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Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
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4NTON ROUTE I

1t locked like winter this morn
ing.
!. All the farmers are trying to
plant corn this morning
Mrs, Charlie King spent Sunday
with Sue Adams.
Mrs. Martha Lillard is spending
this week with her brother, 1hos.
Adams,
A crowd of girls and boys went
flower bunting Sunday.
Mrs, Maggie Evans spent Sun
day, with Bonnie Clayton.
Mrs. Onie Burnett took dinner
with. Mary Jones Sunday.
Mrs. Blanche Maynor is on the
sick list.at this writing.
A little son of MARI Evans ha,
been sick for some time.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
CHARLESTON II l

Charley Parks and Arthur Pip
pinger, of Ocoee, called on Mr..
and Mrs. d. +, Burch and family
Thursday evening
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Johnson
are the guests of their sister Mrs.
Will Epperson, OF this place,
Miss Litha Christians, Of Benton
Route | spent the latter part OF
last week with Miss Elsie Bates,
Mrs. Will Epperson was the
guest OF her daughter, Mrs. Ernest
Coins, of Patty, Saturday and
Sunday.
Misses Elsie Bates and Litha
Christian spent SUNDAY At the
Burch home.
Hobson Gragg and Charlie
Blu oh visited the city OF Berton,
Sunday.
Mrs. Myrtle Harrison, Charlie,
Ben and Mable Burch called on
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
SIDE APPLICATION
OF Fertilizers
FERTILIZERS ARE CHEAP
AGAIN.
Practice of Side Application viii
Be Extensively Followed
This Year.

Atlanta, Ca, April receiv
ca from fertilizer companies indicate
that the Southern farmer fell a good
deal short Of using as much fertilizers
~ planting time this year as usual. Sew.
Neral reasons are assigned. One is that
the farmers waited for the price of
Fertilizers to fall with the expectation
or using them in greater quantities
than the usual amount as side applica
lions to the growing crops.
IL seems that the practice of side ap
'plication of fertilizers is quite common
ly followed by successful Southern
farmers. In fact, the Williamson meth,
cd of growing corn that is popular in
the coastal plains region of the South,
provides that no fertilizer be applied
except as side applications to the corn
crop.
On the question of side applications
OF fertilizers, J. N. Harper, director OF
the Soil Improvement Committee and
recognized authority on agricultural
methods of the South, says, that there
are more than the usual advantages
this year in favor of side applications,
The reason is apparently favorable to
giving good response to fertilizers.
A word of caution is, however, sound
cd by Mr.. Harper. He says that the
side applications should be made early
Late applications to cotton will only
prolong the growth Of the plant and
favor the boil weevil. He says that
1T will be better to make both the side
Applications of complete fertilizers and
the nitrogen top dressing within six
weeks after planting, where the boil
weevil is present.
For corn, he states that side applica 7
tons are quite generally made too late .
20 get the best results. On clay loan .
or heavy soils he advises a side appli. I
cation and nitrogen dressing when the
corn is from knee to waist high. For
sandy or light soils, he says that side
applications can be made later that is,
when the corn is waist to shoulder
high, but before it begins to bunch to
tassel.
Mr.. Harper says that care must be
taken to use only readily available
eOrms of fertilizer SO that the growing
plants can utilize them in promoting
rapid growth and development of fruit,
The fertilizer should contain phos-
phoric acid in the form of acid phos-
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
P. C. Il. S. HOLDS PLACE
ON HONOR ROLL OF NATION.

The many friends of the Poll
County High School at Benton
have had a pride in the fact thai
school was, in 1914, placed on the
accredited list Of the Southern
College Association, and they re-
ioice that it, from each year since
that time. maintained that high
rating,
The high school has from year
to year been forging ahead and
strengthening its departments and
improving its work. 1t now has
graduates in many states who are
making good and rejecting credit
on Polk county. Recently Princi-
pal J. L. Brewer had communica-
ton from the Secretary of the
Southern College Association.
This letter called attention to the
fact that after a survey of all the
the graduates OF the Polk County
High School at Benton who are
attending college, there was not
an unsatis aCtcry student among
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
AVOID MISTAKES IN
POISONING BOIL WEEVIL
Weevils Can Be Poisoned With
Profit.

The United States Department o.
Agriculture, through it's boil weevi
+ experts, Profs. B. r. Coad and T. p
Cassidy, have issued a statement, q
part of which is entitled Where II
Will Pay You to Poison" This part
Ia as follows:
1t will pay to poison
If the weevils are really injuring
your crop seriously, and
If your land is sufficiently fertile
to yield at least one-half bale per acre
with weevil injury eliminated, and
If your farming organization is such
that you feel assured that the poison
applications will be made at the right
time and in the right manner, and
If you are willing to spend the full
amount necessary to provide an ade.
quate supply of busting machinery and
poison.
The general gains from weevil poi.
soning under average, fairly favorable
conditions seem to be from 200 to 400
pounds Of seed cotton per acre, but,
owing to variations in degree Of wee.
vii injury it Is not safe to expect much
more than the lower figure.
Consequently, you should not poi
son If the cost of the calcium arse.
nate, the cost of labor to apply II.
and the depreciation on the busting
machines will total more per acre
than the current value of 100 pounds
Of seed cotton.
Hand guns should be figured as de-
preciating 100 per cent in season and
the larger machines about rs per cent.
Do II Right Or Not At All
Many valuable lessons have been
gained from the recent expension Of
commercial weevil poisoning. It has |
again been shown that the boil vice.
vii can be poisoned with profit II con-
ditIons are favorable and If proper
are used, but 1t has been en-
phasized anew that unfavorable condi.
ions and improper methods can lead
only to failure. A survey of the pol
soning by farmers in 1920 shows that
IN unfortunately large proportion were
not properly informed as to the condi-
ions under which they should poison
md the methods they should pursue.
As result there were many lnneces-
,ary failures.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
HORNS CREEK

We are having some COO
weather this writing
, w. II Woody and family spent
sunday 80 the home of Charlie
{ Mason.
Messers. Amos Watson. Lynch
Longley, Grady HAYES and John
DarneII passed thru our burg Sun
day.
Misses Rclla Frazier, Ethel and
Dovie Moore. Beulah and Powell
Parks, of Ocoee, called on Mrs.
PariIee Yother, Friday evening.
Lois Hannah and Dora Black
were in Old Fort. Friday,
Wash Yother and wife spent
SUNDAY witt Mrs, Everett, near
Beech Spr 'ngs,
Ben Woody and Caaen Proctor
were at Blue Ridge. Sunday.
Quite crowd of Youngsters
called on Lois Hannah Saturday
night.
Selmer Wilson was here Sun |
day.
Mrs S, II. ONeal called on
Mrs Rosa Hannah Sunday.
Little Homer Chastain, Of
Etowah, is spending a few weeks
with his grandmother, Mr,. II. ?.
Longley.
Pearl Hannah is visiting rela-
ives bn Cleveland X. 10.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
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Items Of interest from nearby towns
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OLDFORT

Several from here went to Bon
eaets,sSunday.
Mrs Carver was laid to rest ID
the graveyard near Conasaug.
Rghs$chpol one day this Week.
Clarence Wattenbarger of Con
asauga;~and his cousin OF Dalton,
passed thru here Sunday on their
was: to'Ocoee.
:. Yextg' McDaris, of Blue Ridge,
FEa.7 ;was the guest on Bculah
Davis. Sunday.
Ben Hilliar1 and family are the
guest4-of his mother.
Saturday and Sunday are regu-
larvmeeting days here.
Will Niece, of Etowah, was
here Sunday.
Miss Anna Rose. who went to
Cleveland awhile back, is now in
Chattanooga, where she will &c
cept. position
The blues assailcd our way,
Well spring is getting here and
we are all getting busy around
hes.. |
Myt The old Polk County |
NeNs is always chock full of news |
anNwe are always glad to get our
PAPER.
Let 5 hear from someone else.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
ZION NEWS

The weather does mt seem tc
get any warmer or winter go any
farther away but I'll run out long
enough TO give you few happen
ing'!s in our burg.
Rev. Prock filled his regular
appointment here Sunday.
Sunday school has been reorgan-
lied aud seem on the uphill pull.
Evefbody is invited to come and
take part in making it better,
L. M, Rogers is moving his fam
ilv to Parksville where he is work
ing at sawmill.
Thofe has been an awful mad
dog scare here several bitten and
two or three have been killed but
nothing serious has happened so
far.
G'raud ma Norman remains very
i'll at the home of J. II, Williamson.
School at this place closes Fri
day night with an entertainment
Old Fort was the only school to
mention any improvements for the
year ahd they did Mt so into detail
OF tell how they got them.
Success to the news and it,
many readers.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14

them Ii was only recently thai
one of the graduates took the gold
medal as the best mathematician
among over nine hundred students
al the state university.
But the special honor that this
article desires to call attention to
is that the Polk County High
School is in the select list of
southern high schools that the
colleges of the middle and north
ern states have made out. In
other words, many of the colleges
desire to limit their students to
those only who are best preferred
and they will take no students
who are not from schools on this
special list. Among these COL
Ieges are Yale University, West
Point, Columbia, and University
IF Boston. 1t is thus a matter of
great pride to the people of Polk
county that this high school has
hus made the honor rol of the
nation.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
Attachment in Chancery Court at
Benton, Tennessee.
A. R. Arp
F. c. Crawford
Toe. &. Crawford:

1t appearing from the bill if
this case. which is sworn to. thai
f. c. Crawford is justly indebted
to complainant and that he re
sides out of the state, and that an
attachment has been issued and
levied on the property of the de-
fendanr. 1t is ordered that pub
LEGATION be made for four consecu-
tive weeks in the Polk County
News, requiring the said defend
ant to appear on or before the
May Rules of said court on the
First Monday in May, next, and
make defense to said bill filed
against him in this cause, other
wise said bill will be taken for
confessed and the cause proceeded
with ex parte
April lst, 1921.
A. J. WILLIAMS,
Clerk and Master.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14

phate. This is the main element for
fastening maturity. The fertilizer
should also contain nitrogen and potash
In the readily available form. Nitrogen
promotes the growth of the stalk and
leaves and potash strengthens the plant
and helps fill out the fruit.
A top dressing Of sulfate Of ammonia
or nitrate of soda is quite commonly
made. and, according to Mr.. Harper. it
should follow closely after the second
application of fertilizer, and within the
periods of cotton and corn growth
which he mentions above.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
AT
Monterey Mil
And Other News Told By
Our Special COrrespon.
dent, II. F. Burns
Intended for last week.

NAt+AN tAANA Az AeoN "CNNf
| Monterey. Tenn. Last Thurs
| day at noon the boiler at the
Iplaining mill here exploded. Part
OF the buildings were wrecked and
! debris was sent with tremendous
force for 200 yards in every di-
rettiou. Seven out Of the force
OF fourteen were more or less in
| iured. One man was pulled from
under hot bricks frightplly wound
ed and lady burned. After 100
hour, he has not regained con-
sciou,ncss The wonder is that
every one at the mill was not kill
ed and others in their homes.
Risking an old worn out boiler is
1.-THE cause.
Last Saturday night an old lady
# our town was riding the merry
go-Iound at the carnival and was
stricken with heart failure and fell
off dead.
Cattle are going down in price.
but our butchers here have put
steak back to Soc pound. I do
not know of but one thing like it.
Cost of living is going down every
where, but our Legislators at Nash
vile are raising their pay and the
pay of their favorites, Let us re-
member them at the next election
l am grieved over the death of
my dear friend, Mr.. John Quinn.
Also, I mourn the death of my
Did friend and neighbor, Mr.. Bill
Brock.
It appears now tina. the entire
ruit crop has been destroyed in
his section.
A MIR. Howard here went fishing
viii some friends. He dropped
Il, p5.,uI and it shot him through
he arm, breaking the bone near
he shoulder and badly lacerated
he flesh. So much for carrying
pistol contrary to law.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
SERVILLA

Sheriff Rell and one Of hi
deputiH captured large still nea,
this n Re last week.
Chi Ar Lindner and Jack Car
dem Earraigned before Esq. S.
l.. IN on charge of drunk
mes fEFunday.
laday School is progress
ing at this place.
Aorgan made a business
tripW kSwah, last week
gForted that R. B. Ham
moi ggone from here on an
ext 81 Fist.
n II %hur Burchfield is i'm
proSA ii I0m a serious attack Of
typha ~
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14

Mr.. and Mrs. J. d. Bates and
family Friday evening,
Subscribe for this paper NOW,
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
NOTICE

All creditors and debtors of John
w Quinn, deceased, late Of Polk
county, are hereby apprised Of
his death, and warned to make
settlement with me.
Chas. c. Quinn,
Administrator.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14

Advertising is the honey of
life-try a sample.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14

II you like our paper tell other,
ii not, tell us. we can settle the
difference.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1921-04-14
CHAS. B. WITT
AbStTaCtOr

Procure Loans on Real Estate on
Ten Years Time :: :: :: =:
Benton, Tennessee,
New Britain herald., 1921-08-27
CROP FAILURE
 IN RUSSIAN LANDS
Great Area Is Affected by Bad
 Harvest

Reval, Esthonia, Aug. 26, (The As sociated Press) Fla mine, resulting from crop failure, is far more feared | oy the communist dictators of Russia than any development of capitalism that might come from recent conces- slons toward free trade according to speeches by Lenine and other com munist leaders, editorials in bolshevik official newspapers and other infor- | nation from Moscow reaching the Baltic states.
 Lenine, writing for the Baku Com l munist. as reported by, the official bolshevik telegraph agency, Rosta, | few days ago, said: There is nothing | to fear in the rise of small farming and small industry. It cannot be dan gerous to our big industry. Some thing else is to be feared. In case | of a bad harvest, there can be no diminishing in the crisis of the work | ing classes.
 Not the growth of petty bour- geoisie and capital is dangerous, but l the state of need and lack of food stuffs that is continuing too long That is why the proletariat becomes .weak and cannot stand against the ! elements of petty bourgeoisie." | In this, as in other articles wide | ly distributed throughout Russia in support of the new economic policy, Lenine points out that, by holding firmly to the reins of big industry, the dictatorship of the proletariat can always control any situation that
 might develop with regard to smaller Icapita1istic advancement.
 In a speech before the All-Russian I,11I Moscow, Lenine, as reported in the official newspapers Pravda and 1zves-
 tia was extremely pessimistic about
 the famine possibilities.
 There has come to pass" he is re-
 ported as saying, "an unforeseen cir
 cumstance. which now, in the, second Iyear, subjects the country to extreme
 hardships. Whether we are in for a
 series of arid years, as has been prophesied these two years. we do
 not know. But it has become perfect. ly clear that this is the second year
 in which we will again, over large areas, experience a failure of crops land this pictures in our minds the limminency of great danger.
 1T will not now dwell on the ex
 tent of the area affected by this cal
 mity, but the area is certainly yer, ,great. It is already quite clear tha
 there will be large arrears in the pay
 ment of tax in kind in many dis
 tricts: that in many districts tn
 population, apart from this, will b. doomed to unheard of sufferings; an
 that the supply organizations, instea 1 of obtaining in those districts a sur 1 plus of products for the maintenanc of the army, the labor classes an the industry will have to support tn
 starving population
 Further, Lenine pointed out tha
New Britain herald., 1921-08-27
TURKEY FOR TURKS
 IS CRY AT CHANKAI
Renal to "DriVe Out Greeks" If
 It Takes Years

Angora, Aug. PA reiterated deter mlnation to drive out the Greeks Eff it takes years" is the keynote of conver- sations which a correspondent of The Associated Press has just had with the Nationalist leader Mustapha Kemal at the latter'S villa in the nearby village of Chankai which dominates the An- gora plains. Turkey for the Turks is the Nationalist slogan.
 Although the allies appear to be un- able to believe it, we will not bargain nor accept half measures Kemal said. We are prepared to go on fighting for what we deem our rights. It is not the first time in history that a war has lasted century, Kemal said to the correspondent.
 It is just that the vanquished party shall pay for lost war; he went on, but it is not just to kill a nation It IS unjust to attempt to divide up Turk 1sh soil, giving part to the Greeks and spheres of influence to the French, the Italians and the British. This is a form of political slavery.
 "Our conception of peace for the mainland has often been stated,' Kem- al continued. ''As for Thrace, eastern Thrace is an inseparable part of our homeland, because of the Turkish ma jority there. For the rest of Thrace we are willing to agree to a plebiscite. Constantinople, too, is ours, but for the straits and the Sea, of Marmora we are willing to accept any solution by which the safety of COnstantinople can be pro- ,tected. My honest opinion is that the old arrangement by which the Turks, armed, guaranteed the neutrality of the straits, is the only working solution. It is patent that an international com mission will result in quarrels.
 ''If the Allies desire peace, and sim cerely wish to make us pay for the war" Renal concluded, ''let them cease trying to divide us, for division means political injustice as we'll as com mercial folly. l realize war is a costly affair, and feel it's atrocities deeply, but it would be a greater and lasting ruin if we permitted the cutting up of the country into zones of influence, without fighting.
 If we are given a chance, we will by our Nationalist movement, regener- ate Turkey. We already observe pro- hibition strictly, and have also SUD- pressed gambling and card playing.
 I've look to the United States to con- tinue it's friendship and commerce with us. We believe we are as democratic as the United States, but have no ln- tention to institute republican gov ernment which we do not need. l per sonally have no ambition to become president.
 I've shall keep to our Caliphate ir Constantinople because the country needs that from a religious standpoint It is a matter of detail who is made sultan, as he has political responsi- bilities. The nations power lies in the National Assembly which is both legis- Iative and executive. We are united it is not true that there is an Enverls' party trying to overthrow me. As fol Bolshevism, we have a treaty of friend ship with them, containing a clause which provides that no propaganda must be undertaken here, because the Soviet organization differs from ours fundamentally on account of our re ligion.''
New Britain herald., 1921-08-27

the hardships entailed by the crop failures will be aggravated by the fact that in the few districts where the crops probably will be good, the soviet supply apparatus is working worse than elsewhere.
 If we look at the map illustrating the prospects Of the harvest he said, i've find that in those districts of soviet Russia and the allied sister republics where the harvest promises to be good, or above the average, the supply institutions are certainly not above medium, but frequently below mtdium. We shall have to occupy ourselves with the question of chang ing the personnel of the supply or- ganizations, but we have few, suitab ble and experienced candidates who might soon adapt themselves to their new tasks and successfully push the work" 2
New Britain herald., 1921-08-27
ONCE UPON A TIME
 THERE WERE NO DOCTORS:
The Doetss Was Not Much Needed Until FolkS
 Began to Break Natures Laws.

Doctors Preaeh Prevention Is Bette, Than Iur..
 Ninety per cent of all disease is preventable, so doctors say. Eat simple food, exercise wiseIy, sleep sufficiently, and-what is vitally inl- portant-make sure of the daily, regular, thorough elimination of body waste, and the chances are nine to one that you will keep well, worK efficiently and enjoy life. Bowel elimination of food and tise' -4;. te IS all-important. But in (, = IT, regularity, disordered or l. - [ action do not make the cori.',.
 take of taking harsh, violently medicines, with the idea of the bowels to act. Nature reli, in mild methods. She responds bet to persuasion.
 So in selecting a simple remecy 'n regulate and assure proper boy, action, you should not use harsh C., violently acting remedies, no matter how much has been claimed for them. You should choose some we'll known, time tested, trial proven remedy, that has made its reput. .ion by being used for many ears, by all sorts of people, all over the world. Take Beecham's Pills for :ismple. Beecham's is household word. has been for many generations. Beech am's Pills is household remedy, has been for over half a century People not only take Beecham's but recom- mend Beecham's to their friends Their use is handed down from father to son or from mother to daughter, from one generation to another. Did you ever hear any complaint or criticism of Beecham s? Isn't that pretty powerful endorse ment of their worth? Druggists are glad to sell Beecham'A
New Britain herald., 1921-08-27
Take the Short Cut

~ A HEN you were youngster, you never went to w school the lonq way 'round You took short cut
 Every advertisement i'm this paper is short cut. Advertisements make it possible to tell you in few minutes al you want to lrov ahc,.t the service or articles you need.
 Ata glance you can sf out the things that interest you most and in moment you know just when and where to go for what you want.
 Figure how many steps, how much needless walk ing and talking the advertisements thus save you and your neighbors. Then you realize the great economy and necessity of advertising in your daily life.