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Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25
TAMPIO

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Smith and
Mrs. Walter Yates and daughter,
Miss Grace, We're shopping in
Knoxville Thursday.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Girl.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl West are now
occupying their new home in JEFF
ferson City.
His many friends are sorry to
learn that Charles Watson has
pneumonia.
Mr.. Clem Wester was a pleasant
caller at the home of Mr.. Walter
Yates Sunday afternon.
Mrs. James L. Davis and Dau-
ghter, Louise, motored to Rutledge
~ ylson City Saturday. q
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25
TEACHERS EXAM.

On Friday and Saturday, Jan.
2 and 8, 1920, state teachers ex-
animation will be held for Grain
ger County at the school building
in Rutledge. All applicants for
schools next year should be pre-
pared to take these tests. Schedule
for the elementary examination
follows:
FRIDAY, JAN. 2
800 9:15, Reading rules and
signing cards.
9:l5-10:00, Music
l0:00-1l :45, Arithmetic.
11:45-12;l5, Spelling.
las 200, Writing and Draw
ing.
300 $3.50, Grammar
$50 4:30, Reading
SATURDAY, JAN. 3
9:00Hlo:00, Physiology.
10:0All 100, Theory and Prac-
tice.
II :0o-l2:00, Geography.
\ Noon
1900 2:30, u. S. History.
$50 400, Tennessee History.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25
SCHOOLS CLOSE


Granger County Public Schools
closed Friday, December 19 for
the holidays. They will reopen or
Monday, December 90. During the
five months fall term, the attend
ance has been good, Officers and
teachers report. On account OF
Small pox and other contagious
diseases. some of the communities
have not been able to maintain
good attendance, but after the
holidays the enrolment should be
normal. The board of education
contemplates running all the
schools seven months where the
attendance justifies; that is, there
will be. two months Winter ter =
closing about February 20. The
compulsory attendance law pro-
vides that all children between the
ages of seven and sixteen must
attend for the entire term. hence
it will apply during the winter
months, and the board of educa-
tion asks that parents keep their
children regularly in school.
The next regular meeting of
the Granger County Teachers
Association will be held in the
Court House on Januray 10, 1920.
Trustee Greenlee announces he
will be able to pay off school
warrants for the fifth month by
that time.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25

The above was written by
Miss Anna Rae Phillips. a
pupil in the Rutledge High
School.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25

This poem appeals to every hu-
man being because of its hope
fulness and pathos; and it. also
presents one characteristic of the
writer in making all his poems as
perfect as human skill would al
low. 1t is one of the most beauti-
full poems that he ever wrote and
closes with this splendid express
sion of personal faith and cour-
age:
For tho from out our bourne
of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
l hope to see my pilot face to
face
When / have crossed the bar.
Such words are a fitting close
to the brief record of great
career of a great century, and of
literature.
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25
ARSENAL EXPLOSION ROCKS new JERSEY
OFFICERS ASK HELP

DOVER, N.J., Dec. 18.-An explosion of loaded
ammunition at Picatinny arsenal shook northern
New Jersey last night, few minutes before mid
night Government officers at the arsenal tele-
phoned to Dover to send all available fire appar-
atus and a few minutes later wire communca-
tion with the arsenal was cut off. It could not be
ascertained whether or not there was any loss of
life. Flames at the arsenal could be seen miles
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25
UNKNOWN DEAD

| once worked for an old news
paper editor down in Missouri
who refused to publish the death
notice of merchant who had not
advertised in his home paper. He
said: People who don't advertise
in the home paper never were alive
and their passing away has no
news value. Albany, ILL.,, Rec
ord. -
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25
N. W. OF A. OFFICERS

Rutledge. Camp Modern Wood
men America, at the regular
meeting held Saturday night, elec
ted officers for the coming year
as follows:
John j. Brady, Consul; Mack
West, Past Consul; Boyd Ritter,
Advisor; ]. A. Roach, Clerk; Hen
derson Witt, Banker; Jesse Gamer
or, Escort; Drs. G. w. Snither and
J. H. Campbell, Physicians; Wal
ter Watson, Watchman; Jesse
Hancock, Sentry; Joe Kits, Trus-
Grainger County news. (Rutledge, Tenn.) 1917-current, 1919-12-25

J. 7. Shultz and G. A. Broyles
who are connected with the
Wrought Iron Range Co., in Vir-
ginia, are spending the holidays
with relatives here.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
STRING OF FREIGHT CARS $50
MILES LONG

Just think of q single gigantic train
extending from Chicago east, on any of
the main trunk lines, as far as the
Niagara Falls. When you think of this
you will have some faint idea of what
wartime car saving means, when eX-
pressed in terms of results accom-
plished last year by single industry.
The fertilizer industry in endeavor-
ing to cooperate with the government,
last year undertook to ship only in full
carloads. The previous year the aver
age carload of fertilizer had been
about 20 tons-only half of the car
occupied. Last year this average was
raised to over 80 tons per car, with
the net result that the equivalent of
more than $1,000 car trips were saved.
Other industries must also fol
low the same Fan. Lime, feed,
fertilizers, all sorts of materials, must
be shipped in full carloads. The way
to accomplish this is for consumers to
foresee their needs; and foreseeing
their needs to place their orders early
so that there will be time enough for
full carloads to be made up. lmmedi-
ate shipment, as early as possible,
must also be the rule-so that neither
the manufacturer storage, nor the
dealers storage may become over
taxed,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
Snails in Aquariums.

large glass tank is not necessary
for a house aquarium, says Boys Life.
Small, Inexpensive glass boxes that
make desirable indoor aquaria, as well
as glass tubs and jars, may be OBJ
tanned from dealers.
Do not buy glass globe for an
aquarium. These give distorted view
of the contents and are evidently I'M
comfortable for their animal inmates
Goldfish are pretty and interesting.
but they are common in such globes
and not enough can be learned from
them by the average student of ma
ture. Fit up the aquarium as if you
intended it for goldfish, then get some
thing else.
Yon can catch many things, but do
not put too many into one aquarium.
One of the most interesting aquatic
animals is the common water snail.
These are ordinarily kept in gold
fish aquaria as scavengers, to clean
up the debris and take off the green
material that grows on the sides of
the glass. Most people think of snails
as aids in keeping the aquarium clean,
but they are in themselves real ObjeC S
of interest.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
MEAT PRODUCERS
DID FULL DUTY
Increase in American Hogs viii
Help to Meet World Fat
Shortage. q
FARMERS SAVE SITUATION.
Government Justified in Stimulation
Of Pork Production-Sevenfo
Increase Over Pre-
War Exporta.

Through increased production and
to export seven times our pre-war
average exports of pork products
With the heavy demands added in car
ing for the millions who have been
freed from German oppression, the
Department of Agriculture and the
Food Administration are justified to-
day in our every action Of stimula ton
the greatest world shortage will be in
fats, and pork will help to save this
situation. The efficacy of the policy
of stimulated production has built up
in this country supplies which will en-
able US to supply very large part of
the fat deficiency of the world In
beef there must be shortage in Eu-
rope, due largely to limited refrigera-
tor ship capacity. All freezer ships
available, however, will be filled by
America Argentine and Australia.
The contribution made by the pro-
ducers of this country to the war pro-
gram as applying particularly to ami
NAL food products is illustrated by the
following:
Reports compiled by the g. S. De
partment Of Agriculture indicate an
increase in cattle of 10,23S,OOO head
and 12,441,O 900 hogs. These figures
were compiled to January l last
In this period there was decrease
in sheep of $4,000 head The indica-
tons are that this decrease will show
an increase, according to recent re-
ports.
Since January unofficial informa-
ton indicates an increase in hogs Of
not less than per cent and not
more than Is per cent. as compared
with one year ago, with an increase in
the average weight.
Following the request of the U. s.
Food Administration for an increase
in hog production for marketing in the
fall of 1918 and the spring of 1919 the
increase may yield not less than 1,6O0,-
100000 pounds more of pork products
than were available last year. With
out this increase the shipping program
arranged by Mr.. Hoover regarding an
imal food products would have been
impossible
The dressed hog products during the
three months ending September 80,
1917 amounted to 903, 172,OO0 pounds,
while for the corresponding months of
1918 the dressed hog products totaled
1,277 $50, 900, an increase of over 374,-
100000 pounds for the quarter.
During the same period for 1917 the
records of inspected slaughter of
dressed beef showed 1868, 100000
pounds as against 1.454, 900 900 pounds
for the three month period ending
September /, this year,
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
SAVE 16.COo,0oO BUSHELS
OF WHEAT THAT FOR.AERLY
VAS LOST II! Tn4EE5HING
Farmers, Urged by Food Administra
tIo", Provide Seven Extra Loaves
of Bread for Every American.

BY adopting cleaner thrcshing meth
DDS and by literally comhing harvest
fields to gather grain formerly vast
ed threShermen and farmers of the
United States this year saved fully
100000 bushels of wheat, estimated
as equivalent to about seven one-pound
loaves of bread for every person in
the country. This result, accompanied
by corresponding savings of barley
oats, rye and other grains is shown by
reports from 33 grain states to the U.
S. Food Administration. Other states,
although not prepared to furnish def
mite figures of conservation in the
grain fields, report greatly reduced
harvest losses.
This rural food saving achievement,
accomplished in scarcely six months
time, was in direct response to re-
quests by the Food Administrations,
which asked farmers and threshermen
to reduce harvest losses from about
3A per cent.-the estimated average
in normal times-tO the lowest posi-
BILE minimum. Country grain threSh-
ing committees carried into every
grain growing community the official
recommendations for accomplishing
the results desired
In numerous instances drivers of
racks with leaky bottoms were sent
from the fields to repair their equip
ment and frequently order thresh-
ing machines We're stopped until the
cause of waste was removed. But In
proportion to the number of persons
engaged in gathering the nations grain
crop, cases of compulsion were COM
paratively rare. The Food Admins
tration freely attributes the success of
the grain threshing campaign to pa
triotic service by farmers, thresher-
men and their crews. incidentally
grain growers of the United States are
many millions of dollars "in pocket
as result of the grain saved.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
ALWAYS a Silver lininu.

He looks as if he might be a men,
Der of the diplomatic corps, but he
isn't-being a salesman in a time-hon-
ored department house on Seventh
street, which in one respect, anyhow
Is something equally as good.
Also he has wife who must be
a cheerful-robin type of little woman,
for when she peeped in on her husband
the morning the order went forth that
stores We're not to be opened until ten
o'clock she accepted the news cloud
with the buoyancy of one who knows a
silver lining when it comes her way
"Why, James''-James is the diplo-
matic-looking husband-"now you can
help me with the breakfast dishes,
can't you"
Oh, yes, the silver Innings are there,
all right-provided we don't concen-
trate too morbidly on the cloud side
of situation.-Washing Star.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
MORE MONEY FOR TOMATOES
Larger Crops and Better Quality Make
Bigger Profits.

Good tomato crops are profitable.
Average crops pay the grower little
more than day wages. Inc grower
who is successful uses methods that
insure large yields and high quality.
In few sections, average yields do
not exceed two tons, yet in New Jer-
sey on farms delivering to single
cannery, there was total OF more
than 5000 acres where the growers last
year averaged about seven tons per
acre. Twenty-Five per cent OF this area
yielded between 10 and II tons to the
acre. A number of middle Western
growers have averaged over 20 tons
to the acre. Large yield, quality and
big profits go hand in hand.
Humus the Life of the Soil.
Soils containing plenty of organic
matter will start tomato plants more
quickly, cultivate more easily, and
carry the plant through period of
drought more certainly than will those
lacking humus. Field observation es-
tablishes the fact that many tomato
growers have allowed the organic mat
ter of the soil to become exhausted,
and many low yields can be laid to
this cause. Most Eastern tomato grow
ers can now get little or no manure.
Many Western growers are having the
same trouble Many depend largely
upon commercial fertilizers.
An abundant supply of suitable avail
able plant food is essential to most
yields. Withol sufficient food
the plant does not possess strength to
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09

maximum of it's vigor, and you will
find that the roots scarcely meet be-
tween the rows. The great mass of
feeding rootlets are Immediately I'M
derneath the whorls of potato-bearing
stems. The sketch shows this-and
this is the reason why part of the fer
tilizer should be applied in the hill.
Just how much is needed in the hill
depends on climate. In Western po-
tatogrowing regions not more than
300 or 400 pounds should be so used.
The rest should be applied broadcast.
In the truck-crop regions of Maryland,
Virginia and Delaware, the amount
which may be applied in the hill may
be somewhat larger. In the Aroostook
region of Maine many growers put it
all in the hill, finding this the most
economical way of handling the fer
tilizer.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
PUT SOME FERTILIZER IN HILL
Potatoes Are Not Good Foraqers and
Must Have Some Available Plant
Food Close at Hand.

One essential to success in raising
potatoes is to have some available
plant food in the hill (aIthough not
touching the seed piece) so that the
new rootlets can begin feeding imme-
diately. This makes a big difference
in many wayS-in the start which the
young plant gets, in its ability to out
grow weeds and in its power to shade
the ground and thus prevent water
from evaporatin2.
The reason why fertilizer must be
close at hand is, of course, that the po-
tatO is not good forager. Dig down
into hill after the tubers are well
formed and when the plant is at the
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
THRIFT AND SAVINGS STAMPS
ARE AS GOOD AS GOLD
They Should Not Be cashed Until
Maturity

People who think that unflled
Thrift Stamp certificates OR War Saw
ings cards must be cashed in before
January 1, are absolutely wrong
War Savings Stamps and Thrift
Stamps are as good as gold, whether
the certificate or Thrift Stamp card
is completely filled OF not.
Lewis B, Franklin. director of the
War Loan Organization, of the
United States Treasury Department,
says there is tendency to cash in
War Savings Stamps and Thrift
Stamps, because their owners have
an idea that only completely filled
certificates or cards will be valuable
after January list.
Hold onto your War eor'-~e Ger
tifcates. whether you have one War
Savings Stamp Or a filled card" ad-
vises Mr.. Franklin
There is abs olutely no reason
for cashing single cav'ros
Stamp before maturity. The
single Savings Stamp will grow
in value in the same proportion
as your twenty stamps, and the
government will redeem it on ex-
piration for SIS, just as it will re-
deem your twenty Savings stamps
for 500. Thrift cards, even the
partially filled, are as good as
ever. The Government will con-
tinue to sell Thrift Stamps, 80
that you can fill out these cards
and exchange them for the 1919
issue of War Savings Stamps"
The 1919 War Savings Stamps will
be sold after January 1 the same as
were the old War Savings Stamps.
The only difference is that these new
blue stamps must be pasted in a new
certificate, and not be used to fill out
the old certificate. The old certif-
cafes. of course, did not have to be
completely filed to entitle every hol-
der to IS on maturity for every War
Savings Stamp in them
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
NOTICE. OF DISSOLUTION

The copartnership Of ia. -
consisting of Fred S, Jacn- .. r.I
L. Hall, both of BelfaSl ....
business at said Belfast ... ..
grain business under the '.''
style of jackson & Hal ,s-
been dissolved. Said FREQ n.
will continue the bushes ..sr5
now due and owing to SAID a', o. ra,
are due and payable at once '-. b
paid at the store formerly ''
said copartnership. ,a,ras
We wish to thank all OF OUT ''."-.as.'
their past patronage and th' S.s ~ os,o.
MIR. jackson, solicits your tu'r ,,s sll5i
age and assures all OF the s'n a,,t
deal that they have had IN ,"' IAACBS3N
VIRGIL L. h.
Belfast, Dec. rs. 1918
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
His COSTLY DERBY
Abundant Reasons Why Owner
Clings to Headpiece.
Merely as an Investment It Must B..
Conceded as Deserving Care, and
Is Worthy of Respect as
Thing Of Value.

IT Is only a plain derby, beginning
to have the permanent duskiness of a
peach, In spite of frequent trips to the
nat specialist for rehabilitation. It
has no claim whatever to any individ-
ual1sm, outside of the initials, which
are inside and don't show anyway. II
does not do me justice, either. And
at any angle I place it, it gives me a
topheavy appearance.
So why do I cling to 1t? Why?
Because anything that costs as much
money as that derby, deserves not only
care as an Investment but respect as
a thing of value. People don't laugh
at the Kohinoor diamond, do they
Ihey never poke fun at the Great
Ruby? Then why should they be
amused at my derby?
1t cost a great deal Of money. The
first time | bought it, I mean when I
selected it in the hat shop and paid for
it, surprising that it was wholly mine,
the price was four dollars. The pay
ing over of four of my dollars to the
hat man gave me, at least to my sim
pie, one-track mind, sole right and IT,
tie against all pretenders until the end
Of the world. But only a simple mind
could believe a thing like that.
Alas. like many other things in this
surprising world, it was not my derby.
IT never has been and probably never
will be. For I have been buying 1t
ever since the first sale in the shop,
almost like one does on the instalment
rlan. Only the instalment plan entails
set expenditure each week or month
you know just what it is going to be
and can be prepared for 1t.
But when you get your derby from
hat boy or hat girl in hotel, restau-
rant, theater or wherever the grafters
are permitted you do not know what
If will cost you. 1t all depends on the
hauteur of the hat boy or girl in
charge. Some of them have the ap-
pearance that anything rendered less
than fifty cents would be faux pas be-
yond thought. Then the surroundings
play such an important part in gaug-
ing the amount of blood money, or hat
money, Just as you desire to designate
It, A mass of towering palms, much
marble and occasional rugs, means a
ransom. Less marble and only one or
two palms mean less Indemnity. And
simple mahogany and no palm mean
ten cents.
Why do men ever select such a
piece of headgear in the first place?
know why they hang onto it after
they get it, but what can he the rea-
son for wanting one In the beginning?
They are not beautiful on or off the
head. They are hard to keep clean.
shabby without an effort. 1t is a mys-
terry.
There is no sentiment In my case
toward my derby. I respect it, the
SEINE as I respect anything that costs
n lot of money. but I don't love 1t. ]
don't gaze at it With the tenderness
| beStow on my tuin bed nor do [ look
ct 1t with the fOndness which my old
briar pipe inspires. These I Weuld
Lot part with,
But anyone who will advance to me
nne-tenth the sum which I have paid
out may become the owner of one
! lack derby, trife fuzzy perhaps, but
still capable of exciting the envious
eyes of hat boys and hat girls.-Harry
Irving ShumWay, in Judge.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
SFAESI 0RT NATIONAL BANK,
sEARSPORT, MAIN E.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers Of the Searsport National Bank will
be held at their banking rooms in Sears
port, on Tuesday, January H. 1919, at 2
o'clock, for the election of directors for
the ensuing year and for the transaction
of anv other business as may legally come
before the meeting.
WILBUR R. BLODGETT. Cashier.
;Searsport, Me-, Dec. "a, 1918. 3w52
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
NO ONE SUFFERED HERE.

The marvel of our voluntary food
saving, now that we are getting re
Suits" Is that no one ever actually
suffered any hardship from 1t; that
we all are better in health and spirit
and better satisfied with ourselves be-
cause of our friendly self-denial.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1919-01-09
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
unac Cnuntu &C

Lucas tOunty, IS.
Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he is
senior partner of the firm of F. j. Cheney
& Co., doing business in the City of
Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and
that said firm will pay the sum of ONE
HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and
every case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by the use of HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence, this 9th day of December,
A. D. 1886, A. W. GLEASON,
(SeaD Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Medicine is taken in
ternally and acts through the Blood on
the Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by all druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills for constipation.