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The Adair County news: January 16, 1918

The Adair County news: January 16, 1918 The Adair County news 300dpi TIFF G4 page images Columbia, Kentucky 1918 ada1918011601_sn86069496 These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. The Adair County news: January 16, 1918 The Adair County news Columbia, Kentucky 1918 $IMLS This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognitio n (OCR). No corrections have been made to the OCR-ed text and no editing has be en done to the content of the original document. Encoding has been done through an automated process using the recommendations for Level 1 of the TEI in Librar ies Guidelines. Digital page images are linked to the text file. 21JUIX VOLUME XXI COLUMBIA, KENTUCKY, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 16. 1918. NUMBER 12 Personals. Mrs. S. 11. Mitchell was quite sick a few days of last week. Mr. U. L. Antle has returned from a business trip to Nashville Mr. Luther Harvey, of Russell Springs, was here a few days ago. Mr B. G. Nelson, of Hopkinsville, was in Columbia one day last week Mr B. H. Gilpin, Campbellsville, was here to see his trade last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Goff visited relatives in Cumberland county last week At W. R. Lyon's sale, Campbellsville, all kinds of stock sold high. Milk cows brought from $85 00 to $125.00 b'OB per head e Registered duroc pigs ready to take away. J A. Williams, Columbia, Ky. 10-tf. Sale Mrs J. A. Young has been sick for two weeks, but is better at this writing. Mr. Brack Massie made a business trip to Campbellsville the latter part of last week. Tresenriter, of Greens-burbrother of Mrs. Ellen Staples, is visiting in Columbia. Mr. Charles g Mrs. V. Sullivan, of Campbellsville, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A Young, last week. Messrs. Owen Gaines, Jas. Sapp and J. L. Anderson, Campbellsville, were here Thursday, looking after stock. Mrs Jo Roseulield left last week to spend a month or two with her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Barnett, Mb Vernon. 111. Williams, daughter of Luther Williams, was quite sick at the home of her uncle, Mr. Bert Epperson, a few days of last week. Mr II K. Alexander, traveling salesman, never fails to meet his appointments, lie came in with the snow and made all his customers, last week. Mr.aDd Mrs. L.Williams and children will leave for Cave City this week. A notice of the good standing of this family appeared in the News two weeks ago. Miss Nell Mr ?.nd Mrs. Mr. Edward C Hamlett, who is in Georgetown College, was here last week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Barksdale Hamlettand his Drother and little sister J? Mrs. Thos. Tarlton Watson, of Albion, 111,, the joung wife of Rev. Watson's soldier boy in France, is here visiting the family of Rev. Watson, at the manse lias been in the regular army for nine years, stopped here last Friday with Mr W. T. McFarland, while en route to visit his home people at Rowena Mrs W. R. Lyon, of Campbellsville, who has many relatives and friends in Adair county, and who was dangerously ill with double pnemonia, is rapidly i mproving, we are glad to report. Mr .Lucien Womackand wife; and Miss Vester Womack, of chenoa, 111 , arrived last Friday on a visit. Mr. Wcrnack and Miss Womack are son and daughter of Mr. Hindman Womack Mrs P. II. Couover, who visited her parents here for several weeks, left for her home, Elizibethtown, Friday morning She reports that her husband, Dr. Couover, is having a nice business. Mr. Edgar Reed, who is a member of a hospital unit, stationed at Fort McPherson, Ga., came home last Saturday and remained until Monday. He said that he had suffered a little with tonsilitis since he reached the Fort, but aside from that he was getting along nicely. He had a comfortable house in which to lodge and got plenty to eat. He further said that his unit would leave for France in a very few weeks Later, Mr. Reed got Wedhis time extended until nesday. to-da- Mr. O. L. McClure, who haulers have received from $2.50 to $4 00 for two horse loads. Correspondents to this paper will please separate their items. When they are jammed together they are The latest word from Woodman Colardo, where Mr. H. A. Hurt, of troublesome to put in type. this place is sojourning for the benefit W. I. Ingram has removed his stock of his health, is that he is improving of goods to the store hou3e formerly steadily and that he believes that he See will eventually be restored to health. occupied by T. E. Waggener This information will be gladly rehis "ad" elsewhere in the News ceived by Mr. Hurt's many friends in Next Monday will be circuit court ilia home town and county. and the town will be full of people. The "Beautiful" continues with us. Those who come in and are indebted When our people looked out Friday to this otlice will please call and pay. morning they discovered that a suffSnow fell here on the night of the icient had fallen during the night to 7th of December and the ground has measure a depth of four inches. This not been clear of it since. During was the eleventh snow of the winter, this time the weather has been ex- and according to weather prognastica tors, four more are yet to come. The tremely cold. twelfth came Sunday night. John N. Conover, who is one of Mr. J V. Dunbar, of Kniiley, Ky., Adair's thrifty farmers, sold Jo A. Williams, last week, two hogs that sold a Aberdeen calf on Jan. 3rd, that weighed 975 pounds. They brought was ten months old that day that weighed 860 lb3 , at lOcts per lb., him $146.25 bringing him 386 00 This no doubt The high prices people have had to is the highest price that a calf of that pay for wood this winter should be a age has ever brought where sold on warning, and teach them to lay in all the market for beef purposes, in this the fuel they will need in the summer county. Who can beat this? foi the coming winter. Tfte appointments for the week of Mr. R. M. Hurt and Mr. Geo. R. prayer, which closed Friday night, Coffey have been sworn in as deputy were nob as largely attended as they sheriffs under Mr. Cortez Sanders. should have been. The weather was They are both experienced in the too cold for tiie older people and the younger set found something else to work and will make good officers. engage them It seems that tho serFor. Sale Mammouth Bronze tur- vices that should be the largest atkeys. Pure bred, large bone, beauti- tended are usually neglected ful plummage. Price reasonable Mrs. Josh Butler, Mr. L C. Hindman sold his farm, 8 tf Columbia, Ky. lying on Sulphur Creek, near Garliu, to L. L Vance, of near Roachville, The blizzard and frigid wave ex- Green county. Possession has been tended from Canada to the gulf of given Price, private- Jim Herri-ford- , Mexico. It was the coldest weather Mr. nindman's who in thirty-yearAll over Kentucky lived upon the farm, has removed to the thermometers registered from 10 Columbia and is occupying E L Sinto 20 below zero clair's property, fronting the Campbellsville pike. A note from Mr. G. A. Smith, who is sojourning with his family at The eclipse of tho sun which is ao Fla., says that the family proaching and will be here on June 8 is getting along finely, but he wants will be watched with unusual interest, the "old home paper." We have and perhaps some superticious persons started it. will become frightened, thinking the Born, to the wife of Mr. Elmer Har- end of time has come. On this occasris, Atlus, Oklahoma, Jan. 3, 1918, a ion the sun will be in a total eclipse line sou Walter Snow. The mother throughout a belt of 150 miles wide, before her marriage was Miss Mary extending across the United States. Snow Patterson, and she was born and It will commence about 3 o'clock in the afternoon reared at Jamestown. son-in-la- of Simco Popple-wel- l, There is nob a family in Columbia Russell county, was recently but can count wood an extra big item destroyed by fire. Most of the houseof expense so far this winter. The hold goods were saved. The dwelling-hous- The following officers were elected Louisville mail failed to reach here aud the starroutes were hung up. It for Tampico Lodge No. 419 F. & A. M. E. W. Rice, W. M. was a bad time on stock. Cattle, that W. R. Johnston, S. W. was not housed evidently suffered J. L. Watson, J. W. greatly. E L. Feese, who is employJ. W. Sublett, Treas. ed in this office, says that a blue Bingham Moore, Sec. streak of wind passed into his room S C. Hood, S. D. through the key hole of his door, and J. M. Hancock, J. D. when it reached four feet in his apart-menT. R. Smith, Tiler. ib froze, and could have been N. R. Johnston, Chaplain. used for a walking cane. T. A. Furkin, S. S. Mrs. Susan A. Russall, bhe widow of Lee Biggs, J. S. the late Judge W. E Russell, died at her home in St Louis, Mo , Tuesday Modern Woodman Efect Officers. of last week. The remains were brought to Lebanon for interment. The following were elected officers Mrs. Russell was eighty-fou- r years old by the Modern Woodman Lodge, of aud was an accomplished woman. this place, for the ensuing year: Many years of her life were spent in P. P. Dunbar, Consul. Columbia where her son, Mr. S. A. Dr. H. W. Depp, Advisor, Russell and several of were S T. Davis, Banker. born. Tiie family left here for LebaJ C. Strange, Clerk. non soon after the close of tli3 civil H T. Walker, Escort. war. Mrs. Russell is kindly rememF. A Rosenbaum, Past Consul. bered by many of bhe older people of O. C. Hamilton, Watchman. this community. C. T. Stults, Sentry, T. O. Patteson, M Board of manaMrs. Annie E, Woodall, who was very efficient, and who had charge of gers. C. M Russell the Music and expression departments R Y. Hindman CamP Physicians. of the Lindsey-Wilsonecessarialy had to resign her position Her son-iHens to Win the War? Jaw is expected to be called to the colors at once, aud in the event of his going, he will leave a wife and several The recognized importance of food children and Mrs Woodall deemed it in the greatest war makes seem it her duty to go and be with her daugh- that the hen must take her place ter and grandchildren. They live at among those who are helping to win Nashville. Miss Woodall is succeeded it for the forces of democracy. This by Miss Marcotte Ray, of Bowling place will be an important one in proGreen, a very talented young lady who portion to the response this year to reached here Monday night, the call for incresased chicken and egg production The hen, of course, Keep Warm. always has shown a willingness to do her duty, and doubtless she is willing now All that is to be done is for her I have some over coots to sell at S2 95 to $3 75 and odd coats at S1.95 to masters, the farmers of the nation, and the city dwellers who are helping S2.25. J. F. Neat. on a backyard scae, to make sure that Near Fair Ground. the hens' opportunity will not be ueg iected. Some Price for Cow. b, his-sister- The snow storm that started last Friday afterucon and continued until late at nighb. blocked all travel. The Masonic Election. NO. 6769. KESEUVE DISTRICT NO. 8. OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. AT COLUMBIA, IN TnE STATE OF KENTUCKY, ATTHE CLOSE OF BUSINESS DEC 31, 1917. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts (except those shown on b andc) ....176 ?6S 80 Total Loans ?17G U.S. Bonds deposited to secure chculation (par value) ..525 000 Total U. S. Bonds 23 Liberty Loan Bonds unpledged 354 per cent and 4 per cent 22 Securities other than U. :?. bonds (not including stocks) owned unpledged 30 4M Total bond3, securities ..etc. Stock of Federal Reserve Bank (50 PS 5G3 30 000 00 20.) 00 30 499 S3 s per cent of subscription) n, n Lawful reserve with Federal Re- serveBank Cash in vault and net amountldae from National Banks Net amounts due from Banks and Bankers, and trust companies other than included in items 13. H, and 15 none Checks on other binks in the same city or town a3 reporting'bank other than item 17J Total of items 14. 13. 1G. 17 and IS 74 ft 23 Checks on banks located outside of city or town of report ing.bank and other cash items Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer and due from U. S. Treasurer Interest earned but not collected (approximate) Total LIABILITIES, Capital stool, paid In Surplus fund Undivided profits, noHe Loss current expenses, interest and taxes paid none Interest and discount collected but not earned approximate Amount reserved for taxesjaccrued Circulating 2otcs outstanding.. Net amount due to Banks and Bankers and Trust Companies lother than included in 30 or 31 Total of items 31 and 02. ....67 51 Individual deposits subject to check I)ividend unpaid Total of demand deposits (other than bank depC3its)subject t Reserve. Items 33. 34. 35. X. 37. 3. 30. and 40 $27" 213 Gt Value of Banking house I 30J 1 CO CO, COO 1 30vJ 23 23 71 C3 314 OS) 34 33 . 1230 0) 332&USI S 000 00 23 18000 62 2d 25 000 9 7 51 s. John Lee Walker sold Sam Bur-dett- e, Freedom Again Draws Sword. 273 1 5 230 00 I3ra-dentow- n, Many of the statements we mailed, in the last two months, have not as yet been answered. If those who have not responded fail to get the News they may know that tbeir names have been stricken from our list. Judge Rollin Hurt sold N. B. Kelsey and Barney Rasner .one hundred and fifty acres of land, on Jamestown road lying on either side of the Long View near town, for 81,700 There is quite a lot of woodland and tiie owners expect, some time this year, to opan a woodyard in Columbia. If you want to see people be in Columbia next Monday, the opening of circuit court. They will be here from all adjoining counties. They come to sell and to buy stock and to see what is to be seen. More people come to this town on court days than any other county seat, of its size, in the State. Sunday trains Nos. 92 and 93 were discontinued between Leb- anon Junction and Greensburg on the 1 3th of this month. This will in no wise effect the week trains,. as they will run as hereThe selective draft act has been up. tofore. Luther Williams has exhibited this oilice a telegraph bracket which was taken off a gum tree one-hamile from Joppa, this county. It was nailed to the tree duiing the civil war, at which time a telegraph line run from Columbia to Millsprings. Ky It Is made of locust and the stem perfectly sound. Mr. heldas constitutional by the Supreme Court. Eld H. Gordon Bennett is now in a meeting at Russell Springs, and is Tvorking up quite an interest. Last Friday night was the coldest of the winter. Saturday morning the mercury registered 16 at lf below zero. to the statement of the First Nation- plans for street improvements this al Bank, which appears in the News year. Several concrete bridges will be built and crushded rock used where to day. it is needed. They expect to go the The Woman's suffrage amendment tax limit for the betterment has passed the Lower House of Con- of the town. A concrete walk gress. When the vote was announced from the Campbellsville pike to school is a matter the women in the galleries hugged the Lindsey-Wilso- n and kissed. lb will be taken up in the that should engage the attention of .Senate, and will likely pass. the board. Atttentiouofour readers is called The new Municipal Board is laying a few days ago, two Aberdeen Angus milk cows for $275 This is the 'This Ja a sad business we are in.but highest price for cows that we have that was a sad business in 1776. That recorded. They are evidently extra was for the establishment of freedom; good ones, as Mr. Walker reluctantly this is for the preservation of freedom. Total SWIftUS) If vve are worthy of the freedom our State Kentucky, let them go. of j fathers won. we will not flinch from SS! ) sacrifice to preserve it for our child- Comr of Adair Basket Bali. I. E. II. Hughe-.- . Cashier, of the above ren. named bank, do solemnly sveor that the above 'If they had Lindsey-vViison- 's team showed its ness purpose foiled through Weak- statement i true to the beat ofmy knowledge of of cowardice or hesi- and belie.'. E. II. Hughes. Cashier. old time form Friday night by detation, we would blush to remember Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th feating the Concord team b a score them; if we fail through irresolution day of Jan, 191of 63 to 0 Lindsey's 11ns up: Gua'ds, Leonora Lowe. or be permitting sinister influences to Notary Public Jarvis, Campbell and Phelps. Centers Popplewell and Powers Fowards divide and confuse us, the struggling My Commission expires Jan. 2flth. 1921. democracies of the world and our own Correct Attest: The January number of the Review Ballon and White Henry X. Miller posterity will curse us." Clarence Braxton Masste, of Reviews contains much valuable Ousley, Assistant Secretary of Agri1. 1. Beard. Directors. Wanted information concerning the progress culture, in address at St Lonis of the war and many other articles of national interest h, is the most careDoing Their 3it to Win the war. Information Concerning the present Paid List. fully prepared magazine that comes whereabouts of Jessie Nelson, white, to this office, and every reading per- age Ifi years, light complexion, light son should be a subscriber It deals hair. If located wire or write the Tiie following fore sent in remit, That some of the citizens of Columin facts, and the information it con- undersigned. tances and subesribed for the News bia are loyally and patriotically "dotains is valuable. Send for it, addressC. R. Buchanan, since our last report. ing their bit" is a very evident fact ing your subscription to 30 Irving John Brcckman, S. B. 7?ilkinsou, A. to the persons who 'keep up" with Hatcher, Ky. Place, New York, N Y. A. Miller, John L Darnell, Eld. Law- things. Some of the ladies have been rence Williams, Dr. L. E Williams, very industriously sewing and knitFailed to get Here. Mr. W. H. Jones, who is a native of A. A. Holladay, Scott Montgomery, ting for the Red Cross for a number Adair county, but who has been living J. A. Itosson, J. S Smith, Lela Camp- of weeks The ones who have had a, in nart county for more than thirty On account of bad weather, stop- bell, W. J. Brockman, G. A. Young, part in this work have certainly beer, years, recently purchased the T. L. ping all transportation, Judge Ben J. W. Moran, J. n. Grissom, P. C. "doing their bit;" but how much more Upton farm, located near Glenville, Lindsey, who was billed to lecture Watson, R. C. Gilmer, G. W. Turner, would be accomplished if all the laand has removed to it. Notwithstand- here last Monday night, could not be Mrs. M. E. Golden, Luther Maupin, dies would decide to help The boxes ing Mr. Jones lost his eye sights some here to fill his appointment. The A. G. Hill, J. W. Coy, Mrs. E B of supplies could rapidly be filled and years ago. he has been a successfnl Judge sent a message to the President Cheatham, L. K. Lawhorn, T. B. Las-le- shipped, if each lady in town would farmer. He will make the people of of the Woman's club, stating that W. A. Garnett, R A. Waggener go to the Red Cross sewing room on the Glenville country an accomraonat-in- g ib was impossibleto be here. He J. C. Deener, Mrs. M. F. Parmley, Wednesday of each week and take out neighbor, and they are doubtless will come later and the public will Robt. Conover, G. E. Branham, R. a garment to make. glad that he has become one of them. be notified. H. Chewning, H. P. Willis, H. K. The boys and young men of the Alexander, D. P. Rice, J. W. Patter- town did quite a "bit" last week, Mr. S. C. Neat, County court clerk, son, J C. Hood, J. W. Hurt, O. L. when they got up a basket ball game Just Out. has for the present taken rooms in the McClure, Mrs. G. T. Jarvis, C E between the students of the Graded C. C. College building, but only two of Sugg, Mrs. Cora Wilson Stewart, School and the town team, and gave Miss Lula Moss, daughter of Mr. his family, daughters, who are in half of the proceeds to the local Red school, are with him. Mrs. Neat and Thos. Moss, who has been a teacher Cross chapter The teams were comfor four years, and Mr. T. I. Smith, Miss Marcotte Ray the remainder of the children remainposed of boys who were either too Jr., of Cane Valley, were married in ing upon the farm. Later Mr. Neat young to be in the draft, or those will secure a dwelling in town, and Louisville the 22nd day of November. Miss Marcotte Winston Ray, daugh- who have not yet been called to the The union has been a secret and was his entire family will remove to Coter of Mr. and Mrs. Pres W. Ray, who colors; and they volunteered to do ihis lumbia. He is a gentleman only announced a few days ago The reside on West Chestnut street, has ervice to "help winjthe war." and has an excellent family, and our bride aud groom were in Columbia been elected director of music of Lind The ladies who saw and and knit, people will be glad to welcome them. Saturday, en route to the groom's college at Columbia, Adair and the young men who had a "part in home from that of the bride, who county, Ky., to take effect Monday the ball game are by no means the onlived near Weed, this county. Rev. H. C. Moxley, who lives in tha May happiness and prosperty attend when she will leave to assume her new ly patriotic citizens of Columbia, as Casey Creek section, is a native of duties. some of the children have done their them. JNortn uarolina, and is a popular minMiss Ray is one of Bowling Green.s part in rather an unusual way. The ister. He has been living in Adair most talented and popular musicians, primary room of Lindsey-WilsoTobacco Seed for Sale. at county several years and his correct posseseing one of the sweetest thb suggestion of their teacher, Miss manner of living won him friends voices ever heard in this city. Rhodus, made an offering to the Red from the start. Ho filled his annnint-- . There has been placed in this office She has sung often in the various Cross, of the money that would otherments last Saturday and Sunday at some improved White Burley Tobacco Bowling Green churches and her sing wise have been spent on their ChristfcMlon church, trood h. Seed for sale The seed will yield under ing has always been enjoyed by every- - j mas treat The patriotism of these ing out Speaking of North Caro- - proper cultivation from 1500 to 1700 one. xne music lovers or this city children deserves mention, as does alJians, there are a number of families pounds of tobacco per acre. Tobacco will regret to lose her. She is a grad- so the fact that the entire proceeds from that State who in recent years from these seed took first premium at uate of the Cincinnati Conservatory of the play given by Mrs. Woodall, the have located in the Casev OpaI? lo Columbia Fair and also Glasgow Fair. of Music and has taught voice in col- teacher of expression in Lindsey-Wilsocality, and the information that It also brought 31.00 per pound on leges at Savannah, Tenn , Waycross, went to the .Y. fa C. A., War reacnes this office is, that they are all Campbellsville Loose Leaf Market. Ga., aud Key West, Fla. Relief Fund. If every one in Colummaking first-clas-s citizens. Both the The seed are sold at 50 cents per packThe many friends of Miss Ray wish bia would respond as cheerfully men and the women are very indus- age and one package will sow a large for her both happiness and success in readily to the call of the country,and as trious, the kind of people thab a coun bed. The seed will be here in a few her new position Bowline Gren snm havt. rmr tnrn 'vonVl ""cupy ,a ty neeas. days i. ''i- - r'f' or Jiouor Times J on riii i. v -. y firs-classey-Wilson n, so-pra- na cone-reirat.inn- n, ? ATWR COJVTY NEWS "Not a thing going to leave you right here to prospect Wild Goose creek," answered Holt blandly. "Dur-desays there's gold up here heaps of it" Bill Macy condemned Durden In language profane and energetic. He didn't stop at Durden. Holt came Id for a share of It, also Elliot and n Self-ridg- sec man somewnere around" nity7" "You've tagged the right man. I "- -'l PI Mill iWi nLnn riilt t1 '2ZZ&2J23 &F CopyrSeht, 1907. Km IN JL V Ely I JBfoAi&katfSLm ZEE22 JV&ZBTZH' acLEOD RMNE by MacLeod Ralne. William SYNOPSIS. CHAITER I As a representative of ,' covernment Gordon Elliot Is on hla Investigate coal claims. ta xrthe Alaskaheto meets and becomes In- boat Jpa in a fellow passenger whom he WArr-Cr,TsTAill RVloKo . JOi i ! 5 syndicate under investigation, Macdonald Is attacked by laborers whom he had discharged, sznd. the active intervention of Elliot prob- aibly saves his life. CHAPTER II Elliot and Macdonald ' leeoiue in a measure friendly, though the ictter does not know that Elliot Is on a spoil plan3 of mission which threatens to &&cdonald to acquire millions of dollars through the unlawful exploitation of lm- Sitassly valuable coal fields. Elliot also "ctta e line" on the position occupied by Weir- Selfridire. Macdonald's rieht-han- d 35XC, wno is returning rrom a visit to th States." where he had gone in an zi2Tcrfc to convince the authorities that tiere was nothing wrong in Macdonald's' asethods. CHAPTER III Elliot secures an to Miss O'Neill and while the ' SAt la taking on freight the pair set out climb a locally famous mountain. They ia position feature too high and reach afor Miss jCrom which it is impossible SyKeUl to go forward or turn back. i valid. "Some scrapper that kid," said the CHAPTER IV Elliot leaves Sheba andAt Imminent peril of his life goes for as- horse wrangler with a grin. .rfct&aoe. He meet Macdonald, who had fcaocrae alarmsd for their safety, and they Macy took the first watch that JfGtves. s.nd rescue Sheba. night He turned in at two after he CHAPTER V Landing at Kusiak EI- - had roused Dud to take his place. The Hot flnd that old friends of his, Mr. and cook had been on duty about an hour &re. Ppet. ara the people whom Sheba szne com- - to visit Mrs. Paget is Shcba's when Elliot kicked Holt, who was aousln. t dinner Elliot reveals to t' o object of his coming to Alas- sleeping beside him, to make sure that ka. Thf two men, naturally antagonistic, he was ready. The old man answered aorr a.s become rivals for the hand of the kick with another. heb&. Presently Gordon got up, yawned CHAPTER VI Macdonald, foreseeing and strolled toward the edge of the of his financial plans if Elliot failure reams ie facts, sends Selfridge to Ka- - camp. za&tlah o arrange matters so that Elliot "Don't go and get lost, young felas to the true situation. itt b low," cautioned Dud. CKA1 ER VII Elliot, on his way to Gordon, on his way back, passed beIcDtJst&tl i, wanders from the trail. He and is horse in a Nte hi- throw away marshand provisions hind the guard, who was sitting tailor rifle t smudge long sai eil unnecessary clothing. After never fashion before ahis knees.with a muley he realizes that ho will vaniE shotgun across reach i; imatlah, and resigns himself to "This ain't no country for checha-koe- s S3.tfc. to be wandering around without VIII At Kamatlah, Gideon. CHAPTER prospector and bitter enemy or a keeper," the cook continued. "Looks Bc.t. oililrt, learns of Elliot's coming and Stcdor. s to let him know the truth. like your folks would have better nboy-r-has Holt kidnaped and taken on sense than to let their rah-raS a. pr ; ctlng" expedition. Elliot, bare-i- y He got no farther. Elliot dropped to tJiv .vanders into their camp and is ,3.-e- d ' ou-knee and his strong fingers closed .domes aboard. .trclne i CSalbr Macdonald, active head of the fc alert 'wnlMT In land-.jrrs.bbl- ns - I I Intro-Jaetl- on -- "Sure you do. Hustle over and help Dud with the breakfast, Holt. I'll look out for our friend." Elliot and Holt found no more chance to talk together that morning. Sometimes the young government official lay staring straight in front of him. Sometimes he appeared to doze. Again he would talk in the disjointed way of one not clear in the head. An opportunity came in the afternoon for a moment. "Keep your eyes skinned for a chance to lay out the guard tonight and get his gun," Holt said quickly. Gordon nodded. "I don't know that got to do JUSt as you say, lie compiameu aiouu ior me . beneht of George, who was passing on his way to the place where the horses were hobbled. "Now now! There ain't nobody trying to boss you," Holt explained in a patient voice. "They'd better not," snapped the in- - Ie Mac--ioo&- Id i - com-fiMe- Z. - h -- e CHAPTER IX. The . Rsh-Ra- h lrd if this stranger rational and under-.- : .d Liie m 'us of the camp he had Jc. d- - The word of old Holt alone u Ie negligible, but supported by Jfci). of a disinterested party it 'would b& a vo-- y different matter. Still, there no help for it. They would have to caA-- Tire of the man until he was . jfcfeie to ravel. At the worst, Big Bill drott9 ie mm a iuult iu Z tilings and so pas tlie buck Efc.' ad llj ;: 34 su-.- Bill ioe to i Boy Functions. imblpd a good deal at the party. It would be de- - w av :- - ouii-iiujjt- ! ff WZ0?Hl Gfd 1 ening the sick man fell into m. man deep, from which he did not awake ntil morning. George was s- -y (iking after the paekhorses, Bed w cooking breakfast, and Big jBME, hi- - rifle close at hand, was chop-frfoy ng firs fifty feet back of the - caMp. rJhe cook also had a gun, load-(d- l "with buckshot, lying on a box hi- v so that they were taking no linct.-- with their prisoner. Tiie v d miner turned from rosrrang-:h- s the boughs of green fir on the .awdp(- - u ee that his patient was awake nd his mind normal. The .qatet, -- ady eyes resting upon him rtoM hii:. that the delirium had passed. 3re. nearly all in, wasn't I?" the young in said. The j.aswer of Gid Holt was an odd '.one. "Yep. Seven eleven fifteen. gge - easy, old man," he said in his jtSiiriU, i.igh voice as he moved toward the man in the blankets. Then, in a law Jtoue, while he pretended to -- e bedding over the stranger, . ie asi.' ' . &. quick question. "Are you Elliot?" "Yes." Talk football "JDou't teU them. s if you was still out of your :SIiirT lal.." Holt turned and called to Dud. "Says he wnts some breakfast." "On the v.ny." the cook answered. Holt seemed to be soothing the What he really said was klite. "Selfridge has arranged a plant br you at Kamatlah. The camp has jjjoen turned inside out to fool you. "They've brought me here a prisoner so as to keep me from telling you the trnth. Pst ! Tune up r. nv." Big Bill had put down his as and - .was approaching. He was not ex-- '. actly suspicious, but he did not be-- ' Ileve ia taking unnecessary chances. "I tell you I'm out of trainiag. ; flayed the last game, haver, t vol ejSbme through with a square mc-a- you demanded Elliot in a fliaerulous voice. He turned to Macy. here, Cap. Haven't I played - the game all fall? Don't I get what I jvant now we're through?" The voice of the young man was ex ited. His eyes had lost their quiet idlness and roved restlessly to and If Big Bill had held any doubts .aa.jzlane .dlssinated ihpm. &f bis :OCt ai ifltleiuan. It had, with the tacit consent :ards, appointed himself as a urse to the stranger. Early Ik tfee g' be-&t- - -- I " rnt8-lzJZ&- a Know him?" "I've met him." "Well, I never heard anything against Han Strong. Anyway, he was off that night packing grub up while Farrell held down the claim. Mac had a jug of booze with him. He got Farrell tanked up. You know Mac how "Cut it out, Bill. That line o' talk he can put It across when he's a mind don't buy you anything," said Holway to. He's a forceful devil, and he can curtly. "What's the use of beefing?" be a mighty likable one. But when he "Now you're shouting, my friend," is friendliest you want to watch out agreed old Gideon. "I guess, Elliot, he don't slip an uppercut at you that'll you can loosen up on the chef's throat put you out of biz. ne done that to awhile. He's had persuading enough Farrell and done it "How?" don't you reckon? I'll sit here and sorter keep the boys company while "O'Neill got mellowed up till he s and bring 'em thought Mac was his best friend. He 5'ou cut the here. But first I'd step in and unload was ready to eat out of his hand. So all the hardware they're packing. If Mac works him up to sign a contract you don't one of them is likely to get before witnesses too; trust Mac for anxious. I'd hate to see any of them that exchanging his half interest in commit suicide with none of their the claim for five hundred dollars in friends here to say, 'Don't he look nat- cash and Mac's lease on Frenchman creek. Inside of a week ural?" s Mac and Strong struck a big pay Elliot brought back the and cut them into suitable lengths. streak. They took over two hundred Holt's monologue rarobied on. lie was thousand from the spring clean-up.- " garrulous and affable. Not for a long "It was nothing better than robtime had he enjoyed himself so much. bery." Gordon tied the hands of Big Bill "Call it what you want to. Anyhow behind him, then roped his feet togeth- it stuck. O'Xeill kicked, and that's all er, after which he did the same for the good it did him. He consulted lawHolway. The old miner superintended yers at Dawson. Finally he got so the job and was not satisfied till he discouraged that he plumb went to had added a few extra knots on his pieces got on a long bat and stayed own behalf. there till his money ran out. Then "That'll hold them for awhile, I one bitter night he starts up to Boshouldn't wonder. Now if you'll just nanza to have it out with Mac. The mercury was so low it had run into cover friend chef with this sawed-of- f gat, Elliot, I'll throw the diamond the ground a foot. Farrell slept in hitch over what supplies we'll need to a deserted cabin without a fire and get back to Kamatlah. I'll take one not enough bedding. He caught By the time he reached the bronch and leave the other to the conclaim he was a mighty sick man. Next victs," said Holt cheerfully. "Forget that convict stuff," growled week he died. That's all Mac done Macy. "With Macdonald back of us to O'Neill. Not a thing that wasn't and the Guttenchilds back of him, legal, either." Gordon thought of Sheba O'Neill as you'll have a hectic time getting anyshe sat listening to the tales of Mac thing on us." "That might be true if these folks ' donald in Diane's parlor and his gorge were back of you. But are they? rose at the man. ut Mac nau 1CU on lus leet au Course I ain't any Sherlock Holmes, look to me like they'd play rf8ht" continued Holt. "He got his but it don't start on mat ciaim. rsow lies a mil any such fool system as this." After Holt had packed one of the lionaire two or three times over, I reckon." animals he turned to Elliot. They reached the outskirts of KaT reckon we're ready. matlah about noon of the third day. Under orders from Elliot Dud fixed up the smudges and arranged the mos-- 1 Gordon left nolt at his cabin after quito netting over the bound men so thoy had eaten and went in alone to as to give them all the protection pos-- , look the ground over. He met Selfridge at the post office. That gentlesible. man was effusive in his greeting. "We're going to take Dud with- us "This is a pleasant surprise, Mr. Elfor a part of the trip. We'll send him liot. When did you get in? I'm down back to you later in the day. You'll on have to fast till he gets back, but out- -' youbusiness, of course. No need to tell that nobody would come to this side of that you'll do very well if you hole for any other reason. Howland don't roll around trying to get loose. Do that, and you'll jar loose the mos- - and his wife are the only possible quito netting. You know what that people here. Of course you'll stop with us." means," explained Gordon. Elliot answered genially. "Pleasant any grizzlies will "It ain't likely time we had on the river, didn't we? come pokin' their noses into camp. But you never can tell. Any last words Thanks awfully for your invitation, you want sent to relatives?" asked but I've already made arrangements for putting up." Gideon Holt. no decent place The last words they heard from Big In "Where? There's camp except at Howland's." Bill as they moved down the draw "I couldn't think of troubling him," were sulphuric. countered Gordon. It was three o'clock In the morning "No trouble at all. We'll send for by the watch when they started. About your things. Where are they?" nine they threw off for breakfast. By The land agent let him have it bethis time they were just across the tween the eyes. "At Gideon Holt's. divide and were ready to take the down trail. "I think we'll let Dud go now," El-- , Hot told his partner in the adventure. ' "Better hold him till afternoon. Then they can't possibly reach us till we get to Kamatlah." "What does it matter if they do? We have both rifles and have left them only one revolver. Besides, I don't like to leave two bound men alone in so wild a district for any great time, No, we'll start Dud on the back trail. That grizzly you promised Big Bill might really turn up." The two men struck the headwaters of AVild Goose creek about noon and followed the stream down. They traveled steadily without haste. So long as they kept a good lookout there was nothing to be feared from the men they had left behind. They had both a long start and the advantage of e. is'iie7 'me old man struck me as ally took less time than to in ii hurry try to being remarkably By way, I want to thank you for send- him. the "Name of the kid mean anything ing a relief party out to find me, Mr. to you?" Selfrldge. Except for your help I "Can't say it did." would have died In the hills." "H'm! Named for his dad. First This was another facer for Wally. syllable of each of his names." What the devil did the fellow mean? The land inspector stopped In Ma The deuce of it was that he knew all the facts and Wally did not. Ono stride and wheeled upon Holt. "You -clear-headed. - pack-rope- thing stood out to Selfrldge like a sore thumb. His plans had come tumbling down like a house of cards. Either Big Bill had blundered amazingly, or he had played traitor. In either case Wally could guess pretty shrewdly whose hide Macdonald would tan for the failure. The chief wanted results. He did not ask of his subordinates how they got them. And this was the second time in succession that Selfridge had come to grief. CHAPTER Gordon X. no-'cou- nt Invites Himself to Dir.ner- - pack-rope- and Docs Not Enjoy It. Big Bill and his companions reached Kamatlah early next day. They reported at once to Selfridge. It had been the intention of Wally to vent upon them the bad temper that had been gathering ever since his talk with j Elliot. But his first sarcastic question drew Mich a snarl of anger that he reconsidered. The men were both sullen and furious. The little man became alarmed. Instead of reproaches he gave them soft word-- ; and promises. The company would see them through. It would protect them against criminal procedure, But above all they must stand pat in denial. A conviction would be impossible even if the state's attorney tiled pueu-mon- y. i i ! - , j i5S; ' j j j I - -- :- ar-xaa- ge 1 -- l, fcor-flusher- ," -- Sr-ook O"" His Strong Fingers Closed on the Gullet of the Msn. on the gullet of the man so tightly that not even a groan could escape him. The old miner, waiting with every muscle ready and every nerve under tension, Hung aside his blanket and hurled himself at the guard. It took him less time than it takes to tell to wrest the gun from the cook. He got to his feet just as Big Bill, his eyes and brain still fogged with sleep, sat up and began to take notice of the disturbance. "Don't move," warned nolt sharply. "Better throw your hands up. No monkey business, do you hear? I'd as lief blow a hole through you as not." Big Bill turned bitterly to Elliot. "So you were faking all the time, young fellow. We save your life and you round on us. You're a pretty slick " proposition as a "And that ain't all," chirped up Holt blithely. "Let me introduce our friend to you, Mr. Big Bill Macy. This is Gordon Elliot, the land agent appointed to look over the Kamatlah claims. Selfrldge gave you lads this penitentiary job so as I wouldn't meet Elliot when he reached the camp. If he hadn't been so darned anxious about it, our young friend would have died here on the divide. But Mr. Selfridge kindly outfitted a party and sent us a hundred miles into the hills to rescue the perishing, as the old sayin' goes. Consequence is, Elliot and me meet up and have that nice confidential talk after all. The ways of Providence Is strange, as you might say, double-crosser.- weapons. If Elliot had advertised for a year he could not have found a man who knew more of Colby Macdonald's past than Gideon Holt. The old man had worked a claim on Frenchman creek with him and had by sharp practice so at least he had come to believe been lawed out of his rights by the shrewd Scotsman. For seventeen years he had nursed a grudge against Macdonald, and he was never tired of talking about him. One story in particular interested Gordon. "There was Farrell O'Neill. He was a good fellow, Farrell was, but he had just one weakness. There was times when he liked the bottle too well. He'd let it alone for months and then just lap the stuff up. It was the time of the stampede to Bonanza creek. Well, the news of the strike on Bonanza reached Dawson and we all burnt up the trail to get to the new ground first. O'Neill was ono of the first. He got in about twenty below Discovery, if I remember. Mac wasn't in Dawson, but he got there next mo'nin' and heard the news. He lit out for Bonanza pronto." The old miner stopped, took a chew of tobacco, and looked down into the valley far below where Kamatlah could just be seen, a little huddle of huts. "Well?" asked Elliot. It was occasionally necessary to prompt Holt when he paused for his dramatic effects. "Mac drops in and joins O'Neill at They knew each other, y un, night. derstand, so o' course it was natural Mac would put up at his camp. O'Neill Mr. Macy." had a partner and they had located "Your trick," conceded Big Bill sul- .together. Fellow named Strong." you going to lenly. "Now what are Not Hanfori tron& a IJttle. heavy-k us?" do3rltu an indictment against them. Meanwhile they would remain on the company pay roll. Gordon Elliot was a trained investigator. Even without Holt at his side he would probably have unearthed the truth about the Kamatlah situation. But with the little miner by his side to tell him the facts, he found his task an easy one. Selfridge followed orders and let him talk with the men freely. All of them had been drilled till they knew their story like parrots. They were suspicious of the approaches of El- wheel. He was on Are to come to his jourliot, but they had been warned that appear to talk candidly. ney's end. No sooner had he reached they must The result was that some talked too his hotel than he called up Mrs. Pagt much and some not enough. They let Quite clearly she understood that he slip admissions under skillful exami- wanted an invitation to dinner. Yet nation that could be explained on no she hesitated. "My 'phene can't be working well," other basis than that of company Gordon told her gayly. "You must ownership. Both Selfridge and Howland outdid have asked me to dinner, but I didn't themselves in efforts to establish close just hear it. Never mind. I'll be there social relations. But Gordon was care- Seven o'clock, did yon say?" Diane laughed. "You're just as ful to put himself under no obligations. much a boy as you were ten years Within two weeks Elliot had finago. Gord. All right. Come along. But ished his work at Kamatlah. "Off for Kusiak tomorrow," he told you're to leave at ten." "No, I can't hear that. My 'phon Holt that night. has gone bad again. And if I had The old miner went with him as a guide to the big bend. Gordon had heard, I shouldn't think of doing anyno desire to attempt again Fifty Mile thing so ridiculous as leaving at that swamp without the help of someone hour. It would be an insult to youi who knew every foot of the trail. With hospitality. I know when I'm well Holt to show the way the swamp be- off." "Then I'll have to withdraw my Incame merely a hard, grueling mush vitation. Perhaps some other day " through boggy lowlands. "I'll Weary with the trail, they reached meekly. leave at ten," promised Elliot the river at the end of a long day. He could almost hear the smile In An Indian village lay sprawled along her voice as she answered. "Very well. the bank, and through this the two men tramped to the roadhouse where Seven sharp. I'll explain about the curfew limit some time." they were to put up for the night. Miss O'Neill In Holt called to the younger man, who , Macdonald was with Gordon arrived the living room when was at the time in the lead. at the Paget home. "Wait a minute. Elliot." Gordon turned. The old Alaskan Continue next week was offering a quarter to a little Indian boy. Shyly the came forward, a step at A Bargain, time, his finger in his mouth. "What's your name, kid?" Holt Tlie Farmers Hon. Journal is reco flashed a look at Elliot that warned aized as Mm leading farm paper cf him to pay attention. "Colmac," the boy answered bash- tlie State. Everi farmer should sub fully. scriba for it. We have made a specia.. His fist closed on the quarter, he arrangement with the publisher of the turned, and like a startled caribou he Farmers' Home Journal by which lied to a comely young Indian woman that paper and the Adair County standing near the trail. News are put in reach of all. Here it With gleaming eyes Holt turned to is: Elliot. "Take a good look at the Farmers' II. Journal, per year Sl.oO squaw," he said in a low voice. Adair County Newb per ear Sl.tO. Elliot glanced at the woman behind SI Go. Both one jear for whose skirts the youngster was hidproposition will be good for This ing. "She's not bad looking, if that's what you mean," he said after they several weeks. Subsenoe now. had taken up the trail again. "You ain't the only white man that Some Observances. has thought that," retorted ths old miner significantly. The hardest crop to raise "No?" Gordon had learned to let nolt tell things at his leisure. It usu money. I I , don't bean Colby Macdonald?" "Why don't I?" "But Good Lord, he isn't a squaw man, is he?" "Not in the usual meaning of the word. She never cooked and kept house for him. Just the same, little Colmac is his kid. Couldn't you see it sticking out all over him? He's the spit 'n' image Df his dad." "I sec It now you've pointed It out. I was trying to think who he reminded me of. Of course it was Macdonald." "Mac met up with Meteetse when he first scouted this country for coal five years ago. ho far s I know he was square enough with the girl. She never claimed he made any promises or anything like that. He sends a check down once a quarter to the trader here for her and the kid." But young Elliot was not thinking about Meteetse. His mind's eye saw another picture the girl at Kusiak, listening spellbound to the tales of a man whose actions translated romance into life for her, a girl swept from the quiet backwaters of an Irish village to this land of the midnight sun with Its amazing contrasts. And all the way up on the boat she continued to fill his mind. The slowness of the steamer fretted him. Sometimes the jealousy in his heart flamed up like a prairie fire when it comes to a brush heap. The outrage of It set him blazing with indignation. It was no less than a conspiracy. What could an innocent young girl like Sheba know of such a man as Colby Macdonald? Her imagination conceived, no doubt, an idealized vision of him. But the real man was clear outside her ken. He Gordon set his jaw grimly. would have It out with Diane. He would let her see she was not going to have it all her own way. By heaven, he would put a spoke in her 1 half-nake- d four-year-o-ld Ap-c-Ta-i. "At Gideon Holt's." Wally had struck a match to light a cigarette, but this simple statement petrified him. His jaw dropped and his eyes bulged. Not till the flame burned his fingers did he come to life. "Did you say you were staying with Gid Holt?" he floundered. "Yes. ne offered to board me," answered the young man blandly. "But I didn't know he was here seems to me I had heard somewhere that he was away. Seems to me I heard he went prospecting." "He did. Up Wild Goose creek, with Big Bill Macy and two other men. But I asked him to come back with me and he did." Feebly Wally groped for the clue without finding it. Had Big Bill sold him out? And how had Elliot got into touch with him? "Just so, Mr. Elliot. But really, you know, Howland can make you a great deal more comfortable than Holt. His wife is a famous cook. I'll have a man go get your traps." "It's very good of you, but I think I won't move." "Oh, but you muat. Holt's nutty nobody at home, you know. Every-bod.- y kn.qws tbat." I'm staying with him on his claim." Ml sy5 r.ia..C-- Elliot Glanced at the Woman. The fellow who is always thinking of himself gets mighty little thought from others. The difference between pride is that the latand does not consider it necessary ter to strut. A man can convince his wife of anything except that a dress she wore last year looks as good as new now. Imagination would work jusi: as well on cheertul subject aa it does on gioomy ones, if we'd only give it a chance. Two dollars isn't much money, but many a man is perfectly satisfied with that amount if he has only won it in an poker game. self-respe- ct all-nig- ht Davis Byers, a leper, is dead near Evansvllle, Ind., where he had been in quarantine for over two years. Xj r- -l ADAIR COUNTY NEWS WELL DRILLER Presidmt Wilsrm Sas. of world's th. "The progrim I will drill wells in Adair an adjoining counties. See me be peace, therefore, is our program, Latest im- and that program, the only posfore contracting. proved machinery of all kinds. sible program, as we see it, is Pump Repairing Done. Give this: me a Call. "1 Open covenant of peace, V- - .1. C. YATES openly arrived at, afcer which there shall be no private inter- HENRY W. DEPP, demtist Am permanently located in Co lumbia. national understandings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view. Miss Mary Montgomery enter"2 Absolute freedom of naved the L. W. T. S. last Monday. All Claseuf Uenfal work done. Crov igation upon the seas, outside Miss Etta Bryant visited her die and Inlay work a Specialty. territorial waters, alike in peace All Work Guaranteed sister, Mrs. VV. J. Gabbert durShop and in war, except as the seas Office: Over Sullivan's Barber ing the holidays also spent a day may be closed in whole or in with Mrs. W. J. Montgomery. part by international action for Mr. 0. L. McKinley delivered the enforcement of international Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist some nice hogs on the Columbia covenants. of all Special attention given Diseases market last Thursday. "3 The removal, so far as Domestic Animals On account of the continued Office at Residence, 1 mile of town, on possible, of all economic barriers bad weather, business of all of an Jamestown road. and the establishment kinds is dull, farmers cannot do Phone 114G. equality of trade conditions any work. Columbia, Ky. among all nations consenting to the peace and associating themConsultation Free Russell Creek. 13 Years Practice selves for its maintenance. givDr. Menzies "4 Adequate guarantees armMr. Emmet McKinley, of Kanen and taken that national sas City, Kansas, who has been aments will be reduced to the OSTeOFftTft visiting his daughter, Mrs. Joe lowest point consistent with doButler BTd on Public Square. H. Todd, returned to his home mestic safety. the 18th. COI.UMI3I A. KY., and "5 A free, Mr. Art Todd of Dayton, Ohio, absolutely impartial adjustment visited his parents during the of all colonial claims, based upon holidays. a strict observance of the prinCleaning, Pressing, Dying ciple that in determining all such Mr. Bob Hood spent the holiand Altering Ladies and questions of sovereignty the indays at home from Illinois. Gents Garment. terests of the populations conThere was quite a lot of our Also Agents for cerned must have equal weight soldier boys from Camp Taylor, BRAND CLOTHES. with the equitable claims of the home on a short furlough. Every Blair & Bar&er, government whose title is to be body was glad to see them. Columbia, Ky. determined. Mr. James Garnett had a sale "6 The evacuation of all RusBusiness Pboe IS P Residence Phone 13 B last Saturday and will remove to sian territory and such a settleTaylor oounty to reside for the N. MURRELL ment of all questions affecting DR. year 918. We hate to give Mr. Russia as will secure the best Garnett and his estimable family DENTIST and freest of the up from this neighborhood. Officr. Front rooms in Jeffries BTd'g other nations of the world in obup stairs. Mr. Owen Stone bought one taining for her an unhampered - Kentucky farm from Lucien Turner for Columbia, and unembarrassed opportunity $1200. for the independent determinaMr. Bingham Moore and famiDENTAL OTTB'XCE tion of her own political develly have moved back to his farm Dr. Triplet! opment and national policy and We are cerfrom Cane Valley. assure her of a sincere welcome OzarK. 2JTIST tainly clad to have Mr. Moore into the society of free nations CO. OVER PAULL DRUG and his family back in our neighunder institutions of her own Columbia, Ky. Born, to the wife of Leo Bry- borhood. choosings and, more than a welOFFICB PHOXJ RES PHONE 38. Mr. Scott Todd who has been come, assistance also of every ant Dec. 29th a girl. There was a singing at the quite sick is able to go about his kind that she may need and may Hit and Miss. herself desire. The treatment home of Lander Bryant last Sun- room. accorded Russia by her sister na- day night in honor of his brother-in-Mr. Joe H Todd and estimaMr. Bill Tucker, who ble family moved to Mr. Gordon A woman's idea of a perfect tions in the months to come will law, husband is one who talks back be the acid test of their good was home on a furlough. Montgomery place in this neighjust enough to make an argu' will, of their comprehension of All of our boys who came home borhood. We are certainly glad ment interesting. her needs as distinguished from have returned to the different to have good people come into A friend in need is theone that their own interests, and of their cantonments. It is sad to see our neighborhood. comes along in an automobile intelligent and unselfish sympa- them leave but we must be brave Miss Ruth Squires visited Miss in Cod Ada Sublett in Green county last just as you are about to step on thy. for their sakes and trust car. to a street "7 Belgium, the whole world for a brighter day. week, It's a mighty mean father who will agree, must be evacuated Mr. Robert Bailey will close Mr. Henry Squires and wife, doesn't want to do as much or and restored, without any at- his school at Clear Spring next of Knifley, visited his mothers more for his children than his tempt to limit the sovereignty Friday. He is in the draft and a few days ago. which she enjoys in common expects his call any day. father did for him. Mr. Branch Sublett and sister, The fellow who wants to be with all other free nations. No Mr. Albert Bryant one of our Ada, Rollin Caldwell and brother, the victor bad enough to cheat other single act will serve to re- most useful business men will George Page and sister, Winfrey never gets to be anything more store confidence among the na- soon leave for the army. Beard and sister, were visiting no matter how tions in the laws which they than a cheat Married Dec. 25th., Omra at Mr. Will Edd Squires' and have themselves set and deter- Webb and Miss Emma Murrell ofter he wins. sisters during the holidays. mined for the government of The The trouble with the most of Bro. Piercy officiated. Mr. John Garrison and sister their relations with one another. groom is an industrious young is that we seem to think that us Miss Emma, of Milltown. were somebody else ought to do the Without this healing act the man who has many friends. The visiting Mr. James Garrison last mean and dirty tasks that we whole structure and validity of bride is one of our best girls. week. international law is forever im- May they live long and happily don't like to do ourselves. Mr. Mamie Pollard of Milltown paired. is the wish of the writer. Life is a good deal like a railand Mr. Cleveland Garrison of "8 All French t e r r itory road journey. The people who N. A. McKinley and family ,of Columbia, were visiting relatiride in the day coaches get off should be freed, and the invad- Campbellsville were visiting Mr. ves in this neighborhood last at exactly the same station as ed portions restored, and the Jim Combest and family during week. wrong done to France by Prusthose who ride in Ihe Pullmans. the holidays. Miss Rose Hunn will close her sia in 1871 in the matter of Charlie Parson and family of sixth term at Hutchison school which has unsetThree men were killed at Indianapolis when a train hit the tled the peace of the world for Columbia, spent Xmas week house in a few days. Miss Hunn automobile in which they were nearly fifty years, should be here stopping at the homes of has given satisfaction every year riding. The driver attempted to righted, in order that peace may Messrs. James Turpen and Scholl. pass in front of the train and the once more be made secure in the Mr. Creed Hood one of our engine choked in the middle of interest of all. Misses Bessie and Annie Heim oldest men in the connty was in the track. "9 A readjustment of the ' spent las week with their sis- - Columbia last Friday. He is a L. H. Jones James open-minde- d, PRESSING SHOP. CRACK-A-JAC- K J. James frontiers of Italv shou'd be effected along clearly recognizable lines of nationality. "10 The people of Austria-Hungarwhose place among the nations we whh to see safeguarded and assured, should be accorded the freest opportunity of autonomous development, "11 Rumania, Serbia and Montenegro should be evacuated; occupied territories restored; Serbia accorded free access to the sea; and the relations of the several Balkan states to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality; and international guarantees of the political and economic independence and integrity of the several Balkan states should be entered into, "12 The Turkish portions of the poesent Ottoman empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other national-tie- s which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees. "13 An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations which should be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and economic independence and territorial integrity should be guaranteed by international covenant. "14 A geneaal association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political indepentence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike. y, ter, Mrs. W. T. Reynolds. g N.G.White returned to Neats-burlast week. J. C. Blair and family are at W. the home of their P. Bryant. Jesse Bryant presented his children with a phonograph re cently. Mrs. Emma L. Roy has a lemon bush which she recently gathered some lemons, one weighing son-in-la- active as a boy and is some years old. Rugby. einty Sidelights on the Big War,- - 1J pounds. J 1 Ordinary toilet soap .v ijots selling in Germany at $5.35 s cake. The corn in the fall was sappy A single factory in Detroit 5s and the weather since has been turning out more than 100 moiojr-truckso bad that half the corn here is every week for TJ.cles. out in the field. Sam. There was several weddings poison ga- - vas:' The but the one here during first used on April 22, 1915 sjb chat surprised us the most was the Germans released it i i thethe marriage of Thomas Roach Ypyres salient. to Miss Nannie Bet Rowe, as The Lewis gun, the inv ioi3i they had only been courting 20 years, Mr. Roach is a son of N. of Isaac Lewis, of the U.ntecft States Army, is capable ot firing: R. Roach, the merchant at Toria 700 rounds per minute. and Miss Rowe was the daughter The British Government ro of the late J. M. Rowe, and is a n Herman poses to utilize the surp1 :ty os teacher. Roach, brother of Thomas Roach, this year's potato croo fir the? and the postmaster at Toria, purpose of making alcohol. Some of the men employed married Launah Janps. the daughter of Charley Janes, and the British airplane factories t& teacher. try out new machines ar- - pfcitJV she is also a Fred Janes, the son of G. W. as much as $2,500 a weak. The replacing of desnjedr Janes, married Miss Sadie Flatt, the daughter of Willie Flatt portions of the skull with 'iers-here. All of these went to Co- of cartilage taken from tl s pat lumbia and were married and all tient's own ribs is one methods of healing will be greatly missed by the young set. Your scribe wishes them a happy married life. If Each of the 10,000 Datrfars Your scribe and family visited of "soft drinks" in the lnfcecA at Mr. W. S. Picketts, at Pyrus, States can find a way to save during the holidays. Your just one ounce of sugar a iby Garlin mean a saving oi :t3i3E7 scribes brother-in-laPickett, married Miss Avis Ed- 200,000 pounds a year. wards, the daughter of Johnson Popular Scienc- eEdwards, of Keltner. I wish them a happy married life. A remarkable photograph o& Mr. George Wooten and famthe trail of a meteor in flight reily, of Texas, are visiting here. cently was made by an EngJislr Mr. Herschel Janes is in on a soldier in India. visit from Texas, and has purIn a Chicago maternity hespi-j-t- al chased the Bardin place from prints are made of the babies " his brother, John, for S1.450. feet with ink to make their iden People will leave old Adair but tification certain-will finally wander back to their Pennsylvania's mining lawsold stamping ground. require a mule to be given TOO Mr. Lenis Rowe and family cubic feet of air a minute and & and Mr. Jo Baker and family miner 200 cubic feet. moved from here this week to A lighthouse on an island ir. Mr. Mose Wooten'3, near Bliss. the British channel has We hate to give them up as thejv with a telephone sc? were good neighbors. that shipping men can land anrll Mr. Henry Estes has moved converse with persons on the from Flatrock, Metcalfe, Co., to mainland. the Rev. H. T. Jessie place, near Experts have estimated thair here, and we are glad to have the tin deposits of Austria,. you with us Henry. which have been but little deHerman Hayse, Delle Rowe, veloped, can be made to supp;r Thomas Corbin and Olla Rowe of that counabout three-fourtleft a few days ago for Indiana, try's needs. Hope the boys will have good Instruments invented by a Gr-ma- n luck and return home rich, to register the electrieit;p Our soldier boys were home produced by the heart and during the holidays, viz: Gilliam enable physicians' Alfred Baker, Johnnie accurately to diagnose disease-oAkin, They Rose and Rollin Stapp. that organ. were all looking well and all seemed anxious to can the KaiDo You Know. s so-call- ed X-ma- s, - well-know- by well-know- n . b-- ihe-lates- wasi-injurie- 3. ill w, . - beeiz.-equippe- d hs f ser the way the German spies are destroying property and lives in the U S- We ought to put them in detention camps and every time we catch one doing anything wrong, shoot him or her on the spot. An American spy in Germany would not last as long as a June frost. Miss Cytha Pickett and her brother, Bell, visited their sisMrs. ter here during Flora Rossen. Schools here are all very low on account of measles and bad weather. Some have no pupils at all, others from one to six. By X-ma- That when cooked by electricity meats shrink less than wbssi cooked by coal? Alsac- e-Lorraine, Mel-dru- m That about $500,000,000 a yea" is being spent on education- - im the United States? That to record the work ttan&r by stenographers a typewritesr meter has been invented? That Norway has established a national domestic science school for girls at Stavanger? That the mo3t of Japan's pearl? divers are women, who begin "to learn the trade at the age oil thirteen or fourteen? That in the United States therE-are found 111 distinct species off Fifteen to twenty American snakes of which only 17 are:dan blue jackets entered the office of ' geroris to man? Daily Call, a radical newsthe Lewis C. Humphrey and Richpaper at Seattle, Wash., and almost completely wrecked the ard G. Knott have been appointinstitution, according to witness- ed editors of the Evening Pos tc- es. It was said the sailors were succeed the late Richard W led by two civilians. -s, ADAIR COUNTY NEWS Adair jfU Goarvty Mev)s while the many standing com- Published On Wednesdays. Colunv6ia! Kentucky EoirhR. BARKSDAUE HAMLBTT, Democratic newspaper devoted to the Interest of the City of Columbia nd the people of Adair and adjoining counties. Bntered at the Columbia class mall matter Post-offi- as second SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE WifiD. JAN. 18, 1918 The political anachronism of the Palmer Stanley bone dry coalition augurs well for druggists and other dispensors of alcoholic liquors for sacramental, medicinal, and "spiritual" purposes. If we understand, correctly the meaning of the proposed bone dry amendment, which is a recrudescence of Dr. Palmer's 1916 measure, the people of Kentucky will not retain on their stomachs a dose from either Dr. Stanley or Dr. Palmer that carries the insidious joker that allows the preacher, the druggist, and the family doctor to start a business in comper and tition with the boot-legge- mittees of both being composed, incident to the beginning of the real business of Senator the session E. Glenn, an assistant manager for the administration forces, was Baid to be rendering valuable services, during the temporary of Mr. absence Brown, naming an appropriate list of jcommittees for the House. Mr. Harry J. Meyes, the big contractor, assumes Covington leadership of the House as chairman of the rules committee and will no doubt see to it that things will go well for bone dry legislation. Both houses seem to be well organized on all administration measures, and since it is at this time "extra dry," "politically" and "personally" even to the bone, "Muram" should be the word from Dr. Palmer. houses were to-da- y. Sel-de- n V Several from this place attendw ed Claud Miller's sale last Saturday at Crocus. Elmer Sparks and wife who have been in the west for. some time, have returned and will loI have removed my stock of goods from my former place of buscate near this place, at K. Walk-up- 's LATEST WAR NEWS. property. the undertaker. iness to the Jones Building, formally occupied by T. E Wagge ner. This is a very commodious building and will enable me to Mrs. Ada Kelsay, who has The Central Powers have withwisely opposes drawn their "no forcible annex- been sick for some time, is some The President handle a much larger stock than heretofore. by Congress of a ations or indemnities" peace of- better at this writing. the creation I Am Now Ready. new department of munitions fer of December 25, made during H. K. Taylor made a business To meet my customers in my New Place of Busieess, and am also ready to show them one of the with its head as a member of the the egotiarions with the Russi trip to Columbia last Thursday. My prices are as low as goods can possibly be sold, and Largest Stocks of Goods in Columbia. cabinet. For the successful pros- ans at The offer Miss Lucy Kelsay is very sick I feel that I can satisfy you both in prices and in quality. ecution of the war, he has been was conditioned upon its acceptat this writing with pneumonia. already sufficiently handicapped ance by all the Powers hostile to All Departments with barnacles and sinecures. the Central Empires, and the Fonthill. Every department in my store is full, and I have salesmen sufficient to wait upon the trade, so if could probably do former having failed to accept it The President you want good goods and at a bargain, do not fail to come in. It is a pleasure for my force to A. J. Richardson is confined better, and he has done the best as a whole it has become null wait upon the trade whether sales are made or not. writing. have been done so far, and void, 'the German Foreign with pneumonia at this J. R, Luttrell, who was thrown Mrs. Pinkie Davis if some of the cabinet depart- Minister announced at k ago, is ments were abolished, rather She is a lady who is experienced in selecting dress patterns, yesterday. The failure from a horse some weeks Is in charge of the Dress Department. improving. We wish him a and she takes a delight in waiting upon the ladies. than at the expense of efficiency, of Russia's allies to respond to speedy recovery. not to mention the monetary the invitation to participate in Come in. My store is on the square, corner to Burkesville The Red Cross. Profs. Popple-wel- l cost to the country, have more the conference had resolved the street. I have bargains for you. If you do not accept and Barnes, were here Friuseless departments and sinecure question into one of a separate them, you loose. offices created. peace between Russia and the day night and organized a Red Central Powers, it was declared Cross Chapter, with a membercreation of new Anent, the ship of 51. by Count Czernin, the let the offices and departments, Miss Luona Richardson left Minister, who originpresent Legislature of Kentucky ally pronounced the peace terms. for Rantoul, 111., a few days ago. take warning. The people are L. A. Hatfield, who has residGlensforK. not entirely ignorant of the fact ed near Rantoul, 111., for the ties to shelter six hundred repa-triDorothy Tandy. here Monday. that the present enormous inpast two years, has returned to who are sent daily to strar zo 6th Grade. debtedness of the state, that the F. H. Austin, proprietor of J. B. Young sold his farm, sit his native land. provinces, to be housed until the Frances Russell d tax payer must uated near this place, to C. Powthe Happy Hollow Milling Co., H. L. Wade, of Irvin's Store, German retreat makes possibla Allene Nell eventually pay, was more than ell for $2,200. is enjoying a fine trade. was here on business Tuesday. their return home. A cablegram Nell Smith 60 per cent saddled upon the peoThe old year with its many U. G. Collins, iof Ozark, was Carl Rexroat and wife, of Just received at Red Cross Nat5th Grade. ple by machine politicians at at this place last Tuesday. pleasure, is numbered with the inCampbellsville, have moved ional Headquarters, from Paris, Cecil Kearnes Frankfort, thru the creation of Lennie Wilborn, who has been to our midst. We wish them a past. We gladly welcome the states that of 1,300 old men, Lucile Winfrey unnecessary departments and new. We should endeavor to in Indiana for some time, has prosperous future. women and children, repatriated Frances Browning. jobs. Outside of those appro make this a profitable year. Evreturned home. daily, half finds friends and relUncle Charlie Vonlinger and 4th Grade. priations for educational and right and family have wife, oj Faubush, moved to our er contend for the Will Jones and atives. The other half are quarGladys Ingram eleemosynary purposes.that have life worth living. moved to their property near town last week. Uncle Charlie make tered in rural districts. been entirely inadeuquate for the 3rd Grade. here, which he purchased of T. Honor Roll. The American Red Cross was s general good and uplift of the as we know him, is a Pauline Allen L. Upton. requested by the French MinisBtate.the increasing deficit in the citizen. Margaret Coffey. Seniors. visitMrs. Flora Sparks was ter of the Interior to aid in restate's treasury has been largely 2nd Grade. Herman Ragle and wife, who Latitia Paull Gladys storing the home life of the redue to the waste and graft inci- ing her sister, Mrs. Leonard Noe have resided near Rantoul, 111., Sara Coffey turned exiles. The delegates dent to making a new depart- Strange last Tuesday. Lucile Epperson Junior. for the past three years, have dispatched to the new work have ment or new office for the sole Joe Wells and family, of Cum- returned and have located here, J Cecil Dunbar Bessie Bennett' been instructed to cooperate wit purpose of political patronage, berland river, have moved to his where they will make their fuEmma Louise Menzies. Kinnaird Rowe the prefects and voluntary agenlsc Grade. that either this or that machine farm near this place, which he ture home. This is an excellent Sophomore. cies in providing bed, bedding, might hold thru the dictation of purchased of I. F. Andrew. Earl McCandless family and we gladly welcome Stanley Cundiff chairs, tables, and stoves to petty tyrants in politics the reins Marguerette Depp Several of the soldier boys their coming. Nathan Allison. property-les- s families making a of government for purposes of have come home on short furCatherine Myers Freshman. Milton Irvin bought a nice new start in life.. Food, clothing loughs. Among them was John revenue only. Elizabeth Montgomery. pair mules, of Howard Stephens, Lola Maupin and fuel also are supplied where and Frank Taylor, of of Eli. Webb Stewart Huffaker Red Cross Work in France. needed. The instructions to the The snow drifts of Muldraugh Camp Taylor, Louisvville, and Mary Graves McMahan. L. M. Rexroat, of Nevada, delegates read: Hill and a 16 degree tempera- Clarence Taylor and Bryce Walk8th Grade. Texas, is visiting relatives here Editor News: "You are messengers of Amer ture on our return trip from er, of Camp Shelby, Miss. EvMary Summers. at this writing, D. C, Jan. 10 '18. ican good will, trustees of those Washington, Frankfort in a Ford, thi s week, ery body was proud to see them Virginia Smith. Twenty-on- e American Red who have given voluntarily for Claud Brown, of Camp Taymakes our editorial comments and sorry when their time came 7th Grade. Cross delegates arrived in re- relief of distress; the manner lor, visited home folks last week. of necessarily brief. The Legisla- - to go back. Epperson. Morris mote parts of France the day liking army life fine. He is before Christmas, to begin the doing is as important as what Rachel Coffey ture was adjourned as usual at Mrs. L. C. Blair, who has been Work of aiding French authori we do." Marshall Paull this stage of its organization, j very sick for some time, is im- - D. Wade, of Longstreet, was --- Lilburn, Phelps our distinguished neighbor, and repres entative from Russeli and Casey, has consented to write an occassional letter to the News, from Frankfort, giving our readers some sidelights on the doings of the Legislature. Senator Phelps is a leader of the minority party. No man in Kentucky regardless of party affiliations is more conscientious and effective in service as a representative of his Hon. proving. The party at Robt. Taylors last Monday night was largely attended and all reported a pleasant time. Tilford Petty and wife, of Louisville, are visiting friends and relatives in this community. Willie Andrew and wife have moved to Doc Grant's property, at this place. Wm. Andrew sold a nice bunch of shoats to Porter Bar-gfor 13cts. Died, on the 3rd, an infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Strange. Wm. Samuels and wife and Mrs. Carrie Bolin and little son, Byron, were visiting C. A. Walker's last Sunday. Uriah Morgan, James Taylor, H. K. Taylor and Rollin Webb were visiting Henry Wells last Sunday. John Jones and wife were visiting the former's father, Jim Jones, near this place last Saturday. n Frank Strange bought of Blair one horse for $77.50 instead of one hog, as stated last er Lu-cia- W The Old And 1 The I would New m ?t I About the first of the year, 19 7, I embarked in the Grocery Business in Columbia, and the success I had is due to partiality shown me by friends. My trade during the entire year was satisfactory, and I want to express my gratitude for the loyalty manifested fail to thank you. 4ia & 1 m by my customers. be ungrateful were I to WE'LL BE BETTER PREPARED During the year of 1918, I will be better prepared to please you than heretofore. I propose to have on display a larger stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries, and will endeavor to buy at wholesale so as to give my customers the very best bargains. M my" iSli People living out of town are cordially invited to call at Columbia. store when in I have some accounts long since due I would be glad to have those owing same to call and make payment. BERT EFPERSOJST. W Si Ku .i$M!& rr aSM rr vytt rKX- B.vr .c- w week. INGFLAM In New Quarters. Brest-Litovs- k. that-coul- d Brest-Litovs- Austro-Hungaria- n 1 W. I. INGRAM es horny-hande- first-clas- -- I 7 t? CLAIMS ALLOWED. Children home society dona- ADAIR COUNTY NEWS CHAMPION ICE SKATING DOG 100 00 tion II C Keltner right of way 10 00 for road 3 00 List of Claims Allowed at the Oto -J Allen Parsons road overseer 3 00 ber Term, 1917, of the Adair County R E Pickett sa.me 11 00 Fiscal Court. J P Coffey for team on road 8 39 OJ Estel Wingler road W H Hamon pauper claim over3 00 M. F White road overseer 0 00 seer 3 00 H T Baker assignee Marion M C Fastridge same 3 00 W R Johnson same 2 15 Antle 3 00 W G Ellis road overseer B Morgan same 3 00 F 3 00 Eugene Nell vital Clemns same statisfYitus 3 00 Mont Bryant same 14 25 tics 3 00 T D L. Pelston same C Davidson election 3 00 3 00 Arthur Royse house 3 00 H G Chilson same Ruel Richards same 3 00 3 '00 J R Tutt same C C Chapman same 3 00 3 0o Cool Shring SI C Royse same school house 3 00 G M Rice same 3 00 same 3 00 G T Flowers same S L Fisher same 3 00 G- F Hnmphress same 3 00 J M Shives same 3 00 3 00 John Young same B F Bault same 3 00 3.00 II K Taylor same A Gilpin same 3 00 J 3 00 Mark Wilson same Jo Yaughau same 3 00 3 00 J C Holt same 3 00 Ed Staples same 3 00 N T Jones same 3 00 Porter England same 3 00 J W Sublett same 3 00 A B Blakey same 3 00 Bob Cooley same 3 00 H F Gibson same 3 00 W T Price same Y E Hurt same 3 00 3 00 E B Adkinson medical atJ II Bleeding same 3 00 8 00 Bob Penn cuff same tention to pauper 3 00 S II Mitchell waiting on Richard McClister same 3 00 18 50 Leslie A England same court 3 00 T A Firkin pauper claim 26 00 Isaiah Henson same Sidney Burton pauper claim 41 00 .1 G Eubank keeping up town 22 50 12 20 clock J W Burron same 40 50 J T Nercer pauper claim 12 00 Hon. A Goodm same 52 00 Grover Judd road overseer R A Strange & Co same 3 00 13 00 Grover Judd bridge lumber T J Bryant & son same 3 75 3 00 64 00 Finis Williams road overseer Chas Sandusky same 45 50 C Hoge Hockensmith for ex- J A Riall same 55 02 prees etc for machy J M Rtce repair of plow for 75 M C Winfrey repairing vot- roaa 1 50 5 50 D L Pelston bridge lumber ing house ' 9 GO Flowers & Keen pauper Mont Bryant bridge lumber 1 50 13 00 M C Page same claim 2 72 G F Stults commissioner on J II Kiunaird same 4 00 12 90 road J II Breeding same S P Miller salary health A B Blakey work on road 50 237 50 tools otlicer etc ' 1 15 Jacob Helm road overseer 3 00 II T Gibson bridge lumber 1 00 Nell & Sparks pauper coffin 6 00 Isaiah Denson same L C Nell road overseer and J H Janes keeping poor 4 80 39675 house lumber 44 50 L U Nell medical attention X R Roach pauper claim 26 00 39 CO j Asa Releford same to pauper Bros, making dam Darnell Leslie Tupman road over 58 53 3 00 on road seer 8 00 Luther Smith same 3 00 overseer T J Perkins road 3 00 G H Nell & Son pauper J F Mills same 104 50 Ed Mills same 3 00 claim 3 00 Grover Tedder same 3 00 J C Ingram rod overseer 6 00 Creed Workman same 3 00 J T Neat same 3 00 C G Jeffries R T Gadberry same waiting on 3 00 70 00 W T McQueary same court 3 00 Clay Bennett road overseer 3 00 Riley Dixon same 350 00 Tobias Huffaker 6 mo salary J C England work on road 60 Gordon Montgomery 6 mo tools 18 73 250 00 A Hovious pauper claim salary 184 30 G T Hernford 3 mo salary 125 00 Adair Co. News printing 26 00 T E Waggener C J Dulworth pauper claim nssignee 9 00 13 75 W T Reynolds same Hayden England M Hancock vital statis3 00 overeer N J II Campe road 3 00 6 50 Lis Cravens road overseer tics 11 31 C G Jeffries dieting prisonJ W Posey pauper claim 79 20 26 00 Josie Tarter same ers 3 00 26 00 It P Johnson road overseer Ora Ann Rodgers same 26 00 b II Mitchell delivering baldies Chastain same 26 00 30 00 Golie Keltner same lots etc 39 00 Columbia Telephone Co teleCoomer & Page aame 7 70 Martha Hedth vital statisphoning 75 Bryant & Burton bridge tics 128 28 Mrs W W Kirtley pauper lumber 20 00 Bradley Gilbert ct Co electclaim 64 10 ion supplies etc Aunetta Jones vital statis50 Sandusky & Co Lumber for tics 2 96 32 75 Luther Wilson work on road coffin & Reece pauper S II Mitchell elecLion comFirkins 22 00 52 00 claim missioner 3 00 J C Russell same W J Beau road overseer 22 00 3 00 G R Reed same 22 00 Luther Denson same 3 00 S A Taylor Medical attenJ R Couover same 2 00 Wilmore & Moss pauper tion to pauper 52 00 Geo R Redmon pauper claim 43 65 claim 26 00 II C Shelton road overseer 3 00 Bert Epperson same S A Taylor Yital Statistics 4 00 L B Hurt bridge lumber 3 00 Luther Ingram Bridge lumMercer & Ilindman pauper 5 00 43 00 ber cfaim 50 J P vliller & son same C V Coomer work on picks 67 10 13 00 England road overClay well same Luther James & 24 00 3 00 II B Simpson bridge lumber seer C V Coomer same 3 00 II B Simpson medical at6 75 3 00 J L Patton same tention to pauper :; oo II B Simpson pauper blaim 9 00 C F Clajconib same 25 00 3 00 Amos Loy same J n Bradshaw same C R Hutchison pauper claim 25 33 H B Simpson 6 mo salary 25 00 3 00 L W Sparks road overseer poor house 1 GO S T Bennett work on road L W Sparks bridge lumber 2 65 H C Monday road overseer 3 00 tools 9 00 70 W G Ellis J P II C Monday nails &c 9 00 13 00 W G Shepherd same J F Neat pauper claim 9 00 3 00 W G Pickett same F P Dohoney road overseer Z T Gabbert vital statistics 9 00 5 25 W F nancock same 9 00 3 00 Melvin Conover same R E Tandy pauper claim 1 15 9 00 Whit Coomer making drills F II Bryant sane 13 50 U M Grider work on road 9 00 Charlie Reeca same 153 00 Jesse Sapp pauper claim 9 00 Walker Bryant clerk M E Grider road overseer 3 00 C noge Hockensmith repair C E Stotts same 3 00 132 50 and expenses on engine W R Janes, same 3 00 3 00 L Y Gabbert road overseer J W Sublett & Bro pauper 52 00 Loren Keith road overseer claim. 3 00 W I Ingram books &c 45 30 John Brockman same 3 00 26 00 Ermine Leach pauper claim G R Turpin work on shoes 7 50 Pete Roberts bridge lumber 1 65 for prisoners 3 09 Boss Pickett road overseer 3 00 3 00 Ed Burbridge road overseer W J Cundiff same pauper claim 26 00 State of Kentucky ) R L Stephens County of Adair J oco Sheit Thrasher road over 3 00 seer I, Walker Bryant, Clerk of the 3 00 Adair County Court, certify that the U G Stayton same foregoing ia a true and correct copy of J F Patteson dynamite &c 99 8 the claims allowed at the Adair Counfor road 3 00 ty Fiscal court at its regular October L L Chapman road overseer term, 1917 to the best of my know Jeffries Hardware store road 83 ledge and belief. 31 material Witness my hand on this January Jeffries Hardware Store ma-'- s i ( flllllli& '. Where To Buy Goods the season, the beginning of the New Year, when thanks are due for past favors. During the year 1917, I was favored with a liberal trade by the people of Adair county, and to them I take this method of returning my most grateful thanks. You had to select from This is A SPLENDID LINE OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE And in making your purchases I have given you the very best bargains, and I can not but believe that you are satisfied! with your dealings with me. DURING THIS NEW YEAR I be as low as the lowest. will use my utmost endeavors to continue to please you, and my prices will I will have before you a complete stock of General "mil - M H Lizzie, the liamou skating Airedale, d ice skating awarded the championship of the world by Miss Dorothy Klewer at the St. Nicholas ice rink. They are shown taking a swing around the ice and Lizzie manages to keep up with her sponsor. The dog has won considerable fame for speed on the ice. four-legge- Merchandise, selected with care, and I feel sure I can please both in Qualify and Prices. Miss Lula Jones will continue in the Dress Department, and as a young lady of delicate taste, she is known over the county. 'ALBIN MURRAY, JOHN WHITE & GO. &,OU!Sw'JLLE, KV. ',yi.-,jtv-- I Mother's Cook Book. . I Puberal and full valtio paid aasortasnt " xsSSU& tilggsjlk ryrf 't rV tXxltft&?et',,?,y3xtS??JT'C?Tf?,B?,T-n'tr?..'- There are too many round pegs in square holes and how to find a round hole is the problem of each individual round pes. The first and most important desideratum is to deserve to find a round hole, to be qualified to fill it. E. W. Settinius. Simple Foods. Celery is so seldom served cooked, Automobile industry IJlay Be gated as Largest by 1 Next Government Census he unp':rai car j III yet it makes a satisfying change for an occasional dish. Celery au Gratin. Boil three cupfuls of diced celery in a small amount of water, allowing it to cook nearly dry. Butter a baking dish and put n layer of the cooked celery, then a layer of white sauce, then a sprinkling of cheese, alternating until all the celery is used. Cover 25 the top with buttered crumbs and bake minutes in a moderate oven. - Chopped Ham and Corn Patties. Take half a cupful of corn, three cupfuls of chopped ham, one well beaten egg, a dash of pepper and salt if Form into patties and fry needed. in hot fat. A spoonful or two of chopped ham added to a white sauce to use with vegetables makes a more appetizing dish than does the plain white sauce. Barley Muffins. ! i , Take one cupful of whole wheat flour, one cupful of barley flour, two teaspoonfuls of baking powder, a half teaspoonfnl of salt, one egg, one and a fourth cupfuls of sour milk, a half teaspoonful of soda, and two tahlespoonfuls of drippings. If a little hot cream is used less milk and no fat need be added. Mix lightly, roll out, cut In diamond shapes, brush with a little of the egg left in the bowl, sprinkle with sugar, and we have barley scones. Bake in muffin pans without the egg on top and they are muffins. well-beate- n Barley Bread. Take four cupfuls of whole wheat flour, two cupfuls of barley, one cupful of water, and one of milk, a of salt, two tahlespoonfuls of molasses, and half a cake of yeast. Prepare and knead as for whole wheat bread. The automobile industry is rated as the third largest in this country. Those who should know believe the next government census will rate it. as our largest industry, Forbes Magazine states. There are 1,000,000 wage earneBS dependent for their bread upon the making of the $1,000,000,000 worth of cars and parts turned out the past year. It has been the despair of the motor THE BUCHANAN LYON CO., makers to take census of how many more are employed in garages, as Incorporated. (J r;a chauffeurs, as mechanics, in service Columbia, Kentucky. stations as salesmen, etc. Another 1,000,000 might cover these. So, counting five to the family, there must be dependent upon the industry fully ten per cent of our total population. There are 450 makers of passenger i'$ l JLl JPSirm cars and trucks, and 12 of these turn SO per cent of the entire out over product. There are S25 makers of parts. The industry consumes about worth of iron and steel ; of lumber ; $20,000,000 of brass, $32,000,000 of copper, $25,000,000 of cotton fabrics ; $20,000,000 of coal and i i coke ; $20,000,000 of tin ; $16,000,000 of lead, $42,000,000 of electrical equipmi i'jji, n .tm m 4EK2u!f :aK" i - .T.T mrygtt ante- - ja ment, and $24,000,000 hides and hair, to mention the value of only a few items. There are over 300,000 trucks fice. Jamestown. and 4,000,000 passenger cars in operation in this country. The advertising Prof. M. H. Bernard, princibill runs well over $23,000,000 annuThe weather has been so ex- pal, was compelled to disnyss ally, to say nothing of the money spent tremely cold and bad for the for advertising tractors and other the Graded 3chooi three weeks machines, which may be last month, all classes of busiago, an epidemic of measles havproperly classified as belonsing to the ness have been more or less re- ing industry. struck the town and vicinity. to-da- y. "delivering the goods" is the bigges Performance feature to be considered when you come to buy a motor car. "Will it do as I expect? Is it thoroughly reliable? Is it easy Is it reasonable in cost of operation?" Well, to understand? you cannot go far before meeting one of the millions of Ford owners, and he, or she, will give you the correc answer. Runabout, $345; Touring Car, $360; Place your order Coupelet, $560; Town Car, $645; Sedan, $695; One-Te- n Truck Chassis, $600. All f. o. b. Detroit. m , II I il I $250,-000,0$150,-000,0- 00 00 -- j zrvmxmrrvK-m-KTeKmiex- gas-engin- ed ul Facts and Fancies. Virtue that is born of necessity may be all right. How we poor folks like to find fault with the rich. True love is responsible for many follies and a few crimes. Under the classification "married men" are many unknown heroes. Too many people pray with their fingers crossed. Successful men believe in luck, backed up by their own ef- Nuts as Meat Substitutes. Nuts provide a most satisfying substitute for meat, as they contain both fat, protein and appetizing flavor. Rolled Oats Bread. Take one cupful of boiling water, poured over a cupful of rolled oats, let stand well covered for an hour, then add a teaspoonful of salt, two of molasses, two tahlespoons of a cupfuls of fat, and knead, adding ful of flour. Mis and more flour; let rise and prepare as any other bread. table-spoonfu- ls three-fourth- forts. Lives of great men all remind us how easy it is to be a small man. terial furnish jailer 13 38 3, 1918. BJBowen bridge lumber ( . 54 55 Walker Bryant Clerk. Milk for the Poor. In order to meet the emergency that exists because of the high price t)f Latest Coffee Boiler. milk, Market Commissioner Moskow-itA gas stove which arises at dawn, says the New York World, has boils the coffee and wakes you up recommended to Mayor Mitchell that when it Is ready has been invented by the board of estimate appropriate 0 Gemaro Rosa of Brooklyn, N. Y. The to relieve conditions In the poorgas burner has a pilot light to which A er sections of the city. The appropriIs attached a clock mechanism. serves to tell ation he wishes to use "for. the sale dial over the clockworks of milk, at prices they can afford the time. A smaller dial is used to to pay, to those families who are cerset the alarm, igniting and extinguishby the health commissioner or ing devices. When set the burner un- tified by his authorized agencies as having der the coffee pot will automatically years old and as Ignite at a predetermined hour and boil children under six Income to provide not having sufficient the coffee for four or five minutes. The sufficient quantities for such flame will then lower of Its own ac- milk in children." cord to slow boiling for another five minutes, after which it will shut itself off entirely. The coffee is now ready for you and an alarm Is sounded. THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWS $1.50 z, $25,-00- Some days have been Health conditions are much betso cold that few men, living out ter at this time and the school of town, were able to visit the has reopened. During the laycounty seat. off Miss Rose Heyd, of ColumOur circuit court will combia, one of the teachers, visitsil mence the third Monday in Feb friends and relatives in Indiana,, ruary. Our new sheriff. Mr. and also spent a week in heir Clay Sulliv n, has already comhome town. menced serving papers and by Attorney Wm. Hobson, forthe time court convenes, he will merly of Campbellsville, who have everything ready. took charge of the Patterson HoThe various officers of the tel, is giving perfect satisf actiont county, elected last November, as a host. He sets a godd tables have been inducted into their re- and is a courteous, polite gentlespective positions, and it is the man. Last week he was in the general opinion that a capable Taylor circuit court, looking afset of men have been elected. ter casss in which he was emMr. S. M. Hart, who was elected ployed. Jailer, has removed from Esto . Mr. B. A. Lawless, the new to the bastile, and those who school Superintendent, is taking: know him best say that he will qnite an interest in his position,, make a watchful Jailer. and it is predicted that he wilR Mr. L. G. Bernard, who was make a very efficient officer. He? " county court clerk, succeeded Mr. J. W. Mitchell is a very efficient gentleman, who, also, was one of the beet and one of the most- - popular tarded. . r.' re-elect- X superintendents the county erer' men in the county. He stands had. V for high ideals, and is ever ready More and better roadswttbeb to give his attention to those cry of all enterprising imierT ha making business calls at the of Russell county. 3s3K- -- &mri " -- n I v g- - J?' 'r ADAIR COUNTY NE "HUNS" SCORNED LAW OF NATIONS Use of Civilians as Hostages and for Screens Part of Devilish System. FIRST MADE USE OF IN 1870 At That Time It Was Condemned by the Civilized World, but the German Military Leaders Have Never Abandoned It. Ample proof that the march of the German armies through Belgium teas marked by massacres and cruelties almost beyond belief is given in a document made public by the committee on public information, from which the following is taken: The massacres in Belgium and northern France were a part of the German system of frightfulness. Another feature of this system was tbe use of civilians as hostages and for screens. In discussing the use of hostages the German War Book (Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege) says: "By hostages are understood those persons who, as security or ball for the fulfillment of treaties, promises, or other claims, are taken or detained by the opposing state or Its army. Their provision has been less usual in recent wars, as a result of which some professors of the law of nations have wrongly decided that the taking of hostages has disappeared from the practice of civilized nations. . . . "A new application of 'hostage right was practiced by the German staff In the war of 1870, when it compelled leading citizens from French towns nnd villages to accompany trains and locomotives In order to protect the railway communications which were threatened by the people. Since the lives of peaceable Inhabitants were, without any fault on their part, thereby exposed to grave danger, every writer outside Germany has stigmatized this measure as contrary to the law of nations nnd as unjustified towards the Inhabitants of the country." Clung to Frightfulness. Although their deeds in the Franco-Prussia-n war had leen universally condemned, as they themselves admitted, the leaders did not intend to abandon such a useful measure of e frightfulness. In L'Interprete the forms were provided for such acts In the next war. Both in Belgium and In France the Germans have constantly used hostages. The evidence Is contained In the proclamations of the governing authorities and also in the diaries of the German soldiers. A few examples from these will illustrate the system which was employed. , A specimen of the arbitrariness and cruelty Is furnished by the proclamation of Major DIeckmann, from which the following sections are presented: "After 9 a. m. on the 7th September, I will permit the houses in Grivegnee, and to be Inhabited by the persons who lived In them formerly, as long as these persons are not forbidden to frequent these localities by official prohibition. Prominent People Hostages. "In order to be sure that the permit will not be abused, y and the burgomasters of Grivegnee must immediately preof pare lists of prominent persons who will be held as hostages for 24 hours each at Fort Fleron. September G, 1914, for the first time (the period of detention shall be) from C p. m. until September 7 at midday. "The life of these hostages depends on the population of the communes remaining quiet under all circumstances. "During the night it is severely forbidden to show any luminous signals. .Bicycles are permitted only between 7 a. m. and 5 p. m. (German time). "From the list which is submitted to s me I shall designate prominent hostages from noon who shall be iOf one day until the following midday. jlf the substitute is not there in due 'time, the hostage must remain another 24 hours at the fort. After these .24 hours the hostage will incur the ipenalty of death, if the substitute fails jto appear. "Priests, burgomasters, and the oth-e- r members of the council are to be !taken first as hostages. "I insist that all civilians who move jabout In my district . . . show jtheir respect to the German officers by taking off their hats, or lifting their hands to their heads in military salute. In case of doubt, every German sol- ;dier must be saluted. Anyone who n idoes not do this must expect the military to make themselves .rejected by every means." Hold Small Nations Have No Rights. "The fate that Belgium has called down upon herself is hard for the but not too hard for this structure (Staatsgebilde), for jthe destinies of the immortal great stand so high that they cannot but have the right, in case of need, to stride over existence that cannot defend themselves, but live, as parasites, npon the rivalries of the great" Prof. jELOncken, in Suddeutsche Monatsheft, (South German Monthly.) Would they have dared to defend such a policy if they could have seen the announcement sent out by the par ish of St Hadelin with its silent elo- jjpience? Mill-tairBeyne-Heusay, BoIs-de-Bre- This is an invitation to a service m memory of 60 men and women from one parish, of whom all but two were killed by the Germans in the massacre of August 5 and 6, 1914. The closing sentences are: "Gentle Heart of Mary, be my refuge. "Our Lady ofXourdes, pray for us. "St Joseph, patron of Belgian, pray for us. "St. Ilardelin, patron of the parish, pray for us. "Sainte Barbe, patroness of kindly death, pray for us." After reading such ghastly accounts, many of them written by German eyewitnesses, and knowing that similar tales were published widely in the German newspapers, it is difficult to read with patience such words as these: "The German army (in which I of course Include the navy) .is today the greatest institute for moral education in the world." "The German soldiers alone are thoroughly disciplined, and have never so much as hurt a hair of a single innocent human being." Houston Stewart Chamberlain, in Kriegsaufsdtze, "War Essays," 1914. "We see everywhere how our soldiers respect the sacred defenseless-nes- s of woman and child." Prof. G. Roethe, in Deutsche Reden in Schwerer Zeit, "German Speeches in Difficult Days." Hostages' Lives Hung by Thread. "In order to insure sufficiently the safety of our troops and the tranquility of the population of Reims, the persons mentioned have been seized as hostages by the commander of the German army. These hostages will be shot if there is the least disorder. On the other hand, if the town remains perfectly calm and quiet these hostages and Inhabitants will be placed under the protection of the German army. WRITTEN RECORD OF ATROCITIES Diaries of German Soldiers Tell of Murder and Pillage in Belgian Cities. CALLED "DISGRACE TO ARMY" No Discrimination Made Between Innocent and Guilty Infants Shot In Dead Mothers' Arms Tes- timony of Brand Whitlock. Yery many German soldiers who have been taken prisoner had kept diaries, and these have been confiscated by the captors. Many have been- published, frequently with facsimile reproductions to guarantee their authenticity. The following extracts, with the testimony of Brand Whitlock, arc made public by the committee on public information at Washington: "Aug. 23. . . . Our men came back and said that at the point where the valley joined the Meuse we could .not get any further, as the villagers were shooting at us from every house. We shot the whole lot 1G of them. They were drawn up in three ranks; the same shot did for three at a time. . . . The men had already shown their brutal instincts; . . . "The sight of the bodies of all the inhabitants who had been shot was indescribable. Every house in the whole village was destroyed. We dragged the villagers one after another out of the most unlikely corners. The men were shot as well as the women and children who were in the convent, since shots had been fired from the convent windows; and we burnt it afterwards. "The inhabitants might have escaped the penalty by handing over the guilty and paying 15,000 francs. "The inhabitants fired on our men again. The division took drastic steps to stop this, the villages being burnt and the inhabitants being shot. The pretty little village of Gue d'Ossus, however, was apparently set on fire without cause. A cyclist fell off his machine and his rifle went off. He immediately said he had been shot at. All the inhabitants were burnt in the houses. I hope there will be no more such horrors. "Disgrace to Our Army." "At Leppe apparently 200 men were shot. There must have been some Innocent men among them. In future we shall have to hold an inquiry as to their guilt instead of shooting them. THE GENERAL COMMANDING. "Reims, 12th September, 1914." Beneath this proclamation were posted the names of 81 hostages nnd a statement that others had also been seized as liostages. The lives of all these men depended in reality upon the interpretation which the German militnry authorities might give to in the proclamation. Hugh Gibson, in a Journal from our Legation in Belgium, page 1S4, explains what was likely to happen : "Another thing is, that on entering a town, they hold the burgomaster, the procureur du rol, and other authorities as hostages to insure good behavior by the population. Of course, the hoodlum class would like nothing better than to see their natural enemies, the defenders of law nnd order, ignomini-ousl- y shot, and they do not restrain themselves a bit on account of the there the elastic phrase, "the least disorder," above-mention- ed Eeyne-Heusa- above-mention- ed per-'son- , Ger-;ma- po-JJtic- nl na-jtio- ns hostages." Diary of Bombardier Wetzel. "Aug. 8th. First fight and set fire to several villages. "Aug. 9th. Returned to old quarters; there we searched all the houses and shot the mayor and shot one man down from tbe chimney pot, and then we again set fire to the village. "On the 18th August Letalle (?) captured 10 men with three priests because they have shot down from the church tower. They were brought Into the village of Ste. Marie. "Oct 5th. We were In quarters in the evening at Willekamm. Lieutenant Radfels was quartered in the mayor's house and there had two prisoners (tied together) on a short whip, and in case anything happened they were to be killed. "Oct 11th. We had no fight, but we caught about 20 men and shot them. (From the dairy of Bombardier Wetzel, n Second Mounted Battery, First Field Artillery, Regiment No. 11.)" The Germans also found it convenient on many occasions to secure civilians, both men and women, who could be forced to march or stand in front of the troops, so that the countrymen of the civilians would be compelled first to kill their own people if they resisted the Germans. This usage Is Illustrated in the following: Letter of Lieutenant Eberlein. "October 7, 1914. "But we arrested three other civilians, and then I had a brilliant idea. We gave them chairs, and we then ordered them to go and sit out in the middle of the street On their part, pitiful entreaties ; on ours, a few blows from the butt end of the rifle. Little by little one becomes terribly callous at this business. At last they were all seated outside in the street. I do not know what anguished prayers they may have said but I noticed that their hands were convulsively clasped the whole time. I pitied these fellows, but the method was Immediately effective. "The flank fire from the houses quickly diminished, so that we were able to occupy the opposite house and thus to dominate the principal street. Every living being who showed himself in the street was shot. The artillery on its side had done good work all this time, and when, toward seven o'clock In the evening, the brigade advanced to the assault to relieve us I was in a position to report that Saint Dif had been cleared of the enemy. "Later on I learned that the regiment of reserve which entered Saint Die further to the north had tried the same experiment The four civilians whom they had compelled in the same way to sit out in the street were killed by French bullets. I myself saw them lying in the middle of the street near the hospital. "A. EBERLEIN, Kur-hessia- "In the evening Maubert-Fontaine. we marched to having our meal the alarm was sounded everyone Is very jumpy. "September 3. Still at Rethel, on guard over prisoners. . . . The houses are charming inside. The middle class in France has magnificent furniture. We found stylish pieces everywhere and beautiful silk, bu in what a state . . . Good God' . . . Every bit of furniture broken, mirrors smashed. The Vandals themselves could not have done more damage. This place is a disgrace to our army. The inhabitants who lied could not have expected, of course, that all their goods would have been left intact after so many troops had passed. But the column commanders are responsible for the greater part of the damage, as they could have prevented the looting and destruction. The damage amounts to millions of marks; even the safes have been attacked. "In a solicitor's house, in which, as luck would have it, all was in excellent taste, including a collection of old lace and Eastern works of art, everything was smashed to bits. "I could not resist taking a little memento myself here and there. . . . One house was particularly elegant, everything in the best taste. The hall was of light oak; I found a splendid raincoat under the staircase and a camera for Felix." (From the diary of an officer in the One Hundred Sevpnty-eight- h regiment, Twelfth Saxon corps.) Just as we were persons who were shot are: Mr. mayor of Dinant; Sasserath, first alderman; Nimmer, aged seventy: Consul for the Argentine Republic Victor Poncelet, who was executed in the presence of his wife and seven children; Wasseige and his two sons; Messrs. Gustave and Leon Nicaise, two very old men; Jules Monin and others all shot in the cellar of their brewery; Mr. Camille Pistte and son, aged seventeen; Phlllippart Piedfort, his wife and daughter; Miss Marsig-ny- . During the execution of about forty inhabitants of Dinant the Germans placed before the condemned their wives and children. It is thus that Madam Albin who had just given birth to a child, three days previously, was brought on a mattress by German soldiers to witness the execution of her husband; her cries and supplications were so pressing that her husband's life was spared." "On the 2Gth of August German soldiers entered various streets (of and ordered the inhabitants of the houses to proceed to the Place de la Station, where the bodies of nearly a dozen assassinated persons were lying. Women and children were separated from the men and forced to remain on the Place de la Station during the whole day. They had to witness the execution of many of their fellow citizens, who were for the most part shot at the side of the square, near the house of Mr. Ilemaide. The women and children, after having remained on the square for more than 15 hours, were allowed to depart. The Gardes Civiques of Louvain were also taken prisoners and sent to Germany, to the camp of Munster, where they were held for several weeks. "On Thursday, August 27, order was given to the inhabitants to leave Louvain because the city was to be bombarded. Old men, women, children, the sick, priests, nuns, were driven on the roads like cattle. More than of the inhabitants were driven as far as Tirlemont, nearly 12 miles from Louvain. Infants Shot in Mothers' Arms. "One of the most sorely tried communities was that of the little village of Taniines, down in what is known as the Borinage, the coal fields near Charleroi. Tamines is a mining village in the Sambre; it is a collection of small cottages sheltering about inhabitants, mostly all poor laborers. "The little graveyard in which the church stands bears Its mute testimony to the horror of the event. There e graves, each are hundreds of with its small wooden cross and its bit of flowers ; the crosses are so closely huddled that there is scarcely room to walk between them. The crosses are alike and all bear the same date, the sinister date of August 22, 1914." "But whether their hands were cut off or not, whether they were impaled on bayonets or not, children were shot down, by military order, in cold blood. In the awful crime of the Rock of Bayard, there overlooking the Meuse below Dinant, infants in their mothers' arms were shot down without mercy. The deed, never surpassed in cruelty by any band of savages, is described by the bishop of Namur himself: " 'One scene surpasses in horror all others; it is the fusillade of the Rocher Bayard near Dinant. It appears to have been ordered by Colonel Meister. This fusillade made many victims among the nearby parishes, especially those of des Rivages and NefTe. It caused the death of nearly 90 persons, without distinction of age or sex. Among the victims were babies in arms, boys and girls, fathers and mothers of families, even old De-foi- n, Lou-vain) EVERYTHING IN Asphalt, Gravel, Rubber, Galvanized and Painted. Also Ellwood and American Fence. ROOFING Steel Fence Posts Incorporated Mahei Street Between first and Brook DEHLER BROS. CO. 1 16 Eaat Louisville, Ky. Woodson Lewis GREENSBURG, KENTUCKY, Is Offering all Farm Machinery at Very Attractive Prices. Wagons Grain Drills Disc Harrows Fa 10,-0- 00 1 Smoothing Harrows. 5,-0- 00 Pulverizers Turning Plows at from 10 to 33 per cent, below cost to-da- y's new-mad- Call and see us or write for our prices. We also sell Dry Goods Shoes and Clothing at less than Cost 1 Calico 10c Best Dress Ginghams 18c Outing 15c Bed Blankets worth $4.75 for S3.50. men. Dead Children in Pile of Bodies. " 'It was there that 12 children under the age of six perished from the fire of the executioners, six of them as they lay in their mothers' arms: "'The child Fievet, three weeks old. "'Maurice Betems, eleven months old. But his horror apparently was not shared by the German commander in chief, as is evident from the following: "Order. "To the People of Liege. "The population of Andenne, after making a display of peaceful intentions toward our troops, attacked them in the most treacherous manner. With my authorization, the general commanding these troops has reduced the town to ashes and has had 110 persons shot. "I bring this fact to the knowledge of the people of Liege in order that they may know what fate to expect should they adopt a similar attitude. "Liege, 22d August, 1914. In his report of September 12, 1917, to the secretary of state, Minister Whitlock has much to tell of the pol- Icy of frightfulness. The following passages refer to the subject of mas- "Summary executions took place (at Dinant) without the least semblance of judgment The names and number of the victims are not known, but they must be numerous. I have been unable to obtain precise details In this respect and the number of persons who nave fled is unknown. Among the "GENERAL VON BUELOW." Brand Whitlock Writes of Massacres. .sacres: in the Vorabendblatt of the "Munchner Neueste Nachrichten. 1914, Letter published on the 7th October, "First Lieutenant" "'Nelly Pollet, eleven months old. " 'Gikla Genon, eighteen months old. "'Gilda Marchot, two years old. "'Clara Struvay, two years and six months. "'The pile of bodies comprised also many children from six to fourteen years. Eight large families have en- tlrely disappeared. Four have but one survivor. Those men that escaped death and many of whom were riddled with bullets were obliged to bury in a summary and hasty fashion their fathers, mothers, brothers or sisters; then after having been relieved of their money and being placed in chains they were sent to- Cassel (Prussia).' " . Mr. Hugh Gibson, the secretary of our legation in Belgium, visited Louvain during its systematic destruction by the Germans. In "A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium," New York, 1917, pages he relates what the German officers told him : "It was a story of clearing out civilians from a large part of the town, a systematic routing out of men from cellars and garrets, wholesale shoot-- ' ings, the generous use of machine guns, and the free application of the torch the whole story enough to make one see red. And for our guidance it was impressed on us that this would make people respect Germany and think twice about resisting her." German pastors and professors far from the excitement of the firing have defended this policy of frightfulness, e. g.: "We are not only compelled to accept the war that is forced upon us . . . but are even compelled to carry on this war with a cruelty, a ruthless-nesan employment of every imaginable device, unknown In any previous war." Pastor D. Baumgarten, in Deutsche Re'den in Schwerer Zeit "German Speeches in Difficult Days." 1C4-165, TOODSON XJSWIS Fred G. Jone s &Co. INCORPUfJATED & Brook A. SIreeh LOTJISVXCJLE, KY. Want to Buy Poplar Boards Let Us Know What You Have. s, Fred G. Jones & Co. A.DAIR COUNTY NEWS QUTSID E PALE OF HUMANITY wide areas of Belgium and France In which not a penny's worth of wanton destruction lmrl hopn normittpfl to no- cur, in which the ripe pears hung untouched upon the garden walls; and I saw other wide areas where scarcely one stone had been left to stand upon another; where the fields were rav- ' tii ti . ea.-ter-n fj. ::.: "lit ! smsi;i .!, ( '14. Christianity I send you these wurds. "Wounded Russians are killed with the bayonet according to orders. "And Russians who have surrendered are often shot down in masses ac- heart-ending Automobile Line. aged; where the male villagers had prayers. Rightfulness Taught by German been shot in squads ; where the miser- Murder, Pillage and Arson Part "In th( hope that you, as the repreof Deliberate Scheme of able survivors had been left to den in Leaders Belongs to Age of sentative of a Christian state, will holes, like wild beasts." Warfare. protest against this. I sign myself, Barbarism. Even Soldiers Horrified. SOLEMN PLEDGE MERE WORDS 'Kaiser's Statesmen Had No Intention i of Keeping Faith With Their Agreement on International, Law f Horrors Told by Diaries. Some German soldiers, we are glad to see, showed their horror at the foul HIGH OFFICERS GO ON RECORD deeds committed in Belgium. "The inhabitants have fled in the village. It was horrible. There was clotted blood on all the beards, and what No Possible Evasion of Responsibility for Bestial Acts Which for Centufaces one saw, terrible to behold ! The dead, CO In all, were at once buried. ries Have Had No Parallel Among them were many old women, Officially Indorsed. some old men, and a woman, awful to see; three children The people of the United States had clasped each other, and died thus. are beginning io learn the truth con- The altar and the vaults of the church arc shattered. They had a telephone ccrning the conduct of the war by there to communicate with the enemy. Germany. Proof is offered that Ger, uii uie sur- hum mug, oeinciiiuur man ojticials dchl'ralclu lied half-delivere- The Regular Line from Columbia to Campbellsville is owned and operated by W. E. Noe. He has in his employe safe and reliable drivers. Transportation can be had at any hour at reasonable rates. d American people the knowledge of German inhuman ity in Belgium . says a pamphlet is- 'sued by the committee on public information, the evidence is drawn 'mainly from German and American sources. The German sources and proclamations official other official utterances, letters and 'diaries of German soldiers, and quotations from German newspapers. The "Rules for Field Service" of the German army advises each soldier to keep such a diary while on active , In giving io the j j s ( little boys carrying a cradle, with a five or six months old in it, on two sticks. All this was terrible to see. Shot after shot! Thunderbolt after thunderbolt! Everything is given ' over to pillage; fowls and the rest all killed. I saw a mother, too, with her two children; one had a great wound on the head and had lost an eye." (From the diary of Lance Corporal 1914, said : right. "A SOLDIER AND A MAN WHO IS Paul bpielman of the Ersatz, first bries"We have already been able to gade of Infantry of the Guard.) NO BARBARIAN." tablish the falseue.ss of a great number service. of assertions which have been made ' In the wars waged in ancient times Socialists Oppose System In the night the it was taken for granted that con- of Liege became mutinous. inhabitants with great precision and published Many of the Germans, as has been per- everywhere in the press, concerning alForty quered peoples might be either killed, sons were shot rnd 15 houses demol- leged cruelties committed, by the popu- already indicated, do not believe the tortured, or held as slaves; that their ished, 10 sights here lations of the countries with which reports of the atrocities committed by property would he taken and that their make you soldiers shot. The Belgian civilian's and refuse to accry. Germany is at war, upon German sol- the lands would be devastated. "Vae vie-- 1 "On the 2.'!rd of August everything diers and civilians, Av'e are now in po- cept the system of frightfulness. The ,tis ! woe to the conquered !" For two quiet. Vorwaerts, the leading socialist paper, The inhabitants have so far .centuries or more there has been a given in. Seventy students were shot. sition to silence tw others of these which has a very wide circle of readsteady advance in introducing ideas of 200 kept prisoners. Inhabitants re- fantastic stories. ers, has opposed the policy of fright"The war correspondent of the Ber- fulness. All honor to Its editors who humanity and especially in confining luming to Liege. Tageblatt sj !u a few weeks the evils of warfare to the combatants. have so courageously opposed the pow-erf- rl "August 24. At noon with "G men on liner The ideal seemed to have become so sentry duty. Sentry duty is A 1, no post ago of cigars and cigarettes filled with military authority Its editorial, thoroughly established as a part of in- allocated to me. Our occupation, apart powder alleged to have been given out entitled "Our Foes," published August ternational law that the powers at The from bathing, is eating and drinking. or sold to our soldiers with diabolical 2.1. 1914, reads as follows: Hague thought it sullicient merely to We live like God in Belgium." (From intent. He even pretcided that he had "What should one say when even state the general principles in Article the diary of Job. van der Schoot, re- seen with his own ejes hundreds of such an organ as the Dentsches XL VI of the regulations: "Family hon- servist of the Tenth company. Thirty-nint- h this kind of cigarettes. We learn from expresses its sympathy with story of ors and rights, the lives of persons reserve infantry regiment, Sev- an authentic source that this a demand that 'the beasts' who are cigars and cigarettes- is nothing but a taken as francs-tireur- s anl private property, as well as re- enth reserve army corps.) should not be brazen invention. Stories of soldiers killed, but only wounded so ligious convictions and practice, must that they whose eyes are .all' " d to have been may Private property cannot be j "Behaved Like Vandals." then he left to a fate 'which makes urs are circulat- any help impossible?' Or what should nfiscated." Germany, in common bo "August 17. In the afternoon I had torn out by francs-tir- t with the other powers, solemnly a look at the little chateau belonging ed throughout Germany. Not a single we say when the Deutsches Offizier- ph her faith to keep this article, to one of the king's secretaries (not at case of this kind has been officially es- Fi:it states that 'a punitive destruc- but her military leaders had no intenhome). Our men had behaved like tablished. torn evi-- of whole regions' cannot 'af--I tion of doing so. They had been regular vandals. They had looted the "It matters little that reports of this ford full recompense for the bones of a tn.im'd in the ideas voiced by Gen. von cellar first, and then they had turned nature bear an appearance of positive l?ifln tniirilovofl INmipVfininn 'r(nn- Harnnann 40 years ago: "Terrorism their attention to the bedrooms and certitude, or are evon vouched for by (1pr?, Thns(? arp t,,p (ps-reof Wf)0d. H v, ,. to Ix a relatively gentle The desire for notoriety, thirsty fanatics and we are thoroughly thrown things about all over the place. ueful to keep the masses of They had even made fruitless efforts the absence of criticism, and personal ashamed of ourselves because it is tin- people in a state of obedience." to smash the safe open. Everything error play an unfortunate part in the 'nsslhle tnat there are p amon Tin- - had lieen Bismarck's policy, too. was tonsv-turv- v magnificent furni days in which we j,re living. Lvery lie wlm lh,ns,. to Moritz Busch. Bismark's ture, silk, and even china. That's what nnse sht off or Mmply bound up, "Barbarism," Declares Vorwaerts. r. Bismarck, exasperated by happens when the men are allowed to pverJ y removed, is immediately On the following day, August 24, the French resistance, which was still requisition for themselves. I am sure transformed into a nose or eye torn continuing in January, 1S71, said: Already the 1014. the Vorwaerts returned to the they must have taken away a heap of s'ay 1,v the francs-'iuurs- . territory which we occupy, useless stuff simply for the pleasure of Volkszeitung of Cologne has been able, attack in an editorial "Against Bar"If in the we cannot supply everything for our looting." contrary to the ver "atecrorical asser- - barism." troops, from time to time we shall send might, in the first . . . "One to prove Gth crossed frontier, inhab- - tions from "August a flying column into the localities itants on border very good to us and that there was no soldier with his eyes place, possibly relieve that such a dewhich are recalcitrant. 'We shall shoot, give us many things. There is no dif- - torn out in the field ambulance of this mand for a bloody vengeance against .hang and burn. After that lias hap- fcrence noticeable. emanates town. It w.ts said, also, that people alleged Belgian outrages pened a few times, the inhabitants will brain; "August 23rd, Sunday (between Bir-n- wounded in this wi'y were under treat- from a single disease-rackefinally come to their senses.' village of Disonge). ment in the neighborhood of Berlin, but it appears that whole groups and Dinant, Horrors Told in Soldiers' Diaries. At 11 o'clock the order conies to ad- but whenever inquiries have been made among certain classes who represent The frightfulness taught by the Ger- vance after the artillery has thorough-u- in regard to theso reports, their abso- - German kultur want to indulge in orman leaders held full sway in Belgium. prepared the ground ahead. The lute falsity has been demonstrated. At gies of barbarism and to devise a in the entries in the Pioneers and Infantry regiment ITS length these reports were concentrated whole system for the purpose of orThis is best diaries of the individual German sol- were marching in front of us. Near at Gross Lichterfelde. A newspaper ganizing 'a war of revenge.' diers. "What of law and custom! Such a small village the latter were fired on published at noon and widely circu- "During the night of August by the inhabitants. About 220 inhab- lated in Berlin printed a few days ago thoughts do not stir a 'great nation.' gave the alarm in the itants were shot and the village was In large type the news that at the Thus in a leading article of the BerEngineer Gr town of Vise. Every one was shot or burnt artillery is continuously shoot- Lazaretto of Lichi'Mi. ide alone there liner NYueste Nachrichten, the detaken prisoner, and the houses were ing the village lies in a large ravine. were 'ten Gorman soldiers, only slight- - mand is made that all the authorities burnt The prisoners were made to Just now, six o'clock in the afternoon, ly wounded, whose eyes had been wick- - in Brussels one, the second bnrgomas-ertl- y march and keep up with the troops." the crossing of the Maas begins near torn out.' Bu to a request for ter, is generously excepted should be (From the diary of noncommissioned Dinant . . . All villages, chateaux, information by C01 rade Liebknecht immediately seized and subjected to offif-eRelnhoid Koehn of the Second and houses are burnt down during this the following written reply was sent trial in order to expiate the wrongs battalion of engineers, Third army night. It was a beautiful sight to see by the chief medical officer of the which, according to fragmentary and corps.) field hospital, dated highly uncertain reports, were said to the tires all round us in the distance. have been committed by the people. eighteenth of the month: "August 24. In every village one the "A horrible bath of blood. The whole finds only heaps of ruins and many the "'Sir: Happily there is no truth They demand that pay captured city village burnt, the French thrown into dead." From the diary of Matbern, whatever in these stories. a fine of should immediately marks; that all stores of the the blazing houses, civilians with the Fourth company, Eleventh Jagcr bat'Yours ohefliently, conquered territory be requisitioned rest." (From the diary of Private talion, Marburg.) 'PROFESSOR R A i'TEXBERG,' " Ilassemer of the Eighth army corps.) without paying the inhabitants a single German Soldiers Protested. penny for them." All Male Inhabitants Shot. T, th toachin.rS 0f the German the vil,. ,mfl f t1. nPrmnn nnnsHns "In the night of August "A bliell burst near the Eleventh ,v.. Vorwaerts in Protest. e was punished company, and wounded seven men, lage of of frightfulness, suspicion and hatred, Three years later, August 2G. 1917, for bavins fired on German soldiers by three very severely. At five o'clock we now begun to bear their natural the Vorwaerts quoted the following .being burnt to the ground by the Ger- were ordered by the officer in com- had voice of protest was passage from the Deutsche Tageszel-tung- : But man troops (two regiments, the mand of the regiment to shoot all the fruit. entirely the silent. A considerable not .Twelfth landwehr and the Seven- male Inlu bitants of Xomeny, because number of letters by German soldiers "We have a ring of politicians who teenth.) The village was surrounded, the population was foolishly attempt- who were shocked by the German ), hold that might makes right a yard from one an- ing to stay the advance of the German ,men posted about atrocities were sent to Ambassador who despise the forces of other, so that no one could get out. troops by force of arms. "We broke into Gerard, because he v as the representaThen the Uhlans set fire to it, house the houses, and seized all who resisted, ' tive of the United States, the leading the inner life and believe that they points of by house. Neither man, woman, nor in order to execute them according to The three letters must eliminate all ethical neutral nation. child could escape; only the greater martial law. The houses which had which follow, in translation, were re- view . . . from foreign and social part of the live stock we carried off, not been already destroyed by the ceived by the American ambassador politics. For them, Germany of the present and of the future is the counas that could be used. Anyone who French artillery and our own were set from German soldiers. the ventured to come out was shot down. on fire by us, so that nearly the whole nere is the protest of a German sol- try of the Krupps and Borsigs, of idea Any Zeppelins and the All the inhabitants left in the village town was reduced to ashes. It is a ter- dier, an of the slaughter of were burnt with the houses." (From rible sight when helpless women and Russian soldiers in the Masurian lakes of a connection between politics and morals is rejected and any reference the diary of Private Karl Scheufele of children, utterly destitute, are herded and swamps: method of conBavarian regiment and land- together and driven into France." the Third as to the right of a moral as delusion and "It was frightful, wehr infantry.) sideration is ridiculed (From the diary of Private Fischer, masses of human beings were "At ten o'clock in the evening the Eighth Bavarian regiment of infantry, these to destruetio,.. Above the ter-r"- sentimentality." driven first battalion of the One hundred and Thirty-thirThe German officers were provided reserve division.) thunder of tin annon could be Seventy-eight- h marched down the steep with the forms to be used in terrorang cries of the heard the heart-re- n conquered people. The comincline into the burning village to the Too Many Servants in Britain. Russians: 'O Prussians! O Prussians!' izing the burning village to the north of Dinant. mon soldiers were provided with Duncan Miller asked the minister of but there was no mercy. Our captain phrase books which would enable them A terrific spectacle of ghastly beauty. national service, says the London had' ordered: 'The whole lot must die; 'At the entrance to the village lay about upon the terrified Times, whether his attention has been so rapid fire.' As I have heard, five to impose their will fifty dead civilians, shot for having people. Minister Brand Whitlock in to the number of advertisements men and one officer on our side went fired upon our troops from ambush. In called g cries. his report to the state department on for servants in households of one, two mad from these 12, 1917. writes: the course of the night many others or three persons, where seven to ten But most of my comrades and the off- September were also shot, so that we counted over "The German soldiers were providalready kept, and icers joked as the unarmed and helpless in indoor servants are 200. "Women ahd children, lar.-num- Russians shrieked for mercy while ed with phrase bonks giving alternate were forced to look on m il.e whether he proposes to limit the hand, employed in they were being suffocated in the translation in German and French of horrible scene. We ate our rice later ber of indoor servants of na- swamps and shot down. The order such sentences as: The in the midst of the corpses, for we had each household.replied minister had al- was : 'Close up and at it harder !' For " 'Hands up.' (It is the very first liad nothing since morning. When we tional service out howthat he sentence in the book.) g essential it is, days afterwards those searched the houses we found plenty ready pointed " 'Carry out all the furniture. no eatables. in the national interest, that no per- yells followed me and I dare not think ,of wine and spirit, but " 'I am thirsty. Bring me some beer, go mad. There is no Captain Ilamann was drunk." (This son should employ more servants than of them or I shall gin, rum. necessary. The min- God, there is no morality and no ethics ;last phrase in shorthand.) (From the are absolutely "'You have to supply a barrel of ' Philipp of the One ister trusts that the awakened con- any more. There are no human beings .diary of Private wine and a keg of beer. regiment sciences of those who have in this any more, but only beasts. Down with Hundred and Seventy-eight- h " 'Lead me to the wealthiest Inhabirespect failed to appreciate their duty militarism. ;of infantry, Twelfth army corps.) man, tants of this village. I have orders to you are a truth-lovin- g "If will provide an immediate and suffrequisition several barrels of wine. comWriting from Belgium In 191G Irvin icient remedy. If not, he will tell his please receive these lines from a . If you " 'Show us the way to plan in the general statement on man mon Prussian soldier." S. Cobb said: astray, you will be shot.' " Following Is the testimony of another lead us "Briefly what I saw was this : I saw power. in-'clu- de "A GERMAN SOLDIER AND CHRISTIAN." Th third letter, from the western front, shows the same horror of of which the writer was a wit ness. "To the American Government, AVashington, U. S. A. "Englishmen who have surrendered are shot down in small groups. With the French one is more considerate. I ask whether men let themselves be taken prisoner in order to be disarmed and shot down afterward? Is that chivalry in battle? It is no longer UIIIUIIj; lilt," lltMJlJlf I UU litfUI . in ' " MUl'l evorvwhere that few nnsnnprs nre lhcir statements concerning atroci-bab- y taken ; they are shot down in small ties committed by the Belgians and groups. They any naively: 'We don't allies. That their own soldiers were want any unnecessary mouths to feed. e fagwilcd bv the cruelties practiced Wlu'-- th''";' is n one to enter com" plaint, there is no judge.' Is there at .ihe ordcr f hl9h fFcers f ihe then no power in the world which can kaiser ts shown. Extracts taken put an end to these murders and rescue the victims? Where i Chrispamphlets issued folloiv: from The Vorwaerts of Berlin, October 22, tianity? Where is right? Slight is - Address, W. E. NOE, Columbia, Ky. 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I I al d iifiiixu p mi tmrAu ; i j j 3.1-1- G Sis Years Ago, Thinking She SSiJ Dl" Says Tnes Lu?y, Bet Now Well Sfecag vae-She I mJ Fs&ises Cm&m For Her Rceovsry. Hoyse City. Tex. -- r Sir. Mary Kil-- j ! ' above-mentione- d ifin, of this place, says; "After the 500,-000,0- 00 l):rta of my little girl. . .my side commenced to hurt ms. I Bad to go back to bed. "Wo called the doctor. He 1S-1- 9 ! Saint-Mauric- Qlacht-politiker- treated me... but I got no tetter. I got Trorse and worse until the misery was unbearable... I was in bed for three months and suffered such agony that I was just drawn up in a knot. .. I told my husband if he would get me a bottle of Cardui I would try it. . . tnking it, however, that evening I called my family about mo... for I knew I could not last many days unless I had a change for I commenced the better. That was six years ag9 aad I am stSH here and am ft well, strong woman, and I are my life to CarduL I bad only taken naif the bottle when I began to feel better. The misery in my side got leas... I continued riglit on taking the CarduL until I had taken three bottles and I did not need any more for I wag well and never felt better in my life... I have never had any trouble from that day to this." Do you suffer from headache, backache, pains in sides, or other discomforts, each month? Or do you feel weak, nervous and fagged-out- ? If so, give Cardui, the woman's tonic, a J. 71 trial. eye-witne- ss heart-rendin- g, V iPJmfl '' 1& Css$n d is the new "cold bottle" to enjoy with the iranienicrial "hot bird" a soft drink in the strictest sense, but the liveliest, nippiest apperich tizer imaginable in the flavor of nutritive heart-rendin- heart-rendin- rrWr$k w' fH' AW$ lil Mi I'JPWA 4m I cereals and imported Saazer Hops, :nakes ccod things to eat taste evcn fcetter nd it's healthful. atvu A. ANHEUSER-BUSC- St. Lcuis, U. S. 8 ADAIR COUNTY NEWS LOCALS. For Sale. of the Federal Government. Owing to the need of better methods of agriculture because of war conditions, the .Sis Rood mules, five coming three years o'.d, one ten. li miles east Cane S. L. Banks "Walley. 8-- tf Public Sale. On Thursday, the 24th of January, I wiil sell, at public outcry, the following property at my home, near Bliss, ithis county: Four mules and one mare. Seven head of cattle. One sow and eight pigs. Four shoats. All my farming impliments, suCh as iplows, binders, etc. Household and .kitchen furniture, including a piano. 2L-2Allen Keltner. D Adair loamy Court. ' Federal Government has deemed it advisable to place a number of emer-gency agents in counties where the couuties have not availed themselves of the opportunity to secure a regular county Agent. This Emergency agent is paid entirely by the government but is required to work in several counties. While an agent of this sort cannot accomplish as much in Adair county as a man working in this county alone could, it is hoped the agricultural population will avail itself of this opportunity to fall in line in the nations great drive for better farming. The farmers of today by adopting scientific methods of agriculture may "do their bit" toward heiping win the war and make money doing io It is hoped that Adair county will rise to her patriotic duty and make a regular appropriation and secure the entire service of a competent agricul- M4444Q$4KD$8"6I(881 &$l$l " 1 a - l5 t J. ua Atrew years ago we openeu a uenerai oturc in uiuiuum, auu iium me start the people throughout Adair county have liberally patronized us. We 1 f-- 9 W1 m V 4 have endeavored to please our customers, and we feel sure that our efforts have not been in vain. We are not paying as high rent as other merchants, hence we can afford to mark OUR GOODS DOWN. to our many friends for their favors, and during this good will make a greater effort to please than in any year in the past. 4T. 8 WE ARE VERY THANKFUL year of 1918 we WHAT WE KEEP. IN OUR STORE you can find any article kept in a Dry Goods Store, and you wili also find that it can be bought cheaper than elsewhere in Columbia. It is a pleasure for us or our clerks to show goods. Come in, call for what you want and you will be accommodated. turist. Mauy of our best farmers are en jjLllie Mays Admrx of l thusiastic about the matter already .James R. Mays deed. Plaintills vs and the probabilities are that tlfe FisJ Defendants Slary Goode et al cal court wiil be asKed in the near fu.In. obedience to an order of the Adair ture to meet the Government half way Circuit Court, entered at the Septem- in the pay of a regular county agent REMEMBER THE PLACE ber, Term thereof. 1917. I will from now until the 21st day U S. Navy Recruiting Station. of January, 1917, at my ollice in the Town of Columbia, Ky. receive and Louisville, Ky., Jan. 10, 1918. 'hear proof of claims of all the credi-tor- s of James R. Mays deceased. Editor News: W. A Coffey Master Commissioner, Not since the days of Morgan Adair Circuit Court. CASEY JOIsTES STORE &4 the high sea was to mo re than twenty young men at the Navy s recruiting office, 412 South 4th m? Street, Louisville and many of A?Ii. them decided immediately that the Navy was the place for them to see real action without delay. Orders limiting the number of recruits to be taken in Kentucky are expected daily and hundreds of young men are taking the ad-- ' vantage of the present opportu-- ! effl nity to enlist. on &i ture Jftn Attempt to Enter Russell Cos Store. & Last Sunday night a thief attempted to enter Russell & Co.'s store. lie got into the basement, made his way up the stair .vay to the door which would have admitted him to the main .store room. Upon reaching the door lie cur a hole in the panel just above She lock. The key was in the lock and with a crooked piece of wire which he left, the thief tried to hook the key so as to bring it through the whole he cut in the door. lie got the key out of the lock, but it fell upon sthe floor, and he was at his wits end Had tiie theif entered the store room he would evidently made a good haul Detectives are at work and it is hoped cfehat the scoundrel will be caught. Go to Church Times. The pastors of Columbia and vicin--.Il- y extend a cordial welcome to all Presbyterian church, Rev. B. T. "VTiteon Pastor. undav-Schoo- l 0:45 a. m. 7 p. 11 a. m. m. on every 'onRre.'HonarWo5ship -- Evening at Suudajs. asecoud ana f Prayer ivice Wednesday evening Su:iday-schotopic discusstG:30 ol Preaching at Union 1st and 3rd . Sabbaths METHODIST CHURCH. Piercey, Pastor. Pn"ching 1st and 3rd Sunday in L V teach .'.onth. Sun lay School at 9:30 a. m. Epv. orth Leage C:15 p. m. Pra.jr meeting Wednesday evening sab 6:3 . Everybody cordially invited to these .services. HAPTIST CHURCH. Preaching at 11 a m. and G:45 p. in on. thd 1st and 3rd Sundays in each month. Sunday school at 9:30. O. P. Bush, Pastor, Loren Bradley, Supt. of S. S. CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Bible School every Sunday at 9.30 a. Preaching service at 46:30 11 a. m. and Sun- days i. nron Second and Fourth Pk. .er meeting each evening at 6:30. Wednesday Ofl:cers meeting monihly. Woman's Missionary Society, the first Sunday in each month at 2:45 p. m. Mission Band the first Sunday in each month at 2 p. m. La..- es' Aid Society Thursday after .second Sunday at 2:45 p m. Z. T. Williams, Pastor. Horace .Jeffrie-.- , Bible School, Sup- erintendent. G. Sect Coi .Rav ver, Tres. To the Farmers. . "District Agricultural agent B. G. X rNelson, was in town Wednesday and Thursday of last week for the pu'rpoee . of installing the new emergency agricultural agent, J. L Miller. Mr. Mil-- . ler is to do farm Demonstration work in Green, Tayler Adair counties. In order to further the agricultural rinterests of this country the Federal Government, under the provisions of Bill of a number of the Smith-Leve- r years ago appropriated money for the purpose of securing an agricultural county agent in any county of the U. ,S., where the county expressed a desire for such an expert by appropriating a sum to pay half his salary The mother half is paid by the appropriation ? -- and the glorious Spanish Main has the sea offered such a wealth of adventure for the red blooded youth as during the present campaign being waged by the Allies against the years After three and service in the British transport service, George Bender, a Louisville man, whose parents live at 2105 Payne street arrived home on a furlough . Wednesday. Learning that he would soon be called in the draft he enlisted in the United States Navy, Bender's story of his adventures since leaving Louisville in 1914 was a continuous succession- of thrills. He has made hundreds of trips across the English channel carrying troops to France and engaged in fights with German scores of submarines'. Several times according to the young seaman he saw passen ger ships torpedoed near his own ship and was forced to witness women and children go down without aid becausp of the stringest Admiralty orders which prohibit any ve3sel except of the patrol force, assisting a sinking ship. When a ship is torpedoed he said that all other merchant ships in the vicinity flee at full speed from the scene to take no chances on being hit themselves. Bender described the convey system in use by the British and reported it as being very successful. He said that merchant ships travel in fleets of thirty or more accompanied by about twenty-fivtorpedo boats. The convey travels at medium speed while the torpedo boats going at high speed make wide circles arounp them in a continuous procession. Bender related how his ship once narrowly escaped destruction by a large German sub after a running fight lasting two hours. The German sub was five miles away when the attack began, using her 4.7 guns stationed before and after. Bender was at the wheel during the fight and was showered with splinters from numerous hits but escaped serious injury. A torpedo boat finally hove into sight and drove the Bub off before she could draw near enough, to inflict serious damage. Although he has been in the War Zone three years, Bender is anxious to return as soon as possible aboard an American destroyer. His story of adven- Hun-submari- related w i-t Our FIRST We want to thank you for the liberal patronage we received during the year 1917. Our business was good, due to one-ha- lf j m !L- - j The President ha3 reappointed Edgar H Jones as United States Marshal of the Western district of Kentucky. Public Roads Why doa't you interest yourself in the road affairs of your county? W. your friendship. SECOND During the year 1918, we will use the same dili gence to please, and will at all times keep a full stock of Staple and Fancy Groceries. OUR HARDWARE up-to-da- & s 0fe With good roads you save at least twent cents per ton per mile on all material hauled over the roads. Figure what good roads will save you in one year. You will receive one hundred times more from good roads than our tax will be to build them Ask any man living along a good road if he would be willing to lose the road if his taxes to build it was refunded to him. His answer will be no. That should convince you. The high cost of living will be reduced if roads are built so that the products of the farm can be hauled to market cheaply. Who pays the cost of hauliug food stuffs over bad roads? and we DEPARTMENT is can furnish you anything you need in that line. We have on sale a large stock of stoves for cooking and heating, and our farm implement department is complete. We are here to please Come in and examine our prices. you. Persons owing us notes and accounts past due will please cali and settle. te, m w && m & V 38s Bargei Brother iSiSiSli; 5n TOi o W m vi, ?w imw?ri $44"Q4'4'4n9"B1 $$4$$Q"6"04$$Q"8 js. There is not a legitimate argument more of against good roads-bui- ld them. Remember that the iirst road built is not the last one to be built. People complain and say we are having too much snow. About the tenth of June when the wheat fields are waving with grain, they will say the big snows made a bountiful crop. My Friends Have Loyal beexg 0S 8 It has" been the custom from time immemorial to return thanks for favors stowed, and I will "S1 Markets. Louisville, .Ian. 14. Cattle Prime export steers $1212;75 heavy shipping 81012; light SS10; fat heifers 610 fat cows $8.509.75; medium ?G,50C'? 8 50; cutters ?5.756 50; canners S55-75- ; bulls S69.50; feeders 50; stockers $o.759; choice milch cews 88095; medium $G0(,80; common not depart from that ancient rule. Therefore, I want to e press my gratitude to the people of my native county for their liberal support the year 1917, months of 1918. and dur-in- to ask that they continue with me during the twelve 4 69 GROCERIES, FARM IMPLEMENTS AND SEEDS Have been the principle articles handled by me and I have been liberally patronized "by my friends. and I I $4060. Receipts 47 head. The marruled steady; best veals $1313ic; ket medium and common kinds unchanged. Hogs Receipts 1.520 head. Prices ruled 515 higher. The best hogs, 165 lbs up S16;45; 120 to 1(35 $16 10; pigs $14.2515.25; roughs $14.85 down. Sheep and Lambs Receipts light; no changes were noted in prices; best sheep S910, bucks 88 down; best lanbs 81616.50; seconds $1212 50; culls 89. Butter Country 32(a'35c lb. Eggs Fresh, case count 50c doz; candied 5558c Poultry Hens 20(g21c lb.; spring chickens 2124c; ducks 1819c; roosters 13c; geese 1517c; turkeys Caives have endeavored to place upon the market the best, I feel confident that I have not practiced extortion in a single instance. will continue to do my best to keep before you the Choiciest of Groceries, Staple and Fancy, and the Most Durable Farm Implements that the factories make. prices have been right in the past, and will so continue in the future. My When needing anything in my lines, call at my store. C R. Hutchison $$$$9S"8$3"9"8M3$ e"9"8$9"6"&"&"9"S"3"S$ I keep on hands a full Btock of' coffins, caskets, and robes. I also keep' Metallic Caskets, and Steel Boxes and two hearses. We keep extra large caskets. Prompt service night 'or day. 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