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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-06

deed OF trust, and the title Is believed
to be good, but we win sell and con-
yev only as trustee
This Jan Is. 1920.
BANK OF COMMERCE e. TRUST CO.
Trustee.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-06
LEGAL NOTICES.
RInS WANTED.

The county commissioners will re-
ceive bids at their office at the court
house on Monday, Feb. Is, 1920. for
one Ford (5-passenger) car,
The right is reserved to reject any
and all bids. ..
SHELBY COUNTY COMMISSION.
Nv II w HALE Secretary
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1920-02-06

Bids viii be received for plain con-
crete pipe. reinforced concrete pipe,
corrugated metal pipe and double
strength vitrified pipe,
Bids will be received for intermediate
quantities OF supplies and materials at
unit prices TO be furnished as required
during the year 1920. Commissioners
reserve the right to reject any and all
bids
Prices Of all materials to be made
tob, Memphis, Tenn
SHELBY COUNTY COMMISSION.
Rv L W. HALE Secreiary
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03

Grand Stairway From the Lobby of the
Hall to the Second Floor; the Small
Stair at the Right Above Leads to
the Balcony, and into the Beifry
Where the Liberty Bell Originally
Hung.
business Of the commonwealth. the dis
pensatiOn Of the Colonial statutes for
Pennsylvania and the transaction of
various other matters. The design for
lie building is said to have been fur
nished by an amateur architect named
John Kearsley.
According to bills and papers kept
by Andrew Hamilton, one of the three
commissioners who had the superin-
tendenca of the financial matters con-
nected with its construction. it ap-
pears that the building cost originally
$16.250 The two wings which now
sorm important additions to the struc-
.ure were not erected until 1890,
md increased the total cost to SIS.
COO.
The woodwork OF the steepie by
which the state house was first sur
mounted, on examination in 1774, was
found 10 be so much decayed that it
was decided to remove IT, and il was
accordingly taken down. leaving only q
small belfry to cover the bell for the
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03

"Tae eatsi WHO Is brought up in
such q way that he is sensitive 70
slight changes i'm temperature, said
DR. Llewellyn Barker 81 the National
Committee Tor Mental Hygiene sis
bound IN suffer from Il sooner or later
If cb ,drv0 be suitably dressed and are
early accustomed 20 taking cool bath
in the mosuins and to walks out Of
doors ee@h cay, RAIN or shine cold OF
warm, the ssin and nervous system ac.
auire 81 tolerance Tor variations in tenn
peroture desirable Sar health Ar out
of-door life for children also leads
them upcousc' ous]y 20 exerci- e theil
muscles more than Is pess.5ie @1r The
child who stays indoors.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03
Shrine MUST
Be PRESERVED
Plans on Foot for Restoration
and Preservation Of In
dependence Hall.

Plans for the restoration and pres.
ervatlon of Independence hail and adj
Joining buildings, spurred by the fear
of damage or destruction during the
war, now are complete in the most
minute detail of the original scale and
proportion,
Inspired by love of their country
and actuated by a desire to perpetu.
ate the high ideals of which this his
toric group of buildings is a living me-
mortal, the Philadelphia chapter of
the American Institute of Architects
finished, after months of the most
rainstaking investigation, research and
personal expenditure, a set of draw
ings and specifications which duplicate
to the infnitesimal fraction of an inch
every brick, every board, every crew
Ice, every corner, exactly as planned
and constructed by our Colonial fore
fathers. All that remains to reinvest
this greatest monument Of liberty with
the very thought and character of its
builders and defenders is a rebirth of
that patriotic purpose which drafted
the Declaration of 1776.
independence Hall.
The story of Independence habits
conception, its construction, its recon
struction, its preservation, is unique :;
1t is a comedy, a drama. tragedy a
romance, all in one it is history, Amer
lean history, world history history
that every American should read and
remember, especially at this time when
the rush Of events makes US liable to
forget the fundamental aims and pur-
poses Of the government which this
structure eXemplifies. The story, how
ever must be confined to the endeav-
ors to safeguard and preserve this
most sacred shrine of Liberty.
Completed in 1894
In connection with the present plans
for its preservation. It may be inter
esting to note that Independence hall
the home of the Liberty bell was
completed in its original form in 1874
for the accommodation of the legal
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03

by an even rougber period Of 81 days.
These adventures furnished vivid ma
teriai for thrilling episodes in his sea
novels.
After this he served I'm the navy in
vnrious capacities, storing up invnl-
uable experience TO be reIived by
thousands In the pnges OF his books.
At the nge of p he married This
fery, irritable and strOng-Wiiled man
WAS easily Influenced through bout his
life by his wife, TO whom ne was
deeply devoted. Through her he aban-
doned his ambition for naval career.
Not unti he WAS 30, however. did
he begin 60 write. His first novel was
dull beyond belief Nevertheless his
friends urged him TO try again. This
time he laid the scene In his own land
nnd wrote of patriotism, the passion
of hIa own heart. "The Spy" appeared
In 1891 and WAS soon NO popular as 20
make the largest sales yet won by an
American writer.
Cooper had written his FIRST novel
TO prove that ne could invent q more
Interesting tale than one he h "a just
read. He likewise wrote his first sea
story to rival seott's ''The Pirate" md
TO prove that the author OF n sea novel
should have lived on Sh5pboard In OTde-
20 know not only the ocean, but the
intimate ways and workings of ships.
f9Ihe Pilot" was convincing. 1t met
with instantaneous and brilliant sue
cess In Europe and America.
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03
< AkEAEss < Az q

My country. IT'S Of thee.
Sweet land Of liberty.
or thee I sing
Lana where my fathers e~
Land q the pilgrims
From every uo.n.ai1s--
Let Freedom rms
MY native country, ta=e,
Land If the noble free
thy name love.
] love thv rocks and
THY woods and TEMPTED
Ny heart with Tart-r~ -1
Like that above
Let music swell the e-e@
And ring from ali taa
sweet Freedom s
Let mortal tongues aT~e
LET al taaE b-sa-ze pa
Let rocks the.r Silence
Ike sound ) long
Our fathers Go5. 20 t--ss
AutAor OF liberty.
To thee we sing --.
Long z-av our ls-d r. sTs-@
Win Freedoms ho.r fGHI
P~ose-e us ov thy mz1~
Great Jss6, OR N1< -,,-~z
SAarTrrr. Fran s2.-s-
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03

At the age Of
II, james Fenl-
more Cooper de-
fermined to enter
upon a naval en-
reer Ia the service
of his country.
his apprentice
ship was begun
on n frelghter
sailing from New
York to COwes,
In a stormy pas
sage of 40 da ~,
he endured the
vigorous h ar d -
ships of life be
fore the mast.
This yYHM followed
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03

NOME time since an American pub
80 Usher invited a group Of men, in
49, Guiding among others Roosevelt,
Barnes, Spears, Connolly and the
writer, to select the six greutest 70
mances of the sea. 1.-The Two Ad-
mirals" was the one Of Cooper's sea
tales Included by unanimous vote.
Wen does the book deserve its Sc
lection for it is without question the
greatest Of all the novels OF the sea,
al of which | have read and not a few
Of which ] have written.
1t has more o. the best of Cooper
and less Of his worst, than any Of his
naval or other romances. No w~iter
was ever more at home on a ships
deck than Cooper-not even MGTyatt.
And all his knowledge Of the great
deep the way Of ships therein, the
habits and customs of sailors, has been
utilized in full measure in this immor-
tai story. 1t rings true alike to sea
men and landsmen
There is a subsidiary story concern
ing the love affairs Of a gallant young
sea officer, Sir Wycharly Wychecombe,
and Mildred Dutton- Bluewater, a dam
sci as lovely as delicate and as inana
as Cooper at his worst could describe
Whenever she appeared she WAS either
suffused witk olushes or bursting into
tears. ON enc occasion she wept
steadily fnr above one half hour!
Tie supposed daughter of a drunk
en- retired officer and a woman of the
middle class. Mildred turns out 80 be
the lawful niece Of one of the two ad
mirals. just In time TO soothe his dying
hours; While her husband. "a Virginlan
turns up IN the nick of time with the
papers ia his hands to prove his sue
cesSlon go tue ancient title and lands
of Wych2combe All of which is eX.
cessively tires0me
Fortunately The greater part Of the
hook is taken up with the do.ngs OF
the Two AdmiFaIs, Tile puerIe pre-
rn.d-Eicjoriau romance will easily be
forgotten but the remainder viii rich
- repay die reader
In l745 when George II reigned IN
/ E0eland the Young pretender Charles
Edward made that daring and unsuc
ceSSful dash tar a crown which came
to bloody eod at Culoden in the fol-
lowing year It IS thar abortjye but
gallant etorr which furnishes the mo
tive for Jbe action Of the novel
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03

I
| their breach Of faith Is found IN the
bolshevik birth certificate. the first
proclamation Of the bolshegik govern
! ment.
Second, they commanded the peas
ants to seize the land. and BY so doing
they gave sanction TO dishonesty.
Third. they sent democratic methods
and machinery to the scrap pile and
built the soviet machine. a plan Of gov
eminent which robbed the people of
all say IN their own affairs.
Fourth, they founded their govern
ment on force, the right OF might.
Fifth, they delivered the power to
q class Of ollicehoIders.
Sixth. they Disseminated unJustly
against the poor peasants"
Seventh. they DISTINGUISHED good
Russian men and women, whose only
fault was that they were thrifty and
Industrious.
Eighth. they destroyed freedom of
speech and u the press,
Ninth, they stand for revolution and
blood Instead Of political action and
evolution.
Tenth. last but Of greatest moment
the boIshevik government built Its ma
tlon0i house on the dangerous founda-
ton Of minority rule. One evidence
of the minority rule in bolshevlk Rus
STA Is found in the 1919 registration
Of voters in Moscow and Petrograd.
II Is estimated that Moscow has a
population Of almost a million and
half yet out Of this great number only
1900 voters registered. Petrograd,
with a population of between 100000
and 10000 registered a little less
than 1900 voters These two cities
are admitted 10 be the strongholds Of
boishevism The registration figures
show that about one per cent Of the
people of Moscow and Petrograd are
sufficiently attached to bOlshevlsm to
register.
Thought Not Destroyed
Bolsheyism snuffed out the light In
Russia when 1t killed freedom. 1t did
not destroy thought; 1t merely drove
it into the darkness 1t has not con
quered the manhood and womanho0d
Of Russia: it has but dsarmed them.
Somewhere / have beard or read
that tolerance is a quality Of freedom;
that Intolerance Is a symptom Of des-
pOtism Maybe I om thinking Of the
Greek conception. the idea Of Plato.
Surely tolerance is no part Of the boil
sheylk program. In a letter addressed
to the workers OF Europe and America,
dated January p. 1919. Lenine wrote
NOW no conscientious working man
and no sincere socialist can fail to
see what shameful treason against So
ciallsm was pcrpetrated by those who,
10 line with the mensheviks of Russia.
with the Scheldcmanns and Suede
kums OF Germany, with the Renaudels
Of France, and Vauderveides Of Bel
gium. with the Hcndersons and Webs
ia England. and with GomperS aud Co.
Ia America. supported their bour-
gcoisje In the war Of l9l4l9lS"
Another paragraph from LeninC's
letter.
side by side with these cowardly
peunyWise mongers who are stuffed
with HE preiudlces of bourgeois de-
mocrUcy. side hy side with these So
claIistS who yesterday defended
their imperapsuc governments. ana
who today coufue themselves to
putouic protest against military IN
terventon in Russia. side BY side
Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-07-03
Shall Chaos or Reconstruction
in Europe Follow the Great
World War;
B0LSHEVlK RULE or FORCE
People Are Helpless While the Army
Privileged, keeps Lenlne in Power
BY its Bayonets--Fr eedom Is
Thing Forgotten.
Article XIV.
By FRANK coMERFoRo.


The effort 10 sociallze politics die
not democratize politics; it was moi
Intended to- In practical operation, Il
fulfilled It's purpose, IL created polit
irai auiocracy.
The greatest power in RUSSIA today
IN the Red army. Without an army q
minority government cannot exist
Force is the strength and security Of
minority rule. BayOnets held the car
on his throne. the same power holds
the LenIne-Trotsky government in au-
ihorty. Every lnducement has been
offered men TO Join the army and the
Gnvy This is the best and almost
the only job In Russia today. The
soldier ana sailor Is at least guaran-
iced good food and a warm bunk. lie
escapes the danger Of cold and starva-
ton Living conditions are better In
the Red army than IN any other occn-
patton.
Section 10 Of Article Of the consti-
tuition IL interesting:
"For tho purpose Of defending the
victory OF the great peasants and
"oIh''s revolution me RUSSIAN 80
clnist Federal Soviet Republic recog-
nizes the duty Of all citizens Of the
republic 10 come to the defense Of their
socialist fathernnd, and It, therefore.
Introduces universal military training.
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-25
5O1H ANNIVERSARY OF
DIR. AND MRS. TUCKER
Only Informal Observance, DR.. and Mrs. Tucker Be-
ing Guests at Dinner Party and Leaving for Wis
il with Relatives

Today is the golden wedding an
niversary of DIR. and Mrs. Henry
Tucker of u Grove street, but they are
making no special observance further than
to start on a visiting trip of about 10
days. They have received remembrances,
however, from some of their friends.
Their daughter and husband, Attorney
and Mrs Thomas +. Clifford of Franklin,
n. H., came Saturday afternoon and
yesterday gave them a dinner party in
Greenfield Mass, and today DIR. and
Mrs. Tucker and the latter's cousin. Mrs.
Alvin II. Clifford of Newton, Mass,
left for Mrs. CliffOrd's home for a visit.
From there DIR. and Mrs. Tucker will go
to Tilt0n, \. r., to visit it,, Dr. Tucker 5
sister, Mrs. Eliza ). PillSbury, going
thence to Laconia, \. H, and Franklin.
DR.. Tucker, who has successfully prac-
ticed medicine here 3S years and was
Rrattleboro's health officer 1412 years,
until the district health law went into
effect July l, 1919, was born in Laconia
May l. 1913. the youngest of six children
of Alva and Mary Jane (Bean) Tucker.
His father was one of the first cotton
manufacturers, making cotton cloth be
fore the city of Manchester with its
great mills was even thought of.
He attended the LacOnia schools and
pittSficld academy and took up the study
of Laconia. He enlisted in Boston in
the United States Signal Corps in March,
1864, serving until September, 1860, in
the Department of the Gulf. Then he re-
Sumed the study of medicine, in the Office
of Drs. d. F. x J. c. Moore in Laconia.
He also attended medical lectures at Dart
mouth college and graduated from the
New York Homeopathic Medical college
in 1869.
Or. Tucker located in Claremont. n.
H.. in 1869. and on Oct. - of the follow
ing year his marriage occurred. In 1874
DIR. and Mrs. Tucker came to BrattIe-
boro to live. In 1888 an suspicious open
ing in the manufacture of wooden hosiery
presented itself to DR.. Tucker in Laconia
and he took advantage Of it, having had
experience in the textile business under
his father. He became vice president of
the Halifax Mills Co, which did pros
porous business until the panic Of 1896.
Three years later, in 1896, DR.. and Mrs.
Tucker, who had moved to Laconia,l re
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-25
WEST BRATTLEBORO

William Barber and family of Green
field visited yesterday at Henry w. Bar
ber's.
Mrs. CharlesGS. Higley and son, Homer
Higley, left today for a 10-days' stay in
Boston.
Mrs F. S. Fisher, who has been i'll sew
eral weeks and under the care of a nurse.
IS now slowly improving.
The West BrattIeboro Magazine club
Will hold their annual meeting this eve
ming at O'Clock with Mrs. l.. II. Stell-
man.
Miss Ruth Anderson, who is i'll with
pneumonia in the home of James Gibson
where, she boards, is slightly more com
Portable.
Miss Emeline Webster, teacher in Hart
land, was guest over Sunday of DIR. and
Mrs. G: B. Hunter. She formerly taught
IN the Academy building in this village.
The Woman's association of the Con
gregational church will hold a rummage
sale in the vacant store in the Barber
building Saturday, Oct 80. Those who
have anything to contribute for the sale
are asked to leave such articles at Wal
ter Bartletts on or before Thursday.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-25

brides home. and at given signal from
the bridegroom. dashed away at top
speed, hats waving and voices shouting.
Around the brides house a Gordon of
outriderS was placed to warn Of the APP
proach of the bridegroom and his party.
As n cloud of dust announced their
nearne~S the outrider~ went out to meet
them. whirliug about and returning with
them. On the porch of the brides home
her party strained their eyes to catch
the first glimpse of the riders. who often
made n detour and canic in by an uneX-
pected route, thus adding surprise to the
other exciting features of thu day
The sounding of the herald's horn set
all hearts to fiuttering. In q whirl of
dust the bridegroom appeared, snatching
up his bride and riding on ahead a short
distance with her in front of him on the
saddle. then wheeling back and dis
mounting for the ceremony. Then came
the wedding breakfast, an event which
was usually remembered and talked
about in the neighborhood for months
Kansas City Star.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-25
KHAKI IN EYES OF YOUTH.
Where Collectors Cease from Troubling
and CaIIouses Leave the Feet

Ideas about army life that persuasive
recruiting Sergeants never heard of in
all their various bitches" in the service,
were brought out by the prize essay con-
test held in the public schools of the
Recruiting Service.
Freedom from annoyance while in
khaki is the theme of a little girl in
Ohio, who writes: One of the benefits
of an enlistment is that you amt an
all the time bothered by bin collectors"
You get respect for law in the
army" a Montana boy is convinced. be-
cause the constitution says America is
a country of free and ungovernable
rights"
Another boy in Illinois wishes teach
er" was a man so she could be a sol
der
Filled with the enthusiasm of a pat
ent medicine prospectus, an Indiana
school girl has this to say: AN enlist
ment is good for the mind, the liver, the
lungs and the kidneys. 1t takes the cal
louses off the feet and puts them on the
hands.-New York Times.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-25

turned to BrattleborO, and the doctor has
continued practice here since then.
He is a 32d degree Mason, member
of fine various Masonic bodies of Brattle-
horo and the Edward a. Raymond con
sistorv. A. A. $. r., of New Hampshire
For many wears he has been surgeon OF
Sedgw.ick most. G.. A. r., of BrattleborO
He is a member of the American Medical
association. the American Public Health
association. the Vermont Medical society
and other states and OF the American
Red Cross.
DR.. Tucker and his sister are the only
surviving members of their fathers fam
lily. His sister is 50 years old;
Mrs. Tucker was Miss Mary Ellen
Moore and was born IN LoWden Ridge
\. H.. Jan. %, 1916, the fourth in a
family of nine children of DIR. David
FifeId Moore and Frances (Clifford)
Moore. She is the only surviving member
Of the family. Her father located in La
COMA in 1855 and was the first homeo-
pathic physician in New Hampshire
north of Concord. She attended school
academy in Laconia. Her marriage to
DR.. Tucker occurred in Lake Village
(now Iakeport). Rev. King solomon Hall
of the Baptist church officiating.
She was president of the Vermont
Woman Suffrage association in 1SS7-SS.
1
L. of Brattleboro when it was organized
in 1879 and has been its president several
times. holding that Office the last time IS
years She united with the Lakeport
baptist church in 1868, transferring her
membership to the First Baptist church
here in 1874. She is a member of the
Home Sunshine society, Sedgwick
Woman's Relief Corps and Brattleboro
chapter. Daughters of the American Rev
0lutiOn.
Both DR.. and Mrs. Tucker are of Revo-
Iutionary descent. DR.. Tucker descended
on his mothers side from Capt. Samuel
Rogers. Mrs Tucker descended on her
fathers side from Ensign John Moore. a
grantee Of Canterbury. \. H. and Ed
ward Fifeld, a grantee of Gilmanton,
and on her mothers side from David
Clifford. who was present at Burgoyne's
surrender.
Halftoue cuts of Or. and Mrs. Tucker
intended to accompany this article have
been delayed in the mail.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-25
BRATTLEBORO LOCAL

Troop No. 1, Boy Scouts, will meet in
the chapel of the Centre Congregational
church this evening at 10 o'clock.
All the young people in the parish Of
the Centre Congregational church. who
are above the junior age are invited to a
Halloween social in the chapel from 80
to 10 O clock tomorrow evening.
The silver loving cup to be presented by
DR.. +. r. Lynch to the high school team
the football game between Brat
tleborO and Rutland Nov. 20 is on exhibit
ton in Vaughan & Burnett's store win
dow.
The Woman's society of the First
Baptist church will serve a chicken-pie
supper Thursday, Oct. IS, at o'clock
in the social rooms of the church There
also viii be a sale of aprons and home
made candy.
Eight members of Company I are
wanted to volunteer to act as a firing
squad at the burial Of Victor Lamothe
who died in France and whose funeral
viii be held in st. Michael's Roman
Catholic church at 9 o'clock tomorrow
morning. They are asked to notify
Lieut.. Goodwin at the armory between
30 and $50 tonight or telephone
17+-R.
Dancing, Island Park, Saturday