Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE KREBS' CLOTHING CO. BIG CLEARANCE SALE The values in this Paper would be unusual even in a normal market. That we are able to offer you these goods at these prices, with the market in its present shot-to-pieces condition, is noteworthy. Just as remarkable is the fact that we have the goods to deliver. Today, more than ever before, prices speak louder than words. Let these prices talk for themselves. Read this Bargain News, Then come in Haste. It Will Pay you. The Advantages are Yours. FREE! During this sale we will make any alteration and Press up any suit you buy at sale prices To introduce our Tailoring Department we will give away one pair of extra Pants Free with any Suit ordered to Your measure during this Sale. Space forbid mentioning the many money saving bargains waiting for you here, just keep this paper--bring it with you and see for yourself what it means to attend a real for sure bonafide Clearance Sale Look for the big sign----tell your friends that you are going to see if we are telling the truth----Remember the place. I. O. O. F. Building 3rd and Ferry Street. Every statement made herein and every article too. We will take back, exchange or refund the money on any purchase unsatisfactory for any reason. Men's Blue Overalls Pure Indigo Dye, with bib or without-all sizes from 32 to 44 waist, all lengths at ..... 98c Cant buy this grade of goods at wholesale at these prices. Better come early, as they won't last long FREE! During the To introduce to Your measure during Space forbid mentioning for yourself what it that you are going to I. C A BRUTAL GRIME Ed Hudson, known as "Cotton Belt," commits Murder in Paducah. Kentucky. He Was A Sand Hog Of This Place. Fd. Hudson, Alias "Cotton Belt" a sandhog of this city, shot and instantly killed Ollie Thompson a girl of 22 years of age in Paducah, Ky, Monday evening about eight Oclock. The Thompson woman lived here with Hudson until about two weeks ago, when she went to Paducah, "Cotton Belt went there Saturday. Hudson is said to have quarrelled with the woman Monday about 7 o'clock in the evening when she struck him over the head with a pistol, which seemed to have angered him. Later he came in possession of the pistol and shot her four times in the left side and a fifth shot went wild and struck a white woman in the leg inflicting only a flesh wound. Th Thompson woman died before medical aid could be given her. STARTS FRIDAY MORNING JULY 14th 1916. = KREBS CLOTHING COMPANY that if you fail to take advantage of the bargains in this Sale you do an injustice to the purse that pays the bills. Furnishings for Men Men's work sox Turkey red, fast color Handkerchief Blue fast colored Handkerchiefs Men's full size white Handkerchief Men's fine black, tan and fancy sox Worth double that any time or any Men's good grade work shirts Men's Union Suits, $1.50 grade this sale we will make any produce our Tailoring Department ring this Sale. During the many money sa t means to attend a rea to see if we are telling th = KREBS O. O. F. B Hudson is about 6 feet tall, and about 35 years of age, weight 165 or 170 pounds dark brewn skin, a front gold tooth brown eyes and black hair. Hudson after emptying this pistol drew an automatic one and back away and has never been apprehended. This seems to be an uncalled for affair, and ends the life of a young girl who leaves a little girl of 4 years. RAMBLINGS We left Metropolis, at 4:30 a.m Saturday July 22, for Grand Chain, to conduct an Institute for the Mt. Olive Baptist S. S. convention as their conductor. We arrived at the point of our destination at 11:50 a.m. and wending our way to the home of the pastor Rev. Fields, where dinner was soon prepared, and as all of our helpers failed to arrive we had no services until night. we, however, gave a short lecture at 8:00 p.m. to a small but appreciative audience. After service we were conducted to the home of brother and and sister Fred Reynolds, where we made our home during our stay in the city. They certainly know how to --- Buy for right now, buy for the future for not in a century will such another opportunity be yours. to make money. For Men 4c-8c-13c kercchiefs.....8c kercchiefs.....4c-8c kercchiefs.....4c nancy sox 7c-13c-19c or anywhere. hats.....44c grade.....79c Men and Boys' Caps $1.00 grades now on 1.50 grades now on 2.00 grades now on 2.50 grades now on Hats are going out of buy two or three at 1.00 caps now only. 50c Caps now only. 25c Caps now only. any alteration and Press u department we will give awa saving bargains waiting for real for sure bonafide C the truth---Remember the BS CLOTHING Building 3rd we went to Future City! Tuesday morning and was entertained for dinner by Bro. and Sist. John Mahone of. In the afternoon we went to Cairo, where we met our old time friends Sister and Bro. Dennis Fartow and stopped over night and took breakfast and dinner. Tuesday at 11:00 we went to the 19, St. Baptist church, where a special program was carried out by the Knights of Pythis who are holding their annual State grand session. --- make it pleasant for their guest. Sunday at 9:00 a.m. Sunday School conducted by us. We had the able assistance of Elders Jno. Crossland, Dehoney, J. W. Winston, and pastor Fields, who created a deeper interest in the entire lesson. At 11:30 the writer delivered a strong sermon from Isa. 28:16 in which the foundation and origin of the Baptist church was shown and the utter impossibility of men or devils destroying it. In the afternoon at 3:00 Rev. J. W. Winston, of Ky., delivered a very able sermon, and at night the writer again spoke a limited audience from Col. 3:1, to the satisfaction of all present. The pastor and members expressed themselves as being highly pleased with our visit and requested us to come again. From there we went to Mound City Monday and wended our way to the home of Bro. and Sister Luke Alston, where dinner was soon prepared for us, after refreshing ourselves we went to M'ds. on business. We returned in the afternoon to Md. City and went to the home of our friends Bro. and Sist. Dan Roberts, where we stopped over night. From there Play safe. Get the best for the least money—the only way one merchant has advantage over another is the purchasing power. The Krebs System Buying Power for their chain of stores enables them to buy at considerably lower prices than the ordinary stores. Try them for Clothing, Furnishing Goods. Pressing and Dry Cleaning a Specialty. Phone us. We call for and deliver all work. Phone 339. Panama and Straw Hats $6.50 goods now only.....4.98 6.00 ““ ““.....3.98 4.50 ““ ““.....3.44 2.50 ““ ““.....1.98 2.00 ““ ““.....1.48 1.50 ““ ““.....98 1.00 ““ ““.....79 Special One lot of Men’s Suits that we bought from a manufacturer that needed cash in a hurry, at 50c on the $1.00. We will close these out while they last at $4.98-mostly small sizes. 33-34-35-36. 100 Children’s Suits, values up to $4.00, Sale price.....98 Palm Beach Suits.....$3.98 Keep Cool Cloth.....3.98 you buy at sale prices of extra Pants Free with just keep this paper--bring sale Look for the big sign- MPANY = Ferry Street tuesday WAR NEWS DIGEST. --- SAN ANTONIA TEXAS. CAMP WILSON. received your paper and was very glad to read some news from dear old Massac County. Some of the boys said "Metropolis Gazette" and there was almost a panic in the 1st Sergeant's tent for there is where they distribute the Company's mail. If Uncle Sam would ever pay the boys we think you would receive quite a few subscriptions from the boys. At this moment your paper is being passed from hand to hand. All the boys appreciate your paper very highly It is being rumored throughout the camp that one Illinois troop was fired upon by some Mexicans Co. M. haven't even seen a track of Villa, but still we keep sticking around. A few of Co. M. boys attacked San Antonio River today on both flanks and dived right into it for a nice cool swim. The boys from Co. M. still likes to receives letters from home (watermelons.) Red Cross Reports: We are taking an inoculation treatment which cleans the system so the soldiers can cope with the different diseases which lurk in every nook and corner of this Southern land. We have takeh two hypos of it and still have one more coming of the treatment. If we paid for it spot cash it would cost $75. Horace Smith and Dan Olive are suffering from bad glimmers (eyes.) A few of our new recruits are suffering from vaccinated arms. All the rest of the boys lost their appetites and couldn't find them so they stole a hog. Our Top Sergt. Edward Joues known as the Regimental gnit is One lot of Men'n Suits that we bought from a manufacturer that needed cash in a hurry, at 50c on the $1.00. We will close these out while they last at $4.98-mostly small sizes. 33-34-35-36. 100 Children's Suits, values up to $4.00, Sale price 98c Palm Beach Suits $3.98 Keep Cool Cloth 3.98 with any Suit ordered ing it with you and see gn---tell your friends eet. ```markdown ``` suffering from a severe case of concrete fever, its origin comes from the tightness in the breast. If sleeping makes beauty, Corp. Walter Jones will be a Carnation when he hits the County. Corp. George Neely is cutting a big figure with the whole reg't, with his jokes and monologues, Financial Doings: It is uncertain as to when Uncle Sammy will lo that sack but the boys are waiting with the famous look. Clarence Pippins claims he had rather be in Texas, a pauper; than to be in Massac county a Millionaire O. U. Kid. Remarks, Mr. Editor we received your paper today and knowing you would want an early reply we answered by return mail hence the scarcity of news. Your reporters. Corp. Wm E. Neely '' Terrell Lyons Geo. L. Neely, Sec'y Conversation. "In conversation the perfect virtues are to listen well and to reply well"—La Rochefoucauld. When Revolt is Dangerous. It is not the insurrection of ignorance that is dangerous, but the revolts of intelligence.—Lowell. IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTÉTÉ but like counterfeit money the imitation has not the worth of the original. Insist on "La Crole" Hair Dressing— It's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00.—Adv. Black—Where there's a will there's a way. White—Yes; to break it.—Town Topics. IF YOU OR ANY FRIEND Suffer with Rheumatism or Neuritis, acute on chronite, write for my FREE BOOK on Rheumatism, write and Cure, most wonderful book written, write and Cure, A. Case, Dept. C, W., Brockton, Mass.-Adv. Perfectly Safe. "I suppose I'll have to be bored by Flubdub's lecture. He's going to speak on Pike's peak." Then why worry? You can't hear him from that distance." THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH. You will look ten years younger if you darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing.—Adv. Small Brother's Criticism. "I heard him call you 'Duckle,'" announced the small brother. "Well, what of it?" demanded his sister, defiantly. "Oh, nothin' much," answered the small brother. "I was only thinking' maybe it's because of the way you walk, but it ain't very nice of him." Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Groove's. The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. REFUSES TO GET EXCITED Mrs. Midge Considered Information From a Point of View That Wae Perfectly Utilitarian. Mr. Midge took an extraordinary delight in digging little facts out of the papers and holding forth on them to his wife. One evening as they sat together, she sewing and he reading, a smothered grunt of satisfaction warned Mrs. Midge that her husband had discovered something which he considered interesting. "That's a most extraordinary thing—most extraordinary, my dear!" "What is it?" asked his wife, in a resigned tone that always made him boll inwardly. "Why, it says here that even if you pumped water out of the sea at the enormous rate of a thousand gallons a second—a thousand gallons! it would still take twelve millions years to empty it. Marvelous isn't it?" "Marvelous! Stuff and rubbish, I call it!" "Now, Mary," said Midge, beginning the inevitable lecture, "can't you see—" "Silly nonsense!" said Mary, biting off a bit of cotton. Where do you suppose they're going to pump all the water to, anyway?" Tuberculosis. Doctors are now of opinion that consumption is not inherited, but that some families have a tendency to contract it. They are also of opinion that a child catches the disease from its father or mother, just in the same way as a tuberculosis person may infect a healthy person if they live together. In other words, the child is infected after birth. It is now established that consumption is most infectious, and that the greatest care should be exercised by persons who come into contact with consumptives, so as to avoid infection. Hair combs with removable teeth that can be replaced when broken have been invented. Woman's sphere seems to be the earth. The Fine Flavor— the delicate taste of malted barley blended with the sweets of whole wheat— is sufficient reason in itself for the wonderful popularity of Grape-Nuts FOOD But it is more than delicious—it is the finest kind of concentrated nourishment to thoroughly sustain body and brain tissue a food that benefits users remarkably. "There's a Reason" Sold by Grocers everywhere. BELL HAS HISTORY HANGS IN CONNECTICUT VILLAGE AND IS VERY OLD. Cast in Spain Many Centuries Ago, It Has Passed Through Numerous Visitorhips to a Truly Peace. The oldest bell in the United States and one of the oldest in the world is in East Haddam, Conn. The inscription on it tells that it was cast in Spain in the year 815, not long after the conquest of Spain by the Moors. If the bell could speak it might tell how it saw the Moors lay waste the fair vineyards of Castile and how for 400 years it lived under Moorish rule. It might tell of the note it sung in the chimes that rang out the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabel in the town of Aragon. It might tell how for 600 years it called for the rich and poor for joy and for sorrow, ringing out the bridal procession and tolling for the dead. Then, when the great Napoleon sacked Spain in the early nineteenth century and the duke of Wellington overthrew him, this little bell was removed, its home was razed and, in sad company with many others, it was taken away. In 1835 a shipload of bells, that once hung in Spanish churches which Napoleon had destroyed, was sent to America. Here the bells were to be recast and hung in the churches of the new world. The little bell, even then too old to travel, a veteran in the world's battles and a singer of great worth, was shipped along in this motley throng. At this time in East Haddam, Conn., lived William Willys Pratt, a New York ship chandler. His wife's family was closely identified with St. Stephen's Episcopal society, which had erected a church on the hill cast of the landing. The little church was minus a bell. Knowing of the shipload of bells and being able to obtain one of the load, they purchased the old Spanish bell. The little bell was selected from among many hundreds of others because of its lovely tone and hung soon after in the chapel of St. Stephen. For 65 years it rang out the joys and sorrows of this new people from the church belfry. The woodland and the river echoed its sweet tones. Again it called the people to worship on the Sabbath. It toled for the departed and sang love songs for the newly wedded pairs. Later the little St. Stephen church was condemned, worn out and unused, but the bell was still singing, with velvety voice, to the people of the town. After the church was destroyed the bell was placed on an old stone wall near the little schoolhouse of Nathan Hale, and but for the interest of two who knew and loved the old bell it would have been lost. Even so, the exposure to the weather and the great age of the bell made it crack, greatly impairing its lovely tone. In the early days of East Haddam, two boys had daily played in the little church, tinkering their sticks and nails against the old bell and enjoying its tiny tones. When their old friend was neglected, for the bell was almost human to them, these boys, grown old themselves now, were not willing to see it left on the stone wall. The Daughters of the Revolution had just purchased the little schoolhouse of Nathan Hale in East Haddam, and to this society applied one of these men in behalf of the bell. Through his intercession it was hung again, this time in the new St. Stephen's church, by the side of the Nathan Hale school, and again it is doing service with its cracked voice for the community. Class in History. Perhaps one result of activity in the North sea will be to teach everybody how to spell Skager Rack, or Skagerrak, as the Danes have it, and also refresh popular knowledge of this part of the map, which the Kiel canal has a little blurred. In the old days the complicated entrance to the Baltic was a favorite specialty of teachers of geography, and every class had to wrestle with the names and twintings of the Cattegat and the Skager Rack, not to speak of the Sound and the Great and Little Belt which last name was also impressed upon the class in United States history by the British warship which bore it. But though the natural entrance to the Baltic is still important, at the present moment, indeed, of immense importance, in our time interest has been diverted to the straighter and simpler way which the canal has opened; perhaps many present-day pupils would have difficulty in sketching the tortuous bit of coast for the control of which great fleets are contending. Peppermint in First Place. Peppermint candy holds its own against all comers in the saccharine world. There is more than sixty times as much peppermint used as wintergreen and about nine times as much peppermint as black birch. Peppermint beats spearmint four to one, but these various oils are not all used for flavoring candy, says the Philadelphia Ledger. The output of peppermint grows larger every day and spearmint doubled in six years, but wintergreen is falling rapidly at the rate of 15 per cent a year, and birch is going down more than half that fast. As John L. Sullivan remarked: "Peppermint now and then is relished by the driest man." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS "There are those who would cite the lazy, shiftless and indolent as typical of the Negro race, but if the same yardstick were applied other branches of the human family might have reason to complain bitterly," wrote a prominent Negro educator recently. "Experience has shown that when given the opportunity for gainful employment under just and fair conditions, the Negro not only proves in every way his value as a workman, often most skilled, but, above all, there is cultivated in his mind and heart that now too rare feeling of deep interest and loyalty to his employer. When the southern Negro works for a corporation, he calls it 'my company,' and never has a bomb been found in his hand nor has he been branded as an anarchist. Under fair treatment his loyalty becomes deep and unchanging, and the sower of the seeds of discord finds little response to his beguiling or impassioned stories of greener fields to be had for the asking or taking. "A few years ago in his summer home in the East there passed away an eminent captain of industry who had spent forty years in the South building up a great commercial organization and community. Of master mind, yet with heart of a child, he had met and conquered many problems, fill the while dealing with employees, both white and colored, so justly as to win their unfalling loyalty and even love. "When the news of his death was flashed back to that southern community deep sorrow prevailed, but it remained for one old colored man, who had grown gray in the service of that organization, to take a part of his savings, board a train, and make the thousand-mile journey to be present when his friend was returned to earth. As the cortege was preparing to move this old Negro mounted the funeral car, completed the journey, and remained with the family to the end to drop a last tear. This is but typical of the response of the southern Negro to the 'helping hand.' "In advance of the Negro's industrial progress has gone very naturally his moral and educational development, and the eagerness with which many are seizing every advantage offered by their institutions plainly foreshadows a still more wonderful development in all those attributes which go to make up citizens of whom we will have no reason to feel ashamed. "In the light of these conditions is there not good reason, then, to consider this southern Negro as one of the South's greatest industrial assets, and does it not behoove southern industry to deal with him so fairly, so honestly, so uprightly as to maintain unimpaired that loyalty and strong feeling of common interest found in the heart of this plain, straightforward workingman?" While the present army law is by far the best congress ever gave the country in time of peace, it has glaring defects, one of which is found in the fact no provision was made for increasing the number of colored regiments in either the regular or militia forces. There is not a single rational excuse for the omission. There are a score of excellent reasons why such a provision should have been added. Southern statesmen, so-called, in congress, shook their heads and said The communication of Charles N. Swift in the Times has attracted my attention, and just a word, if I may, to indorse his every word concerning the admission of a colored regiment into the New York National Guard. After their record in the Civil war, especially with 99,337 colored soldiers therein, why can there be any doubt about them? As an officer of both white and colored regiments, wounded twice in different engagements in the last-mentioned service, and having had some part in the organization of the Corps d'Afrique in Louisiana under General Banks in 1864, I have wondered why there were none in the state service. The Eighty-first U. S. C. T. in Louisiana; commanded by Col. Charles B. Gaskill, now of Niagara Falls, challenged any regiment, white or black, in the Gulf department to make as good a showing in regimental or company drill, but none accepted the challenge of the Eighty-first.—George B. Loud, in a communication to the New York Times. A girl likes to be squeezed in a crowd from force of habit. Cotton is becoming so scarce in Europe that cellulose from wood fiber is being used as a substitute in surgical dressings. The world's highest powered motorship has been built in Italy for the Brazilian navy, its oil motors developing 6,400 horse power. It is said that in the far North of the Russian empire there is a race of people who do not know that there is a war. At that they have nothing on some of our American congressmen. it would not do—the Southern people would not stand for an increase of "Nigger" soldiers, and there were enough of the old style of congressmen from the North—the "doughface" species—to prevent the addition of a clause to the bill for a considerable number of colored regiments and batteries. It was a mistake which the next congress should rectify without delay. Colored volunteers in the Civil war were exceptionally brave soldiers. They were often severely tested. The South began to recruit for colored regiments in 1865, and General Lee declared that one of the Confederacy's most serious mistakes was made by not enlisting negroes for their army early in the war. Several regiments of colored men were on duty in the Confederate army the last few months of the war. For nearly fifty years there have been four colored regiments in the United States army—two of cavalry, the Ninth and Tenth, and two of infantry, the Twenty-fourth and the Twenty-fifth. No troops in the army were in more battles, or acquitted themselves more creditably in the Spanish-American and Philippine wars than the four colored regiments. The colored man likes the service. He takes pride in it. He quickly conforms to the rules and regulations. He is as neat in person, uniform, equipment, as the white man. He almost never deserts. There often is much difficulty in keeping white regiments recruited up to the proper number. There never is a lack of recruits for the colored commands. There are no more obedient or better disciplined soldiers. White officers of the South like to be assigned to the colored regiments. They and their soldiers understand each other perfectly and get along harmoniously. There should be ten regiments of colored men in the regular army instead of four, and many regiments of them in the militia instead of the three or four.—Chicago Herald. Dr. Eben S. Johnson of Sloux City, Ia., was elected a missionary bishop at the Methodist convention held at Saratoga Springs, and will be assigned to Africa. Dr. Alexander P. Camphor, a Negro of Birmingham, Ala., was also elected a missionary bishop and will be assigned to Liberia, the African republic. A resolution indorsing woman suffrage was adopted with only half a dozen in opposition, following an earnest plea last night by William J. Bryan for votes for women. His assertion that the movement would greatly aid the temperance cause had an effect on the action of the conference. Government officials have estimated that 1,350,000 horse power in the form of gas alone was wasted every day by the old-fashioned coke ovens of the United States. An auxiliary control for automobiles invented by a New Yorker enables a person in the back seat of a car, by pressing a button, to stop it in an emergency. A Louisiana inventor's automatic fire alarm calls the nearest firemen, rings alarms both outside and inside a building where a fire starts and lights a red light on the outside. Partly mechanical and partly electrical is a Chicago inventor's alarm that fires five blank cartridges in succession if a burglar enters or tries to wander around a building. Along the Cornwall coast many miners earn a living by washing tin out of the sands, the sea shattering the metal-bearing rocks. An automobile coal wagon has been invented with four separate compartments, so well balanced that they can be dumped by hand. Iowa is the first state to officially establish a library of motion picture films of current events for the use of future historians. A new muffler to lessen the noise of a motor-boat exhaust permits the waste gases to expand considerably and cool before reaching the air. Chinese custom of burning small pieces of gold leaf on various anniversaries sacrifices several million dollars' worth of the metal annually. To assert in Oklahoma that an incurable disease can be cured makes a physician liable to the revocation of his license. Producers of aniline dyes in Japan have formed a trust to control the market. Rust is a compound of oxygen and iron that forms only in the presence of water. Paris has a plan to dam the River Rhone and obtain 300,000 horse power. MEMORIES OF POE QUAINT OLD HOUSE AT FORDHAM OFTEN VISITED BY POET. Structure Is to Be Preserved, It Is Hoped, for Many Years, Within the Grounds of a Home for Situated now within the grounds of the Home for Incurables, in Fordham, is a house of numerous gables that was often visited by Edgar Allan Poe while he resided in the little cottage in that part of the city, that has been saved as a memorial to him. The house, says the New York Sun, was occupied by Justice of the Peace Jacob Lorillard, a relative of the old New York family of the name that had snuff mills on the Bronx river. He was a justice of the peace in Fordham in Poe's day. The author was occasionally entertained in his home. At a house party given in the house of many gables one winter's night Poe was a guest, and shortly before the gathering dispersed the author of "The Raven" was asked to recite the poem, which was then being widely discussed after its recent publication, for the first time, in the New York Evening Mirror. Poe had worked on that newspaper under Nathaniel P. Willis. The poet complied and read the poem with an elocutionary effect that captivated all who heard it. Snow was lying deep on the ground, the moon was shining brightly and the wind blew fitfully. Nature seemed to have staged the setting. After receiving warm congratulations Poe bade everybody present good-night and wended his way to the little Dutch cottage on Kingsbridge road, about a mile distant, the same cottage that is now in Poe park. The Lorillard house has another association with Poe, with an incident in his career that cut his sensitive nature to the quick. Here it was that he came to ask for a warrant of arrest for an individual who, he learned, had stolen his military overcoat, which he wore to shield him from the wintry elements. This coat was a relic of his days spent as a cadet at the United States Military academy at West Point; and, when he was dismissed for frequent infractions of discipline, Poe had taken the overcoat with him as he had a right to do. It appears he had removed his coat while in a tavern in Fordham and laid it over a chair, with the result that some culprit stole it. Poe, in high dudgeon, repaired to the Lorillard house to see the judge and discuss the matter with him, with the result that he obtained a warrant. He finally recovered the overcoat, a piece of wearing apparel to which he was greatly attached by the fact that it had often accompanied him to Benny Haven's Rest, amid the Highlands of the Hudson, at hours when he was supposed to be oblivious to all nocturnal pastimes and asleep in his room in the military academy. Women Complete in Farmwork Women compete in Farmwork. The war has driven patriotic English women to take up farmwork so as to relieve men needed at the front. Nearly four thousand persons watched a hundred women and girls in a farmwork "field day" competition on Sir Thomas Acland's estate at Killerton, Devonshire. The events included plowing, rolling, harrowing, milking, sheep shearing and harnessing and driving horse. A fifteen-year-old girl, Miss Smith, of Woodbury, Salterton, who has two brothers at the front, won chief honors. She took first prize for harnessing and driving a farm horse, first for spreading manure and second for milking. The spectators were especially struck by the way in which the woman shearers tackled the long-wooled Devon sheep, some of which were heavier than the competitors. The judges said the women in this line were superior to many male farmhands. Writing With Pen in Teeth. One of the newest inventions for the benefit of the man who has been deprived of his arms is a pen which can be comfortably held between the teeth. It is the invention of an American dentist. It includes a mouthpiece molded to fit the lower teeth. The upper teeth rest on this and hold the pen in a fixed position. This leaves the muscles of the lips free. The pen has three joints, giving it flexibility. The pen point can be taken off and a pencil substituted at the will of the user. The inventor believes that the flexible handle and the mouthpiece holding it firmly by the teeth will be adaptable to other small tools, including paint brushes and small chisels for fine wood carving. Settling Chinese Labor Disputes. Chinese chambers of commerce, though of recent development, play an important part in the affairs of their cities, and especially interesting is the manner in which labor disputes are settled by them. Reputable merchants settle their difficulties in their guilds, and when the guilds cannot settle them, that is, when they extend beyond the scope of a certain guild, chambers of commerce are now appealed to and a committee is chosen from the chamber or by the chamber's executive committee to adjudicate the disputed matter. After a dispute is settled by the arbitration committee, the parties meet at a festal board, the one awarded the decision paying the expenses of the feast. HEAT FLASHES, DIZZY, NERVOUS Mrs. Wynn Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Helped Her During Change of Life. Richmond, Va.—"After taking seven bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I feel like a new woman. I always had a headache during the Change of Life and was also troubled with other bad feelings common at that time—dizzy spells, nervous feelings and heat flashes. Now I am in better health Vegetable Compound I feel like a new woman. I always had a headache during the Change of Life and was also troubled with other bad feelings common at that time—dizzy spells, nervous feelings and heat flashes. Now I am in better health than I ever was and recommend your remedies to all my friends."—Mrs. LENA WYNN, 2812 E. O Street, Richmond, Va. 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WESTERN CANADA AND THE LAND-HUNGRY It is Essentially an Agricultural Country. Western Canada is the Mecca of the land-hungry man who wishes to earn a good living from the soil and save ap money to take care of him in his old age without paying a fancy price for the privilege. Western Canada is the great wheat producing section of the North American continent, with an average production of more than 30 bushels to the acre as compared with an average of 17 bushels to the acre in the States. Wheat raising can hardly be made profitable on land that costs from $50 an acre up unless such land will produce a much higher than a 17 bushel average, or unless the price of the cereal reaches an excessive figure. The initial investment of $50 an acre is more than the average man can afford to make if he expects to raise wheat and to make a success of it. A good homestead of 160 acres can still be secured free in Western Canada and additional land admirably suited to the raising of wheat can be secured at so low a cost per acre that it can be made extremely profitable. No other part of the world offers such tremendous opportunities at the present time to the ambitious young farmer as the three great provinces of Western Canada. It is worth the while of the land-hungry man to cease his depressing search for local cheap land or for land that is not entirely worked out by long cropping and to look outside his own district. Western Canada is a country that should receive the consideration of all such men. The Western Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta are essentially agricultural territory. Out of 478 million acres there are 180 million acres of first-class agricultural land actually available for development—a block three and a half times as large as the total land area of Minnesota, and equal to the combined land areas of Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. But whereas the population of the five states mentioned is fifteen million people, the population of Western Canada is only about one and three-quarter millions. It has been said that the average yield per acre of wheat in the United States last year was 17 bushels. This average does not, of course, represent the efficiency which may have been reached by individual farmers or by individual states. However, place against this figure the fact that the 1915 Western Canadian average—the average from nearly twelve million acres—was over 30 bushels. In the case of the Province of Alberta, the average reached 32.84 bushels per acre. There are already a large number of American farmers in Western Canada, so that the newcomer could never—overlooking the fact that the same language is spoken—feel himself in an alien country. There seems, in fact, a tendency to establish little colonies composed of those coming from the same sections. The characteristics of the country, and the climate and season, are very much the same as in Minnesota or North-Dakota. Social conditions bear a family resemblance. Education is free, and is good; its cost being defrayed partly by taxation, partly by grants from the Canadian Government, from the sales of school lands, of which, when the country was first surveyed, two sections in every township were allocated. Taxation in every rural district, in many towns and cities, is based practically on land values alone, improvements of all kinds being exempted—Advertisement. When a man is looking for trouble few of his friends are too busy to assist him in the search. The man who aims to be good in this world may miss fire in the next. Queen's Taste Coffee DELIGHTFULLY REFRESHING THIS BLEND PUREFECTED BY Queen's Taste NOW 25 CENTS SOLD IN 1-POUND CANS ONLY Ask Your Grocer THE HIGH QUALITY SEWING MACHINE NEW HOME NOT SOLD UNDER ANY OTHER NAME Write for free booklet "Points to be considered before purchasing a Sewing Machine." Learn the facts. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASS. Dealing Frankly With Child Does Not Destroy Authority BY SIDONIE METZNER GRUENBERG Q TO ERR is human, as any healthy child can find out for himself rather early in life. But most parents seem to be involved in a conspiracy to maintain the doctrine that to err is childish. They will sometimes go to desperate lengths to uphold the pretense that adults—or at least parents—can do no wrong, that they are practically infallible. Every adult who has to deal with younger people feels a certain authority and discipline to be absolutely necessary for maintaining right relations. And there is the feeling that authority would be weakened by the slightest in- SCIENTISTS MAY TALK TO OTHER PLANETS IN FUTURE Interstellar Wireless Communication Not an Impossibility, In the Opinion of Astronomers. That interstellar wireless communication may be a possibility of the future is a belief now held by not a few scientists. M. Guzman has promised to pay $20,000 to the astronomer who first establishes communication with any planet or star other than Mars. M. Guzman's elimination of Mars as a wireless station in the competition he is promoting is based upon his belief that experiments made by American astronomers in Arizona prove that a wireless expert who talked with the Martians would be overpaid if he received 100,000 francs. This performance, to his mind, is too easy, too lacking in romantic and sensational features to be worthy of the modest fortune he has dedicated to science. But, if the Martians have learned how to build canals without inviting landslides, have made of irrigation processes an exact science, and have, as various authorites contend, learned how to fly by their own motive power, there are numberless specialists in this country who would be pleased to call them up by long distance at once. STAR OF FILMDOM A Popular actress who has reached high place in the movie world. War Brings Inventions. The perils of scouting and reconnoitering during the present war have caused the Germans to devise a pocket flashlight which is less dangerous to use than the type employed early in the war, which shed its rays straight ahead and so attracted the enemy's fire. This new lamp has a hood so designed that the incandescent bulb, the lens and the reflector all move in unison when the hood is raised or lowered. It can be hung from the belt or held on the breast-by a loop on the coat. Another type of light, for officers' use, includes a compass in a recess below the bulb and also dividers, fire-making equipment, maps and dispatch tablets, for all of which a special compartment is provided. By dropping the compass from the recess into a horizontal position it is clearly lighted by the lamp. The cover of the compartment holding the maps, etc, when thrown back, partly shields the bulb's eye. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. ```markdown ``` Back Yards Show Character By S. G. Dixon, M. D., Commissioner of Health of Pennsylvania timation that the adult had committed an error. For many people it is quite impossible to acknowledge frankly that they have made a mistake. The results of this attitude, however, instead of strengthening authority actually destroy the respect which we wish the young to have for the old. Only too frequently do parents vent the annoyance caused by business or domestic irritations upon the innocent head of the child that happens to come along with some indifferent request at the critical moment. It is so easy to say "Don't bother me now," or "Run along, don't you see I am busy?" It Tenderly sweet the days go by. Lovingly still are the nights that flow Under the spell of the country sky Far in a land of Long Ago. Stars and moon and the silver lake, Hills and vales and the sparkling sun— Noise and hatred and all things vile Sink and fade as the hours go by; Dreams at the gates of the valley smile Under the spell of the country sky. Whistle of quail where the young whten swings. A hermit thrush in the western wood— Love in the gates of the valley sings. And the spell of the country sky is good. Wandering winds from the balmy south. Fairy feet on the hills go by; Love with a red rose in her mouth. Under the spell of the country sky. Keep me tight in your arms of rest. Oh quiet land of the dreams of men— The grassy hill and the valley's breast. And the spell of the country sky again. —Folger McKinsey in Baltimore Sun. Famous War Horses of Old Replaced by Automobiles One probable result of the introduction of mechanical vehicles into warfare will be the abolition of the old custom of cherishing the memory of famous war horses. When generals conducted campaigns on horseback, before the advent of the field motor car, their favorite chargers used to receive many honors. Wellington's famous charger, Copenhagen, when he died was buried with full military honors. The Iron Duke's horse was a magnificent chestnut, and he carried his master many hundreds of miles in Spain, and at the battle of Toulouse. The remains of Napoleon's white stallion, Marengo, are preserved at the Royal United Service institution, while another of Bonaparte's steeds, which he purchased at St. Helena, and bore the name of King George, figures in many famous paintings. The horse which Lord Ronald rode in the Balkakla charge was cherished Bret Harte once wrote a story in which he pointed out that for an insight into the occupant's true character one must look at the back and not at the front of a man's house. Here was knowledge of human nature. If we want to estimate character accurately we must have an all-around view and not accept face sight into the occupant's true character one must look at the back and not at the front of a man's house. Here was knowledge of human nature. If we want to estimate character accurately we must have an all-around view and not accept face values. This brings us again to the question of back yards. Is yours as clean and well kept as you can make it, or is it littered with trash, cans, kindling and other rubbish? Is the garbage and waste properly covered and free from flies? Is the stable and outhouse a fly-breeding center for the neighborhood? You have work ahead for you was a full-sized mother that apologized to her son for scolding him unfairly after a scene with an impudent cook. He had come in with his friend after skating, at the inopportune time, to ask for jam and bread, and to deposit the wet skates on the hall carpet. The scolding would have destroyed the appetite of ordinary people; in this case it only made Joe feel sorry for himself. But later his mother said: "I am very sorry, Joe, for the way I treated you this afternoon. I was irritated and tired, but I did not mean to be rude." And then Joe was so sorry for his mother, he just went up and hugged her and forgot to be sorry for himself. The cases in which parents misuse their authority, judge children falsely, forget to keep their promises, or otherwise act unfairly are common enough. How common is it for parents to apologize to their children? Most people would think off-hand that to apologize would be to weaken their position. But the very opposite is true. But if we resolve to deal with the child frankly and sincerely as a human being, we need not multiply mistakes for the purpose of making occasions to exercise the virtue of confession and apology. With the best of care we shall make mistakes enough. We shall need to use all our wits and all our wisdom to consider well every word and every deed that we may not have to apologize so often that the child must at last get the notion that after all the parents are not much wiser than children. Apologize whenever you need to, but do not need to too often. Wise and Otherwise. However, it is far better to grin than to groan. If you would please a woman, don't talk—listen. The bass drum makes a lot of noise because it is empty. The sap has stopped oozing from the crop of spring poets. How we dislike people who are always dramatizing their troubles. The world loves to remember the just—after they are dead and out of politics. The husband of a nagging woman may furnish most of her because. When a man gets the right brand of religion his horse soon discovers it. Wildows are successful in handling men because they know exactly what not to do. But a man never has the same interest in life after he loses the principal he has in the bank. It is easier to elect a good man to office than it is to get him to stay good after he is elected. What has become of the old-fashioned woman who used to open a can of peaches when she had company at tea? THE USUAL WAY Wife—George, I caught you flirting. Hubby—That's the way most of the women catch their husbands. by his family until its death, when a tombstone was erected over its grave. Traveler, which gained fame in the Civil war as the favorite charger of Gen. Robert E. Lee, is now a popular exhibit in a museum at Virginia, its skeleton having been carefully preserved in a glass case. for your health's sake and for the sake of decency if any of these conditions exist. It is a privilege to have a back yard, even a small one. There are thousands of dwellers in cities where land is sold by the square foot, who yearn for a little space to call their own. Those who are so fortunate as to have back yards should care for them and make use of them. If there are children in the family the back yard should be their playground. A doll house, turning pole, a swing or a tent will provide almost unlimited entertainment and help to keep children off the streets. If there are no children in the family, a shovel, a rake, a hoe and a moderate-sized back-yard garden should afford a reasonable amount of healthful exercise combined with pleasure and profit. Native girls of New Britain are kept in cages until they marry. It's a Picnic Getting Ready for a Picnic If you choose Spanish Olives Pickles Sweet Relish Ham Loaf Veal Loaf Chicken Loaf Fruit Preserves Jellies Apple Butter Luncheon Meats Pork and Beans Libby's Ready to Serve Food Products Instist on Libby's at your grocer's Libby, McNeill & Libby Chicago A New Use For This Word The New Post Toasties are truly entitled to the word "delicious." They're distinguished by the tiny bubbles found on each flake and they carry the full, rich flavour of choice, white Indian corn—not found in corn flakes of the past. And unlike common corn flakes, they are not "chaffy" in the package and don't grow mushy in milk or cream. Note carefully the tiny bubbles—then try a handful dry to test the flavour. In comparison, other corn flakes are as "chaff." The man who never forgets a favor or forgives an injury isn't apt to make a good friend. SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE and constant use will burn out the scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampooing with "La Creole" Hair Dressing, and darken, in the natural way, those ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.—Adv. Contented Kicker. "How are you going to spend the summer?" "I hope I'll be able to spend the rest of it as I spent the first part—kicking about cold waves." ALWAYS LOOK YOUR BEST As to Your Hair and Skin by Using Cuticura. Trial Free. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. These fragrant, super-creamy emollients preserve the natural purity and beauty of the skin under conditions which, if neglected, tend to produce a state of irritation and disfigurement. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L. Sold everywhere.—Adv. BILL, the Monopolist. A socialistic writer was talking in Boston about the dye trust recently formed in Germany. "It includes all the German dye firms," he said. "Talk about a monopoly, eh? Why, it's as bad as Bill Smith. "Bill Smith went off to the shore for a week or two, and on his return took Sam Jones to task severely. "Look here, Sam,' he said, 'I understand that while I was off at the shore you took advantage of my absence to hang around Mabel Green almost every night." "No, Bill,' said Sam 'you're mistaken. 'It's her sister, Sallie Green, that I've been hangin' round." "Well,' said Bill, 'that makes no difference. I got my eye on both them girls." Obligation. "Are you going to make any speeches during the campaign?" "I'll have to make some," replied Senator Sorghum. "The eloquent silence has become the exclusive privilege of supreme leadership." Mean Reflection. Little Boy (reading aloud)—“And David said in his haste, all men are liars.” Say, father, why didn’t he mention women also? “He didn't consider it necessary, my son.” A misfit bargain isn't fit for anything. Railway travel teaches people to know their own station and stop at it. know their own station and stop at it. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Hitchcock In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoris Think It Over. "I don't think much of Flubdub as a candidate. All you can say of him is that he has made no enemies." "Well, that isn't a bad platform on which to go through life."—Louisville Courier-Journal. WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. What Worried Johnny. "This war is making everything more expensive," complained father. "I see by the paper that even castor oil is going up." "That's nothing in my young life," said little Johnny. "The only time it worries me is when it's going down." The Difference. Bishop Naphtali Luccock was talking in Helena about golfers. "A Sunday golfer," he said, "rang the bell at a manse Sunday morning and asked to leave her golf sticks there during the service. "I can't hardly let you do that," said the minister. "But," the Sunday golfer objected, "you've got a sign on the church porch to the effect that bicyclists can leave their machines at the manse during service, haven't you?" "Yes, ma'am, I have," the minister answered. "You can ride to church on a bicycle, you know; but you can't on a golf stick—unless you happen to be a witch." Janie's Way. The young man was in love. He had declared his passion to the young lady and she had passed him along to father. Father listened to his tale patiently. "It's all right so far as I am concerned," the old gentleman said, "but I am afraid that Janie will not marry you." "Oh, don't say that," the young man plended. "Has she—has she said so?" plended. "Has she—has she said so?" "No," said the old gentleman, "but from what I know of Janie, if she would, she'd have taken you without referring you to me."—New York Times. Necessity is a good school. CIOUS!" For This Word ties are truly entitled to the by the tiny bubbles found carry the full, rich flavour of — not found in corn flakes corn flakes, they are not "chaffy" grow mushy in milk or cream. y bubbles—then try a hand- . In comparison, other corn t Toasties Sold by Grocers everywhere. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FBT BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. wmmmePols, - - > > (i. AS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J.B. MoOsany, Eprom (a FRIDAY JULy 23, 1916, ————— Qfiice oth and Pearl Streets, Me- repolis, Hlinots. 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We are authorised to anaewnce CLAUDE F, \LACY, as @ candidate for member of the Leg- ‘alature, on the Republiean ticket, subject to ‘ehe will of the reters at the September primary “election. Eo e tee oes Fer States Attorney ‘Wo are sathorixed to announce the name of Wor R Huta, us a chudidate fer State's Attor- they on the:Repeblica ticket, subject to the will ofthe voters at the September primary election. ‘We are authorised to announbe the name of Walraa Rousars, as a candidate for State's Amoruey on the Repnbifcan tleket. subject to the wil of the voters at she Beptomber prima- ty election. YRED SMITH, is «Republican Candidate tor State's Attorney, subject to the primary im September. For Circuit Clerk. ‘We are authorized to ansouuce the mame of Nosman P. bain, as a candidate for Cirewit Oterk on the Republican ticket, subject to the Willotthe votere at the September primary lection. ‘We aro authorized to announce the name of Asruve H. Four, as s candidate for Cireult Gtort, ou the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters af the September primary ‘lection. We ar: aothorized to announce J. M. Monn yim, as a candidate for County Commission- tr, on the Republican Ticket, subject to the wilt ofthe voters at the September primary lecion. Weare authorizod toannoune the name of JOHN HERBERT WILLIS, an scandidate for Circuit Cleric on the Republican ticket, subject to the wili of the voters at the September Pri- tary election. We are wuthorired to announce the name of COLFAX MORRIS, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk on the Republican ticket, mbject to the will of the voters atthe September Primary election. For Coroner ‘We are authorized to announce the name of eGo, A. Sruwanr. as a candidate for Cor- over, on the Republican ticket, subject, tothe “voters at the September primary election, Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box, Why suffer when you cam be re- Jieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. a Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbon- and Md. City cam secure a box or more now by 50¢, per box. Act quick if you want it, Send all orders to Rev, J. B. McCrary, Southern Ilineis should sup- port L. L, Emmerson, of Mount Vernon, for Secretary of State, He is a Negro's friend, Support him.—Editor. Vote for Richard J. (Barr, of Joliet, for Atty. General jon the Republican ticket. ‘Subscribe for The Gazette, SOC VASES HSS JUST received another lot of new type faces and other matetial which adds much to the output of the work of the office, We deserve your patron- age. We havea full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and oth- er material, Let us do some of your work. Let usdo your min- ‘ute work and any other church etecrthemest — Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your pa- per marked with an [X] itis to notify you that you owe for the paper and are notiged Ito pay up. Mr. and Mrs, Layman Maddox of Hartlord, Ky. are in the city visi ing, Mr. Mrs, Ernest Nichols. Mrs. Laura Wilson and Hus- band of Oakland Ky are in the city visiting the former brotber Mr, Willie Woods of this city. Rev J. W. Davie, Pastor of the First Baptist Church, left Tuesday on a two weeks Vacation. During his vacation, he will visit his family in Hopkinsville and several other points in Kentucky and Tennessee. Padacah is not in it with the Krebs Clothing Co., when? it comes to prices and selections of men’s and boys’ ready to wear clothes. Save the boat tare by trading at home. Samuel Upshaw, returned home Sunday from Owensboro, Ky. where he and his best girl friend Miss Gladys Morton, of Hartiord Ky. attended the Chautauqua in that city. Sammy come back all smiles. Mesdames Jennie Woods and Lavada Spurlark, entertained Sunday Eve, at the home of the latter, on Broadway in honor of the Hopkinville Red Sox and Metropolis Giants Baseball team. Mrs. Leah Reed and Miss Izora Rodgers, are in Cairo this week attending the grand session of the Knights of Pythas. Mrs. Lavada Spurlark, was a Paducah ssopper, Monday. Mrs, Kitty B. Davis, of Kansas City, Kas. and mother, Mrs. Eas- ter Baker, and little neice Lillian Baker, of Kuttawa, Ky, left Sa- turday for their homes alter visit- ing Prof, and Mrs. McCleland Smith, Messrs. James Baker and Frank Howard, of Brookport, were in the city Saturday on business. Mrs, Jane Strickland, of Bir- mingham, Ky. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Minaie Cook. Mrs A. P Smith, and son Wil- lard were Paducah shodpers Tues- day. Mrs. Birdie Morris, of Saint Louis, Mo. is in the city on busi- ness. Mrs. Barbara Singleton, left last Saturday for her home in St, Louis, Mo. alter visiting relatives and friends. Rey. B. C. Long, of Choat, pastor of the Walnut Grove Pres- byterian Church in Ky, was at his charge Sunday. This was his tally day and and he reports a neat sum raised. They are to have another rally soon. eee Re Lae eet caren t $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science bas beew able to cure in all ite stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's fcatarzh cure is the oely postive cure now now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh he- ing a constitutional disease, requires constitutional treatment, Hall's ca- tarrh is taken internally, acting direct- ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destioying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in do- ing its work, ‘The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F, J. CHENEY & ©0., Tole- do, 0. Sold by all Druggists, 7e. Take Hall’s Family Pills for consti- pation, Col John R. Marshhil, Special Representasive of the Royal Life Insurance Company of Chicago, wasin the city the first of the week on business. He was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Horace G Burkes, While here he paid the Gazette office a very pleasant call, The Col, left Tuesday a. m on the Str. Rapids for Cairo, where he will attend the grand session of the Knight of Pythias, Mrs. Laura Wilkerson, and hus- band of Oakland‘ Ky. are in the city visiting the farmers brother, Mr. Wm. Crossland. Notice of Publication—Chancery FRED R. YOUNG, Complaintant’s Solicitor State of Illinois. Massac County. SS In the Circuit Court, August Term, A. D. 1916 In Chancery. Mack Hooper vs Ida May {Hooper Affidavit of non-residence of Ida May Hooper the above defendant having been filed in the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of said County, notice is therefore hereby given to the said non- resident defendant that the complain- ant Oled his bill of cemplaint in said Court, on the Chancery side thereof. of the 15th day of July 1916 and that thereupon a Summons issued out of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Fourth Monday in the month of August next, as by law required. Now. unless you, the said non-resident defendant above named Ida May Hooper, shall person- ally beand appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at Metropo- lia, in and for the said County on the 23, day of August next, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you according to the prayer of said bill. Artur H. Fixiey. Clerk. Metropolis, Jul), 16th 1916. Notice of Pupblication-Chancery FRED SMITH, Complaintan’t Solicitor. ‘State of Illinois Massae County $8 In the Circuit, Court, August Term, A. D, 1916, James Cole . vs. *Bunice Cole In Chancery. Bill for Divorce Affidavit uf non-residence of Eunice Cole, the above defendant having been filed in the clerk's office of the Circuit Court of said County, notice is hereby given to the said non-resident defend- ant that the complainant filed his bill of complaint in said Court, on the Chancery side thereof, on the 6th day of July 1916 and that thereupon a sum- mons issued out of satd Court, wherein said snit is now pending, returable on the Fourth Monday in the month of August next, asis by law required, Now, unless you,, the said non-nesident defendant above named Eunice Cole. shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in and for the said County’ onthe Twenty Eight day of August next, and plead, answer or demur to the said compiainant’s ill of complaint the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be tak. en as confessed. anda decree entered against vou according to the prayer of said bill Anriur H. Finuey, Clerk. Metropolis, Illinois, July 18, 1916, SPARTA. Our church and schol are pre- gressing nicely. The commitire turned in $8.93 made from the S, S. entertainment given on the church lawn last Friday evening by sisters Mattie Haynes and Ao- na Owens, At 11.00 Rev. P. B, French preached a strong sermon trom Eph. 10:9. He preached another powerful sermon at night. from Isa, 33:16. The Carnation club will be en- balee at the home of Mrs. Ade- line Washington this ,week. Rev. French, atte.ded the Grand Lodge, K and D. of Ta- bor Irst week at Carbondale, and reported a good time. The youngest daughter, Mis. Crys- t nia returned to St. Louis. Mo., jas she has been here visiting her Barcate Rev. and Mrs. P. B. French, for a few days. The Sewing circle will be en- tertained at the home of Mrs, Agnes Smith, next week, by ‘Mrs. 9. Browning. ‘There will be an Odd Fellow's picnic given by New Hope Lodge No. $211 at Oak Park, "Aug. 12. Mrs. Vinie Black has been on the sick list but is improving at this writing Mr. and Mrs, Wiley Moore and Mr and Mrs. Wm. Macklin, are visiting friends in Duquoin, they went in their car, Herman Coffman made a flying trip to East St. Louis, Friday. Rev. S. H_ Pruitt was Sin our was in our city last Wednesday and preached a good sermon from I, 3:11. We iavite him to come again, | J. J. Taylor. Base Ball Spo.t. _ The Metropolis Giants crossed bats with the Hopkinsville Red Sox, Friday, Saturday and Sun- day July, 21, 22, and 23rd. at Neville’s Park, The Giants, one of the fastest teams in Southern Illinois played to win, but with a number of er- rors they were defeated each day by the visitors. -P, H. Penner, is manager of the Hopkinsville Ked Sox and he and his aggregation is said to be the fastest traveling team in Western Kentucky and Middle Tennesee. They have played 22 games and eae only lost 2. This shows that they possess the stuff that wins. Friday's Score 4. Saturday's "’ 23-7. Sunday's '" 14-3. Tuesday and Wednesday the Red Soxs crossed bats with the Pa- ducah Sterlinds at Metropolis, the Red Soxs winning both. | Tuesday 20-8. Wednesday 3-2 10 innings. Attendance good each day. Notice. Mound City, ll., July 24, 1916 Please allow me space to say to the public through your paper concerning the Mt. Olive associa- tion which will meet with Mt. Olive church, Colps. I wsote to J. D, Davis, corresponding sec retary and the $1 per head a week was changed so the asso- ciation will meet onthe above date without paying any board. Please give notice to the distric’ that all of the delegates may see that they dont have to pay board, Remember the date, Tuesday before the 4th Sunday in Septem- ber. Iask that every church be duly notified that they dont have to pay board. Please send this Out this week through your pa- per. + Tam yoursin Christ, ' D Parrish, D. D. Dee Bie NOTICE To all messengers coming up to the District association which convenes with Me, Olive Baptist church at Colp, Ill, on Tuesday before the fourth Lord's day in Sept. 1916 will have to pay one dollar for board during the session This means one dollar for the en- tire time. Done by order of the Mt Olive Baptist church. Rev. J. D. Davis, Pastor, Wm, Crayton, Clerk, NOTICE. The time of meeting of the As- sociation (Mt. Olive) district have been changed by the mod- erator by the request of the asso- ciation at its last session, trom its regular date to Tuesday be- fore the fourth Sunday in Sep- tember. OBITUARY. Lelia Hines, Hughes was born in Hartford Ky., Feb 22, 1899. Died in Metropolis Ili., July 16, 1916 at 6:15, Lelia joined the church which her father was pastor of at that time tour years ago in Clevesport, Ky. Lelia was loyal to her Sunday School and church, obident and kind to all of whom she came in contact with, she bore her illness with patience and olten said she was not afraid to die and asked her mama not to cry alter her. Sheshas made many triends both with her schoolmates and all who become to know her grew to love her, She told her mother in the presence of Mrs. Albert when she was in Hartford in May that her grand-mother had al- ways told herto pray for what she wanted and believe the Lord would give it and he would. She prayed all thefor the Lord to give her patience to bear Sher ill- ness as her grandmother did, She leaves behind to mourn the earlydeath of this beloved child, a mother and father, hus- band, aunt, uncle and a host of sorrowing relatives, Peace to her ashes. Mrs, Lelia Hughes was a pupil in grade 8 of the Dunbar School of Metropolis, Ill., during the fall winter and a part of the spring term of 1915-16 During this time she was a very faithful, deli- gent and energetic pupil. She gave evidence of a very uselul and promising life, She was the embodiment of kindness and affection to teachers and pupils, and stood at the head of het class. Dunbar School lores one of its noblest and best loved pupils in the death of Mrs. Lelia Hughes, but our loss is Heaven's gain, We, in common with her many friends, here and elsewhere, de- sire to mingle our feelings of deepest sympathy for her bereav- ed mother, husband and family; commending you all to Him who careth for you. Very respectiully, Irene B. Haynes, Teacher, Geo, E, Masterson, Prin. See Krebs & Company's Big ad on the front page and then at- tend the sale if you are bargain hunters We have just received the Book, Booker T. Washington's Own Story of His Life and Work, pub- lished by Mullikin-Jenkins Co., Washington, D. C, It is worth its weight in gold and should be in the home of every negro family, Many white people are purchasing the beok. herve rindi ene wea ea ue OSAP MOUND CITy. Dear Sir and Brother, allow me spwcein your paper to’ say that I hada letter from Rev. Hiliie stating that the Association could not meet at the 17th St, Baptist church at Murphys- boro as they were not able to en- tertain the Asseciation; therefore I shall have to change the place of meeting and will let you kaow later where it will meet. As the Association authorized meto change the date of the meeting of the Association so a5 to keep it from conflicting with the National paptist Convention, Therefore I set Sept. 19, for the setting ef the Mt, Olive paptist Association. This will give all the Bros, a chance to goto the National naptist Convention; if any Bro. inthe district has any objection to this change let me know through the columns of this paper, Please give all the churches notice of the change, Yours in Christ, Rev. D. Parrish, Moderator NOTICE. Dear Sisters: the time is fast approaching for the State Asso- ciation that was organized at Cea- tralia last year and the president is asking all local societies in the churches of each District to re- present at this meeting and we hope to have a good representat- ion from the Mt Olive district, T have not heard from our mise- ionary and domt know whether she has been able to visit any of the churches or not, but my dears we should not let our banner trail inthe dust. We should hold up the standard of the Baptist every where, I am settled at home tor awhile, but I am going to work in this part ef the field, asthe work is somewhat dull at preseat, but we havea lively set of B. Y. P. U. workers, They are doing real good work and I hope to be able to say the same of the W. KR. & M. Society Remember the State work is calling for you in May and will convenne with the Sparta Church. The {ce for the District is $5.00 and local $2.50. The women will meet on Friday andl hepe that each president will send me their address so they can receive their letter blanks. I algo have constitutions on hand;any local desiring them may write me. # also ask that each local put out small bags and let cach member solicit $1 00 for the Educational Cause. Remember we should work whilewelive. We have lost a Christian Man and the Pres. of the Livingston Normal, in the person of the late Rev, J. H. Knowles, so let us close up the Rank and press forward. Yours for Christ, M. J. Blake, President, The Great Native Salve | CURES Rheumatism, Piles, Kiduey Troubles, Bladder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Stuff Jotute, By phi- Mats, of All Discriptions, Indigestion Corns, Bunions, Lostot Manhood, All Kinds of Swelling. and Fever, Neuraligis, Worms, in Chiidren, All Kinds of Skin Diseases, Murops, Diptherie, Weak Eyes, All Kinds of Paine, Poeursonia, ete. When yourdsotor falls, buy you & box To the churches composing the East Mt. Olive Baptist Associa- tion and friends, you are hereby notified that the association will convene with the Corrinthian Baptist church, Mt, Vernoa Tuesday before the second Sun- day in Avgust. For further is- formation write Dr, W. P. Wash- ingtow. Sr., pastor and Modera~ tor, A. H. Bradley, Cor, Seo’y,