Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE NOTICE OF PUBLICATION CHANCERY. State of Illinois, Massac County. SS. In the Circuit Court, January Term, A.D. 1917. Blanche Clifford vs Bert Clifford In Chancery. Bill for Divorce Affidavit of non-residence of Bert Clifford, 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 complainant filed her bill of complaint in said Court on the Chancery side thereof, on the 5th day of December 1915 and that thereupon a Summon issued cut of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of January next, as is by law required. Now, unless you, the said non-resident defendant above named Bert Clifford shall personally appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of the next term thereof, to be held at Metropolis in and for said County, on the Eighth day of Jan- uary, 1917 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. Metropolis, Illinois, December 5th 1916 WALTER ROBERTS, Complainant's Solicitor MURDERED BY OFFICERS. Harry Petrie, near Brookport, was murdered by Fred Willis of Brookport, who was supposed to be acting as deputy city marshal under Abel who was with him and was a witness to the sad affair. Petrie was an innocent victim and had just left home with the intention of going to the Odd Fellows Hall, where he was janitor to look after the building during a concert. The officers were out in that neighborhood looking for Clifton Thompson who had had some trouble earlier in the evening with Dave Lynn, and when they run across Pettie they claim they called to him to halt and instead he snapped his gun at Will's twice and broke to run, and Will's then and there shot and killed, striking him under the right shoulder blade. He was running at the time of the shooting and yer, the coroner's jury pronounced it justifiable homicide. In the 1st place he had no reason to suspect that they were officers not being guilty of offense himself. Secondly we can see no reason, justice nor law to arm them elves with guns and going out and killing a man in cold blood just because he happens to be a negro. After killing Harry they secured an old wagon, hitched it behind an automobile loaded him in it and went rushing down the big road by his home, and his wite standing in the yard and never even stopped to tell her that they had killed ner-husband, as though he had been a hog, caraied him to the city hall where the inques was held. We look upon this as being a most brutal affair and an unjustifiable act, one that needs a thorough investigation by the citizens, white and black alike. He leaves a widow and several small children to mourn the loss of a faithful husband and a kind father. Peace to his dust Signamism. Dignare tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take theirs." AN OPEN LETTER. To Arms Baptists! To the Baptists of the Mr. Olive Baptist Association of Southern Illinois. To you we send greetings and wish to inform you that the time is at hand for us arise and gird our armor on, and heed the Macedonian cry 'Come ye over and help us.' We have a number of small churches a few larger ones in our district that are without pastors and not self supporting and with a little encouragement from the stronger ones, they can be made strong. Our mission work and our District missionaries are greatly neglected, which should not be the case in a land of plenty and prosperity, when, if the pastors and churches would manifest a little more of the Christ like spirit in carrying out the great commission to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Southern Illinois is part of the world, therefore, since it is part of territory we are obligated to Christ to carry the Gospel to perishing thousands in our baili wick. The churches are only asked to send up 5c per member quarterly to aid the missionaries while in the destitute parts of our district which is a small item to any member, but, would be ample to care for our district work in good shape and missionaries would not be compelled to look like tramps. As intelligent Baptists we cannot afford to let the Banner trail in the dust and be a laughing stock or to be held up in ridicule by others who are less able to care for their obligations. We confidently trust that each pastor and officer in the churches of our associational district will get busy and help to raise the financial standard in our district at the 1st quarterly Board meeting which will be held in Mt. Vernon with Shiloh Baptist church with Elder John Bruen, pastor, Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in Dec. 1916. The church and pastor sending up the most money at said meeting will be placed on honor roll and the cut of pastor will be placed in the columns of the Gazette Respectfully yours Elder J. B. McCrary, Moderator. SPARTA We are pleased to say that we are moving along nicely. Mr. Lewis Exron has moved down from Humboldt Tenn. he expects to make his home here with his daughter, Mrs. Anna Nance. The Established Thanksgiving Dinner to be given by the New Hope Baptist and the A. M. E. Church was given on Nov. 30th. Our pastor, Rev French preached an excellent sermon at eleven oclock he also preached at 3:00 and at night. The Sewing Circle will meet at the home of Mrs. Mary Covington this week under the auspices of Mrs. D. Brown. The Carnation Club will meet at the home of Mrs. Anna Nance this week under the auspices of Mrs. Malinda Foster. Tenn. are making their home with Mr. and Mrs. Macklin. Mrs. Maud Allen is on the sick list. NOTICE. The Executive Board Meeting Will Be Held With the Shiloh Baptist Church, Mt. Vernon, Illinois, Dec. 14-17, 1916. To the Pastors and churches of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association Dear Co Workers:— Your attention is hereby called to the fact that, the time for our "Board Meeting" is near at hand; and the necessities of our missionary and educational work, demands a very strong effort on our part. Our motto for the coming session is "Lift the standard higher." Therefore, we are calling for the hearty co-operation of all the pastors and churches in this Dist; because we feel that without your help we cannot succeed You will please remember that the report on State and standing, will show, that a good many of our churches are in doubt to the missionaries, for the last associational year's work. And too, the missionaries are in need of of our need of our help, so if we cannot pay all at the "Board," let us do the best we can in the name of Christ. Again you will please remember that a resolution was adopted in the last association, requesting all of our churches to take part in educating Bro. J N. Washington, by each church sending up the board, the sum of 500 every three months, the same to be sent to him at Nashville, Tenn. rn view of this fact, we cordially invite your attention to the forthcoming session of our Executive board, which will convene with the Shiloh Baptist church of Mt. Vernon, Ill. Eld, J. B. McCrary, Moderator. Eld, J. H. Starks, Cor. Sec'y. BROWNFIELD Nov. 23, 1916 The Executive Board of the East Mt. Olive Association met with Sincere Baptist Church at the above named place and date with Dr. W. P. Washington presiding. The business of the Board was duly transacted and a four days meeting conducted with two strong sermons each day quite a number of unsaved souls gave their hand for prayer and on Saturday night one conversion. Sunday was a high day spiritually. Bro. Thomas Morris of Metropolis gave us a spiritual feast at 11:00 and at 2:30. By mutual agreement with the Free Baptist brethren they returned the compliment Sunday night, Elder Stygers preached from the subject, "A Vision of God," the house was crowded to its utmost capacity Sunday night to hear Dr. Washington deliver his burning message; after sermon hand shaking and words of farewell was said with many requests for an early return, International Live Stock Exposition Chicago December 2-9, 1916 || Chicago December 4-9, 1916 THESE two propositions, while differing in their general scope, are of the utmost importance to all who are interested in cattle raising or the farming industry. The International Live Stock Exposition needs no introduction to those who have witnessed it in the past and this year it promises to surpass all others. The National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits is most opportune, coming as it does at a time when the high cost of living is a much mooted question. See your local Illinois Central Ticket Agent for specific Train Time and Fares. ILLINOIS CENTRAL H. J. PHELPS, General Passenger Agent. Subscribe for The Gazette $1 Per Year. Dr. W. P. Washington, Moderator Robt. Gray, Clerk Downaine 11 We offer these consoling words and bow our heads to the will of the Devine Providence. Our ranks has been entered by the Angel of Death and proclaimed Sister Della H. Hamilton. She joined Mt. Zion Baptist church in the month of Mar. 1906 and served as church clerk for 6 years, she was also S. S. teacher. She remained faithful and loyal to her duties until finally being satisfied that he work was all satisfaction to those who had implicit faith in her. Friday morning Nov. 24, 1916 she slept away triumphant of the Lord, down beside death's chilly stream and there with a sweet smile, she said, I am satisfied, Jesus gave her his rod and she crossed over and while we bow our heads in humble submission to the will of our blessed Saviour, we deeply feel this loss coming to the church and community, for which she toiled and loved, ever ready to counsel encourage and defend, that its peace and happiness should be maintained. The spirit of a true christian was manifested in our last meeting but at last such will not be ours to enjoy her as oiation again In the home church and community she made her life a sunshine for those she loved, but she has felt us sad and lonely and to mansions over wonder. She has gone with her garments whiter than snow. Resolved that while we realize this call from our midst here below we will console our hearts with God's love from above; for he doth all things for the best and so make our lives in keeping with hers we too shall be gathered in the morning far down the stream where she crossed we all must go. Resolved that we extend to relatives and friends our heartfelt symyathy. Be it further resolved that a copy be sent to the family, a copy be spread on the record of the church minutes and a copy be sent to the Gazette and the new Pinch back coat at old prices $10, $12.50, $15, $17.50, $20, $25. Men's Macinaw coats $3.50 to $9.00 Children's overcoats from $1.00 to 5.00 Boys' and youths' Overcoats from $2.50 to 7.50 We can fit you up for the winter in everything you need in wearing apparel and save you money. Give us a look and get our prices. The home of Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes 1.0.0.F. Building 3rd & Ferry Street. National Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits Hotel Sherman WINTER is here, and you need that Overcoat to keep you warm. We have a big line of Over coats in the new Styles, in staple lengths and the new Pinch prices $10, $12.50, Men's Macinaw Children's overcoat Boys' and youths $2.50 to 7.50 Underwear We can fit you u everything you need el and save you m Give us a look a Krebs Gl The home of Hart Sch 1.0.0.1 3rd & Fe We will meet her in the morning When we too shall cross Death's stream, We will clasp glad hands together And through eternity we gleam. Now we wipe away our tears, And we weep no more for she's at rest, Sleep on Sister Della we all here love you But Jesus loved you best. Submitted in loving remembrance ock Ex- ards 2-9, 1916 National eting at Hotel Sho Chicago ons, while differing in Coca-Cola nch back coat at old 0, $15, $17.50, $20, $25. w coats $3.50 to $9.00 oats from $1.00 to 5.00 ths' Overcoats from Flat fleece jersey rib and all wool for Men, Boys and chil- dren 25c, 50c to $3.00 up for the winter in need in wearing apparel money. and get our prices. Clothing Co. Schaffner & Marx Clothes D. F. Building & Ferry Street. of our beloved clerk. Algie H. Bradley. Assistant Clerk Mr. W J. Bogan, died Wednesday night about 9:30 after a illness of only a few months. He was a member of the 1st Baptist church. As we go to press funeral arrangements were not made. al Conference on Mark- and Farm Credits Sherman ago December 4-9, 1916 —automobile, travel, education for your children or a lump sum of money for any purpose—and we will write you the amount you should save each month, figuring interest, to have the sum in a given time. It is easier to save by mail because, not only is your name on the bill, but not the temptation to dribble it out for useless little things, and besides it draws interest — compounded semi-annually. One dollar opens an account. Booklet—"Banking by Mail" telling all about easy saving, sent on request. Ask for Booklet 4K. NORTH BLOUNT S4 Booklet—"Bank- ing by Mail" telling all about easy saving, sent on request. Ask for Booklet 4K. MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY OF ST. LOUIS MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM UNDER U.S. GOVT PROTECTION Erker's 608 OLIVE ST., ST. LOUIS Established 1879 We can duplicate your glasses from broken pieces. No re-examination necessary. PRICE $ REASONABLE Preinventory Used Car Sale Exceptionally Good Automobiles at $150 to $500 and up. At even your own price. The early buyer naturally gets the choleest selection. Call or write for list. Weber Implement & Auto Co. 1900 Locust St. St. Louis. Both Phones. Only 4 blocks. North of Union Station. Trade Your Property. No commission charged. Book of Trades free. Box 696, St. Joseph, Mo. He Couldn't Resist. Dyspeptic Old Lady—What ought I to take for an acid rising? Flip Drug Clerk—An acid drop, madam. OF INTEREST TO MOTHERS The cost of food today is a serious matter to all of you. To cut down your food bills and at the same time improve the health of your family, serve them Skinner's Macaroni and Spaghetti two or three times per week. Children love it and thrive on it. It is the best possible food for adults. Write the Skinner Mfg., Co., Omaha, Nebr., for beautiful cook telling how to serve it in a hundred ways. It's free to every mother.—Adv. "Do the chimes tell what time it is?" "Well, they've never told it yet."—Widow. 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. Admirable. He—The ostrich doesn't see much and digests everything. She—What an ideal husband. Hawaii is making bricks from lava. 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Sample mailed FREE. Address, Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y. Be sure you ask for and obtain Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Tutt's Pills stimulate the torpid liver; strengthen the digestive system; remedy for sick headache. Unrequited as an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. Elegantly sugar coated. Small dose. Price. 25g. 83ROUGH on RATS99 Minds Kate, Mice, Bugs Die outdoors. He and Me. W. N. U., 8T. LOUIS, NO. 48--1918. The Dog Trusts Its Sense of Smell Rather Than Sight A dog has wonderfully good eyes, but it has a still more wonderful sense of smell. Our sense of smell is so very feeble that only after we have made a long study of animals can we realize how useful and delicate this sense may be. A dog "knows a stranger" chiefly because the stranger had a strange scent. If the stranger wore the clothes of the dog's master, then the animal would take him for its master, even though the stranger appeared very different. After a time, very likely the dog might begin to feel uncomfortable, and act as if it thought something was wrong somewhere. Every creature forms its judgments mainly by means of the particular sense which is best developed in it, and which it has therefore learned to trust best. We know people by our eyes, and though sometimes a man's voice may be exactly like the voice of a friend, yet we do not think it is our friend if our eyes do not tell us so. The same way we trust our eyes, so a dog trusts its nose rather than its eyes, because its sense of smell is its best sense. It is because the dog has the wonderful thing called memory that it "knows a stranger." It is as if it said to itself, "This is not a smell I remember"—that is to say, it is a strange smell. Passing of Doe and Roe. In the legal calendar the 24th day of October is worthy of notice, as on that day in 1852 two individuals, though personally known to no one and enjoying an extensive reputation among lawyers, ceased to exist in England. These persons were John Doe and Richard Roe, and no two persons were more frequently referred to in legal documents. In every process of ejection instead of the real parties to the suit being named, John Doe, plaintiff, sued Richard Roe, defendant. Their names were also inserted in criminal proceedings. This fiction was introduced into English legal practice in the time of Edward III. In consequence, it was said, of a provision in Magna Charta which required the production of witnesses before every criminal trial and henceforth, John Doe and Richard Roe were inserted as the names of the alleged witnesses, a custom which was carried across the Atlantic to this country. Search where you will you will find no highway in the whole world so romantic as the Grand Trunk road of India. A stately avenue of three roads in one—the center of hard metal, the roads on each side ankle-deep in slvery dust—fringed by double rows of trees, it runs for 1,400 miles through the vast northern plain which skirts the Himalayas, from Calcutta to far Peshawar, which keeps sentinel at the gate of Afghanistan. From horizon to horizon it stretches like a broad white ribbon, as seemingly straight as if traced by a gigantic ruler. And dotted along its entire SOME SMILES Spoiled by Overdoing. "Your beauty is into xicat ing g," murmured the infatated youth. M "That settles it," rejoined the maid in the case. "I can never be your wife." "Because why?" he queried. "Because you would be full most of the time," she explained. Drawing the Line "Yes," she said, "I love you all right, but I couldn't think of being your wife." "What's the answer?" queried the puzzled young man. "Why," replied the daughter of Eve, "you are only a horse doctor." "Is that the only objection?" he asked. "That's enough," he answered. "I could never be tied to anyth- thing less than a very surgeon." setted each Friday for her at the home of five-year-old Flossie, and during a two weeks' so- journ in the country she had missed them. "Grandma, don't you have any Fridays out here?" "Of course we do, dear," replied the old lady. "But why do you ask?" Both Changed VILLAIN Miss Enderleigh —Why, I hardly knew you, Mr. Rounder. You have a different cut to your hair. Mr. Rounder—Yes; and I notice yours has a different hue. Wedderly—That isn't difficult All you have to do is get married. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. BOY THAT MOTHER SPOILED By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. ture wife. The wife will expect him to dine on the same dishes that she does, declaring, with more annoyance than anger. "What is food for the goose is food for the gander." If the mother has reduced her clothes to actual shabbiness to put it all on her son's back in more suits than he has actual use for, he will not find a wife likely to be so self-sacrificing. If matters are not evened up or reversed, he will find himself constantly in hot water over trying to give a satisfactory explanation of why a husband should dress like a king and his wife like a beggar. The young man who has been mother's pet is apt to have a quick temper, with little or no concern for other people's needs, comforts or happiness. He is more apt than not to develop into the kind of man who does not care a rap how many elderly women are standing if he can but push by main force into a seat on a crowded car. In his opinion women have no rights. No matter how intensely a mother may adore her son, she should teach him from boyhood up to be chivalrous to all women. In the struggle for a certain goal, he should not elbow the weaker aside. The motto of the chivalrous brave man is "Women and Children First." Those are the men their mothers have not spolled. Poultry Pointers It is well to encourage the new breeds when they are better than what we have. The wideawake poultryman is ready for the attacks of King Winter. He believes in preparedness. Notwithstanding that many good breeds have been imported, the fact remains that not one of them can be classed with our American production. Be sure that fowls and growing chicks have plenty of fresh air at night and that calls for good ventilation in houses and coops. Plenty of room on the roosts will prevent crowding and make the stock more comfortable during the hours that it rests and gains strength. Chicken houses should be kept clean in winter as well as summer, fall as well as spring. Be careful in handling mature geese that they do not strike you with their wings, which are very powerful and sometimes will break bones in the arm. Don't forget that about three-quarters of every egg is water and, therefore, the fowls must have plenty of clean, fresh water at all times. Plenty of clean, dry litter in the scratching shed is essential if you would keep the hens busy and expect lots of eggs. When the shells break easily and collapse in the nest they need lime. It is sometimes necessary to feed bone meal in the mash. The best egg-producing grain is wheat. Sees End to Indian Race. Rev. C. L. Hall of North Dakota, for 40 years a missionary on the Fort Berthold reservation, declared in an address before the American Missionary association that the Indian and white races will be completely merged through intermarriage within the next 50 years. "Despite the fact that the Indian birth rate is rising and the death rate falling, I believe that the Indian race will have disappeared 50 years from now," he said. "Intermarriage between whites and reds is rapidly increasing. The only objectionable feature lies in the fact that many whites are marrying Indians to obtain their shares of tribal wealth. But this, too, is hurrying the amalgamation." To Remove a Rusty Screw. Hold a red-hot iron to the head of the screw for a short time and then use the screwdriver while the screw is still hot. Lot of the Poor Peasants In $42 a year in order that he may be forced to live from one-tenth of the tax yield of his commune, and so see to it that everything is actually listed. So where a peasant has managed to scrape together something, it means for him an additional tax—Christian Herald. The wreck records of the Baltic sea is greater than that of any other part of the world. The comparative mortality of different occupations shows that clergy and farm laborers have the lowest death rate. A sheep may be sheared in four and a half minutes by machine, whereas it requires 15 minutes to do the work by hand. The greatest crater known is that of the Japanese mountain, Aso-an. It ranges from ten to fourteen miles in diameter. This country imports between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000 pounds of Roquefort cheese each year. The price has risen since the beginning of the war from about 20 cents a pound to about 35 cents a pound, in France. 'If each man's secret, unguessed care Were written on his brow, How many would our pity share Who have our envy now! And if the promptings of each heart No artifice concealed. How many trusting friends would part At what they saw revealed!" I always feel a secret sympathy for the girl who weds a young man who is his mother's pet. It is natural for a mother to be fond of her only boy, but it is un- wise to adore him to the extent of spoiling him for the next woman who is to take him in charge from the altar ever af- terward. 1910 If mother has given him his own way in everything he will find hard travelling on the matrimonial road if he has wedded a spirited young woman who will not tolerate giving in to his whims right or wrong. giving in to his whims right or wrong. He had expected to go through life being waited on by the women of his household hand and foot. He comes into the house, tosses his coat and hat on the seat of the hall hatrack, knowing someone will hang them up in their proper place. He expects dinner to be ready on the minute, and a good one at that, whether he has provided wifey with sufficient cash to pay all the weekly bills or not. He wants the evening paper put into his hands at once and gets into a petty fit of anger if conversation is carried on at the table while he is reading. He was in the habit of doing this under his mother's roof and is quite unprepared to hear his wife raise decided objections, declaring he was at the table to eat and exchange agreeable conversation at the same time with those about him and the family paper could be perused later as long and thoroughly as he pleased. If mother stunts her table to cook just such food as her pet wants, and for him alone, she is putting a huge stumbling block in the path of the fu- length are hundreds of wayside rest- honies, each with its arched and turreted gateway. For 3,000 years the Himalayas have looked down on this road and have seen it as they see it today. It was the world's greatest highway before Rome was cradled. Alexander the Great led his Greeks along it to the conquest of northern India; and Buddhha himself took his daily walks along it centuries before Christ was born. It has seen 100 generations of men come and go; yet today it is, to the eye, exactly the same as in the long- gone years when Nineveh was a proud city and our own ancestors gnawed bones in their caves. Yucatan's Water Caverns. Since Yucatan, where the Mayas built their strange cities, is of coral limestone formation, it follows that it would have been a desert but for its subterranean rivers and the cenotes, or water caverns, which give access to them. The Mayas noted the course of the underground streams and built their towns round the cenotes. Many cenotes are now found surrounded by ruins, and give indications of the methods employed by the Mayas to reach their cool waters. In Uxmal a cenote about forty feet deep is inhabited by a peculiar species of fish. At Bolanchen there is a cenote having five openings in the rocks at the bottom of the cavern. Ladders made by tying tree trunks together lead down a total distance of 1,400 feet, but the perpendicular depth from the surface to the water is not more than 500 feet. From time to time, since 1840, the Roumanian government has divided the land among the peasants. This land, then, must remain in the family. As families increase, however, this patrimony becomes less and less sufficient for the clan, and there is nothing left for some of them to do but to take service out. That is putting oneself in the hands of the manor-lord or his steward. The usual method is to assign the peasant a section of the manorial lands, to be tilled by himself and his family and oxen on "halves" of the crop. Over 70 per cent of the people are illiterate, however, owing to laxity in the enforcement of the compulsory school laws; and so it requires no very great degree to fleece them out of their proper shares. Should the man complain, no work will be given him the next year; and in some of the villages round Gradobor one sees peasants, half-starved, loiling in the little inns and gossiping, not because unwilling to work, but because there is absolutely nothing for them to do; and they have no money to emigrate elsewhere. On what the peasant does get, moreover, the taxes are exorbitant. A village mayor receives a salary of but A Little Bit of Everything. IRISH NOT A POOR PEOPLE Even Beggars of the Green Isle Have Money Stowed Away, Says American Vice Consul. Ireland is in a more prosperous condition than ever in its history, according to James Thompson, American vice consul at Queenstown, who so tells the Washington Post. "The people of the United States appear to have an erroneous impression regarding Ireland," said Mr. Thompson. "It is popularly supposed that the Irish people are very poor. This is far from the fact. There are few poor, people in Ireland. True, there are beggars, professional mendicants, but most of these have a snug sum stowed away. Since the beginning of the war wages have advanced in all the industrial trades in Ireland and the average workman lives as well if not better than the workman of America. Munitions factories have been established in numerous places, throughout Ireland, and the workmen in these factories get an average of $5 a day. The ordinary laborer is drawing a higher wage than ever, and nearly all of them have nicely furnished houses and their wives and daughters wear silks and satins. They have not yet taken up the automobile habit, but if prosperity continues perhaps they will come to this. There are #however, very few automobiles in Ireland, the government having commandeered most of the machines. It's very expensive running a machine, however, for gasoline is selling at 52 cents a gallon. "Food prices have risen beyond all reason. New potatoes are bringing a higher price than ever before; meat sells for 36 cents a pound; butter at 40 cents, sugar at 12 cents. Coal has gone up to 48 shilling a ton and will reach 60 before long. "Queenstown is a closed port, and has been since September of 1914," continued Mr. Thompson. "There are very few American visitors in Ireland. Some Irish-Americans who were caught there at the beginning of the war have remained. Gold is so scarce that one seldom sees any. The banks will not give it out, and the government has issued notes in place of the sovereign and half sovereign." Mr. Thompson, who is a native of Virginia, is on 60-days' leave of absence. Conservation for Lakes. The hundred and more lakes which are scattered over Iowa, chiefly in the northern part, are about to be included in what doubtless will be one of the most comprehensive plans ever adopted by any state to conserve its bodies of water, according to Popular Mechanics Magazine. At the direction of the Iowa legislature, 20 engineers have been engaged for more than a year in making a careful survey of the lakes and marshes of the state. At the same time experts from the state colleges have been studying the wild life in the lake region. This mass of information is about to be embodied in a report which, it is expected, will be used in outlining a program of improvement that will cover five or more years. Certain of the lakes, probably about fifty in all, will be set aside as game preserves. The fish grown at the state hatcheries will be transferred to these lakes and other steps taken for the benefit of sportsmen. About fifty other lakes will be designated as resort centers. In some cases it may be deemed advisable to construct dams to raise the water level of these lakes. A third group will be drained. Included in the latter class will be many which are so shallow that they freeze solid in winter and dry up in summer. Makes It Easy to Locate Pipes Piping such as is made use of for conducting air, water, steam or hot water is frequently buried in the wall, with nothing to indicate its presence, so that when repairs are necessary it is often a difficult matter to ascertain the location of these conduits. Very often this is accomplished only by tearing out the plaster and doing considerable damage to the property. A recently patented electric method for locating the pipes is simply a special application of the well-known induction balance principle. A convenient apparatus is made up, consisting of two sets of coils placed on ends of a magnet bar. One set of coils receives alternating or vibratory current from a suitable source, and the other coils are connected to a telephone. The balance is first established so that no sound is heard in the telephone. When the device comes near the metal piping this disturbs the balance and a sound is heard. It is thus an easy matter to find the exact position of the pipes and to reach them with less damage to the wall. Wildcats Invade Ranch. Bobcats are numerous in the vicinity of Galena. Two of these big cats gave the Nelson family at the Dahl ranch anxiety last week. One walked to the back door and leaped upon the watch dog chained there. Driven away, it renewed the attack and was shot and killed. It was thought that this cat was rabid, and the head was sent to the Pasteur institute in Reno. The next day another bobcat, presumably the mate of the one killed, walked along the road in front of the house. This one was shot and wounded. The dog pursued the cat into the brush and killed it. It is thought a litter of bobcats is near the ranch, as their tracks were seen around the barn, where they had evidently wandered while searching for the old cats—Battle Mountain (Nov.) Dispatch to Our Bee. "I DON'T SUFFER ANY MORE" "Feel Like a New Person," says Mrs. Hamilton. 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What could he have been carrying more valuable than the eggs he destroyed?—Cleveland Plain Dealer. DON'T LOSE YOUR HAIR Prevent it by Using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Trial Free. If your scalp is irritated, itching and burning and your hair dry and falling out in handfuls try the following treatment: touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment and follow with hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. Absolutely nothing better. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. "He always was n pushing sort of follow." Meat Eaters' Backache Meat lovers are apt to have backaches and rheumatic attacks. Unless you do heavy work and get lots of fresh air, don't eat too much meat. It's rich in nitrogen and helps to form uric acid—a solid poison that irritates the nerves, damages the kidneys and often causes dropy, gravel and urinary disorders. Doan's Kidney Pills help weak kidneys to throw off uric acid. Thousands recommend them. A Missouri Case "Every Picture Tells a Story" work. Finally I used Doan's Kidney Pills and they proved to be just what I needed. After using three boxes I was cured." Get Doan's at Any Store, $0 a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS POSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. APPENDICITIS If you have been threatened or have GALLSTONS, INDIGESTION, GAN or pain in the right elbow, call 1-800-222-2222 FREE A. DOWNS, 10-12, 218 S. MARLBURG ST., CHICAGO Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . . U.S. MRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER J. B. McOBRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY DEC. 8, 1916. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. @ address all communications to J. B. McOBRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in evey instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 1x Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. The Churches, B Y. P. U 's, S. S. and W. E. M. Societies are requestd to send 500 each to the Executive Board which meets in Mt. Vernon, Ill., Dec. 14, 1916 by letter or messenger to assist Rev. J N. Washington in school at Nashville, Tenn. Don't forget to specify for what purpose. This is aside from the amount churches are required to send up for missionary, and expenses of Bard. Please do not fail. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Moderator Rey. J. H. Starks, Corresponding Sec'y. Read r if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and are notiged lto pay up. We, the pastor and members of the Unity Baptist church, Brookport, ask that every pastor and church in the district lift an after collection after each service Sunday to assist us in paying for shingles to cover our church, it will not hurt you. Send money money to pastor, J. B McCrary, Metropolis, and you will be receipted through the Gazette. Who will respond to this Macedonian cry? $3 25 will buy us 1,000 shingles, $1 65 will buy 500 shingles and 85c will pay for 250 shingles. The S. S. and other auxiliares can help us in this hour of need. J. B. McCrary, Pastor. In the Sunken Submarine. "It's too annoying that we should be stuck down here. I bought myself the most splendid tomb only last week."—Lustige Biaetter. The Workers. "Did a musician of note shore your opera?" "No; the critics did." Geo. H. Crippins The Blacksmith W. 7th Street, between Market and Pearl Streets; Metropolis. Horse Shoeing and Rubber Tireing a Specialty General Repair Work Give me a trial. All work Guar- tanced. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the oely positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing 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 & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Miss Beatrice Cook, returned home from Grand Rivers, Ky., last week. Blaine Alston, and Edgar Orington were Paducah Ky visitors Monday. Miss Mary White of Brookport, spent Thanksgiving day in the city with Miss Carrie Urquhart. Hampton Washington is on the sick list. Miss Catherine Calhoun. is quite sick. Mrs. Mattie Howard, was called to East. St. Louis, last Friday on the account of a sick relative. Ontrue Cowper 'e't for Smithland, Ky., the 6th to attend the funeral of a cousin Mrs. Mo'lie Claybrooke, returned home from Chicago, last week after several weeks with her daughter Mrs. Emma Simmons. Mrs. Lena Phillips, was at home Thanksgiving day. Miss Azalia Sumner, who is teaching in Cairo, spent Thanksgiving day with her parents, who reside near Brookport. There was a Spelling Bee a the 1st Baptist church Wednesday night under the anspices of the Silver Leaf Club. All enjoyed the evening. Where are the missionaries of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association and what are they doing? We have had nothing from them since the association. Rev. Winston was very poorly at the association. Let every church send in some moey for the missionaries and Rev. J. N. Washington per resolutions passed at the associa- The children of Dunbar School sang on Friday and rendered satisfaction. This was a new feature on the program, but it will no doubt cause new inspiration in the children as well as the teachers. Thanksgiving day passed off quietly in Brookport and Metropolis The Unity Baptist and A. M. E. Churches of Brookport served dinner and supper, The A. M. E. Church, Metrepolis, held services in the morning and rally, and at night had a concert at the Hall. They reported $204 00 Monday night as a result of their effort The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. Mr. Laura McClelland, is still on the sick list. Dear Brethren, the Executive Board will convene with the Sincere Baptist church Now Brownfield, Ill., Thursday before the 4th Sunday in Nov. 1916. We hope to have a full delegation at said meeting. And too, we ask every pastor and church to remember Dr. Phillips in the affliction of his family, and send or bring some money for him to the Board let it be little or much and God will bless your efforts. I am respectfully. W. P. Washington, Moderator. A DEBATE The Industrial Club of the 1st Baptist Church gave an entertainment Monday, night and had a debate. Resolved that Women had no right to vote. Adelbert Moore and Blaine Alston were in favor of woman suffrage, George McCrary and Ontrue Cowper opposed it. A prize of 25c was to be given to the one on each side that brought out the most points. The judges decided in favor of woman suffrage and Blaine Al-Ston and George McCrary, as making the most points. Much interest was manifested. NOTICE To The Metropolis Gazette "Arouse B. Y. P. U. Workers and shake your dusty garments." Greetings:— It has nearly been six months since our last annual coming together and it is only a little bet ter than six months now and we will convene again in our annual Convention. In our session in Carbondale, with the Rock Hill B. Y. P. U. it marked an epoch in the history of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. In one day we raised approximately $70 00. Our motto is $100 00 in Cairo 1917. Since our country has been in War, and now rumors of war, it is time now that we arouse and shake our dusty garments and put on new life for the Master. Let every B. Y. P. U. president in the District work harder this year than last and we will see the result when we get to Cairo. Awake! awakes! Rise and shine and remember the Banner that will be given the B. Y. P. U. who represents with the largest amount of money. Metropolis under the presidency of Mrs. Cork holds the banner now. To one and all, I wish you a very happy Xmas and a successful New Year. Yours in Christ, Edgar S B. McCrary, President. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very last, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. MARRIED Thanksgiving day Miss Gertrude Sumner, of Brookport and Trib Terrell of Elkville were married and left immediately that afternoon for the groem's home where they will reside for the future. They are both industrious and no doubt will succeed in life. Only a few friends were present. Dear Ministers of the Baptist family we are trying to build up the waste placing in our district by sending our missionaries into this territory, we can only be able to do this to the extent that you co-operate with us in a financial way. We have two splendid men on the field this year, you, through your messengers help to place them there, now, you are obligated to help care for them. Please do not disappoint us in our next Executive Board meeting. We are expecting a good report for our missionaries Elder I. W. Winston and W. D. Simms, and let us care for them and families while they are at work in the destitute field. Will you heed this message brethren? Let us hear from you through the Gazette. Dont forget the 50c promised quarterly from the churches, Sunday Schools. B. Y P. U's and Women Societies for Rev. J. N. Washington who are to assist while at Roger Williams University See what Dr. A. M. Townsend, Pres has to say in this issue. Elder J. B McCrary. Moderator NOTICE To the churches, S. S B. Y P. U. and W. E. & M's. composing Mt Olive Baptist Association at our meeting held at Colps, Ill in Sept. it was recommended that each local department mentioned send up quarterly to the Executive Board 500 to aisist Rev. J N. Washington. the Suuuay School missionary in paying his expenses through Roger Williams University at Nashville, Tenn. Several of the churches have already paid for the 1st quarter. You can send in for the year, half of a quarter of the year by mail or through delegate at the next executiee Board meeting. Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in Dec. at Mt. Vernon, We have notified Dr. A. M. Townsend, Pres., of the University of the action of the action of our Body and he is holding us responsible for same. Please tear out this notice for reference as it may not occur again. By order of the Association, J. B. McCrary Moderator, Metropolis, Ill. Paper and every other article used in a newspaper have jumped sky-high, therefore it takes more money to operate a paper than ever before. 'If you appreciate our efforts to give you a good paper, you will not hesitate to pay up at once. The Gazette, office has just received a large consignment of Letter Heads. Envelopes, Bill Heads, Cards & etc. Let us do some of your job work. The brothers that promised to pay the editor of The Gazette, for the paper if they lived. Poor fellows! they are dead for they have not paid for the paper. We are preparing to hand a number of names of our subscribers to our collecting agent as they seem to think we can run on cold air. We can't and need our money to pay bills. You need not order the paper stopped until you pay up. The law says so. We will give you this week to pay some if not all. M's Catherine Calhoun, died about one o'clock Thursday mor. ing, after a long illness. More next week. Subscribe For The Gazette, NOTICE OF PUBLICATION CHANCERY State of Illinois Massac County, SS. In the Circuit Court, January Term, A. D. 1917. Grace Lassiter vs B. E. Lassiter in Chancery. Affidavit of non-residence of the B. B. Lassiter 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 complainant filed her bill of complaint in said Court, on the Chancery side thereof, on the 24th day of November 1916 and that thorupon a summons issued out of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of January next as is by law required. Now, unless you, the said non-resident defendant above named B. B. Lassiter shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court, on the first day of next term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in and for the said County on the 8th day of January 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. Metropolis Illinois, Nov. 24th 1916 FRED R. YOUNG Complaint's Solicitor. NOTICE OF PUBLICATION CHANCERY State of Illinois, Massac County SS. In the Circuit Court, January Term, A. D. 1917. Elizabeth Wymer vsC. H. Dunn and Ella Dunn, in Chancery. Affidavit of non-residence of the C. H. Dunn implained with the above defendants Ella. Dunn having been filed in the Circuit Court of said County notice is therefore hereby given to the said non-resident defendant that the complainant filed her bill of complaint in said Court, on the Chancery side thereof, on the 24th day of November 1916 and that thereupon a Summons issued out of said Court, wherein said suit is now pending returnable on the Second Monday in the month of January next, as is by law required. Now unless you, the non-resident defendant above named C. H. Dunn shall personally be and appear before said Circuit Court, on the first term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in and for the said County, on the 8th day of January next, and plead, answer or demur to the said complainant's bill of complaint, the same and the matters and things therein charged will be taken as confessed, and a decree entered against you accordiing to the prayer of said bill. ARTHUR H. FINLEY, Clerk. Metropolis Illinois, November 24th 1916. FRED R. YOUNG, Comlapinant's Solicitor. DIED SUDDENLY. Mr. Washington Cobb, an old and respected citizen of Metropolis, and veteran of the Civil War died very suddenly Tuesday of heart failure in a grocery store on West 8th St. He was a good citizen and had many friends. He leaves an afflicted widow, relatives and friends to mourn his loss. The Gazette is in deep sympathy with the relativess. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. gave to the members of the Y. W. C. A Friday evening that will long be remembered by all whose privilege it was to at end. Everything was done in "Roger" style. Sunrise prayer meeting was the first feature for Thanksgiving day afterwhich we witnessed a very well played game of basket ball played on the campus by students representing Illinois and Tenn. Our 2nd year Academic class will entertain in an "Evening in Rome" Friday evening intersper- with some new features in songs. Rev. J. N. Washington. The Greatest Service We Can Render Our Children. BY MRS. MARTHA DUDNEY. CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. children to oneself, if you love them they love you, if you make much of them they will respond with like treatment. They have a quick way of finding out who cares for them. We should praise our children rather than find fault to withhold it from them is to bed shonest with them. Praise spurs a child to more earnest endeavor blame when administered before visitors, takes away the ambition to do well We should early train our children to accept salvation for in youth is time to serve the lord. Many times we feel that we can not dress our children well enough to let them go to S. S. Yet we permit them to visit and play on the street, that is false pride, because it causes the child to become indifferent, and careless to the higher things of life. Some parents will go to church and leave the children at home, thus allowing the privilege to do as they please, that is hypocry. We should be more anxious to save our own children and should take them to the House of God. Other parents say I have so many children I cannot go, they set no example, and the child while it is small will go for awhile but when it reaches the age of maturity has no use for the House of God. Parents are responsible for the way they train their children. God loans them to us, and we should use them as the good servant did his talent. Thus bring glory and honor to God, that they may hear that welcome; "Thou good and faithful servant, thou has been faithful over a few things I will make the ruler over many, enter thou with thy children into the joy of the Lord forever, Amen." MT. VERNON Mt. Vernon, Ill. 12-5 1916 Dear Editor of the Gazette: Please allow me space in your journal to say to the Women of the State Association. It is with a sad and bereaved heart that I am announcing to you the very sudden call of our beloved Corresponding Secretary, Sister D. H. Hamilton who was called from labor to reward on the 24th day of Nov. 1916. She fell at her post of duty but felt no fear. We have a worthy Sec one that loved the work and was interested in upbu ldng and making our state work what it should be, the last letter wrote me about the time she was taken ill, in regards to the Board Meeting. At home she was an ardent church worker interested in her Sunday School. She leaves a husband, a daughter of 13 years. Sisters there is a work for us; also a mother, father and a host of friends who keenly feel their loss, but we dear sisters know from her active work and the strong encouraging talks she gave us especially the one made at our last Board Meeting. Our loss is Heaven's gain so let us bow our heads in, humble submission to his will and say, "O Lord Thy will be done" and say of Dear Sister Hamilton, "Soldier of Christ well done, rest from thy work's imploy; the battle' fought, the victory's won enter Thy Master's joy. Peaceful be thy silent slumter Mrs. Bettie Wilkerson President