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43d YEAR.
HARTFORD, KY., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1917.
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17 HIE MEN
ME KILLED
By Negro Soldiers Near
Houston, Texas.
ILLINOIS CTONIS KILLED
More Than a Score of Men,
Women and Children
Wounded.
Houston, Tex. Twelve white men,
civilians, police ofTiceis aniJ national
guardsmen were killed and more
than a score of persons, men, women
and children, wounded in an out
break here of negio soldiers of the
twenty-fouith infantry, stationed
here to act as guards during the con
struction of a camp where the Illi
nois troops will train. It is not
known how many negroes are dead.
Two Girls Shot.
Four persons, two of them gills,
were shot in the vicinity of the camp
of the Twenty-fouith infantry. In
termittent filing continued more than
a hour. Citizens, who secuied aims,
and started toward the camp in au
tomobiles weie halted ."by Jthc sol
diers. Telephone communication was
cut off and little information secuied.
Regiment of Negroes..
The Twenty-fouith infantiy is
composed of negio tioops sent here
to guard Camp Logan during its con
struction. At 11:30 o'clock it was repoitcd
twelve persons injuied in the rioting
had been taken to hospitals. The
camp is situated eight miles iom
Houston.
Illinois 'Captain Killed.
Captain J. W. Maatcs, A Battel y,
Second Illinois Field artillery,, is
among the dead. He was killed when
he tn6d to remonstrate with negro
soldiers. The outbieak is supposed
to have originated over a difficulty
which two negio soldiers had with
police officers, who anested them
for disturbing the peace.
Fire on Ambulance.
The firing began when an ambu
lance started thiough a section oc
cupiedby negro soldiers. They stop
ped the ambulance and filed a vol
ley, riddling it with bullets. It was
this volley that wounded a sixteen-year-old
white gill standing in her
father's store.
Police reset ves sent out met vol
leys fiom the negioes. Civilians
went to the policemen's assistance
and filing continued an hour and a
half. The situation was quiet at 1
a. m.
Theie were seveial hundicd Texas
guardsmen heie leady to cntiain for
the training camp, but they had no
guns. A battery of the cost artill
ery was rushed to Houston on motor
trucks. The city was placed under
martial law by proclamation of Gov
ernor Feiguson.
SCHOOL BEGINS
Monday, September 3 Circumstances
Point to Auspicious Opening
of 38th Year.
The thirty-eighth annual term of
Hartford College begins next Mon
day, Sept. 3, and indications are that
the opening will be under auspicious
circumstances.
Several new faces will be seen in
the faculty this year, four of last
year's faculty having resigned dur
ing the present year.
Those composing the faculty this
year are: Prof. J. F. Brunei-, Science
and German; Prof. Henry Leach,
Mathematics and History; Miss Lelia
Glenn, Latin and English; Prof. J. T.
Hoagland, Sub-Collegiate Depart
ment; Miss Norino Harris Burnett,
Grammar Department; Miss Eliza
beth Moore, Intermediate Depart
ment, and Miss Cliffie Felix, Primary
Department.
THREE NEGROES DEAD IN
COAL FIELD DISORDERS
Madisonville, Ky. Disorders t in
tli ccal fi-lh of Western Kentucky
within the la3t forty-eight hours
have caused thrco deaths. George
Stevens, n negro, was shot and in
stantly killed by a weigher for the
Carbondale Coal and Coke Company,
who attempted to separate the ne
gro and his wife, who were fighting.
"Buster" Mcrritt, also a negro, who
was shot in the shoulder, subse
quently died of his wounds. Frank
Scott, an Earlington negio, who was
set upon last night by thiec ncgiocs,
died after being scyeicly beaten
about the head. The authorities aic
searching for two men whom they
charged aie connected with the lat
ter offense.
JUST LIKE HIS DADDY
EVERYBODY IS HAPPY
The following card was leccived
by the editor Satuiday:
Woodbine Branch,
Nashville, Tcnm,
v August 21, 1917.
Dear Coombs We have a great
boy just like his Daddy. Born at C
a. m., today. Everybody's happy
and all aic doing cwll.
Yours.
BAXTER V. NAPIER.
Rev. Napier is the pastor of the
Methodist church here.
PLAYED GOOD SAMARITAN;
GOT "NICKED" FOR $35
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 25. While
Mis. Mary McBride, of 2010 South
Fifteenth sticet was on the second
floor of her home securing medicine
for a woman who had complained of
a sudden illness, the woman and $35
in cash disappeaied.
H. A. GARFIELD NAMED
FPU FUEL DICTATOR
Coai Jobbers Will Be Allowed
Profit of Fifteen Cents
a Ton.
Washington. Government conti ol
of the coal industiy was made al
most complete when Piesident Wil
son named Dr. H. A. Gai field, fuel
administiator, and fixed antlnacite
prices for pioducers and jobbcis and
set a limit on the piofits to be made
by bituminous wholesaleis.
The next final steys will be to
make regulations for coal distribu
tion and fix antlnacite and bitumin
ous letail prices. This will be done
when the distribution piogiam is
perfected and when the Fedeial
Tiade Commission has completed a
plan under which letail piofits may
be fixed.
Anthiacite prices, fixed effective
September 1 are viitually the same
as those now chaigcd at the mines
under a voluntary aiiangcment
made bv the pioduccis with the
tiade commission. The prices that
may be charged by jobbeis, however,
will i educe the picsent costs sharply.
Bituminous jobbers piofits, too, aie
cut by the new price scale set by
wholesale transactions. Bituminous
piofits for jobbeis aie fixed at fif
teen cents a ton. The same lestric
tions that govern the dealings of an
thiacite jobbers will apply to bitu
minous transactions.
TYPHOID FEVER.
After an illness of typhoid fever,
Wit Johnson, aged 27, died nt the
four stacks of hay burned Satuiday
1, Thuisday morning at 10 o'clock.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dave Johnson, who live about five
miles southeast of town, and was a
member of Hattford Camp, No. 202,
W. O. W.
After funeral services at the
grave, his remains weie buried in
the Milton Taylor burying grounds
Friday morning.
RESOLUTIONS ON DEATH
OF LONIE JOHNSON
Whereas, Lonie (Wit) Johnson, who
was a member of Hartford Camp No.
202, W. O. W., died August 23, 1017,
ago 28. Joined this Camp in 1914,
and lived a true and loyal Sovereign
until called to the Sovereign Camp
above.
Resolved, That in the death of
Sovereign Johnson this Camp has
lost one of its best members and his
plcco around the Camp in the forest
is vacant, but his memory will bo
cherished by the lcmalning Sover
eigns. Be it further
Resolved, That we point the fami
ly of Sovereign Johnson to the great
Soveieign of all, and try to emulate
his good deeds.
Resolved, That these resolutions
be published in both county papers,
and a page of the minutes be set
opart for a copv, and a copy be sent
to the family,
E. P. BENNETT,
S. L. KING.
DR. A. B. RILEY.
HARTFORD
BOWLING
10 BE VISITED JY ENUMERATORS
Average Will Be Reached By Scheme
Hartford Chosen As Representative of
Town of Less Than 2,500.
Washington, Aug. 2G. Bowlin?'
Giecn and Haitfoid aic the two Ken-j
tucky towns selected by the Depait-'
ment of Agiicultuic for its survey to1
determine the amount of food stocks
held in letail stoics thioughout the
country. '
Cities and towns in foity-three
counties, repiesentativc of every pop
ulation group have been designated
by the depaitmont for its survey tj
begin this week. All food stocks in
retail stores are to be inventoried in
a detail and peisonally supervised
survey, and estimates fiom the fig
ures obtained will make it possible to
apptoximate the quantity of food on
hand in such establishments through
out the country.
Bowling Giecn was chosen as rep
lesentative of towns having between
208 In Second Summons.
Sixty men were given not'ee to re
poit at the local exemption boaid re
examination Monday in the second
call and fifty-one lepoited. Eighteen
failed to pass, eight passed and
claimed no exemption and twenty
six passed and filed exemptions.
Two lec.uested tiansfets ard the
following failed to lepoit: Joseph
Marion Mills. Jas. W. M. Johnson
Geo. Stevens, Sq.iirc Willoughby,
Chas. L. Howaid and Lutiel Kiiby.
Sixty weie called to lepoit to the
boatd ycsteiday and up to pies3 hour
fifty-three had becn examined. Forv
ty-thiee passed and ten failed. Of
those passed, five claimed no coemp
tions, while thiitv-five filed claims.
Ordered for Exumluutioii Aug. ST.
134G Luttrell Kirby Park, Hartford,
Ky.
2053 Owen Park, Hartford, Ky.
2051 Thomas Lloyd, Narrows, Ky.
1957 Jno. A. Webb, Hartford, Ky.,
R. 7.
57C Mitchell Embry. Neafus, Ky.
2023 Ed. Nail, Hartford, Ky.
944 Willis Aubrey Hines, Hartford,
Ky., R. 3.
18GC Arnett It. Wilson, Olaton, Ky.
1S0S Walter Watson, McHenry, Ky.
1943 Squlro Willoughby, Cromwell,
Ky.
1G77 Wm. Estil Shields, Cromwell,
Ky.
122 Elis Brown, Hartford, Ky., R.4.
1783 Orvll Dean Tichenor, Hartford,
Ky., R. G.
642 BIrdIo Ford, Hartford, Ky.,
H. C.
939 Oswald Clifton Hocker, Hart
ford, Ky., It. 1.
1G39 Jno. Leigh Snilthson, Dundee,
Ky.
222 N. Ulgdon Butler, Balzoown,
Ky.
1715 Wm. Elder Tichenor, Center
town, Ky.
90G Jesse Bethel Hedden, Fords
ville, Ky.
1337 Robert B. Peters, Beaver Dam,
Ky.
700 Henry Geary, Neafus, Ky.
1250 Noel Alison Matin, Beaver
Dam, R. 3.
1195 Orvll D. MHIor, Solect, Ky.
297 Marvin W. Brown, Hartford,
Ky., R. 1.
321 George W. Conway, McHenry,
Ky.
736 Willie Gray, Echols, Ky.
1G28 Dellle Clay Singleton, Echols,
Ky.
707 Ray Sylvester Galther, Fords
vllle, Ky. It.
14 CH Albert Duncan Rowo Center
town, Ky., R. 4.
1002 Everett Kendall, Beaver Dam,
Ky.
1151 Frank Myers, eBaver Dam.Ky.
1101 Emniltt Lee Loney, Fordsvllle,
Ky.
368 Charlie Carpenter, McIIenrji
Ky.
974 James W. M. Johnson, Hart'
ford, Ky., R. 1.
1698 Geo. Stevens, Beaver Dam.
320 Jesse. James Colyer, Whites-
vllle, Ky., R. 2.
950 Wm. Gorden Her, Rockport,
Ky.
926 Charlie L. Howard, Rockport,
Ky.
1010 Fred Mosslnger, Horse Branch,
Ky. .
EE
2.500 and 5,000 pop-ilation. It U in a
gioup with four nthev towns One
onta, N. Y.; Amcricu3. Ga.; 'Dcl-alb,
11!.. and Provo. Utah.
Haitfoid is in the gioup of villages
having less than 2 300 ie3idrnt3. fif
teen such towns aie included in th's
gioup.
The survey of letail jtocks, the
plan for which was made public to
night, is one of four blanches of the
gicat task of estimating tile coun
try's entile stock of food as o Au
gust 31, which has been undei taken
by the Buieau of Markets for the
Department of Agiicultuic and the
Food Administiation. Other hurveys
will cover stock on faims, in whole
sale commeicial establishments and
stoiagt-s, and in the homes of the
consumers.
1S57 Elton W. Wilson, Olaton, Ky.
919 Hardin Lee Hoover, Hartford,
Ky., R. 5.
G5G Frank Allen Fenn, Dundee, Ky.
1919 Russell Westerfleld, Fordsvllle,
Ky.
1339 Arthur Elijah Peters, Beaver
Dam, Ky.
S14 Roscoe Hosklus, Beaver Dam,
Ky.
1173 Arthur Lee Miller, Horse
Branch, Ky.
1070 Birch Leach, Rosine, Ky.
73S Jasper L. Greer, Fordsvllle,
Ky.
11G7 Eddie M. Morris, Renfrow, Ky.
1097 James Elvis Lee, Sunnydale,
Ky.
1191 Owen W. Moore, Beaver Dam,
Ky.
1234 Virgil C. Malln, Beaver Dam,
Ky.
17S1 Robert Thomas, Cromwell.Ky.
13G0 Robert Ebo Price, Llvermore,
Ky.
S48 Francis Marion Hoagland.Hart
ford, Ky.
1118 Joseph Marlon Miller, Hart
ford, Ky.
121 Orlando Bottom, Centertown,
Ky.
221 Olllo Earl Baker, Echols, Ky.
1537 Barclay Shoulders, McHenry,
Ky.
1474 Jno. Elbert Render, Rockport,
Ky.
Ordered for Examination Aug. 28.
1414 Altha Ralph, Whltesvlllo, Ky.
1G1G Dan. B. Stevens, Olaton, Ky.
292 Charles Noble Balrd, Hartford.
Ky., R. 5.
822 Gilbert Hayes, McHenry, Ky.
504 Elvis Allen Dchart, Horse
Branch, Ky.
10G4 Ivan Austin, Beavor Dam, Ky.
1205 Paul Porter Murphy, Narrows,
Ky.
1510 Mert D. Richardson, Hartford,
Ky., R. 5.
1091 Everett Langford. Select, Ky.
470 Ray Crabtreo, Hartford, Ky.
312 Mexander Bozarth, 223Adams
St., Steubenvlllo. Ohio.
1507 Claudo Roby, Fordsvlllo, Ky.
1729 Dan Taylor, Beaver Dam, Ky.
1G26 Byron Henson Smith, Beaver
Dam, Ky., It. 4.
1284 Otis Levy McConnoll, Simmons,
Ky.
90 Earl W. Beasley, Simmons.Ky.
191 Archie Dempsoy Birch, Horse
Branch, Ky.
477 Granon Daughorty, McHenry,
Ky.
1187 Louis Murray, Hartford, Ky.
1179 Steve Monroe, Rosine, Ky.
753 Elmer M. Hoppor, McHenry,
Ky.
130 Willie Albert Brown, Prentls,
Ky.
858 Jno. D. Ham, Rockport, Ky.
1996 Rudolph Collins, Echols, Ky.
168 Barney Baugh, Beaver Dam,
Ky.
1023 Benjamin Anthony Coon, Rock
port, Ky.
1932 James Willis, Reynolds, Ky.
1774 James P. Tichenor, Centertown,
Ky.
424 James V. Coloman, Paradise,
Ky.
840 David Leslie Hurt, Olaton, Ky.
1347 Albert Carl Park, Horse
Branch, Ky.
1511 Ernest Carl Renfrow, Hartford,
Ky., R. 3. ,
118S Louis Mnssey, Hartford, Ky.
GC7 Benjamin H. Ferguson, Select,
Ky.
'1995 Samuel A. Collins, Echols, Ky.
175 Muscar S. Bratcher, Horse
Branch, Ky.
300 James Glenn Barnes, Hartford,
Ky.
27S Henry Guy Barnard, South Car
rollton, Ky.
1C22 Jno. W. Smith, Hartford, Ky.,
R. G.
f240 Anil Mitchell, Fordsvllle. Ky.
524 Elijah Walker Daniel, Olaton,
Ky.
911 William Elijah Hedden, Askins,
Ky.
1172 Archie Mitchell, Olaton, Ky.
432 Lonnie Eidson D.uigherty,
Dabetovvn, Ky.
1517 L. T. Riley, Hartford, Ky.
1S51 Ernest W. Webb, Monk Saham,
Suffolk, Eng.
1924 Carlisle Williams, Echols, Ky.
1139 Wm. Guy Muffett, Xarrows.Ky.
1214 Sidney A. Moseley, Beaver
Dam, Ky.
33G Rolit. Elijah Chlnn, Prentiss,
Ky.
1952 Gilbert Westerfleld, Hartford,
Ky. R. 7.
212 Hanson Brans, Echols, Ky.
1357 Lee Patton, Hatford, Ky.
49 Robt. Leo Ambrose, Hartford,
Ky., R. G.
S Albert M. Ash by, Centertown,
Ky
(Concluded on page four)
AUSTRIA WITS PEACE
QNANYTERMS. IS REPORT
Germany's All." Would Buy Its
Way Out of War I
Possible.
Copcnhagen, Aug. 21. An Austria
which is liteially ciying for peace,
which has discauled any thought of
toiritoual expansion ar.d is even
willing to buy its way out of the war
by tenitorial sacrifices on the Ital
ian front and in Galicia; an Austria
cf ficqucnt food n'ots, unable to last
thiough another winter of wai; an
Austria whose population would use lepiesentatives and the purpose is to
in levolution if any icasonablo peace enfoiee it in all vaids.
offer wcto l ejected by the Govern-j The shipping boaid will make an
ment, is pictuicd by an intelligent eaily moje towaids i educing ocean
Austrian who has auived heie f'omificight lates. which it is said will be
Vienna. j considoiable. The piesent plan is to
In a long talk with 'the concspon-1 fix a scale for ships cairyirtg sup
lont he told a stoiy which though j plies foi the American and allied
pei haps unduly pessimistic, explains government?. Vessels canying sup
thc peisistence of Count Czeinin, i plies foi 'private concems w,!?li ibe
Austio-Hungaiian Foieign Ministoi, j permitted to chaigo poihans the
anil of Empeior Chailes, in ietu-n-' piesent maike mtos. but all above
ing again and again to the subject the govo'-inient late, except for a 5
o peace negotiations. j per cent additional piofit. would be
This Austrian, who spent -evota' taken over bv the shipping bcaul as
days in Beilin on his wav to topen-
Iiagen, had an oppoitunity to ta'k
with lepiesentatives of the Get man
Foieign Office, including Dai on von
Dem Musscne-Haddenhausson. the
Under Sectctaiy, and other pi emi
nent men of the stamp of Pjof.
Hans Delhi neck, of the University
of Beilin. Phillipp Schcidemann, thelboio, Miss., to Mr. Ernest Andeison
Socialist leader, and Maximilian IIii- j Field, of DeRidder, La., the wedding
den, editor of the Kukunft. He s.aid to take place September 18th.
all thes" men, with the excention of '
Herr Haiden. weie convneed peace
was coming befoie winter.
U. S. TO PAY .MORE
THAN S2 FOR WHE T
Washington. The price paid by
the food administiation for the por
tion it buys of the 1917 wheat ciop
piobably will exceed $2 a bushel, it
was learned. The committee headed
by Dr. H. A. Gaificld, which will iec-,tho pait of load oveisccis all over
ommend a price, will submit it3 io- 'the county has been lepoited to the
poit oarlv next week. county officials during the last sev-
In lccommending a price the com- cial days. A number of locky hills
mittee, it was said, will take into i aie being diessed with dynamite,
consideiation the fact that the pin- j good diainage ditches aie being cut
ducer must leceive enough to st'inu-,wheio needed, seveial levees are be
late tho ptoductinn ne.xt yoar and at ing thiowed up, new toad bed3 have
the same time will consider caicful- been secured in many places, and a
ly war conditions and the iight3 o' lot of bridges and culveits have been
the consumer. In passing the food reconstructed or icpaiied. This is a
control bill, congiess set an aibitia- fine time for that kind of woik, and
ly mice of S2 on the 1918 wheat
crop.
The hope of the food administia
tion is that the government price
fixed will obtain in all private trans
actions thioughout the year and it
Is leady to buy the entire ciop for
distribution if prices cannot be sta
bilized by tho meie fixing of an ad
ministrative price.
See tho new finished MAJESTIC I Lcighton L. Reid and Lois Bart
range sanitary, easy to keep clean, lett, Rockport.
economical, and a beauty. Call at' C. A. Duskell. Beaver Dam. and
our store this week and let tho fac- Mabel Clayton, Owensboro, Ky.
tory representative explain to you J. P. McKlnney, McHenry and
the advantages of the range with 'a Beulah M. RJionds. Hartford,
reputation. I L. J. Hines, Summerville, Mo., and
E. P. BARNES & BRO. Delilah Ann Hall. Hartford.
!iL2W000
M
'rui
SHIPS IN 1917
Estimate Secretary iYlc
'Adoo For Rest of Year.
LAKE BOAT TO .THE OCEAN
Government Will Use Effort to
Increase Atlantic Shipping
and Lower Rates.
Washington. Estimates totaling
$1,123,000,000 foi completion of the
government's 1917 shipbuilding pio
giam have been sent to Societal y of
the Ticasuiv McAdco by the ship
ping boaid. Congiess will bo asked
to api opt into the sum as coon as
Piesident Wilson's appioval is ob
tained. The now appiopiiation asked will
mn the boaid to the end of the fiscal
year and will make a total of slight
ly less than two billion dollais for
the building and puichase of a me
chunc fleet.
Some 120 ships, totaling 330,000
tons, iwll be lemoved fiom the lakes
to the Atlantic befoie the winter
sets in. Tho shipping boaid's plan
is to lep'aco them on the lakes next
spring with vessels to bo bu!!t in
lake poits during the wintci.
The shipping boaid, it was learned
has turned down lequests of ceitain
financieis to build for foieign flags
a Iaige numboi of vessels in Amen
can yaids.
The foieign inteicsts, it is said,
have pointed out that new yaids
would be built for constiuction of the
ships. The shipping boaid has taken
the position, however, that the build
ing of ships not under contiol of the
government owuld disiupt the ship
building industiy.
A genoiai wage scale is under
piepaiation by officials of the Emei-
geney Fleet Coipoiation and labor
an amcitiation fund.
.MR. ERNEST ANDERSON HELD
TO .MARRY .MISSISSIPPI GIRL
Cauls have been leceived in Hait
foid announcing the maniage of
! Miss Hollev McClandon, of Waynes-
Mr. Field is a native of Ohio coun
ty, but has been in the South seveial
yeais. He now holds a lesponsihle
position with the L. C. & N. R. R.
Co.. at DeRidder.
Mr. and Mis. Field expect to visit
Haitfoid and Ohio county in Sep
tember. OVERSEERS INTERESTED.
Quite an good deal of intciest on
t is hoped that much moic will be
1 done.
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O MARRIAGE LICENSES. O
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Wilbur Vance. Hartford, Route 1,
and. Ella Lee Dabney, Hartfoid, R. 2.
Cleveland Hines, Beaver Dam, R. 1,
land Ellen Sheppard, Ptentiss.