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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-02-26
Statement of the Ownership.

Statement of the Ownership.
Of the ownership. management
etc, of Mrs. Grunly, published
weekly at Tracy City, Tennessee
required by the Act of August
"a, 1912. For October 1919.
Editor, manager editor, bust
ness manager and publisher,
John p. Wright, Tracy City,
Tennessee.
Owners-Mr. and Mrs. John 2.
Wright, Tracy City, Tenn.
Known bondholders, mortgages
and other security holders, hold
ing per cent or more Of total
amount of bonds, mortgages, or
other securities, First National
Bank, Tracy City. Tennessee.
Sworn to and subscribed be-
fore me this the 10th, day of
FEBRUARY, 1920.
A. G. Alexander, Notary Public.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-02-26

Mr., j. A. White Says IF You Have An
Automobile. Keep Rat SNAP
eff | knew about RAT-SNAP
last winter, would have saved
$120. NY car was in the garage
for a few weeks during bad
weather, when went to take
it. out, found that rats had eaten
great holes in two new tires.
Got them later with. RAT SNAP.
Three sizes, 25c, SOC, $1.0O. Sold
and guaranteed by Doris &
Cheek and The New York Stores
/. Tracy City Tenn.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-02-26
"Attention"

Don't for get to ship your
Hides Skins aud Tallow direct to
the tannery.
ROBERT SUHOLZE TANNERY
Established 1873.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Highest Prices Correct Weights
and Prompt, Returns Always
Guaranteed.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-02-26
5ars 6rHuhg Crazy dite, Jenn., gsbruarg 10 1920

Chancery Land Sale
No. 1926
A. 2. Hunderwadell ct as.
VS..
L. II. Barnes, ct ais.
In Chancery. at Altamont
Tennessee
In obedience to a decree of the
Honorable Chanoery Court of
Grundy County Tenn pronounc- /
ed at a special session of the
Court at Tracy City on the Goth,
of January 1920 in the above
styled cause.
/ will on Saturday March Goth
1920, at one o'clock, p. N.
before the west door of the
Court House in Altamont
Tenn, sell to the highest and
BEST bidder, two certain tracts or
lots of land, first trait contain
ing Is acres, and is situated on
the Altamont and Beersheba
Springs road, about three mile
from Altamont, and near what
is known as the Horse Shoe old
place, and includes the premises
where A T. King settled
and erected a dwelling house.
and where he. has resided for
, several years. The second tract
contains s acres and is situated
at Beersheba Springs Tenn. and
includes the lot where the late
DR.. w. g.. Barnes erected a large
barn, on the north side of the
road entering Beersheba Springs,
from Altamont; both tracts To-
Gated in the End civil district of
Grundy County; fuller de-
scriptions by boundary will be
made known on day of sails, and
is to be sold for distribution
among the four heirs of Mrs.
Halle Barnes. Terms of Sale:
On credit of one and two
years, except one third of the
purchase price will be paid in
cash on day of sale; notes in
equal installWents, with interest
from date, with good security
will be required of the purchaser
for the deferred payments, and
a lien retained on the lands sold,
as additional security.
This Feb. 16. 1920.
John Scruggs, q. & M.
Walter Woodlee, Sol, for Comptls
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-02-26
IT an Bark Wanted

Both Chestnut Oak and Hem
lock. We have bought Tan
Bark every season for nearly
half centery. Timber and Lum-
Der men are requested to cor
respond with us abouta contract.
BERT sCHoLZE TAN
merry.
Chattanooga, Tenn.
OLD PAP E RS for sale at,this
Office. Phone lob.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-02-26

- !
They couldnt be built
now for. tMices7lo0o
When the talk turns from politics to railroads.
and the traveller with the cocksure air breaks
in with, There's an awful lot of water in
the railroads." here are some hard-pan facts
to give him:
American railroads have cost $4,000 mile
-roadbed, structures. stations. yards, termin-
ais freight and passenger trains everything
from the great city terminals to the last spike.
good concrete and-asphalt highway costs
$4,000 mile just bare road, not count
ing the cost of culverts, bridges etc.
Our railroads couldn't be duplicated to-
day for $50 900 mile.
They are capitalized for only 81 900 mile
much less than their actual value. Seventy-one
i thousand dollars today will buy one locomotive:
English railways are capitalized at $274,OOOa
mile; the French at $l55 900; German $132,OOG
even in Canada (still in pioneer development)
they are capitalized at $4,000 mile. The
average for all foreign countries is 100000.
Low capitalization and high operating effici-
ency have enabled American Railroads to pay
the highest wages while charging the lowest
rates.
Qis advertisement is published BY the
lssOcintion Of Railvay Executives
Isriss isJsrmddss essesrsse The nsrssS dfsafs
my sfais Mns,ws BY writse to The Assaiadss S
Rsiiwsy Esscafipss 81 broadway. Nsw YHi
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1920-02-26
For

Pair Excellent draft horses,
wagon and horness. Ii YOU
want something good see this
team.
One Western pony works we'll
single or double.
w. w. JONES,
Tracy City Tenn.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
chlna,s Moods Ar. ereat

Sydney Greenbie writes in the
Worlds Work:
China needs assistance. Railroads
are the worlds salvation and China's
sorrow. But for the lack Of railroads,
China would today be the most pow
erful NATION on earth-fnancially and
politically. And the fact that her rail-
roads are short while those Of other
countries are long makes her a prey
to those tentacles Of trade against
which she is helpless. China has to-
day only about $500 miles Of railroad /;
she needs 100000. She who built the
rambling walls has still only foot.
paths. She needs 100000 miles Of
highway. Her canals, which a thou
sand years ago kept the country open
TO trade and partially free from famine
have fallen into disrepair. She needs
telegraphs, telephones, wireless. II
only the money she borrowed went
into such enterprises China would re-
pay the world a thousand fold.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Nexsnanera In SnaIn.

The Spanish newspaper presents
problem to the American citizen who
contemplates an advertising campaign
in the Spanish press. There are %
newspapers printed In Madrid, but as
a rule these newspapers are supported
by political, religious or industrial
groups, and the advertiser is neither
the source of income nor, as some
times happens In consequence, the OBJ
ject Of deferential admiration that he
is IN the United States.
The editor edits for a public more
interesting In local news than any
other. One must remember also that
Of the approximate 100000 people
In Spain, more than half are Hitter
ate and read no newspapers at all.
No evening paper issues a Sunday
edition, and no morning paper comes
out on Monday, for Sunday work Of
any kind in newspaper plants is for
hidden by the government.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Utilizing Solar Heat.

The scarcity Of fuel has naturally
turned attention to solar heat in sun
ny regions. In a late paper, G. Le-
Roy Meisinger states that, in Egypt,
the Punjab and South Africa, glass
topped teakwood boxes, blackened in
side and insulated, serve as ovens for
cooking, and find many other uses.
The midday temperature inside has
been found to range from 240 degrees
to 275 degrees F., while an auxiliary
mirror may raise 1t as high as 800 de-
grees The "solar cooker" devised at
the Smithsonian institution comprises
a loop of pipe containing oil, portion
of the loop passing through a box
containing an oven, while another por-
ton receives the solar rays concen-
trated upon it by an iron-backed glass
mirror having the form Of a half cyl
tnder. The unequal heating causes
the oil to circulate throughout the tube.
Heat is thus conveyed to the oven and
cooking is done without fuel.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Rrotectinu Australian Animals.

At the present rate of extermina-
ton Australia's marsupials will have
practically disappeared within 20
years, says DR.. Colin Mackenzie, in
an article in the Melbourne Argus.
The revival of shipping after the war
with its opportunities for exporters, IS
giving point to his warning, and it Is
probable that some steps will be
taken to control the export Of live
specimens of Australian fauna or Of
skins.
At present the protection Of Aus
tralian animals is purely state mat
ter, though the commonwealth has
customs regulations prohibiting the
export of certain skins and of the
feathers of specified birds. The
unique character of Australian mar
supials has long been recognized by
the geological gardens of the world,
and 1t is not likely that legitimate
exchanges between ZOOS will be pro-
hibited by any Australian protective
regulations
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Not All FIattery.

The wife of an Indianapolis travel
ing man is a poor correspondent. Her
letters are short and sometimes do
not arrive within a week of each
other. Naturally before they reach
him he is often rather worried over
home affairs as to family health and
such things So on his last trip home
he said: mo matter how far away
am from Indianapolis the first day
fail to receive a letter | shall come
straight home"
Since then his daily letters have
come regularly and are also newsy
and long. At first he was much graft
fed. but now, since he has more time
to reflect, he is beginning to wonder
whether or not he should feel fiat
tered.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Statue to Balboa.

Panama is to have statue Of Bal
boa, the discoverer Of the Pacific ocean.
The contract for the work has already
been signed at Madrid, and the monu-
ment has been intrusted to the sculp-
tor Benilliure. That there is to be
no undue haste in the matter is signi-
fed by the fact that the contract does
not call for the delivery Of the monu-
ment until two years after the signing
of the agreement. The opportunities
for most effective piece of work are
many, with the likeness Of the man
overlooking the ocean Of his discovery.
The grandiOse setting would seem to
call for a grandiOse actor to dominate
the scene, says the Christian Science
Monitor.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
WORLD ABOUT THE SAME
Today, as in Ages Past, There Are
Those Who Seek the Simple,
"OId-Fashioned" Girl.

A London correspondent, remarks
the Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser,
discovers a rollicking satire upon peo-
pie of the day, that is of those of us
who gravely shake our heads as we
contemplate the manners and dress
of many young folk of the day. The
correspondent finds that in the Satur-
day Review of fifty years ago the fol-
lowing article was printed.
"The girl of the period is a creature
who dyes her hair and paints her face
as the first articles Of her personal
religiOn-a creature whose sole idea
Of life is fun, whose sole aim is I'M
bounded luxury, and whose dress is
the chief object of such thought and
intellect as she posst sSes. Her main
endeavor is to outlive her neighbOrs
In the extravaganza Of fashion If
sensible fashion lifts the gowh Out Of
the mud she raises hers.
"AH men whose opinion is worth
having prefer the simple and genuine
girl Of the past, with her tender little
ways and pretty bashful modesties, to
this loud and rampant mOdernization,
with her false red hair and painted
skin, talking slang as glibly as a man
and by preference leading the con-
versation to doubtful subjects
All we can do is TO wait patiently
until the national madness has passed
out and women have come back again
to the old English idea"
Not a few writer's and private talk
ers have said things to the same effect
as the foregoing. We hear 1t every
day and hearing it we may accept 1t
as a scathing indictment Of the new
girl, just as our forbears accepted the
foregoing article as a just indictment
Of the girls Of half century ago.
Headstrong, forward and disobedi-
ent young people were known long
before the time Of the Reviews edi-
toriaI. Readers Of the Last DAYS Of
POmpeii," may recall the lamentations
Of a chief character that young peo-
pie Of his time were not as reverent
and respectful In the presence of their
elders as they had been in a former
generation. Neither were they as re-
IlgiouS.
Certain It is that the Apostle Paul,
In writing those epistolary messages
thought 1t pertinent and timely to re-
mind women not to be too forward In
church. AS it appeared to him it was
necessary for him, as an authority, to
repress women, warning them specific
ally against bobbing their hair.
1t seems that the race has always
stopped to ask now and then: "What
has become of the old-fashioned girl
who" etc.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
4 HERO OF LEGEND
King Arthur Never Proved to Be
Real Parsonage.
Early Saxon Chronicles Shed No Light
on His PersonaIity-His Burial
Place Found by the Abbot of
Glastonbury.

The story of King Arthur, rich In
the poetic element, is weak on the
historical side. That a herO-king, an
swering in some respects to the de-
scriptiOns in British ballads, had ex-
iStence, is possible, for it seems I'M
likely that so many associations should
cling around an utterly mythical per-
sOnage. Yet he has no mention what
ever in the Saxon Chronicle, whose
pages are rich in illusions to British
kings struggling for freedom against
the AnglO-SaxOn invaders; and our
main authority on the subject is the
account written, six centuries later
than the reputed period of King Ar
thur. by Geoffry of Monmouth, whose
narratives no one can accept seriously
handed down to US by Sir Thomas
Mallory, a writer of Edward Tvs
reign, were printed by Caxton under
the title of "Morte d'Arthur."
When Henry II, in 1177, was In
Wales, receiving the submission of the
princes, he CHANGED to hear the deeds
of King Arthur sung by the Welsh,
and was told the exact place Of the
herO's burial at Glastonbury. Some
years afterward the abbot of Glaston-
bury, the kings nephew, searched for
the body, with what result let Giraidus
Cambrensis, described In Camden's
Britannia" as ian eye Witness" tell
us:
"At the depth Of seven feet a huge,
broad stone, wherein a leaden cross
was fastened on the part that lay
downward, In rude and barbarOus let
ters, this inscription in Latin was
written upon that side of the lead that
was toward the stone, Here lies
buried King Arthur in Avalon ISLE
Digging deeper they discovered his
body In the trunk Of tree, the bones
Of great bigness. His Queen Guini-
we're, a lady Of passing beauty. lay by
him, whose tresses Of hair, in color
like gold, seemed perfect and whole
until 1t was touched, but then showed
itself to be dust"
" HSH dDDSy was uiduC
a ruin in Henry Wits time the re-
mains of King Arthur and his queen
were ruthlessly swept away. 1t was
on Cadbury hill, in Somerset. the
famed Camelot of the Arthurian ro-
nance, that the British king pre-
pared for his great stand against the
Anglo-Saxon foe; and the name Of
Arthur still cllngs to the locality In
"Arthur's Lane" and "Arthur's Well"
In the battle, almost the only event
Of his life to be regarded as historical
fact, Arthur seems to have come out
Of the darkness by which he is sur
rounded. The Welsh songs are full Of
praises to his valor in the fight with
Cedric, the Saxon king; "The Saxon
Chronicle" unwilling, perhaps, to
record a severe defeat, is silent upon
the subject. but the result for a time
was crushing blow to the invaders.
and Cedric was never able to push his
way into SOmerset.-LOndon Tele-
graph.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Reveals Seas Bottom.

A two-inch section of sea bottom,
with its tiny animal and plant life,
magniied $1,000 times, has been re-
produced in glass and wax at the
American Museum Of Natural History
at New York
It is called the Bryozoan group,
taking its name from the minute sea
animals popularity called sea mats
and sea MOSES, that 1t depicts.
Their shells are lncrusted on sea-
weeds, pebbles and the shells Of Iarg-
er animals, and are said to be ex-
tremely beautiful In their intricate
form and coloring. The 'plumed
worm" with its gay colors and other
strange microscopic creatures, Of
which the average person seldom
dreams. complete the group.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
TrYInn 70 Economlze.

visited a cash-and-carry grocery.
Their leader for the day was rice, I
bought five pounds and several other
articles and asked to have extra pa
per on the rice, but 1t was refused.
Struggling up the high steps Of a
street car with my many bundles, l
stumbled something pierced the bag
of rice, and it began to ooze and fall.
OF course the car was crowded, and
as l squeezed in it suddenly lurched
ahead. I made a frantic effort to
save my rice, letting everything else
60
Kindly fellow passengers tried to
help, hiding their laughter as best
they could. l had the misery Of being
commiserated and laughed at, besides
losing all my rice. and this has fin
ished my efforts at trying to beat the
old high cost of living-Chicago
Tribune
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
STRANGE TO WESTERN EYES
Habits and Customs of Hermit King
dom" of Korea Hard for Travel
ers to Understand.

Out into the Yellow sea and the
Eastern sea juts a peninsula of more
than $4,000 square miles. 1t is an ex-
tension of Manchuria, and for CEN
turtles was under the suzerainty Of
China.
In old aliases the peninsula is called
Korea. For years it was known as
1.-The Hermit Kingdom" For after
the China-Japanese war the land be-
came an independent kingdom, al
though even then Japan claimed juris-
dictiOn over the country. But Korea
enjoyed her freedom only a short
time as an independent nation.
1t was on August 20, 1918, that
Japan formally annexed Korea, as an
integral part of the kingdom. The
old name was changed to Chosen. In
japanese this name is divided into two
syllables-Cho Sen. This means "The
Land of the Morning Calm"
Perhaps no other name would better
suit the land which was once called
the Hermit kingdom, for its people
are indeed very calm. So calm have
they been considered by Japan that it
isn't generally known there was some
opposition to the annexation Of the
kingdom, and that a republic was
formed and a president elected. The
president, it Is said, was compelled to
flee the country.
Many are the strange customs Of
this old little land At one time the
king ordered all men to wear broad
brfmmed hats made Of a material so
brittle the men couldn't "get their
heads together" without nicking their
hats. And so, the story runs con-
spiracy was prevented.
But the mileposts of Chosen are not
made Of brittle material. They are
painstakingly hewn out of wood, and
are set up along the highways, carved
with Chosen characters, which give
the traveller the information he re-
quires for a safe journey.
To the eyes of many a western
traveller these mileposts look more like
images intended to brighten than
soothingly to inform. OF course, the
particular demon that should be pla-
Gated In each spot is properly pla-
Gated by the posts. And so these
Chosen milepOSts serve the double
purpose of informing human travellers
and warning off those demons who
might trouble the highway. - Temple
Manning in Columbus Dispatch.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
De Soto's Route.

Council Bend, Miss, has taken from
Memphis, Tenn, the honor of being
the point at which De Soto first saw
the mighty Mississippi. DR.. J. @. Row.
land Of Jackson, Miss, who has
traced De Soto's route clear across
Mississippi, guided by the narratives
Of De Soto's companions, In which the
topography Of the country was fully
described, has located the great In
dian mound at which the adventurous
explorer and his followers camped
the night before they saw the Fa-
ther Of Waters. On this, the highest
Indian mound In Mississippi, a monu-
ment will be erected to De Soto.
Doctor Rowland is convinced that
De Soto first beheld the great river
at Council Bend. The explorers IA
nous trip from the point where
Tampa, Fla, is now located, was
made In 1541, "a years before st.
Augustine was founded, and IS be-
fore the Mayfower completed its first
voyage.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
BROUGHT BACK Town cRIER
Ancient Official Had Brief Day Of
Glory When only Daily News
paper Was Burned Out.

The connection between the town
strated recently when the plant of the
Macon (Mo) Daily ChrOnicle-Herald1
the only daily. newspaper in the coun-
ty, was so badly damaged by fire 1t
was put out of commission for several
weeks, according to the Fourth Es-
tate.
Some important announcements
were waiting-a big stock sale, pub
lie meeting, features at the movie
shows and special sales by the
merchants. There were weekly pa
pers, but these would not be out in
time
Then someone thought Of Dick Nc
Kinney, the old town crier, who had
been off the job for a decade, and
whose retirement had been the cause
Of much storied sentiment as indica-
tive of the passage Of the old to the
modern method which came with the
daily newspaper.
Dick said he was old and rheu-
maticky, and that his voice was not
what it used to be, but they dug him
up a bell, gave him a megaphone and
told him to go out and tell the people
what was coming.
The old town crier did the best he
could, but it was evident that years
had weakened his vocal organs, so
that the bell was the most valuable
feature Of his service.
While the daily paper was out Of
commission the town slipped back a
decade or more. No market reports,
nothing about the weather, nothing
from the conventions, no announce
ments of choir practice and socials.
The town crier was all in when the
paper resumed publication and took
his place. But, while his resurrection
was brief. the town crier came into
such fame as he had never known In
his previous humble history.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Not Altooether RlrdIike.

At a social evening one very mu-
steal young lady sang a song entitled
sylvan Sounds" 1t was very fine,
indeed, and all the old ladies and gen.
tIemen waxed quite enthusiastic.
Most delightful" gushed one dear
old lady to a young man who
CHANGED to be near her. "Isn't she a
lovely singer"
"Yes, quite good" replied the young
fellow coolly.
"And didn't it remind you of the
singing of birds? In fact" went on
the good lady enthusiastically, zone
might almost believe it really was a
bird singing"
"Well, don't know" remarked the
man; ST never saw bird sit down at
a table and drink three cups Of tea
and eat two helpings of veal-and-ham
pie and enough cake and sweets to
stock a school treat"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Poison Gas for Whales.

A campaign against the Beluga or
white whale was recently inaugurated
from Dougarnenez to Concarneau, In
Brittany, by the French OceanOgraph
society, in which nets and poison
tubes were used.
The Beluga, pest Of the fisherman,
is generally cream white In color,
feeds mainly on marine fish and COM
mits ravages among the shoals. The
average length Of the adult male Is
about Is or 20 feet.
To hunt down the white whale a net
LOO yards long, was set up at Douar-
nenez, while another was placed in a
suitable position by the fishermen at
Concarneau. Furthermore, the skip
pers Of the sardIne boats used 1000
Yves Delage poison tubes against the
Belugas.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1920-09-08
Possibilities Here

An officer of the British army, Maj.
Frederick de T. Craven, would not
only increase the kinds and quality Of
game animals In the United States,
but would add humor to sport. He
suggests that the yak be transplanted
from the Himalayas to the Rocky
mountains. and that river buck, wart
hogs and swamp hogs be brought from
Africa and released in the swamps Of
Mississippi and Louisiana. The wa
ter buffalo Of the Orient, he thinks,
would also thrive there. He would
stock. regions that are now useless
with game animals Of considerable
value But think Of the fun that the
newspapers would have with the yak
and the wart hog I-YOuth's Com
panion.