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VOL. XXXVII.
HOPKINSVILLE KENTUCKY, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1916.
No. 66
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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
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A House amendment for six instead
of five now battleships was defeated.
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We start into merry June today
with five June weddings already
scheduled.
All business in St. Paul was sus
pended yesterday during the funeral
of J. J. HH1.
Tuesday was tho day set apart for
Pablo Lapez, Villa's chief lieutenant,
to face n firing squad at Chihuahua.
There will be 190 members of the
graduating class at Annapolis tomor
row, barring possible fall-downs in
the last heat.
This would be a good time to try
again to find England's last army in
France. The French are needing
help at Verdun.
The late Col. Mosby said in one of
his lectures: "My military creed
is this, it is better to make a good run
than a bad stand."
John Stites will shortly win 'a $40
suit of clothes off Hiram Brown. It
is to happen a little sooner than
Hiram believed was possible.
Somebody in Kansas City threw an
open pocket-knife at Col. Roosevelt
as he passed along the street. Per
haps Teddy has been making cutting
remarks again.
Thmrrs nrfi drifting towards ROOSC
velt. Gov. Hughes is to write a letter
nt withrlniwnl hnfnrfi the end or me
wnnlr. Pnrtv Imders irivc as a reason
that he would not "De accepumio 10
Col. Roosevelt.
We do not see how the bondsmen
of Barksdale Hamlett can be heia
liable for his office expenses paid
through fhe regular channels, wheth
er the bills were properly made or
not.' The officers who approved and
paid the bills are to be reckoned with
first.
GOT CASH
ANDJOBACCO
Thieves Enter Grocery and
Break Glass Door in An
other Business House.
' Thieves effected an entrance to Mr.
R. C. Hopson's grocery on West Sev
enth street Monday night by .forcing
the rear door, and secured $2.60 from
the cash drawer and several plugs of
chewing tobacco from -the shelves.
On tho same night the glass m the
front door of E. Tanner's store, was
broken, but nothing was missed from
the store. The supposition is that the
thieves were frightened off before
they had time to enter this house.
In neither case was there any clue
left
ROOM FOR MORE.
The following farmers have signed
for tho Bluegrass trip Juno G: A. M.
Casey, A. H. Wallace, M. A. Mason,
T. C. Jones, Sam Morris, L. A. Sum
mers, Jos. Gary, R. C. Gary, J. G.
Torian, W. K. Morris, Ira Rhea, C.
n Un.ln.i. W W .Tnnno -TofT fiiir-
Lrott, W. C. Binns, W. E. Forgy, II.'
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"urawner, m , uuwuu, .
Garnett, Holland Garnett, Richard
Leavell, C. L. Campbell, Henry
Altshcler, S. L. Cowherd.
Lot Sole In Princeton.
Odie Davis and Ed Radford went
to Princeton yesterday to pull off a
big lot saloon tho Ratcliffo place
tided to C. 0. Wright by Mr. Rad
rd, which Mr. Wright not long ago
truueu iui u itii in.
Liberty Lost.
The sentence to life imprisonment
iclveri Prof. John MacNeill, president
of the Sinn Fein volunteers, las been
confirmed.
VACATION
AT
Large Class of High School
Graduates Get Diplomas
Friday Night.
CLASS BANQUET TUESDAY
Teachers and Pupils Have
Fun Together at Elks
Club.
On Tuesday night tho Senior Ban
quet was held in the dining rooms of
the Elks' Club. Most of the seniors
were present, also the faculty, Thos.
Underwood and Ogelsby Soyars. Af
ter an elaborate supper was served,
speeches wero made by some of the
seniors, Miss Arnold, Thomas Under
wood and Ogelsby Soyars. Tho sub-
jects and speakers were as follows:
The class of '16 William Tandy.
Athletics Edward Breathitt.
Girl's Activities Miss Mary Camp
bell. Classes I have seen Miss Julia Ar
nold. I Scream Thomas Underwood.
Prospects Ogelsby Soyars.
Prof. G. C. Koffman acted as toast-
master and was at all times ready
with some funny joke. Prof. Koff
man's attitude was that of a school
boy instead of a teacher and as a re
sult he kept the entire party in an up
roar of laughter.
Class Day Exercises will be held
this morning at the Tabernacle at 10
o'clock. This nroeram is Gotten out
entirely by fhe members of the senior
class. The exercises this year will
probable be a little longer than usual
there being more .attention paid to this
exercise this year than in previous
years. The program will be as fol
lows: Piano Solo Miss Frances Garnett,
President's Address -Wm. Tandy,
Class History Miss Grace Rich
ards.
Senior Male Quartet.
' Class Giftorian Miss Mary Camp
bell.
Class Prophecy Miss Doris Clag-
Cett.
Class Will McFarland Wood.
Faculty Giftorian Potter Lackey.
Grumbles -Petit Fentress.
Senior Male Quartet.
The graduating exercises will be
held Friday night at 8 o'clock at the
Tabernacle. The graduating address
will be delivered by Prof. J. A,
Dickey, of Bowling Green. The
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i music will oe lurnisncu Dy a nign
1 School Chorus and the High School
Orchestra. The chorus is under
, Miss Arnold's direction, while Prof.
Mallary is instructor of the orchestra,
j Prof. Koffman will award the hon
ors and will give several scholarships.
Prof. Koffman also has several an
nouncements to make in connection
i with next year. The program will
be as follows:
Orchestra.
Invocation.
Orchestra and Chorus.
Valedictorian Miss Elizabeth Mc
Pherson. Orchestra.
Graduating Address Prof. J. S.
Dickey.
Orchestra and Chorus.
Awarding Diplomas W. A. Long,
I President of tho Board.
Announcements Prof. Koffman.
Orchestra.
JUDGE IHURMAN.
Judge Thurman, of Springfield,
Ky., has been detailed to open cir
cuit court hero next Monday, in the
absenco of.Judgo Hanbery. Ho will
remain only ono week, when another
judgo will bo sent and there may be
sovcral judges during tho four weeks
of the term.
Attempted to Kill.
Yuan Shi Kal, President of the Chi
nese republic has. been poisoned and
is in a critical condition, according to
Shanghai advices.
NEAR
HAND
ALL ABOARD
FORPEE DEE
The County Love Feast to be
Pulled Off To
day. WITH CASEY AT THE BAT
One Hundred or More
Will
Visit Binns' Mill at
Pee Dee.
The rain Monday night caused a
postponement of the visit of North
Christian farmers to South Christian
and the trip will be made to-day,
without change of program. About
60 from North Christian and proba
bly as many more from the city and
other sections will go.
W. C. Binns will be the host at the
noon hour and a good time is guaran
teed to all.
The rain made another fine tobacco
season and for this reason Mr. Casey
thought it best to delay the trip. The
tobacco plants are now in the ground,
the roads are settled and the "goose
honks high."
ESQ. W. T. WIL-
ILL
Rapidly Sinking and Cannot
Last ' Much
Longer.
Mr. W. T. Williamson, who recent
ly returned from Florida, where he
spent the winter, is hopelessly ill at
his home on East Seventh street. His
condition has become so critical that
his sons, Harvey Williamson, of Okla
homa, and Will E. Williamson, of
Slaughtersville, have been summoned
and were here yesterday. Mr., Wil
liamson's death is believed to bo near
at hand.
FELL
Dallas, Texas, May 31. Four per
sons were killed and eighteen injured
late yesterday when the woodenawn
ing over the sidewalk on a building
in Main street collapsed. The killed
and injured were part of a throng
watching a preparedness parade.
Tho crowd watching the parade had
surged forward at the approach of a
band. Persons standing on the awr--
ing which was suspended by chains
over the sidewalk, crowded near the
edge and under the increased weight
the structure fell, taking with it a ton
of bricks, torn from tho wall behind,
on the crowd on the sidewalk.
THOSE THAT HAVf-GFT w
f (YE 5-SIR ( AND THE NEXt
XATilTJtmn TIME YOU PUT THOSE I 1
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DEATH CLAIMS
COL. MOSBY'
Most Famous Confederate
Raider of Civil War Suc
cumbs at Age of 82.
Washington,
. Mosby, the
May 31. Col. John
most famous confed-
erate raider of the civil war, died
here yesterday after a long illness.
He was a native of Virginia and was
82 years old.
Col. Mosby dared death over fifty
years ago when at the head of a band
of a few hundred confederate raiders
he rode up and down the Shenandoah
valley, capturing outposts, destroying
supply trains and cutting off means of
communication. It has been estimated
that he often neutralized the force of
over 15,000 federals in the valley.
Born in Powhattan county, Va., Dec.
6, 1833, and graduated from the uni
versity of Virginia in 1852, he was
practicing law in Bristol, Va., when
the war broke out and he began his
career in the confederate army. He
proved his daring with such effect
that ho became a scout for Gen. J. E.
B. Stuart and led the celebrated raid
around McClellan's army on the Chick
ahominy. In Richmond a year later
he recruited an independent cavalry
troop which became famous cs Mos
by's Partisan Rangers. They became
night riders and the terror of the fed
eral troops. f
Mosby's most brilliant exploit
was the capture of Gen. Stoughton.
On a March night in 1863 he, with
thirty followers, rode through the
federal army at Fairfax Court House,
only fifteen miles from Washington,
where Gen. Stoughton was asleep.
Although surrounded by an army said
to have been 17,000 strong, the rang
ers calmly kidnaped the general, his
staff and many sentries, and turned
them over to the confederate authori
ties at Culpeper without having lost
a man.
SAVED FROM HANGING.
General Grant once later saved
Mosby from hanging, and two foes
of the battlefield became staunch
friends. Mosby stumped the state of
Virginia for Grant during his presi
dential campaign, and was awarded
with an appointment as consul at Hong
Kong, a post which he held for eleven
years. When he returned to the
United States, Mosby called on the
surviving members of his rangers
and, to his astonishment, he found
that a large per cent, of them had be
come ministers. In parting the old i
colonel said: "Well, boys, if you
yankees there will be something to
record on judgment day."
Spears-Wilson.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter A. Wilson an
nounce the approaching marriage of
their daughter, Lucy Elizabeth, to
Rev. D Mode Spears, of Cadiz, Ky.
The marriage will be a June wed
ding. WCSTON
POPULAR
01
H00
To Be Transferred After Fif
teen Years of Service
Here.
NEW BERTH NOT SELECTED
His Successor Will Be R. F.
Brasher, Now of Earl
ington. JOHN C. HOOE.
John C. Hooe, for the last fifteen
years, local agent of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Co., has been no
tified that the company desires to
transfer him to some other noint on
the system and he has been given the
option of several places. Last winter
Mr. Hooe was placed in charge of the
t-nlnht r.PRn iU 1. 1 Ut
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divided, and T. S. Wooslcy was given
the passenger branch of the business
Mr. tiooe is one ol the cpmpany s
old and valuable employes and the
transfer is understood to be in line
with the L. & N.'s policy of mak
ing changes from time to time. Mr,
Hooe has been here much longer than
any other agent was ever allowed to
stay. He has made the road a very
valuable man and has a large person
al following. The people generally
will regret very much to see him
transferred, though his successor,
who has already been named, is said
to be a most capable man. R. F.
Brasher, agent at Earlington, will be
the new freight agent. The change
will be made next Monday, June 5,
by which time Mr. .Hooc's plans will
probably be made known.
WAGED BY
A SEVERE STORM
Rain, Wind and Hail Level
Trees, Unroof Buildings
and Cut Crops.
Madisonville, Ky., May 29. Thous
ands of dollars' damage was done to
proporty and crops in Hopkins coun
JtyatG o'clock this evoning by the
hardest wind, rain and hailstorm
seen hero in years.
Trees in the city were blown down,
the cornice of the Y. M. C. A. build
ing on the Sugg street side was blown
off and electric light, telephone and
telegraph lines are down in all sec
tions of the county. Clark's tobacco
factory, the largest in tho city and full
. of tobacco, was unroofed completely
and much damage was done to the
t tobacco.
Hail, which fell for thirty minutes,
tho drops being as large as marbles,
cut garden and growing crops and to
bacco plants, and many window lights
were smashed out m nil sections of
tho city.
The damage over the country could
not bo ascertained tonight on account
of telephone lines being down, but
several reports have been received
where bams wero blown to pieces.
Part of the city is in darkness to
night on account of electric light wires
being down where largo trees were
felled, this being tho caso especially
in tno western end of town, where
the storm was heaviest. It continued
for thirty minutes and therejwas an
other hard rain with much wind and
hail, adding to the damage. '
GERMANS MAKE
MORE
GAMS
Take French Positions and
1,313 Prisoners Captured
Northwest of Verdun.
GAIN THIAUM0NT WOODS
Austrians Begin Another At
tack in Posina Region.
Repulsed Italians Claim.
London, May 31. French positions
on a front of approximately two miles,
extending from the southern ridge oF
Le Mort Homme to the Cumicrcs vil
lage, northwest of Verdun, have been
captured by the Germans, according:
to the latest official communication'
from Berlin. In additions the Teu
tons have again pushed forward! n
Thiaumont wood northeast of Verdun
and added to their line in the eastern
part of it.
These gains, made during the vic
ious fighting of Monday, have been in
part admitted by Paris which has re
ported the loss of three hundred
meters of advanced trenches north
west of Cumieres and the retirement
from similar positions to the south of
the road between Bethincourt and
Cumieres. Berlin says the Germans
captured 1,313 prisoners, including;
several staff officers.
Around Le Mort Homme and Cu
mieres a violent oauie is sun in pro
gress, but there has been a diminution
in the intensity of the fire of the big:
guns northeast of Verdun. Since the
fighting of Monday there apparently
has been no infantry attacks any
where on either side of the Meuse.
AUSTRIANS MAKE ATTACK.,
The Austrian have begun another
attack against the Italians in the Po
sina region of Italy, southwest of Po
sina, and farther north along the up
per reaches of the Astico river on the
Austro-ltalian border. South of Po
sina, Ausina, prepared for their of
fensive with a bombardment, but ac
cording to Rome, the Italians after a
desperate struggle against jthe Aus
trian infantry retained their positions.
In the Lagarina valley, on the Pasu
bio sector, and in the Sugana valley
at Ospedaletto the Austrians ,ire
heavily bombarding the Italian posi
tions. On the Russian front tho Germans
assayed an offensive northeas of Aug
ustinhof, but were drivca back tr
their trenches by the Russians.
The Austrians in Galicia met with
a momentary success near Gludki,
driving the Russians from a position
and capturing it. The Russians,
however, in a counter-attack, re
captured the position. Near Bouf
chache, the Austrians attempted an.
offensive, but it was put down by the
Russian fire.
TURKISH SITUATION UNCHANGED
On their front in Asiatic Turkey,
the Russians report the situation Jn,
changed. Constantinople says ttoS
near Felahie in tho Kut-el-Amar i re
gion the Turks silenced two H f
guns and took prisoners in a sun
attack.
The Germans are with trio Df. r
ians in the advance into Greek T -donia.
The invasion, nccordin,
Berlin, was made as a protevvn
against a surprise attack which lU'-- u
tente allies were planning.
Tho total subscritions to the recent
Austro-IIungarian war loan are said
to have reached 6,000,000,000 crowns.
Germany is soon going to ask for . J
war credit of 12,000,000,000 marks
according to a Berlin newspaper.
THROWS AT .
Kansas City, Mav 31. An oneir
pocket knife was thrown at Colonel
Roosevelt hero Tuesday as his motor
car turned into Twentv-third stetit
during a Memorial Day parade- The?
knife struck tho rear of Uieautbmu
bile and was found later in the stre''
Col. Roosevelt was not told of tho oc
currence and tho police had no report
on the matter. No arrests wera.ev
pected.