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Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15

one hundred and Mfty inmates OF
ne state School for Girls ataspded
ne parforrnance of "Cncie Tennis
ann" saturday afternoon ~ guests
d. Manager Gsorge Appiehy. They
vera N charge OF Mis- Gertrude L.
Mcdonald, the superintendent.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15

samuel Stewart Of Lewaston. form0-
,v asent of the Edwards HanufActnring
70. IN tits city, Was eaI;sr satzsrday
II augusta.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15

There will be a regular meeting
NJ me Cen. Phil Sheridan Circle, No.
z Ladies of the G. A R., on Tues
oev AT 30 P NJ at G. A. r. hall.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15
LAST GALL FOR RESERVED SEATS

The advanss sale Of has been big still
Packards Smoke Augusta
Store eardi-
ner.G Get first thing m orning
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15
WASHINGTON

News reached here today ol the
death of Mrs. A. A. Husfy OF West
WASHINGTON, in the Salem, Mass,
city hospital Thursday of cancer Of
the liver. Funeral services VIII be
held next Wednesday ar the West
Washington chapel at 10 o'clock IN
the forenoon, Dec. IL
w f Overlook W Mt to North Tn
ion Wednesday forenoon TO officiaLs
al the funeral Of Mrs. Barak h
Mears.
Mrs. Aldana Lessner is Ill, threat
ened with u fever.
Mr.. and Mrs Lester Black are re-
ceiving congratulations on the plrta
Of a. bouncing boy.
Frank Packard met with a very
painful and serious accident Thurs
day morning. He was riding horse
back and came To q piece OF ice
where he whipped up his horse. The
horse threw him OF and kicked him
in the side of the head. He was
picked up unconscious. DIR. PierpOnf
was called and he was made as COM
Portable as possible.
wEST-Mra. Fred Babb and son,
Appleton have returned from Wate,
vile where they passed their vaca-
Cion.
John Dawson has gone To Bangor
for a few days.
Converse Jones and Fred Baba
have been kept busy the last few
nights in trying to keep their apples
from freezing which they have
stored in their barns
Irving Powell had hard luck Mon
day night when he stripped his gears
on his automobile.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15

dren of the Methodist church Tuesday
afternoon at 40 o'clock at the parson-
age in preparation Of the Christmas
exercises.
MISS Lucy was the guest Rt a party
gwen oy Miss Marion Woodwork at her
home Friday evening N honor of her
approaching marriage to Dr.. Herbert
Bartlett. Miss Weeks was presented
"lth an electric grill. Refreshments
We're served on table which were pref
tly decorated in yellow.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15

Mra. ]. c. Pooler Of Ward Eth.
Mass., is town called by the denth
If her father, Cyrus W. Shepherd.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15
Ellen N. Dunbar

MISS Ellen NJ Dunbar nassed
away ar the home Of Mrs. Rose HoIr
maple street, Saturday night after +,
iong Illness Miss Dunbar was verv
Al Win the grip last April and all
theugh she recovered from il she was
IN a very weak condition and began
to fail until she was obliged 70 +aly-.
her bed in July. Since that TINA
she mas been cared for most Of III.
time by a trained nurse.
MISS Dunbar wa5 born in +y,;s
own the daughter of Cornelius and
MARY Dunbar. both deceased ans
mas always made her home in town
She was 7S years and 3 months oJ7
AFTER the death of parents. she rnadA
her nome With the late Miss Mary
mcfarland. After Miss McFarlanfJ,s
death Miss Dunbar went to rnake ber
home with Mrs. Rose Holt. rba ,.s
always been strong UnivcrssIisr
and mas made many friends who win
mourn her loss. She was a member
of Good VIII Rebekah Lodge.
she is survived b. one sister M-s
Liewellyn Totnan of Duluth. MINI
The funeral services WI he be,s
from Mrs aoit's home Tuesday after
noon at 2 o'clock.
the W. c T. E. will meet at the
nome of Mrs. Fred Coier. Newhau
slreet- Thursday afternoon. Mrz
Luce IS in charge Of the program tha
subject OF which, is christmas
Cheer
MISS Lillian Dyr Of Oakland. was
IN WEEKEND guest Of Miss Catherine a
Idatch
Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-15
AITGIISTALOCAIS

q. Gordon Of Portland WA1 q bu2i-
,.ss caller Saturday in this city.
The Adair County news., 1919-03-19

ty. He, in compan with several
others, came from the Cumber-
land Gap, along a buffalo trail,
which lead across the Cumber-
land river, in Russell county,
and near by the Lawless Mill,
and through Adair county, near
Ozark, and thence by the way of
Mount Pleasant, in the latter
county. He and his companions
made a camp and remained. for
a time, at the large spring, near
Mount Pleasant church, on Camp
Creek, now usually called But
ler's branch. The neighborhood
of Mount Pleasant, is a very
finely watered country and
abounds in many noble springs,
and doubtless in that early time,
was an excellent scene for hunt
ing. The traditions of the coun-
try relate, that the encampment
at Mount Pleasant, was made by
Harrod and the persons with
him, at the time he was proceed
ing to the site of Harrodsburg
and before his arrival there, at
the time he made his settlement
at Harrodsburg. This tradition
is possibly correct, but it seems
more probable, that his encamp-
ment at Mount Pleasant occur
red upon one of his hunting ex-(
cursions, which be, frequently,
The Adair County news., 1919-03-19

INDUCED in, during his life end
as long as he lived. From the cir
cumstance of the encampment at
Mount Pleasant, thecreek, which
has its source near that pls q.
and empties into the Russell; ~
below the Cheatham Bridgt3A nd
now called Buffers Branci N ~
quired the name of Camp ~
and bore that name in tie e..
times. The deeds of conVt az
for the lands situated neal
waters, for a great many ye~
made reference to it, by the
name of Camp Creek.
The Adair County news., 1919-03-19

course, is conjecture, but that
was the route pursued by Col.
VIM. Casey and his party, who,
twenty years later, removed
from the neighborhood of the
Hanging Fork of Dicks river to
permanently occupy Adair coun-
ty.
Upon the site, now occupied
by the Christian Church, known
as Mount Gilead, Knox and his
party pitched their tents and
made a camp, where they re-
NAMED for some time, and the
members of the party made
hunting excursions into all parts
of the surrounding country. The
site of the camp is just within
the present limits of Green coun-
ty, and scarcely more than a
stones throw from the line of
Green and Adair counties. Here
they erected a pen or house and
covered it with the barklof trees,
and in it, they stored the skins
of the wild animals, which they
killed while there. The incur
sions of the Indians. after
while, frightened them away,
and when, three or four years
afterward. some of the parties
were enabled to return to the
camp, the roof Of the pen had
The Adair County news., 1919-03-19

become disarranged, and the
skins had rotted. One of the
hunters, said to have been either
Abraham or Isaac Bledsoe, COM
memorated the loss by the fol-
lowing iyreverent inscription,
which he wrote upon a large
poplar tree, which had lost its
bark: 1890 deer skins lost:
ruination, by Cd" The house
for the skins gave a name to the
brook, upon the banks of which
the camp was erected, and it is
called the Skin House branch
until this day. The name of the
camp yet remains as the name
of the post Office in the commu-
nity-it bears the name of Camp
Knox.
So the Long Hunters were the
first white men to breathe the
atmosphere and to walk upon
the soil of Adair county.
COL. JAMES HARRoD's CAMP.
One of the first known and re-
membered instances of white
men being in Adair county. was
about the year. 1774. About the
time, that Col. James Harrod
built a cabin and cultivated a
small patch" of corn upon the
present site of the city of Har-
rodsburg, he was in Adair coun-
The Adair County news., 1919-03-19
NOT ES @ N ADAIR
COUNTY.
BY JOHN AvRoE STEELE.

The writing of these notes was
suggested by the writings of
Judge II. c, Baker, lately pub
liShed IN the Adair County
News, and are Intended as
a supplement to his writings,
and will be continued in future
numbers of The News, If found
to be of INTEREST,"
The Adair County news., 1919-03-19
No. Z.

THE FIRST MEN IN THE COUNTY.
In the autumn of III, Col.
James Knox, Kasper Manscoe,
Henry Knox, Richard Skaggs,
Henry Sksggs, Isaac Bledsoe,
Abraham Bledsoe, James Ora
ham, Joseph Drake, John Mont
gomery, William Allen, William
Lynch, David Lynch, Chris
Stoph, - Russell, -
Hughes, and six others, whose
names have not been preserved,
were engaged in hunting in the
Wayne county region. They
numbered twenty-five, in all,
and had, with them, four pack
horses. These were the same
men, who made a camp at the
place where Mount Gilead church,
in Green county, now is, and
gave to it, the name of Camp
Knox, which it has, ever since,
horne. The date of the camp,
at Camp Knox, is, however,
shrouded with some uncertainty.
All agree, that it was either in
ITO or III. If the Long Hunt
ers were at Camp Knox, in ITO,
and in Wayne county, in 177l, it
is evident, that they proceeded
to Wayne county, when they
abandoned the camp at Camp
Knox. This is not improbable,
as they had been in Wayne coun-
ty, in 1869, and were well &C
quainted with that territory.
Mr.. Allen. in his history of Ken
lucky, says, the date of the en-
campment at Camp Knox, was
in the year, ITO. and that the
Long Hunters came to that
point, from the headwaters OF
the Dicks river, in Lincoln coun.
ty. Mr.. Allen was born anc
reared in Green county, and haG
exceptional means of informa
ton upon the subject. He wa
acquainted with many of tn,
descendants of the Long Hunt
ers. Henry Skaggs, who wa
one of the Long Hunters, resid
ed for many years and died il
Green county. The conclusion
that in June, ITO, after som
members of the party returne'
to their homes upon the New
Clinch and Holston rivers, an
ten of them took the voyag
down the Cumberland above re
lated, the force being now re
duced to twenty-five men, wit
four horses, they removed fror
there 70 camp Knox, ana Wne
driven away from Camp Knox
they returned to Wayne county
where they were in III, seem
to be based upon the preserve
: facts and to be the only reason
able conclusion. If this conclu
sion is correct, when the part
left Wayne county in June. 177(
it crossed to the north side Q
the Cumberland and proceede
through the present county O
The Adair County news., 1919-03-19

river. whether the above con-
illusions are correct or incorrect,
when the party was in the pres
ent county of Lincoln, it deter.
mined TO go into the country.
which lay to the westward of
them, and to the south of the
Green river, and endeavoring to
accomplish that purpose, it came
to, and crossed over the Dicks
river, but at what point. is not,
now, remembered. Within a
short distance of Dicks river,
the party encountered solitary
Indian IN the forests, whom some
of the party, at once, recognized
as an Indian, who was known,
as Captain Dick, and whom they
had seen at the lead mines in
the Holston river country. The
Indian was greatly pleased, at
the fact of his recognition by
the white men in the forests,
and at so great a distance from
the point of their first meeting
with him. When the Indian
learned, that they were seeking
game, he informed them, that to
the westward, there was river,
which ran in a westwardly d.
rection, and directed them to
proceed to that river and after
crossing same, and passing over
certain streams and ridges,
travelling with the river upon
their right hands, they would
come into the Beech Woods Val
ley, which abounded with game.
His parting injunction to them.
was to kill as much of the game
as they desired, and then to re-
turn to their. homes. Following
the directions received from
Captain Dick, the party arrived
at the Green river, which they
crossed and very soon, came into
the Beech Woods Valley. The
village of Cane Valley, in Adair
county, is situated in, and the
country surrounding it, is a part
of the Beech Woods Valley.
The small stream, which has its
source at or near Cane Valley, is
one of the headwaters of the
Caney Fork, and the Caney
Fork, from its source to it,
mouth, runs through the centeI
of the Beech Woods Valley. Il
this valley, at that early time
the cane grew luxuriantly, AM
, the wild pea vine carpeted tn
earth in the surrounding forests
, The region was watered wit
many noble springs and was
D veritable paradise for game.
! If Knox and his party crosses
the Green river at any point il
I Casey county, and travelled wit
o the river to their right hands
they necessarily covered tn
width of Adair county in goinI
, to their destination. In all prob
n ability, however, coming fror
, their crossing over Dicks river
and endeavoring to reach tn
Green. they followed the rout
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-06

Every man with 'Borax Bills" outfit has a
speciality all his own There are singers barkers,
speakers and lassoers. There is "Toothpeg Bill"
of Skullville Valley, Ariz. who fears nothing from
broncho to steer. Bills name is William Blair
He is not yet 18 years of age. Salvation Army"
Charley &C. H. EwelD, who works the brake on
the second wagon, is a star spelbinder, and has
thrilled thousands with his liquid eloquence des-
canting on the magic powder of borax. Don't miss
seeing this famous team.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-27
The Lure of the Stage

Mae Murray, who has been resting
and letting her husband, Bob Leon
ard support the family while SIZE took
a vacation, has had a most tempting
stage offer made to her. It is to
star in a farce comedy wherein she
could dance and exhibit all the tai
cnts for which she is famous. Just
whether Miss Murray is going to ac.
cept this tempting offer remains to
be seen. She is playing a waiting
game, not eager to snatch the first
thing that comes along-but content
to wait for what she wants. She
won't be idle long, the managers.
stage and motion picture, will see to
that.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-27
OUT OF THE ORDINARY

More rain falls by night than by
day.
Rats when cooked taste like young
rabbits.
In Arabia the horse is a favorite
article of flesh food.
Rice is the principal diet of one
third of the human race.
In South America two dainties are
lizards and baked centipedes.
More matches are used in Great
Britain than in any other country.
The ex-Emperor William II. was
the first king of Prussia who ever
lost his throne.
The music at Irish wakes was orig
inally for the purpose of driving away
evil spirits.
The worlds most crooked river is
the Jordan, which wanders nearly
200 miles to cover sixty.
An inch Of rain descending on an
acre of land would fill more than 600
barrels of As gallons each.
From fifteen to fifty Brazil nuts
grow in one seed pod which is
usually as big as mans head.
No English king had ever passed
under Napoleon's Arc de Triomphe
until King Georges recent visit to
Paris.
Louis XIV. drank the first cup of
coffee made in France. The price then
was upward of $25 pound.
The case of the great Napoleon was
one Of the few on record of a person
whose first finger was longer than
his middle finger.
Spanish paper money bears the
portraits of great literary men,
painters, musicians, generals and 9TH
err notables of the nation.
In the Eastern Transvaal is a sheet
OF water known as Lake Chrissie.
From the earliest days Of Dutch set,
tiement there was prophecy that. il
this lake ever ran dry the Beers
would lose their independence. To-
wards the end of the South African
war, Lake Chrissie. for the first time
on record became completely dry. but
soon after the declaration of peace
resumed It's normal appearance.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-27
NEWS NOTES FROM MOyIELAND
(By Daisy Dean.)

The beautiful Olive Thomas is re-
turning to the screen after c much
too long absence. Olive you know.
is that very pretty little actress who
came from the ranks of the "Follies'
first known as a Triangle star OF
much beauty and no little ability. and
later famous as the wife of young
Jack Pickford.
Miss Thomas, who signed up with
the Selznick Pictures not long ago
has now completed her first picture
for them. 1t is that famous stage
success of the Hattons, upstairs and
Down Those who saw Miss Thorn
as in "Madcap Madge," "An Even
Break" and Broadway, Arizona .
will want to see her in this lTatton
farce, : we
Miss Thomas is now on the coast
taking the final scenes of the picture
and she claims she thinks California
is far better than her home state
She acknowledges that Pittsburg
Pa, was the scene of her birth abou'
twenty years ago. She is a most
vivacious and captivating little lady
with grey eyes and golden brown
hair. And best of all despite tht
! abundant admiration and attention
that is showered upon her she is a,
artless and charming in manner a.
though she had never known success
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-27
Payment Of Income
Tax a Patriotic Duty

Washington, Feb. 26. Slogans
coined by the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau to stimulate early and full pay
ment of income taxes reflect the
changed conditions in which the tax
payer finds himself now that victory
has been won and hostilities have
ceased. The powers of autocracy
have been defeated but the monetary
cost of the success still is to be met,
largely by the taxes to be paid this
year.
"'Army of Occupation sounds good
but it needs your support says one
Ct the slogans. Then it asks, "Have
you paid your income tax%
Another classes an income tax re-
ceipt with gold service stripe.
Those who celebrated victory most
loudly are reminded that footing a
horn on armistice day did not end
your part in winning a peace with
victory. Paying your income tax
makes more real noise than footing
a horn"
Persons who may be inclined tn
grumble at the increased rate of tax
alton are given food for thought in
the following:
IF you think your income tax is a
hardship, picture what you would
! have been up against had William
Hohenzollern won the collectorshiI
job
Other slogans include:
"You stand up for the National An
them. Now stand up and pay your
income tax
"There were no delinquents a
Chateau Thierry. Are you delaying
the payment of your income taxi"
Don't try to fool your conscience
| by cheering the returning soldiers
and forgetting to pay your income
tax. An income tax evader hasn'
much on any of the other pro
Germans.
"If you didn't serve over there vol
can serve over here by paying you
income tax.
when the boys come home the.
will ask what YOU have done. SHOW
them your income tax receipt"
when you pay your income ia,
YOU get receipt from Uncle Sam
What would have William Hohenzol
lern have handed you?"
"Uncle Sam still has bis jol
ahead of him. Help him by payinl
your income tax now"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-27
CENTENARY COMMISSION
edward F. Ley, Editor


5sf.sp<s. eSe'@- ~ Iii !,
First in war, first in peace and first
in the columns of the press, Metho-
dism's world program holds it's place
among the momentous events OF the
hour.
On the greatest day Of the worlds
history three New York papers car
ried on the front page a despatch
about the war reconstruction program
Of the Methodist church, involving
the immediate expenditure OF 1--WE
million dollars. Methodism in the
South is forging away with the same
high purpose and with the same large
results Just ahead. And with the ex-
ception of one small paper the Flor
ida Press is in hearty sympathy with
this churchwide movement for this
worldwide evangelism. All hail to
Florida's splendid newspapers whose
high purpose is always the better
ment of mankind.
/ The Centenary of the organization
of American Methodism stands for
one hundred years of successful mis-
sionary operations at home and
abroad.
i It stands for a larger mind. 1t
means that we are to think larger
! thoughts, and to have a more intell!-
gent appreciation Of. and interest in
Gods world kingdom. The Centen
airy demands that all narrow views
and selfish ideas must be cast out
and the unselfish devotion to world
wide interests must take their places
The Centenary stands for the heart
that takes in all the world and that
loves men everywhere in spite Of
their sins or their ignorance. One
that can say "the love Of Christ con
straineth us"
Then Centenary stands for larger
home life Larger thinking, deeper
loving and more unselfish living. II
stands for a great spiritual awaken
ing that the world so much needs;
Revivals like the one in the times Of
the Wesleys and many others. Thu
League of lntercession and fuller con
secration will bring it.
Everything about the Centenary il
great and will give help and inspira
ton and service. The raising of the
many millions of dollars to bring
Christian healing to the bleeding ant
war-torn world, great as it may be
will be but by-product of the re
deeming work of the church in hel
splendid sweep through all continents
and across all seas. May God speej
the Centenary Movement in every
community and every church of the
denomination. With the pastors ant
their people all catching new visions
of service and the spirit Of Chris
leading onward, Florida Methodism
will "go over the top" in her God-ap
pointed Movement for World-Evan
gelism.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-27
Willard Macks Seeking Home

Pauline Frederick is seeking a site
in the beautiful country outside Los
Angeles on which to build a home
that will surpass her Connecticut
showplace, "Pollymack Farm" Her
days work completed at the GoldwyIl
Culver City studio. the star and her
husband, Willard Mack speed away
into the suburbs in quest of suitable
location.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1919-02-27

Florida's fish oysters. shrimp. crabs
and varions kinds Of sea food bring
u ANNUALLY more than ss6.0Oo.000.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-05-31

william o. Hawkins, manager for
the big coal company OF Richards 4
Sons. 10 one of the most popular and
wide awake business men Of the city.
He 10 . leader in the trade and all
who have had business dealings with
him respect him.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-05-31
BUSINESS TOPICS
Care Of the Feet.
The leGrand Foot Parior.

The LIE Grand Foot Parlor, located
for many years at 1914 North Clark
street, has removed its establishment
to new and larger quarters at 1886
North Clark street. where better facili-
ties for chiropody will be had. The
present excellent service will also DO
greatly improved.
Madame Florsneis A. r. Powslla-
0risr. who owns The Ls Grand Foot
Parlor at 1886 North Clark street, has
for her patrons the best people ON the
North Side. She 10 the original DIS
covsrsr Of Comparative Scientific
Bloodlsss Chiropody. The L. Grand
Foot Parlor has been at 1914 and lSls
North Clark street for over ten ysars.
Madame Powslla- 0risr, II. G., q. c.,
Doctor Of Chiropody. sueesssfully
makes sore feet good. Sore test are
made Good Fest ct the 10 orand Foot
Parler, 1855 N. Clark street Tsls-
phones Superior seel.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1919-05-31
WATER METER GRAFT

The health and pocketbooks of the
people are again menaced.
The water meter promoters are
at It again.
This time section Of the daily
press IL backing the scheme.
Water meters mean less water.
Less water means poor health.
Water meters are costly.
They are unnecessary.
The man who proposes water me-
tors at this time Is a traitor to the
public.