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The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN
TENNESSEE SHOWS GAIN.

According to the census of 1920
there are 390,077 children seven to IS
years of age in Tennessee, and of this
number of 1888 ,1lS, or S5.3 per ct, were
reported as attending school. In 1910
the percentage attending school was
77.2, thus indicating a gratifying i'm
provement as regards school atten-
dance between 1910 and 1920. Of the
children IA to Is years of age in 1920,
79.4 per cent were attending school
and of those 16 to II years of age 50.7
per cent.
OF the white children seven to Is
years of age, S0.7 per cent were at
tending school in 1910 and 85.5 per
cent in 1920. For negro children of
the same age the percentage in the
same interval increased from 64.7 to
Ill.
The percentage of children attend
inc school was considerably larger
in the cities than in the country dis
tricts, the percentage for children in
the urban population seven to Is
years Of age being 936, while in the
rural population in was S3.2. Urban
according to the census definition in
cludas all cities and other places of
2, 500 population or more.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
LEXINGTON TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 1921
MIDDLE TENN. PAPER IN SUP
PORT OF RYE FOR CHANCELLOR.

The following editorial, captioned
"EX- Gov. Rye appeared in an is
sue Of the Columbia Herald, Of which
James | Finney is editor, one day
this week:
Ex-Governor Rye is a candidate for
Chancellor of his division to fill the
vavancy caused by the appointment
of Chancellor Ross to be federal
judge. This office is thoroughly in
keeping with the dgnified, honest,
sincere character of Ex-Governor
Rye. He is admirably suited for it..
Like the new justice Of the United
States, Rye is better fitted for a ju-
dicial office than for a political of
flee, although he made a most credit
able record as governor for two terms.
The Democrats of that division
should nominate the ex-governor and
he ought to be elected without opposi-
tion. 1t would have been an exceed
ingly grateful thing if Governor Tay-
lor had appointed the ex-governor
when the vavancy occurred. Tom Rye
is clean, honest, courageous and up
right. He would adorn the office of
chancellor and if elected would prob
baly have lifetime job. He is a poor
man. he might remain forever in of
flee and he would remain poor He
has no love for money. He is patri-
otto to the core and the Herald will
be disappointed if the good people of
his division do not make him their
Judge of chancery.-Columba (Tenn)
Herald. +
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
GOOD MAN DIES SUDDENLY.

Last Saturday afternoon late, close
to the time Of the Southbound GAO
train, when Mart ]. McMuray, bag
gage and mail clerk on the PerTyville
Branch Of the y. c. Railroad, was get
ting ready to leave for Perryylle,
with his wife ard son in an automo-
bile the final summons came to him
when he stood in the open space be-
tween the depot building and the car
of assistant trainmaster, Mr., Walter
Hills, and he fell dead. Notwithstand-
ing he had had attacks of heart trou-
Bile, his sudden taking away was q
shock to the entire town of Lexington,
for many knew Mart McMurray and
here he followed the rule Of his life
in the fact that wherever he lived he
made all friends and no enemies. The
road officials promptly furnished a
special train 70 carry the remains to
Perryvi'le SatlF iav right at 500 o.
clock, accompanied " the wife and
quite a EJUb,r OF brother rahoat
men. Also en- Sunday at about tr.
o'clock p. III, a special train was r.l
W NHt 4N4it-t.l Sllal Ia ANt.4 l-l. s-t-.N ~
the trains we're manned ty volunteer
crews.
At Perryyi.le ths religions ser~.ces
were held IL the church. Elder /. x.
Penick. WIG YES preaching at Par
sons that day. officiating. After the
services the Masons took charge Of
the body. marched in procession to
the cemetery and there consigned 10
Mother Earth the mortal remains of
their honored brother.
Mart McMurray was So years old
and is survived by his wife, two sons
and one daughter Many years ago
he made profession of religion but
never had united with the church We
had known him perhaps close to 20
years and can testify to the fact that
in his heart Mart McMurray was
good man. His funeral was one Of
the greatest outp0urings Of relatives,
all sorts Of friends and Masonic broth
rem ever witnessed in Decatur county.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
BASE BALL.

Lexington has been very successful
in winning games this week, having
won two the first of the week from
the. fast. Bells team with Beasley and
Tolley pitching. Wednesday thew
took part of The team to Medina anf'
won the game there with Pete Brown
pitching. Muscle Collally arrived last
Tuesday morning and the third base
is considerably tightened on account
Of his coming. The team plays that
Lobclville team, the fastest amature
bunch in that section Of Middle Ten
nessee to-day Thursday and anoth-
er Friday. Beasley and Tolley will
do the pitching and hot games are ex-
pected.'
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
NUMBER 3
ALLEGED STOLEN CAR
is RECOVERED.

The Progress never having been
sensational and having consideration
for the honor and reputation of fami-
lies other than our own, il is with
genuine regret that we chronicle the
alleged theft of an automobile, its re-
covery and the arrest of the young
man who was found in the car when it
was taken charge by officers of the
law
The car taken was a Ford, removed
from the garage of Elder Frank Bo-
rem at Darden at about $3.50 o'clock
last Saturday morning, the noise of
which removal awakened DR.. +. G.
Maxwell who saw the car leaving the
Boren garage, and communicated with
officers of the law at Lexington, who
give chase, but it was Deputy Sheriff
Luther Mincey who overlook the flee
ing car at the Cave Bruce place, be-
tween Wildersville and Yuma and ar
rested Oscar Roberts, the cars Occu-
pant. In short time Deputy Sheriff
Mayo and Town Marshal Knowles ar
rived on the scene. Roberts was ar
raigned before Esq. J. W. Threadgill
and placed under $500 bond, pending
preliminary hearing set for one
o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Another young man coming in a ear
from the direction of East of Lexing-
ton, was seen by Sheriff Wright and
another officer but no warrant was
sworn out--hence, we do not give his
name.
The family connections of Oscar
Roberts and the magnitude of the of
fnce with which he is charged, makes
the whole affair both deplorable and
humiiating.
At the time of the set hearing be-
fore Esq. J. w. Threadgill, Tuesday
afternoon, Oscar Roberts failed to ap-
pear. In such cases when a party un-
der bond fails to appear, the justice
turns over to the Circuit court clerk
the papers in the case and the clerk
presents them to the next session Of
|, he Circuit court, where the bondsmen
Gre "called out" just as in the cases
where bonds are made to the Circuit
court.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26

lusive fox. play the fiddle for the old
Virginia Reel dancers, and report fer
duty at the table three times a day.
There were special musical seiec-
ticns by Miss Walker of Savannah
and other persons whose names we
did not get and at three o'clock in the
afternoon came the crowning number
on the program of the day--a magnif-
icent speech by Capt. G. T. Fitzhugh,
of Memphis. We can not attempt to
give even a substance of this splendid
appeal to the best American citizen
ship except to say that the theme was
American conditions, pre-war, during
and since the world war, with sug-
gested remedies by which we may
hope to get back to better than nor
nal conditions, as those conditions
have prevailed for several years. He
said that we must have and look to
leaders who are mentally, morally
and physically equipped for the great
work entrusted to them-that except
under the law there can be no true
that outside the pale of the
law all is danger, darkness and anar-
chy. He said that the Bible is the
best bulwark against Bolshevism, the
curse which is devastating and de-
Russia, and bringing Rus
sia to comparison with Egypt when it
was swept by the curses of pestii
lence and famine under the Phar-
aoch.
Our opinion is that Capt. Fitzhugh
is the one man who stands out pre-
eminently as the greatest, ablest and
best leader Tennessee has to look to
bring US out of the deplorable condi
ton into which we have drifted since
the war through the hellward pursuit
of that which has never yet made a
man happy in the true sense of the
dollar.
Through the hospitality of Judge
Ross we enjoyed a fine dinner in COM
pauy with many friends from Jack
son-Tom Carroll and wife, Tom
Curry Mccall and many 9th
ers-and Mrs. Judge Ross was right
thnra also to see that friends were
made welcome and got plenty Of the
ahercvith To refresh the inner man.
Old Crawford Springs never had
better day.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
CEDAR GROVE.

The meeting closed Thursday of
last week to the regret Of many. FL
der Paris, Of Marion. KY, did the
preaching and there was good inter
est throughout.
-Four Of the schools of the district.
Cedar Grove, Tucker, Presley and Doe
Greek, met here Saturday and held
school ralley, The crowd was large
and the interest seemed splendid.
There was a spelling contest which
resulted in a tie between the four
schools, Next came the recitations
which were we'll rendered. The ones
by Edna Mitchell, George Duck, Guy
Kennedy, Gertie Eason and Hautic
Clenney, were the best vet. Next
there were the speeches by Prof. Ken
nedy and Prof Austin. The speech by
Esq. J. NJ. Kennedy, truant officer cf
Decatur county, was Il rare treat and
one worth while.
|. x. Murphy and Roy Hancy were
seeing special friends Sunday.
Miss Minnie Clenaey, Of Enville.
spent last week with her cousins, Ger
tie and Minnie Eason.
Jesse l.. Helms, Of Camp Jackson,
$. c., was among the crowd here last
Saturday.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
G. O. p. COMMITTEE TO
MEET SEPTEMBER

Washington, August 24th,-John j.
Gore, chairman of the State Republi-
can Committee, has announced that
his committee would be called about
September /, at the request Of Ma
tional Committeeman Overall to con-
slider charges made against the latter
in connection with the collection of
funds. II have no political aspira-
tions and would not have any office
in Tennessee" said Mr.. Overall. But
want this matter cleared up on ac-
count of my family. 1t is a reflection
that ought to be met with a complete
vindication if | am innocent, and !
demand full and complete inyestiga-
tion that justice may be done all con-
cemed."
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
NOTICE.

The Lexington City School will open
September 5th. Let all the children
between the ages of six and seventeen
who have not finished the grade work
be ready to begin work in earnest at
that time. Start in the first day with
your minds made UP not to miss sin
gle day. Even the beginners should
start in with the idea Of doing regu-
lar, steady work. Last year our per-
cent of attendance was distressingly
low. This year we want to improve
in our attendance and percent of pro-
motions. This year should be the best
in our history in every respect. Let
all of us, parents, teachers and pu-
pills strive to make it so.
No child under six years of age will
be permitted to enter.
FAY HOUSTON.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26

Send US your job printing.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
DEATH OF MRS. JOHNSON.

Mrs. Clara Montgomery Johnson,
wife of r. l.. Johnson. died last Sun
day night at 1000 o'clock being the
second victim of Typhus fever in that
family in the space of a week. Mrs.
Johnson was an excellent woman-a
good wife. mother, friends and neigh
Dor, but while processing a Christian
faith, she had never united with any
church, an intention which she pur-
posed carrying out in the near future.
The funeral services were conduct
ed in the Southern Methodist church
hy Rev. II. r. Rose and the remains
Inferred in Lexington cemetery last
Sunday afternoon.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
GONE.

Again has the death angel slipped
into our midst and claimed as its
victim another link from the golden
chain which God in his infinite wis
dom saw fit to break only a short
time ago.
Bette Sue, little daughter of Witt
Waller, aged a little more than two
years, died at Juno on Thursday, Aug.
18th, Of Typhoid fever and complica-
tions.
Bette Sue was a sweet, affection
ate child, always ready to do what
mother and daddy said do and always
wearing a sweet, pure, innocent
smile, wherever she went. 1t is hard
to give up such treasure but it is
sweet to know that she has found a
home in Heaven where pain and sor-
row can not come and that while she
can not come to us, we can go to her.
We should all keep our lamps trim-
nle1 and burringW0sGrwe know not the
day or the hour which death shall
come to claim each of us, but we do
know that at his stroke we too must
fall.
But to the bereaved family we say
weep not for little Sue" for though
we miss her, Oh, so much, we know
our loss is her eternal gain because
Christ said suffer little children and
forbid them not to come unto Me, for
Of such is the kingdom of Heaven.
On Friday the little body was laid
to rest in Independence cemetery,
there to await the last great day when
all the graves shall give up their
dead and when it, like little flower
budded on earth shall arise to bloom
in Heaven.
GENEVRA WALLER.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
TO THE PUBLIC.

We have completed our new slaugh-
ter pen in full compliance with the
laws of Tennessee and it is the only
pen of the kind in Henderson county.
The floor is made of concrete and it
is screened so that it is made abso-
Iutely sanitary so that slaughtering
will be done under the pure food reg
ulation.
We will continue to make our
twice-a-week calls( Tuesday and Sat
urday) offering the best beef at the
least possible price.
ROBERTS & HAMILTON.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26
SCHOOL RALLY DEFERRED.

The District School Rally which was
to be held Saturday, August 9th. at
Warren's Bluff, has been deferred un-
til some future date. All schools in
the district viii be notified later as to
when it viii take place.
PAUL WALKER, Seey.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1921-08-26

r. L. Johnson, son of the alte W, C.
johnson who died in the Juno vicin-
ity about two years ago, arrived here
last Friday to visit in his old home
community. r. l.. left here twenty
one years ago and lived eight years
in CSuthersville, Mo-, before going
to Oklahoma, where he now lives in
the city of Muskogee.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30
LET THE BACTERIA DO IT

CWritten Specially for The Bulletin)
 I'm going to assume that you who do me the honor to read this are a practical working farmer.
 You want to raise crops that will pay you the cost of growing and leave some thing over for your own wages and profit. To do this you have learned from experi- ence that you have got to manure your soil, l. e. put back into it the necessary plent-food which previous crops have taken out. You know, perfectly well, that you can't keep on taking water out of 8 bucket unless, when it empties, you put more water in. You know, just as well that you can't keep on taking crops off an acre forever, unless you put back into that acre the fertility which the growing crops absorb.
 To accomplish this you spread and blow under stable manure-all you have
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

Mrs. John Locke. who mas been under the care of a physician in Hartford.
 According to a resident Of Coventry who was in town last week. the. people of that town are not asking Columbia to spend S12.o 10 put the Parker bridge in order. as was stated at the recent hearing that it would cost. and which they claim would build a maca- jam road with a cement bridge. They s9y that all that is necessary is to put it in such condition that 1t win be passab.e at all times of the year which would probably cost aDout $500 only
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

we'll be noIe in an acre as thirty tons, !s 1t isn't in shape to be used.
 But that answer didn't end the matter. Wasn't there 1ny way to make 1t usable. For a long time none was discovered. Then It occurred to one deep-thinklng, keen-reasoning man right in Eastern Connecticut to put this potash conundrum up to the bacteria. 100.
 And they came right back with tho solution in their mouths. He treated them white; he gave them all the el- bow room they needed and encouraged them; he furnished them something to work within the form of ground lime stone and raw rock phosphate. He said l "Stboy" to them and 'sicked" them on to do their best They did it. Not on paper nor In theory, but in the dirt on a three-acre field. They drew out of the soil and made available for plant food sometimes as much as three hundred | pounds of potash to the acre in single year.
 Now this has been done right in Eastern Connecticut; has been done and l Is being done.
 1 The place is in Storrs. up in Holland county. The man who has done lt is Prof W. M. Egten of the Storrs Agri- cultural college. The ground on which 1 fl has been done is three acre field on an abandoned farm, which, five years ago, was covered with brambles and growing up to bushes-hard1y worth fencing for | pasture. Now t is producing crops suf- f1cient to justify q valuation of several hundred dollars al acre.
 Have you any fault to find with Q |! yield of Al bushels per acre of spring wheat7 Or of s1 bushels per acre of oats7 Or of 113 bushels per acre of flint corn7 Or of 5S5 bushels per acre of Southport White Globe onions? Or | 270 bushels per acre of potatoes? Or of more than five and half tons of dry clover hey ner aero? All these have been raised on that held-aau H. a5. is getting better every year, instead of wearing out
 All raised, too, because of the work done by the bacteria, assisted only by small additions of raw rock phosphate and raw ground limestone The phos- phate is added because the soil is lacking l in Dhosphorous; the lime because-lI quote from Prof. Esten's explanation | it ''makes>sa happy comfortable home for the bacteria, fixes the nitrogen in ! the soil, helps the bacteria in the root modules to take nitrogen out of the air, improves the texture of the soil, furnishes the calcium for crops and bac- i teria, holds the organic matter in the soil and turns 1t darker and thus aD- sorbs more. heat from the sun"
 Raw phosphate and raw ground lime stone are about the cheapest forms Oe fertilizer the farmer can find. When you can raise good crops by their aid alone and through the ministra tions of Ia few million bacteria who will work for nothing and board themselves if you'll only give them a decent start and fair show-When this is so. isn't the news worth carrying to Garcia? Or cross lots to Neighbor Smith?
 hope, anyway, I've got you interested enough to want to know more about l. For haven't fairly touched it. thus lar I'm loaded for more bear.
 In the meantime, Storrs is a mighty handy place to get at from almost any part of Eastern Connecticut. And what you see with your own eyes is apt tc be rather convincing. Go and take a look. THE FARMER.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

CT pay dollar in labor and fertilizer bills to raise a crop which won't fetch more than fifty cents. You can't get blood out of turnip nor something out of nothing.
 Being in this emtnentay uncomfortable situation, between the devil and the deep sea, just what course are you going to steer? How are you going to feed your hungry soil when you can't get farm manures enough and can't afford high priced commercial fertilizers?
 Well, why not let the bacteria do 1t!
 No, I'm not joking. Nor am crazy. I'm just asking you a plain simple, practical question.
 Why-Not-Let-The --Bacteria--- Do It?
 DO what7" you ask. Why fertilize your soil for you, so that you will need, to supplement their work. neither farm manures nor bankrupting carloads of complete fertilizer.
 can imagine you shaking yons heads and wondering If John Farmer has him. self gone playhouse. Or else you quicker ID your face into that sadly unbecomtng sheer which is so easy for you, and make | some under-breath remark another l book theory"
 I'm not surprised that you should do so, Just between you and me, please don't let the thing go any further that's exactly what I did, myself, when I first heard of 1t.
 | But while I'm not from Missouri ' am as cranky and angular and sttff-necs- ed seventh generation Tank as ever 1 talked through his nose, I'm as willing ito be shown" as any Missourian.
 The very nexo day after this first hear | ing, it was my privilege to walk ovel and across and around three-acre field whereon the bacteria were doing thit very thing. Doing it this year and have been doing it for the past five years Producing good, paying crops of hfteer or twenty different sorts without the use
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30
COLUMBIA

Miss Evelyn Woodward returned to Smith college, after spending the sum- mer vacation at home. Her brother Harold has gone to Storrs College t0 take Q course in agriculture.
 MT. and Mrs. Fred 4. Abel entertain ed Sunday Mir. and Mrs. George Tai ley. of New London, also MT. and Mrs. James Johnson, of Norwich.
 Mrs. John Lewis has returned to her home, having spent the past month at the home of her son Clement, in Man chester.
 Mrs. Abbott Little has been entertain ing during the past week her niece,
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

and all you can buy. But you never have enough of your own, do you? And you never can buy any to speak of, for your neighbor farmers want all they have for themselves. So you fall back on commercial fertilizers, the cost of which is so great that you simply can't afford enough to make up the deficit from the barnyard.
 There you arc: Without sufficient farm manure for your needs and without money to buy commercial fertilizers to make up the lack. It may be added, parenthetically that at present farm prices for farm grown produce, mighty few farmers can afford to spend money on any form of fertilizer. The cotton manufacturers says, very sensibly, that he won't pay a dollar to make cotton cloth which he can't sell for more than eighty-f1ve cents. No more can the farm
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

Another person stated that repaiis made to the road last year which [; was stated cost S1e.s5 were tho onlys repairs made to it in 50 years. It vas also stated that gravel and dirt to repair the road and to raise It above hgh wa- ter would be gladly donated. alSp prob- ably much of the labor.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-09-30

BartfOrd.-Willie O. Burr. Tor ca years an active member of the staff Of the Hartford Times, and now its editor. Wednesday celebrated the 7sth Rnni- versary of his birth.
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