't lie. Can't
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"DO Not Punish Chdrity"

No longer make it crime for generous souls to
furnish morsel of bread an aims, temporary shell
ter to the of the people who tears himself away
from his freside to fly to the defense of his father
land. Do not punish charity.
Do not set traps for noble young fellows by in
viting them to furnish or transmit correspondence
uncensored documents to keep recruits and be-
tray companions in misfortune.
When a wretched young fellow is arrested do not
uselessly prolong his preventive detention. Grant
him counsel to sustain him and to defend him before
his judges He has that right; see to it that there
is proportion between the crime and the pen
atty Stop the promiscuous awarding of penal servi
tude, the pain of death, deterrent to breaches Of
the law.
We claim for the clergy neither exceptional reg
ulatons a systematic application of the right of
pardon. We only want a genuine Interpretation of
the law.
Is it not astounding, in truth, that Begians are
reduced to ask for strict justice?
When the German army invaded our territory the
Chancellor of the empire avOwed in the face of the
world that Germany violating rights; he
promised to leave nothing undone to repair our
wrongs 1t is not then the simple respect for justice
that we ought to look for at her hands but earnest
goodwill spirit of reparation, eicacous desire
to reduce for to minimum all the disagreeable
consequences of occupation unjustiable from its
very inception.
(Signed) D. J. CARDINAL MERCER,
Archbishop Of Manes.
CONTINUED TOMORROW
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you see yourself, all OF sudden now,
Yanci, how just like me and Lille used
to lay dowr her hands in her lap with
no strength in 'em and kind of painting
for breath like"
"Oh, my God !"
"Hold me, Zettie. Hold me tight"
"My little darling. We always told
you that you'd kill yourself, sticking
too close TO the job.
$50 much to do, Zett, and only a
year So much to do
Copyright, 1910, by Wheeler Svndicdts
l. CONTINUED TOMORROW
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"BELGLAN ATHERLAND HAS NOT
CEASED TO BE SOVEREIGN MA ATTON''|
u Independent" Cardinal
s2 Like Conquered Country authority
King Albert tdndH
Explanatory Comment

lgut the appended / Won BHsng
W the prsnin o mber Of tn dghn bar
anon was the BaonnerT Teodu, president o
Mare
General 1t
a nopatah o helar n
ogan n
is Prison abandoned in lis
struggle ii pof adversary.
is wHhoutgI guarantees sorust III
a judicial moral possibility
poi a
fherdih the f the INC
he u d a the service nnfot uhe la I is one o
stone ndv u liberty.
re police and the formers
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a G r a e a
who, waiting
for her eye,
| o o k s in
ward.
When she
c m e + & C d
fro m that
door again,
the W a L IN
y u IL Ii u u
gone, leaving
{ h e & + a Y
spell which
$ sire t @ h e S,
like a gang
plank from
day over into
darkness. In
the square of
park. walks
W c T. g sud
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Belgium Is Still independent

With you I am concerned for the public order
but do not agree with you as to the means of
safeguarding it. The bishops and the clergy have
duty TO be the foremost upholders of order. They
know it, but they know also that Belgium their
try, is STILL thank God Independent and that it would
be iniquitous and rash to treat it like a conquered
country
Germany, which today occupies very great por-
tion of our provinces but which the fortune of war
may tomorrow drive back across our borders, is
belgerent nation. Belgium is also belligerent
nation Neither of the two is victorious; neither has
the right to enslave the other.
In spite of the military occupation of great
part of her provinces Belgian fatherland has not
ceased to be of right autonomous sovereign nation
Our respect and love for the soil and for Belgian
liberties then for all of us honor and duty.
To realize this honor and to preach this duty forms
part of the cergys social mission In these troubled
times in which live each soul has the right to ask
Of bis pastor; What is my duty? Who represents in
my authority? What have to do to render
to God the things that of God and TO Caesar the
things that Caesars?
Well, sir apart from heated expressions
which escape at times from even the most cautious,
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Cardinal Merciier' $ Story

Including his correspondence with the German
authorities in Belgium during the war; 1914 to
1918, edited by Professor Fernand Mayence OF
Louva ain University and translated by the Bene-
dictine Monks of ST. Ausustnes, Rsmssste,
England.