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vvesnsn osss Ten vsara.

rsst wsrth. Tsxas.-Nrs. Myrtle
Stiles. who has been on trial at Rotan,
Texas WAS found guilty Of manslaugh.
ter following the staying Of her d..
voseed husband, Roy wiaters. and
givea va ysars In the psnitcntiary By
. jury. Winters was killed at layton
In September. 1918.
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
KIN, Father and Thr.s otksrs.

Halifax, n. S.-Three men. one u
them his father. and woman were
shot aud killed at HemfOrd By Have
lock veinott. who then committed
suicide. veinott attacked the four
during q ut Of insane rage resulting
from = dispute over the location Of
4 mill dam on his fathers property.
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
ye,seirY TkIexee Mahhel.

Dstrolt.-Six men and four women,
believed By the polio to be members
Of eang that has stolen thousands Of
dollars worth Of 3swelry fro0 sales.
msa In Detroit, New York and Chica-
60, have besn arrested. The police nay
jswelry valued at more than 1900
was recovered.
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23

Clear Baby'sSln|
With Cu6calra
Soap and Tac,lnn|
hepsful Sian.
~ g. oha.sa 3 ~ -, T.lsn n.

Mamma" said Daisy. II think Mr..
Meadows loves me. and 10 beginning
to have serious Intentions"
slows thatf" asked her fond
mother, all attention.
HE laughed heartily at one Of
papA's Jokes last night"
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
A,,s.sA RED LAWYER pIsssrrsd,

Pittsburgh. Pa.-Judgr J. d. Shat.
fer, In Common Pleas Court. handed
down an opinion and IN order dlsbar.
ring Jacob Aargo,is, accused VI being
N anarchist. and prohibiting hin
from practicing law In the courts Of
Allegheny county.
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
Rssssrs oss S,,~.

Sioux City. Iowa.-Robbses dynA.
mlted the Pierce bank Of Linn Grow.
Iowa, 100 miles northeast Of here, and
stole $4,000 In United States bends
aud $1,000 In cash. The bandits -.
capped In q motor car.
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
Man Found DAD In Trunk

Calexico, Csl.-The body Of nm
American. doubled In . trunk. was
foUad BY Mexican laborsrs on the
Mexican side Of the international line
about . mile from here aad was
brought to Asxicali.
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
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.,sF !. "s ks: nd q *er.

land oQual to that which thfoo41
b0s6sas q wheat q tAs aseo-GraSine
land convenient to good grain farHls q
proportionatsly low prices. These 1a04e
schools. churches. roads. tslsphonsG.
etc.. close to live towns aaA seed Dar.
ksts.
Il you waat TO- get hack 70 the farm. Or
sible under your present conditions,
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DaFtlsslaES regarding fo11oo4 HollWev
!steA Iesetsea u iasA. st.. e&e0 g
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Stock Raising In
WESTERN CANADA

L q peo6table 90 graia 0Fowing.
Successes - wonderful - those from
growing wheat, oats, barley, and hax
have been made In raisins Here's,
Cattle, Shssp a.A Hess. Bright,
sunny climate, nutritious grasses,
good water, enormous fodder crops
these spell success TO the farmer and
stock raiser. And remember. you can
knH - AnsR fneAa
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! SUFFERED :
Three YEARS
Finally was Restored g
Hsalth byLydia E. PfnlEhaa1s
Vegetable Compoundl

Lowell. Nass.-"Iwas n run dpWn and
"a IN awful pain h ny right ~, NJ
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
AWNNiate.

80 you graduated from Q baS1oe
college. What h your college ysalr'
'Cut his lip. cut bis Jaw. Isave
his face. Raw, raw. 1wi"-y1eeSoa
Times. Union.
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23
MARTA, ecanknesa

Hubby-"I can't help Il. I'm 6slag
ny bsst to ct ahead" wifsy-"Wsl1.
heaven knows you nsed ooe."
The Arvada enterprise., 1920-09-23

An elephant oees not catch Mica
Latin Proverb.
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Serpice Before Seit---The Real
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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12
ONE WAY OF LOOKING AT 1T.

The farms and farmers of our
country are great institutions, and we
need them in our business. Couldn't
very well do without them. Nor could
the farmers do very well without the
railroads. Now suppose the govern
ment should take over the complete
control of all the farms of the coun-
try, run them two years, double the
wages of the farm laborers and other
expenses of operating the farms and
return them to their owners, having
failed during these two years to fer
tilize the soil, repair the fences and
the buildings, and doing no more re-
pairs on the farm implements than
were necessary to keep them running,
then don't it seem that the owners of
the farms should have some guaran-
tee from the government until they
could get back to normal conditions?
GEO. M. MOORE.
in Nashville Banner.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12
RECRUITING OFFICERS HERE.

Corporal Sylvestia Pettry, and Pri-
vate Clarence Toole, of the 26th In
fantry, part of the Famous First
Division, Camp Taylor, KY, are in
Lexington for week. The first Di-
vision was the first overseas, the
first in the fight and the first into
Germany; and Corporal Pettry states
that the First Division is after new
record of "firsts"; the Division is u.s.
ing every effort to be the first in the
New Educational Program of the Ar
my.
Corporal Pettry states that the
New Democratic Peace-time Army
offers exceptional advantages to a
young man who desires to learn a
trade or get an education and be paid
while doing it. Over one-hudred diff
ferent trades and vacations in addi-
ton to the grade school and high
school courses are taught at Camp
Zachary Taylor, the home of the
First Division.
Camp Taylor is about four miles
out of Louisville, KY, and is one Of
the best constructed camps in the
country. The Commanding General of
the First Division, Majors Genera
Charles P. Summerall, has already
been very liberal in the matter of
passes and any soldier with a clean
record can get daily pass to the city
of Louisville from six to twelve in the
evening. Corporal Pettry states that
many young men are taking advan-
tage of these opportunities. He also
states that he can take men for one
year who has had no prior service in
the field artillery and engineers.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12
"reminiscences
BY W, " BARRY

claimed divine origin. II seems that
when Nero was Emperor, and with
his young men, incognito, made
nightly larks out in the city of Rome,
and doubtless had bushel of fun, on
one Of the raids, Nero, in passing the
home of certain old Jewish resident
of the Eternal City, saw on the front
porch the old Hebrews beautiful
daughter, Esther, and chased her into
the house. Unfortunately for Nero,
there happened to be quartered at
that time with the Jew a ,strapping
young nephew, soldier of fortune,
who had not yet secured employment,
and hearing the noise, he came to the
rescue of his cousin and bodily kick
ed Mr.. Nero out of the house. After
that the young Jew obtained employ
ment under Nero and soon rose to the
honor of being one of the Emperors
own bodyguard in that place. Nero
continued to get drunk every day and
in passing through the corridors of the
palace, everytime he came across the
young Jewish soldier he stopped and
contemplated him Che had located his
IDENTIFY AS THE ONLY MAN IN
THE WHOLE WORLD WHO EVER
KICKED ONE OF THE MINOR
tai CAESARS OUT OF THE
HOUSE.
So, / told the story in the Lexing-
ton Progress, which was then in its
infancy, and compared Earnest Es-
sary, as editor protein of the Lexing-
ton Republican, with the young Jew
who had kicked Caesar bodily out of
the house.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12
PINEY CREEK.

Mrs. NJ. T. Little is quite sick.
Charlie Beecham and wife and
Robt. Bailey and wife visited Am
brose Grissom and family, near Rea-
gan, Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Zimmerlee is recovering from
recent illness.
Frank Christopher has lost COW
by death recently.
Several from here were in town
Monday.
Your scribe has dismissed school
at Union Cross this week on account
of the flu, and is at home.
Claude Mccormack, Of the Center
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12

from home and Mr.. Essary very kind
ly consented to furnish some copy
for that issue of my paper, The Lex
ington Progress. Well, he furnished
it with a vengeance. He came out for
the Republican ticket generally, and
went to the expense of securing a
picure of William McKinley-and /
was a wild and woolly Democrat he
came out for Gus Enloe for Congress,
when | was weekly cussin' him-and
sorry my paper was not daily in
stead of weekly he wrote laudatory
articles for the British, who were try
ing to "quell handful of Dutch
farmers" in South Africa-and
everything else that he could think
of that ! favored or opposed he came
out on the other side. 1t was
laughable trick and really | enjoyed
it as much as anybody else One time
in the town of Purdy, McNaiiry coun-
ty, a similar trick was played on ].
W. Purviance, Republican, who was
running the McNairy County indie
pendent. Tom Braden, a young law
yer, was left to get out an issue of
theIndependent and beside strong ed
itorial endorsement of John "
Wright, a "Dollor for dollar" Demo-
crat who was running for Governor
against Judge Frank Wilson Estate
debt compromise Democracy and AL
vim Hawkins Republican,, put
Wright's name at the masthead of
the Independent. Purviance still lives
in Selmer, and will remember the in
cident.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12
N. c., ACCEPTS ACT.

Nashville, Tenn, March 4.-The d.
rectors of the Nashville, Chattanooga
& st. Louis Railway at a special
meeting today voted to authorize the
acceptance of Section 209 of the
transportation act recently passed by
Congress. Under the provision of this
section the railroad is guaranteed the
same return during the next six
months as it had under government
operation.
The section also provides that in
the event the railroads earn, during
the next six months, in excess of this
amount, such excess should be turned
over to the government.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12

Back in the eighties of the last
century, when the Hon. John E. Nc
Gall, now Federal Judge at Memphis
land a good one he isl was the "King
Bee" of the Republican party in Hen
derson county, the Republicans held
a convention in Lexington courthouse
on the very day that the delegates
to the State convention were to leave
for Nashville. 1t happened to be at a
time when there were strong faction
al differences and while Judge Nc
Calls side was evidently in. the mi
nority, they had the nerve in lneu OF
numerical strength and on that car
ried the day. The late Capt "Sam
Billie" Hawkins, of Huntingdon, was
here and made strong plea for his
side, which happened to be opposed
to Mccall, saying "If there be one
Republican in Henderson county, be
he ever so humble, who desires to
speak, for Gods sake let him have his
voice." following which John Mccall,
with ill-concealed impotence, said in
substance, "By CAD (that was Johns
byword) we have no time to fool
away-there is only one train to
Nashville today" John had his way
and carried the delegation to the
Nashville convention. The Hon. E.
w. Essary was among those left by
the boat, as it were,' and remained
here to run the Lexington Republi-
can that week-that paper being
strong Mccall partisan. In the Re-
publican's issue of that week, Mr.. Es-
sary had several pointed paragraphs
directed at Boss" McCall-the first
time in 10 many moons that any Re-
publican in Henderson county had
been so evidently guilty of les majes-
ty, and it caused me to tell a story
from the history of Nero, Emperor
Of Rome, one of the Caesars, who
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12

! David Neisler Saturday night and
Sunday.
Robert and Bessie Grissom visit
ed in the home of Lee Grissom Sat
urday night.
George Petty and wife were the
guests of Cage Grissom Saturday
night and Sunday.
Will Johnson and wife have visit
ed in the home Of Billie Wright.
Have your kodak work finished by
S. T. Grissom, Lexington, Tenn. I"
We are going to have new mail
carrier on Route Pm. Clint Pierce.
Miss Nettie Richardson is living
with Mrs. Emma Williams now and
we are more than glad to have her
with US.
Several young people enjoyed
themselves at the home of Cage Girls
som Sunday.
Tommie Wilkerson was a guest of
Mr.. Sheppard Sunday.
Claude Mccormack has purchased
new Ford.
Ollie Grissom.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12

Hill vicinity has purchased Ford.
Bob Bailey and family visited the
family of A. NJ. Bailey Tuesday and
Wednesday.
A. NJ. Bailey and Bob Smith are
doing carpenter work North of town
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12
CENTRE HILL.

Mr.. and Mrs. Weatherington went
to Bob Horizons Saturday night.
Sidney Johnson and wife visited
JordOn Buck Saturday night.
Measles in this community has just
about died out.
Calvert Climmer was the guest of
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12

This same Ernest W. Essary, in the
year 1900, ] think it was, pulled off
at my expense stunt for which l
had to apologize for several issues
following. l had occasion to be away
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1920-03-12

this week.
Mrs. L. T. Scott is indisposed.
The Holiness people have complet-
ed house Of worship in String Town
and are holding services there each
night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

Left-Raw recruits at
the army engineers
Camp Humphreys, just
outside of Washington,
are being taught the
gentle art of blowing
up bridges and railway
tracks just as though
the war was not over.
This particular blow
up was staged for the
photographers.
Harris 4 Et1in0
from Paul Thompson
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

A tug-of-war with re-
verse English between
steam and electricity.
One of the General
Electric's new giant
locomotives for the c.,
M. & St. P. Railway
engages in a pushing
contest with a huge
Mallet freight locomo-
tive. And the silent
electric e a silly won
against it's putting COM
petitor. UNDERWOOD
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-03-28

r ight i" Woof!"
Visitors to Yellow
stone Park are likely
to be similarly greet
ed most any day by
one Of the many tame
bears that roam the
reservation. Here's a
tree-climbing teddy
enjoying a game of
hide and seek with
our photographer.
C. l.. Chester
from. Amer. =. =.
Gilpin observer., 1920-09-02
Labor Organization in
America Can Be Traced
to Movement in 1903

Organizations among American la
borers began in 1903. when the ship
carpenters and calkers of New York
and Boston organized. The tailors
of New York formed union the same
year, and 1903 also witnessed the first
Industrial strike in America, when the
New York sailors refused to work.
Before that, however, there had been
labor disturbances among the bakers
of New York and the boot and shoe
makers of Philadelphia. 1t was dur
ing the sailors strike of 1903. the
Massachusetts, shipbuilders strike of
1917, and the Albany printers strike
of 1920, that the terms rat" and
,.scab" We're first used. From local
unions, the organization of labor pro-
gressed until in 1850 the first inter-
national labor union, that of the print
,rs. was launched.
The first martyrs to trade union
ism" We're thrown into Jail at Toll
puddle, Dorsetshire, Eng, II years
ago. They We're James and George
Lovelace, Thomas Stanfield, James
Bryne. The first three men were
Wesleyan preachers, who worked as
farm labOrers on week days and
preached the gospel on Sundays.
Their Imprisonment was due to their
attempt to form n union of farm la
borers to protest against proposed
reduction in wages-from seven shill-
ings to six shillings-less than S1.5O
a week The landlords were all-pOw-
erful in DOrsetshire, and the CON
spirators" We're arrested, stripped.
shorn of their hair and cast into Jail
and eventually sentenced to seven
years Imprisonment
The first demand Of labor unions
for an eight-hour day was made at
a convention held in Baltimore, Au-
gust 2l, 1886. This congress also
marked the first attempt to organize
national federation of the various
trade unions, national and internn-
tional. then existing In the United
States and Canada. One hundred del
egates We're present, representing
about GO organizations. The demand
Tor the eight.hour day was but an in
cident In the sessions of the congress,
but at succeeding gatherings Ii AS
sumed great Importance and became
the leading plank of organized Ia
bor's platform. The second convention
was held in Chicago In 1867. The Ma
tional Labor union, after meetings In
Boston, Philadelphia and Columbus,
went out of existence in 1874. but ut
an international congress held Mt
Rochester In that year the movement
was revived under other names. Sew
erni organizations divided the allegi-
nnce of organized labor. but in 1881
the Federation Of Organized Trades
and Labor Unions of the United States
and Canada was launched and out
Of this has grown the powerful Amer
lean Federation Of Labor.