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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-01-22

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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-01-22

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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-01-22
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured

by LOCAL. APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease. greatly infiu-
enced by constitutional conditions. HALLS
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IL Is taken internally and acts through
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10 composed of some OF the best tonics
known, combined with some of the best
blood purifiers The perfect combination
Of the ingredients In HALLS CATARRH
MEDICINE Is what produces such won
derful results In catarrhal conditions.
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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-01-22
TOO WEAK TO
DO Anything
ASeriOusFeminine IIInessRemedied
By Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Casco. Wis" after the birth Of each
Of my children | had displacement and
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-01-22

1.-THE eternal misfit Of things" woula
often be more appropriate.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1920-01-22

Scare a man into being good and he
will boast about II.
Gilpin observer., 1920-12-23
Pleasures Of Solitude.

Give me the flowing river that runs
between the pine clad shores Give me
the babbllng brook with its ripplinr
music! And you may have the crowd
ed streams of commerce that rush and
toss between the hugh piles Of granite.
writes l.. J. Muir in the Utah Chron-
icle.
Give me the twinkling stars-th..
glow Of the silver moonl And q mil
lion electric torches that illuminate the
great cities are yours.
Give me the music of the wind swept
trees! And keep your symphonies.
Give me the believing herd, the crow
Ing cock. the chirp of the new Matched
brood And your Carusos and McCor-
macks will not be missed.
Give Inc the joyous vision of the
budding rose that fills the untitled
fields, the bluebel!s by the brook. the
cowslip In the marshy bed And you
may have all the forced blooms, the
result of mans effort to improve on
the works of God.
Gilpin observer., 1920-12-23
FEAR OF BREAKING MIRROR
Accident That Is Associated win onef
of the Oldest Superstitions OF
the World.

When q lady. however cultured ano
intelligent, accidentally skaters her
mirror, she is apt to turn pale. She
may even faint, though she may not
actually believe in the subsequent
~seven years of bad luck" or the loss
of the one she holds most dear.
Is this perhaps because all peoples
have regarded mirrors as symboicf
That from the earliest time. IT mas
been the instrument with which the
seer communicated with fate? (Who>
has not gone secretly to consult the
crystal gazer who in her back hall bed
room used a wet mirror instead OF
crystal ball?) There are Christian fam
lilies today who will carefully drape the
mirrors In a sick room because their
ancestors believed the spirit Of death
gained entrance through them.
1t Is rather natural, then, that break
ing the means OF communication with.
the Beyond should be regarded as
calamity. Hence the 'seven years of
bad luck" Napoleon was so intensely
superstitious on this point that once
he happened to break the glass that
covered the picture Of Josephine. Fear
full that this might spell the same
calamity as breaking mirror he sent
courier to make sure that she WINS
safe. and slept neither day nor night
till the courier's return. A famous
English writer died just one month
after he openly boasted that he would
defy this mirror superstition.
Gilpin observer., 1920-12-23
Drink Water with Meals.

Contrary to n long standing theory,
water taken with meals is now recon.
mended. For years II has been taught
such procedure weakens the secre-
tions Of gastric Juice, also that diges
tion would be delayed or inhibited.
But now 1t has been proved that drink
ing water with meals stimulates the
secretion Of gastric Juice, that 1t pro-
duces an improved liver function and
that 1t enables the food to be utilized
more economically; further. the saliva
acts more efficiently when diluted with
water. Thus we are encouragea TO
drink plenty Of pure water while eat
ing-Thrift Magazine.
Gilpin observer., 1920-12-23
away at last. Clingins to his back
was Katherine.

away at last. Clingins to his hack
was Katherine.
Both men, inspired by the same
thought, started for the Shah. who
was standing, nose raised, sensitive
ly aware Of the excitement. But Jack
being the younger man, was the quick
er. Managing to slip the bride on. he
swung astride and, somehow assert
ing his control, drove the animal
straight to the bars-and over.
The Sultan, suddenly confronted In
lane so narrow that the tree branch
es met overhead. by plunging an
imal determined to throw his rider
slowed down, stopped, and stood shiv-
ering At the same moment that Kath
crime, weak and shaken, slipped down
from the saddle. Jack was hurled over
the head of the Shah.
When Mr.. Horton reached the scene,
the Shah was down the lane. the Sui
tan standing quietly. and Katherine
bending over her rescuer, who was
lying with his eyes closed.
"Where the devil did you learn to
ride like that, mani" murmured the
farmer even as he stopped to feel
Jacks heart.
"Playing polo" answered Jack ab-
sent-mindedly, and lost consciousness
Mr.. Horton, to whom pOlO-playinR
farmhands were new experience.
sent Katherine to the house to get the
doctor for Jack and to get Kenneth
to come after the horses.
Late that afternoon. Jack. propped
up on the chaise Tongue in the cool
guest chamber of the farmhouse. was
berating himself with choice invee-
tives.
The door opened softly and In
stepped Katherine, bearing q tray.
"Mother sent up your supper" she eI-
planned.
There was one thing Jack wanted
more than his supper-he wanted to-
know IL Katherine knew. Perhaps she
read his wish in his face. At any
rate she smiled a little and sat down
by the window.
"Kenneth has told me the whole
story" she said, land while 1t was KIND
of crazy, l can't help feeling fattered
that any man would be willing to
work hard for sixty dollars a month
and board, just Toto"
"To try and make good in the eyes
of the woman with whose picture ne
fell in love-" said Jack quietly.
Katherine flushed. Then: "P1ease'
oh. please wait" she said hastily. ~uD-
til-until you're well again."
And Jack, knowing the doctor mao
predicted q speedy recovery, was con-
tent.
Gilpin observer., 1920-12-23

was being rehearsed she wrote more frequently
TO the Unknown than she ever had before. Her
need was greater.
The Big Mans professional jealousy had out
run his discretion and his business instinct AS
the first night approached. reckless of conse-
quences. he deliberately sliced and cut her part
except where 1t fed his own. The Leading Woman
said nothing. She knew 1t would be useless.
Quite at the last moment too. the Big Man
made a vital alteration in the principal scene of
the second act, delaying her entrance that
he might have the stage to himself long as
possible. 1t was an error of judgment which
vanity did not excuse; and in the sense that
1t manned the play and injured the actress 1t was
a crime.
The Leading Woman knew the play was a good
play and that there way to save 1t. The
remedy lay with her. II, instead of acquiescng
in her belated appearance In the second act she
came in arranged in the authors script the
Big Man would have no alternative but to go
with the action as 1t had been written Should
she do it3 All she knew the opening night was
that she could pull the play out of the fire IL she
dared.
Before the first act any help Of hers
seemed hopeless. 1t hung fire, was received with
comparative silence. When the curtain fell she
had ten minutes in which to make up her mind
whether or not to take the step she contemplated
She stood on the stage. looking at the house
through peep-hoe In the proscenium.
Right in the center Of the front of stalls
u
1t seemed If he returned II, for his eyes were
fixed on the precise spot from which she regarded
him. She went hot and then cold for she knew
beyond a shadow Of doubt women do sense
such things, that the man in front was he whom
she had called her Unknown; for whom she had
kept her heart empty all the lean years of her
married life.
She went quickly back to her dressing room
Not only for the authors sake but for her own ;
her mind was made up to revert to the earlier
entrance and risk everything including the Big
Mans dispeasure. She going to act for the
Man In Front, to forget that she the wife as
well the victim and chattel Of the Big Man.
She dressed feverishly. Then she sent for the
stage-manager.
"Tm going to take my original cue In the second
act" she told him "Ies my responsibility, Of
course I'm going to play my part the author
wrote II. I shall speak my original lines and
those engaged in the scene will ignore the cuts
made yesterday. win you please tell them to
be preparedf The prompter WELL"
The stagemanager had always considered the
Leading Woman a pliabie, weak creature The
inexplicable change in her left him so amazed
that he had no word to say She passed him on
her way to the stage. stood behind the center en-
trance for her cue i. and took It
The Big Man gasped and forgot bis part, which
was nothing new. Beneath the artificial color his
face was livid with rage. The house applauded
a. the Leading Woman took the stage. Under
cover Of the noise, he 5erked out:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
BE PRETTY!! TURN GRAY HAIR DARK Try Grandmother's Old Fa- vorite Recipe of Sage Tea
 and Sulphur

Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur. properly compound- ed, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded streaked or gray. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is mussy and trouble some Nowadays, by asking at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sul- phur Compound" you will get a large bottle of this famous old recipe, inn proved by the addation of other in gredents, at a small cost.
 Don't stay gray! Try 1t! No one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does it so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge Of soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at time; by morning the gray hair disappears. and after another ap- plication or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark. glossy and attractive. Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
SEES WATSON AND HARDW|CK WINNERS
 IN GEORGIA RACE
Politics Topsy-Turvy and Clean Sweep Is Indicated
 for the Anti-Administra- kis tiOn Forces
By RICHARD F. LESSER

Atlanta Ga, August 21.-(SpeciaL)- There is every indication that Thomas E. Watson, former populite candidate for President and the stormy petrel of Georgia politics, will be nominated to succeed Hoke Smith to the United States Senate in the primaries on September S.
 Thomas A. Hardwick, a former United staunch follower of Watson. is expected to get the nomination for governor.
 Other followers of Watson are expected to be nomin7ted to Congress, the state Legislature. the judiciary. A clean sweep of the state of Georgia is predicted for Watson and the political idea he fosters
 Whether Watson will sweep Georgia will be revealed by the counting of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
ITCHING BURNING |P|MP[ESONCHEST
Neck and Face. Looked Badly and Lost Rest. Cuticura Heals.

'I suffered very much with hard, red pimples, which broke out on my chest, neck, and face. The itching and burning were awful and would rub the pimples and l could not rest at night. was ashamed to go in public, my face looked so badly. "Itriedtonics but they did no good. I then began using Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and when l had used three cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura Ointment was healed" (signed) Allen Williams, R. 4, Box 46, Athens, Ga.
 Cuticura Soap daily and cuticura Ointment occasionally, prevent pim- ples or other eruptions. They are pleasure to use as is also Cuticura Talcum a fascinating fragrance for pertaining the skin.
 Sample Each Free by Mall Address: "cuticura Lab erAtories, Dept H, Maiden <e, Mas" Sold every where Soap25c. Ointment 25 and 6oc. Talcum 25c. 1k Cuticura Soap shaves without mug.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
SELMA

Selma. August -(SpeciaD-Gen. waterway transportation. will visit Selma September 5 in the interest of federal barge line for Selma. This informatio was given out today by Morgan Richards, secretary of the Selma Chamber of Commerce, who se cured a conference with General Con- nor in Washington recently
 General Connor succeeded General Hines a short while back as head of the inland waterway transportation and his visit to this city next month will mark his first official investiga- tion of the Alabama river as a water way. Other cities in Alabama will be visited at the same time. and it is probable that a conference of water way boosters will be held in Mont gomery when he visits that city.
 The death of Mrs. A. c. Cooper of Gastonburg at an early hour Friday morning in a local hospital saddened many hearts here and throughout this section, where the piety and goodness of Mrs. Cooper influenced many lives.
 Her sudden desperate illness about the middle of the week caused grave apprehension to be felt. and her death was not unlOOkeQ TOT. Il ne Oouy, N2C- companied by relatives and friends, was taken to Gastonburg on the after noon train Friday. and interment will be made there Saturday.
 large family connection survives. the nearest members being the husband. A. C. Cooper. and two own sons of Mrs. Cooper, Messrs. Gaston and Leonard Cooper of Gastonburg, be- side the following children of Mir. Cooper by a former marriage; Mrs. Henry Plant of this city, Mrs. R. L.. Jackson of Marion, A. c. Cooper Jr. of Sherrod. Miss; pr. D. F. Gaston and R J. Goode. of Gastonburg and Mrs J. E.. Wilkinson of Prattville were brothers and sister of Mrs. Cooper.
 C. E. suttles cotton buyer, has just completed four-day trip through southwest Dallas, where he investi- gated crop conditions. and found that cotton has gone off considerably inNthe past two weeks of rain. from what had been expected earlier in the month.
 Many persons to whom I talked think that the cotton crop will be less than that of last year. while others be- lieve the yield will be as large" said Mir Suttles.
 Corn Is very good and good deal has been planted. In fact. corn is bet ter than it has been in several years in that section"
 Labor is scarce. reports Mr SuttleA and farmers are complaining on that score
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
Sticking to the Standbxs

From the Buffalo Express.
 Actor: T want you to write me play
 Playwright Good as done. old top. Featuring"
 Actor: Yours modestly. an airplane. a bed, an eternal triangle an ouija board, an opium joint, . radio station. and, say. the servant problem"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22
CANDIDATE DISCUSSES CAUSE

JAN DlDAIE DlSCUSSES CAO SE One of the candidates for Congress, a broad -guaged man of high intellec- tual attainments who is opposed to the Watson school of thought, visited the rural districts a few days ago to make the "wool-hat boys talk. He came back to Atlanta in very serious frame of mind.
 For twenty-five years I have been student of Georgia politics and recipient of it's favors," he said. But now the deluge has come! Watson is going to wini Hardwick is going to win. The other Watson candidates will win also if the organization holds to- gether straight down the line. For years we Georgians have al lowed Watson to spread his propa ganda unchallenged to the farmers of the state. He has made every sort of as sertion, and the newspapers have not taken the trouble to disprove them. Now the newspapers must awake to the fact that Watson has the votes to beat them lock. stock and barrel He has the votes to repudiate the democratic administration, the League of Nations and President Woodrow Wilson, and he's going to do so. No republican inspired by vicious par tisanship. has ever dared to say or
 write the blasphemous things which
 Watson from the stump and through
 his newspaper has said and written about the President
 But his radicalism gets the crowds.
 They cheer him, They cheer his asser-
 tions that brutal officers during the
 war abused the private soldiers that food was withheld from the Americans to be sold the French; they especially
 are joyful as he refers to Sir John Per
 shing. They go wild when he calls the
 American Legion a branch of the Knights
 of Columbus society The fact that Wat
 son never mentions one concrete re-
 form he will espouse when elected never
 occurs to his spectators. They do not
 want to know what he is going to do.
 What they want to hear is a lambast-
 ing of those now in office-and Wat
 son never disappoints then'
 OPPOSITION IS SPINELESS Hoke Smith and Gov. Hugh Dorsey
 are conducting spineless race against Watson. Neither has shown in the pres
 ent campaign the qualities of leadership
 that attracts voters. Dorsey is
 straight-out supporter of Wilson and
 the democratic administration. Hoke
 Smith has said he will support Cox and
 Roosevelt.
 In the gubernatorial race Hardwick
 has practically no opposition. John N.
 Holder and Clifford c. Walker. his op' ponents, are political ''mollycoddles" and
 ''handshakers." It is possibly true that many Georgians have sufficient intelli- gence to see beyond the chimera of bigotry and hatred fostered by Watson and Hardwick, but they have no lead CTS. They, too ,are dissatisfied. and as Hoke Smith and Hugh Dorsey have been
 weighed and found wanting, they will succumb to the Watson brand of radi- calsm. Hardwick will participate in the general benefits of a Watson victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-22

ballots following the primary. But as far as political seers can predict, des- cant and prophesy. they hold in their heart of hearts the great fear that tho
 Sage of McDuffie" is about to come into his own. They assert that the in- sdious poison propaganda of hate against the government, hatred of those in places of power, hatred of President Woodrow Wilson and the League of Ma tions has so stirred up the farmers If FGeorgia they can see nothing but then demigod-Thomas E. Watson.
 INCIDENT AT BUFORD
 A few days ago at Buford an incident occurred which practically assured the nomination of Watson. The Sage or McDuffie" as this radical leader loves to be called. got into brawl in a hotel, and it is alleged he used violent lan- guage to the landlady. Watson refused all the good offices of his friends and finally was arrested and spent the night in jail The next morning he issued statement admitting he had been drink ing corn whisky because he was tired and his nerves were shaken. He also admitted appearing in his night clothes and using strong language.
 Watson did not charge a frame-up but admitted the facts. But his friends immediately got busy Within a few hours they had assiduously spread the report that the American Legion had matched the conspiracy to have Watson arrested and thrown in jail. Others openly charged the Knights of Colum- bus and the Jesuit Society was behind the persecution of their leader. And when the frank statement of Watson was-~called to the attention of these partisans, they scoffed and indicated that 'Marse Tom had never made no such statement" If the argum ent was pressed, the Watsonite would clinch it for his side by saying; Wal, he'll get the corn whisky vote any how and that's enough in Georgia to beat Hoke Smith and Hugh Dorsey"
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-13
5 BANDITS INDICTED
FOR MURDER IN FIRST
DEGREE BY GRAND JURY

Socorro. y. NJ, Jan, 10 The So
zorro county grand jury rdav return
ed indictments against the five men
alleged to have bean implicated in the
attempted robbery and fatal shooting
of Abran Contreras at la iowa last
November. charging them with first
degree murder. The men were ar
raigned at once before JUICE NJ. G.
Mechem and one of them. Proncan-
Geo sails, pleaded guilty The others
pleaded not guilty The, will be
brought to trial next week.
Contreras and wife were awakened
early one morning and found two
men in their bed room \ pistol duel
followed and Contreras was shot
through the right arm making ampu-
tatiOn of the arm necessary. He died
about month later,
Immediately after the officers We're
appraised of the affair they took up
the trail of the bandits which led
toward the Man2ano Mountains. One
of the men was captured that day and
is said to have confessed He told the
officers that there were six men in
the party and that they went to the
Contreras place for the purpose Of
committing robbery, as COntreras was
said to keep a considerable sum of
money in safe in his house Only
two OF the bandits entered the house,
the others remaining outside.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-13

little 'Danderine" cooIs, c1eanses
ana makes the feverish, itchy scalp
soft and pliabIe; then this stimulating
tonic penetrates to the famished hair
roots, revitaizing and invigorating
every hair in the head. thus stopping
the hair falling out, or getting thin.
dry or fading.
After a few applications OF Dan
derine" you seldom find a fallen hair
or particle OF dandruff. besides
every hair shows new life. vigor,
brightness. more color and thickness.
A few cents buys a bottle of de.
liehtful "Danderne" at any drug or
toilet counter.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-01-13

been decorated with the gold medal.
while the silver medal has been given
TO Mrs. Stone and Mrs. and Miss A'ch-
erson of Columbus o., the Misses
Gourd, Jessie Carson and Gcrtrude
Folks of New York Mrs, Loyett Of
Boston, Mrs Mary NJ. Ncedham Of
Michigan, the Misses Margaret and
Alice Parsons and Miss Margaret
stevenson of New York, Mrs Susan
Watson Stockley of West Virginia.
The bronze medal has been awarded
Esther Braley of Ann Arhor Micho
Miss Isabel Deming, Philadelphia,
Miss Lucy Hewitt, New york, Miss
Elsie Wilcox, Virginia, ana Miss Mary
Turner, Minneapolis.
Nine members of overseas worries
were also given the CroiX de Guerre
for bravery in continuing their work
under fire.
Altogether forty-four worlers Of the
American committee, including t'e
medical staff of the Am rican Won
ems hospitals, have received citations
from the French government.