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The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14
Oh. Boy!

Some folks 60 into exaggerated
ecstacies over just little things.
A lady friend in discussing peculiar
sensations, said that the first time
she was kissed she felt like a big
tub of roses swimming in honey,
cologne, nutmegs and cranberries.
She also felt something coursing
through her nerves on feet of dia-
monds, escorted by several little
cupids in chariots drawn by angels,
shaded by honeysuckles and the
widespread with melted rainbows.
County Ark. } Unit.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14

The General Assembly is con-
sidering, and it seems seriously,
too, dog law, says the Carroll
County Democrat. This is an old
question that comes up at every
session of the General Assembly.
We have had several dog laws en-
acted. but they have never been
worth the paper they were printed
on. IL this General Assembly will
give to the State a law that will in
sure fewer dogs and more sheep, it
will meet long felt want. We
doubt the ability of the General
Assembly to pass law capacitated
to bring about sncb results.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14
WAYS TO HELP.

Here are ten ways to help the
country church of your community
says The Progressive Farmer.
You can help by seeing to it
l. That the church has whole
time pastor at a salary you are not
ashamed OF.
2. That a twelve-months-in-the-
year Sunday school is maintained.
3. That parsonage is provided
and furnished.
4. That there is teachers train
ing class in the Sunday school.
5. That the church lives up to
its highest possibilities in the mat
ter of church music.
q. That the church building ia
painted
Z. That the church grounds are
made beautiful with trees, shrubs,
flowers and walks.
s That the church is properly
heated and lighted.
9. That there is rest room for
women and children.
10 That hitching places are
provided for horses so that they
will not gpaw shade trees.
Any earnest citizen can help ac-
complisb these things in his neigh
boring church and Sunday school
and should count it privilege to
be able to do SO.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14

fervor with practical business
methods and the result of such
union holds potent possibilities for
the church of the immedihfe fu.
ture. ~
During the month of February
members of the M. e. Church,
South will be asked TO join a great
league of prayer and it is hoped to
enroll 100000 Methodist in this
Methodists in this league. The
object of the prayer league will be
to seek deeper spirituality
throughout the church and the
world, to be invested with new
sense of the obligation of brother
hood as it extends not only to the
downtrodden people of America,
but to the peoples of the earth and
fora personal conservation of time
and money and lives by every man
woman and young person who
is affiliated with the Methodist
denomination. In other words
the Methodists declare they intend
to meet the emergences of these
reconstruction times by first becom-
ing more humble followers of the
man of Gallilee, and, second, by
rendering in His name, practical
service to the masses of humanity
thoughout the world.
Whether the denomination does
or does not achieve Immediately
all that it seeks, certainly the union
of 100000 people in great cam
paign throughout the length and
breadth of Methodism means busi-
ness, and business of that power
ful sort that commands the admira-
ton of public which needs big
figures and big thoughts to rouse
it to approve.
The apportionment of the GEN.
tenary assessment for Lexington
District M. E. Church, South, is
as follows:
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14
WILL HEAD
w. S. S. DRIVE

The appointment of W. l.. Hunt
ley, jr., first vice-president of the
National City Bank of Memphis,
as director of War Saving Stamps
sales for the 21 counties of West
Tennessee, signals the opening of
the 1919 drive in the district of
which Mr.. Huntley will have juris-
diction.
Assisting Mr.. Huntley, who will
work under the director of Chatta-
nooga, will be l.. W. Hughes, who
has been named field director.
Mrs Sam Philips of Memphis will
again have charge of the woman's
division of the State.
Efforts will be made to put Ten
nessee over the top during 1919
and each city and town will retain
practically the same organization
it worked under during the past
year according to statement made
by Mr. Huntley.
tennessee made an enviable
record i'll 1918 and we propose to
make it one of the leading States
IN the Nation and the leading
State in the South" said Mr.. Hunt
ley.
"The campaign is already under
way, but we propose to push the
drive for purchases of War Saving
Stamps and Thrift Stamps every
day in the year.
Apportionment of local quotas
will be made within few days,
according to Mr.. Emerson, and
will be based upon bank deposits
and local population.
Not only will the campaign be
conducted through the regular or
ganized channels which were used
during 1918, but an intensified ed
ucational drive will be made in the
schools of the State with view of
education more thoroughly than
ever the thousands of school chill
dren to whom the habit of thrift
will be most beneficial.
1t is planned to inculcate the
idea of National thrift in the
younger generation and to stress
the Importance of systematic saw
ing, which at the same time, aids
the Government in financial way
to meet the enormous expenses
concurrent with the successful
conclusion of war.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14
SOLDIER LETTERS
FROM OVERSEAS

Sargeant David G. Holland, a
G'g sandy boy with the American
"Yrr-eas forces in France, writes to
bIs father, y. d. Holland, as fol-
bows:
Somewhere in France, Decem.
her 3, 1918 Dear father aud moth
er: Will try aud drop you few
lines to let you know | am we'll
"nd having a very good time, hope
This will soon reach you and find
You we'll. Had letter from j j.
short time past dated October 81.
lie was on the front, but was hav-
ing a good time. Listen | saw
J'en Brewer November 2 and be-
leve me | sure was glad to see
him. Only had time to say few
words to him, he was coming from
the front and l was going.
Well, | guess | can tell some of
my trip | left New York July Z
aud landed at La Havre, July IL.
From there | went to Dentiville,
then to Generates. then to st. Aire
from there through Genardnes to
the trenches, | came back to Seu-
clicole, then l went through Reu-
isemont, Nancy, st. Meuchould to
Lees Ieetts; from there we went
through Grauclpre and Buzancy
and near Sedan and was there
when the armistice was signed. l
turned back and come through
Montfaucon, Malancourt, Verdan,
leaving Metz to the left about 30
or40 miles, then through st. Dizier,
Nassy and I am now at Larvaralle.
Guess you are expecting good
time Christmas, l sure did have
some fun Thanksgiving l will
close for this time, hoping to hear
from you soon.
AS ever, your son,
DAVID G. HOLLAND.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14
RAMBLE CREEK.

Buford Cantrell is seriously i'll
at this writing.
Robert Jones and wife have re-
turned from Memphis.
Mrs. Rose Craney has recovered
from an attack of influenza.
Delbert and Leo Mobiles have
entered school at Big Sandy.
Fred Mckenzie and John Stem
were at Big Sandy Saturday.
Harold Burnett of Nashville, lie
spending a few days with home
folks.
III. L. Brewer and Ophelia Wat
son have entered school at Big
Sandy.
Miss Mai Belyew has been visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Matte Beaton,
at Big Sandy,
Mrs. Minnie Sparks of Paris
spent last week with her mother,
Mrs. Laura Mobiles.
Wishing The Chronicle and it's
readers much success.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14
HOW TO SAVE MONEY.

A subscriber, in discussing the
Progressive Farmer thrift contest,
advanced two ideas which helped
him to save money.
"One has been abstinence from
the use of tobacco and whisky.
Old Steele's Physiology early con-
vinced men that was the only SEN
sible thing to do from the stand
point of health, indigestion and
nerves; and an uncle brought out
the money side of the matter in a
way that | have not forgotten.
"He was a great smoker, and in
the family circle one day somebody
suggested that he figure out about
how much money he had spent for
tobacco. I do not recollect the ex-
act figures, but I know it astonish-
ed him and all the rest of us to see
how much he would have had if he
had saved and put it out at interest
Il think about $1,000. An old
man reared near where | was gave
an experience sometime ago that is
pertinent in this connection. He
said:
"'Forty-three years ago | quit
using tobacco in any form. 1t had
cost me little over $24 a year. At
the end of the first year / put in
the bank $24, taking a certificate
at 4 per cent. At the end of each
year L put in the bank S24 together
with interest. At the end of IL
years the interest was $24. AT the
end of % years my certificate drew
$40. At the expiration of AZ years
it drew $102. Total $3.50. | am
using this in the education of my
children. Ana now sending the
sixth one to college,
"In other words, when he as
young man was spending S24 year
on tobacco, he was spending not
merely the $24 but he was spending
something else. He was spending
the possibility OF getting all the
later interest on the amount, the
interest alone on his tobacco mon
ey now amounting to over 500 a
year
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14
AS ever, your son,
DAVID G. HOLLAND.

Mrs. Fl. L. Lockhart of Camden
route l has received the following
letter from her son, Ray Lockhart,
who is with the American overseas
B)rces in France:
Paincon, France, January 9, 1919
Dear mother: Will write few
lines again this morning. l re-
ceived another letter from you a
few days past that was an older
enc than the one of December 4,
telling me Of Hulans misfortune.
We have been here in this muddy
camp since Christmas night. Sure
las been wet, cold place. but the
weather is getting some better.
The last few days have been some
warmer and is raining some this
,nornipg.
A few nights ago two sargeants,
the supply sargeant, with whom |
am working with at the present
time and the regimental mess sar-
geant said, "lets go down town and
ret good feed" The little village
was about a mile and half from
camp. so we went down to an old
Erench home and talk about a
feed. we had it, beefsteak and eggs,
French fried potatos and pie, you
can guess how | ipjoyed it after
eating army grub SO long. The
old lady must have been about 70
or rs years old, and the old man,
/ judge, was rs or 80 They are
the old French peasant class, and
Won never saw as jolly an old lady
in your life as she was. They
rouldn't speak American language
and we could speak only few
French words. You would have
laughed good if you could have
heard the conversation that was
being carried on while we were
eating supper.
Everything was nice and clean
"a new pin in their home, but 1T
was all in ore room. The bed,
stoxe- which was used for both
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14

The Chronicle rates for obituary
notices is 5 cents a line. In max.
ing an estimate for cost of these
notices count six words TO the line.
Heading eonnts two lines aud
iguature one line.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14

Statesmen wanted to solicit or
ders for lubricating oile, greases
and paints. Salary or orcommission.
Address the Harvey Oil Co, Cleys-
land, Ohio.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1919-02-14

The apportionment of the GEN.
tenary assessment for Lexington
District M. e. Church, South, is
as follows:
The Washington times., 1919-04-13

lieve she is one OF those who wear their
prison pin-indicating that she has
suffered for the cause. Just recently
she and Mrs. George Odell and Mrs.
Burch Thompson went into trade" to-
gether. They opened what they call
The Wayfarer's Book Shop" which
combines business with the philah-
thropy OF supplying the really bookIsh
people with the very latest books.
They specialize in volumes that the
bookish dilletente is simply crazy
about, long before the general public
knows of their existence-Qf indeed
IL ever learns IL and consequently
long before the regular book shops
which do not attempt to combine even
such discriminating philanthropy with
their business, have them in stock.
They're getting a lot OF fun out Of
it-and so are some other people-for
their shop is a sort OF reading room
where one may sit and look over the
very latest. of literary fads. and is
most attractively equipped. Among
their most frequent visitors is little
Miss Flora Payne Whitney, the Harry
Payne Whitneys' debutante daughter,
who spends considerable time there
when she can tear herself away from
her typewriter in the .Women's Ma
tional Republican Committee head
quarters upstairs in the same build
ing.
The Washington times., 1919-04-13
Double wedding Fer OVermans
II NJ saIlakurv-

IL at Salisbury, n. c.
On the following Wednesday, April
so, comes the double wedding in the
oyerman family-partly because the
/ Overman girls have a perverse, from
/ the Washington point OF view, desire
to be married in their own home at
Salisbury, n. c. Two handscomer ana
more popular girls than these two
daughters of Senator and Mrs. Lee s.
OVerman one would have to 20 a
long way to find. The two engage
: ments-that of Grace Mcdowell Over
man to Edgar Norris Snow and that
OF kathryn Baird Overman to Gilberl
Foster Hambley-were announced
within a few weeks o. one another,
along in February.
"A double wedding was promised, in
the early summer, so Ii rather Jared
received cards for the marriage OF
Kathryn Overman, for April S0-and
not a word about Grace. Her cards,
however, followed day later. And il
really is to be a double wedding,
though the two girls have separate
cards. even as they made separate an
nouncements.
The wedding will take a number OF
people down to North Carolina. For
Senator and Mrs. OVerman have been
long part Of WashinSton's official so
ciety, the Senator being now. we'll
along in his third term But. while
the Overman girls have been familiar
figures in Washington, whenever Con-
gress was in session, they have never
lost touch with their home town and
The Washington times., 1919-04-13
Several IaneVatiOns
OF ID. A. n. Congress.

" Ds - ~ SNA1NCe-
This twenty-eighth annual Con-
tinental Congress Of the D. A r. will
be marked by certain innovations. In
the first place no one but women
are on the program for the opening
meeting tomorrow evening, the big
Gala meeting at which all the noSa-
KIlities appear. This would seem to
be a particularly wise and tactful
move in view Of the fact that the
President, most Of the cabinet Off
GERS and foreign ambassadors, who
were heretofore depended upon to be
the lions OF occasion, are at present
overseas.
why, I can't remember when q D..
A. r. convention has opened without
the French Ambassador, n. Jusser-
and,f among the speakers-and now
he's in Paris helping ont the peace
conference. It has also been the
Presidents custom to take part in
the ceremonies-until the last two
Years. In April, 1917, the United
states was just getting into the war
Rnd President Wilson was naturally
TOO much occupied, ana preoecupied,
70 20 in fer malkiag speeches AID
opening congresses. Last year, how
ever, he accepted the invitation Of
the Daughters to be present, and it
wasn't until they were assembled for
the opening meeting that he sent a
message to the president general re-
gFettinE that circumstances would
prevent his attending. Although they
didn't 20 on record, the sense OF thc
meeting, as got it, was that the
The Washington times., 1919-04-13

the china will one day find its way
into the house at Richmond, now a
Confederate museum, which was JEFF
erson Davis home and where he lived
as President of the Confederacy.
That's where it should be, of course,
for the collection is one Of great his
toric interest particularly to the peo-
pie of the South. The china was made
in England and never reached its des-
tination, for when il arrived in this
country It was seized and put in bond
awaiting the result Of the war. Fin
ally it was purchased by admirers Of
Judge and Mrs. Hunt and presented
to them. D"spite the loss or breakage
of an occasional piece, there are near
ly- 80 pieces left, plates in six sizes.
platters, soup tureens, ct al. The
china is gray in tone, with a lacy pat
tern and medaliions showing Oriental
landscapes picked out in brown, vel
low. red and green. It's the sort Of
thing about which collectors rave, and
besides there's its undoubted historic
value to give a FLIP of interest.
Although her father was a Union
man, Mrs. Hunts mother was a dou-
bic cousin of Stonewall Jackson, and
among her things-she has some rare
IL beautiful and valuable old furni-
ture, pictures. etc.-are many me-
mentoes of the famous Confederate
general Judge Underwood was a
close friend of Lincoln. 1t was in his
court that Jefferson Davis was tried
and he sat on the bench beside Chief
Justice Salmon p. Chase, who was
the presiding Judge Among the other
things of historic interest which Mrs.
Hunt has-or had-is the official
document-I don't know its proper
legal designation-calling upon the
military authorities to deliver the
President of the Confederacy to the
civil authorities for trial.
The Washington times., 1919-04-13
D. 4. r. Clans
Gather For
Convention


~ EAR SUSAN:
The clans Of the D. A. r. are
- gathering, and although they
are not. now "the force that in old
says moved heaven and earth" to the
eun Of watching their squabbles, still
they always dress UP the willard and
the. other hotels q whole lot, and they
will keep things going all this week
even II it Is Holy. Week.
Perhaps, too, there viii be some
little politics played and presumably
by the end OF the congress there
will be several hats in the ring for
next years eiections-this year there
are only 4 few vice presidents gem
erni to be elected and q historian to
Iill a place left vacant by death. But
the fact that the present president
general cannot seek reelection for
what has come to be known as
courtesy term" should do a lot to
preveut the political pot from boiling
ever during the session. Mrs. George
rhacher Guernsey, the present i'm
cumbent," was the first president gen
eral 20 be elected under the amended
constitution for a thFee-year term
without reelection.
For the last two years the
Daughters have been seriously and
patriotically busy about their chosen
war activities. They have bent all
their energies in this direction and
have. done wonders. And there is
every prospect of an entirely peaceful
and harmonious congress-one which
might. II IL were not too well bred,
point the finger Of scorn at the peace"
conference going on across the mill
pond and remind il that they are be-
faVing, as the newspapers used to say
of the Daughters each year during
the week Of April 1s, "just like a par
Gel OF women"
The Washington times., 1919-04-13

grandson of the late Senator Dryden,
of New Jersey.
1t seems queer to go through all OF
Easter Week and not find a single
socially important wedding until Sat
urday. But 1t doesn't in the least
mean a failure in the bride crop
simply that the Easter brides all beat
Easter to it and married in Lent.
That was equally true of last yea,
but then it was easily explained by
the fact that most Of the bridegrooms
were likely to be. sent overseas at any
moment and il behooved. them to take
Rob Herrick's gather We rosebuds
while We may" advice. This year there
no such excuse; and yet the fact re-
mains that Lent has been sprinkled
with important weddings, most of
them Roman Catholic and Episcopal
weddings-and it's the Roman Catho-
lies and the Episcopalians who are
supposed to observe Lent most
strictly.
The Washington times., 1919-04-13
Only One Easter
bride Announced.

After Holy Week will come Easter,
with its Easter brides. Say, rather,
its Easter bride-so far as Washing
ton is concerned-for, curiously
enough. there is only one OF her, only
one, at least, in whom society is gen.
orally interested. She is Brooke Rus
sell-Roberta Brooke Russell, to give
her her full name, although the first
part seems not to be meant for daily
use-and she h % be married on Sat
Jrday. April 26, to John DrydS7
kG. ~ ION ur vi. and MIS- AuthOn.
Kuscr, OF Bernardsville. n. j., and
The Washington times., 1919-04-13

daughters were CONSIDERABLY put out.
And can't say I blame them.
Mrs. Philip North Moore, president
of the Council of Organized Women,
is to be the principal speaker at the
gala meeting this year; and her sub
ject will be ''Women's Relation to the
League of Nations" Mrs. George
Barnett will give talk on "A
Woman's View Of the War Zone" "
Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker will speak
on ITO Have and To Hold" and Nine.
Slavko Grouitch, wife Of the minister
of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes,
will talk of "The Effect of the Ameri-
can Revolution on the Serbian Ma
ton"
Another innovation will be the
Victory banquet TO be held in the
large ball room of the willard on
Tuesday evening. The Daughters
have never gone in for banquets be-
fore. but will try it out this year;
and after the dinner there will be a
reception in the small ball room. All
Daughters are urged to attend this
regardless of whether they take IN
the banquet or not.
The Washington times., 1919-04-13

parties for the wedding. Both bride
and groom are so absurdIy young
the little Russell girl Is barely eight
cen. and John Dryden Kuser ISL
don't just know his age, but he's stin
in his senior year at Princeton. And
after the wedding he's going back
to finish out the term, and his little
bride is going to stay with his people
at Bernardsville. N. J., until he grad
uates, and then they're going on their
wedding journey-around the world,
I believe the plan is. Naturally, Il Is
the very young set here that is most
excited about it.
The Washington times., 1919-04-13
Grace Needham to
Wed Joseph POEue.

Wed Joseph POgue.
The last of the Lenten brides will be
Grace Needham, who is actually TO be
married in Holy Week. Her fiauce Is
Joseph POgue, sometime of Raleigh,
n. G., but now of the Fuel Administra-
ton and hence a temporary resident
of Washington. This is wedding
it's to be on Thursday--in which So
ciety-Of several different sOrts-is
very much interested, for Miss Need
ham is a good deal of a personality.
She's pretty for one thing-and as
clever as she can be, which is perhaps
to be expected, since she is the daugh-
ter OF DR.. Charles WHY'S Needham,
until recently head OF George Wash
ington University. Her brother was
that Henry Needham, well-known
newspaper man, who was killed In an
aeroplane accident over Paris early in
the war, along with that heroic young
lieutenant, Wsrneford, wasn't it?-
who, after downing single-handed a
great Zeppelin in wonderful sem
sational fight, lost his life just Joy
riding" ov0' Paris. He had taken
Henry Needham up just to show him
how perfectly simple it all was.
The Washington times., 1919-04-13

The delegations from the Southern
States, by the way. should be particU-
larly interested in the set of china
made for the Confederate White
House which is now being exhibited
at the antique shop at SIS Seventeenth
street This is the property OF Mrs.
A. U. Hunt. a daughter of Judge John
Curtis Underwood, who was made
Judge of the First Federal district Of
Virginia by President Lincoln imme-
diately after the war. Being the last
of her line, she has decided to dis
pose of 1t in the hope, believe, that
The Washington times., 1919-04-13

Grace Ncedham Is a girl of brains
and beauty, and undoubted social po-
sition-and one OF the very active
members OF the National woman's
T-.,rty-thc militant suffragists of
whom Alice Paul is the head. / he