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THErADAIKICOUimS'NEWS
THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
Published Every Wednesday
- BY THE
Adair County News Company.
( Incorporated.)
3HAS. S. HARRIS EDITOR.
Democratic newspaper devoted to the ln
4rut of the City of Columbia and the people
A-d&lrand adjacent counties.
Sntered at the Columbia Post-office as sec
ad class mall matter.
"WED. FEB, 11, 1914
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The Rivers and Harbor Bill
completed by the House'Commit
tee, last Saturday, gives the Up
per Cumberland rives $340,000.
This means very much to the
counties along the river, and to
us in Adair if another lock is
constructed below Greasy creek,
especially if we are wise enough
to take advantage of the oppor
tunity which will thus be afford
ed us to secure a railroad. When
this work begins, we ought at
once to take steps to build a good
pike connectiag us with the riv
er. The pike will give us trans
portation connection with Cincin
nati the year around, and with
Nashville during the boating
season, and ultimately with
Nashville all the year as the
locks will in time embrace the
whole length of the river be
tween Burnside and Nashville.
This will of necessity force a
railroad to this point, as other
wise the heavy traffic will go and
come by way of the river. From
the report of the engineer and
the action of the committee of
Congress, it looks as if the lock
ing and darning of the river from
Burnside to Carthage, Tenn., is
now in sight.
There was considerable scare
at Frankfort last week when it
was announced that Represent
ative Oliver, of Allen county,
was at home with small pox. He
left Frankfort a day or two be
fore to spend Sunday with his
family. Senator Porter is also
down with tne disease, he hav
ing been stricken before Mr. Ol
iver. Dr. McCormack, who is a
Representative, and also a mem
ber of the State Board of Health,
stated that it was folly to become
unnecessarily alarmed, and ad
vised all Senators and Repre
sentatives who had not been suc
cessfully vaccinated to submit to
the needle, and vaccine matter
was put in the arm of about one
hundred in a very few hours.
The indeterminate sentence
law is likely to be the cause of
flooding the State with criminals.
Judge Settle, of the Court of Ap
peals, has just handed down a
decision which virtually says that
when a prisoner who has been
sent to the penitentiary to serve
an indeterminate term, when
the minimum has been reached,
if the convict has been dutiful
during, say two years, he is en
titled to be paroled, though his
sentence may be from two to
twenty-one years. The law
ought to be repealed. We are
not censuring Judge Settle. He
no doubt decided the question
according to the statute.
The locking of Cumberland
rever from Carthridge, Tenn., to
Burnside, Ky., will evidently
cause a corporation to build a
railroad through this section of
the State. We want to see the
locks put in and we want a rail-
road. We hope to hear of some
thing tangible looking to " the
locking and darning of the upper
Cumberland bef or the end of the
present Congress. Reports now
coming in are very favorable.
There is a. move upon the part
of some of the leaders of the old
line Republican party to make
Col. Rooseve.t their candidate
for the Presidency in 1916. Mr.
Roosevelt has already made
speeches in which he stated that
the Progressive partj , of which
he is the founder, is a fixed or
ganization. President Wilson lifted the em
bargo last week and now the bil
ligerants in Mexico can get all
the arms and amunition they can
pay for, and fight and kill until
they get tired. President Wil
son's action is endorsed by all
parties, and it is believed that
the war will soon end
Senator Sanders has introduced
a bill to include Adair in the
Eleventh Judicial district. We
do not know of any legislation
that would please the people of
Adair county better, should the
said bill become a law.
On the second page of this
paper we publish an editorial on
Roads from the Louisville Times.
We advise every thinking man to
read it.
W. E. Johnston.
Once again the Angel of death
entered the quiet country home
of the "Johnston family," and
this time when the bell rang out
the tidings of death, sorrowing
friends and neighbors knew that
the white haired husband and fa
ther had passed away, and all
felt that a friend had gone.
William Edwin Johnston, who
was born June 7, 1840, belonged
to one of the oldest families in
Adair county, and well might all
generations be proud to claim
him. He led a quiet life loving
his home and his family above
all else. He was a great reader,
and had a broad, cultured mind,
and yet he was unassuming, and
those who knew him were satis
fied with his answers on all sub
subjects, as they knew it was
the result of a clear mind trying
to see the right.
In early life he was married to
Miss Sarah Catherine Tutt, and
to the union were born nine
children, three of whom have
preceded him to the great be
yond. His five sons, Dr. Jas.
M., Joe, Will, George, and his
only daughter, Susye, his only
brother, S. D. Johnston, Mariana,
Ark., and his loving companion
were with him constantly until
the end came. After death his
noble sons and brother prepared
the body for burial, and were al
so his pall bearers, doing the last,and bed t0 sleep on whilesick, so
service they could for the father
who had given his whole life in
loving service for the family he
loved so well.
In early manhood he united
with the Christian church, and
had been a consistent member of
the church ever since.
Funeral services were conduct
ed by Eld. Z. T. Williams, and
the remains were laid to rest in
the family cemetery at Milltown,
Tuesday p. m., Jan., 26, 1914,
While a large crowd of sorrow
ing relatives and friends grieved
for a friend that was gone, and
sympathized with the heart
broken family who were left.
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From Texas.
Galveston, Tex., Feb. 10, 1914.
Editor Adair County News:
In order that my many friends
in Adair and adjoining counties
may learn my address, I take
this privilege of addressing them
through the columns of the News.
I am the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
D. Patterson, of Picnic, Ky., at
which place I was born and re
sided until four years ago when
the wild desire to get out and
see some of the world took hold
of me. I first went to Milledge
ville, Ga., where I attended a
school of telegraphy. After be
ing in school there for a time,
quite a number of the students,
including myself, were sent to
Omaha, Neb., that we might at
tend a railroad accounting school
for a short while before taking a
job on the railroad for which we
were all striving. After attend
ing this school for three or four
weeks, I was sent to Cordell,
Kans., as helper to the agent at
that place. I might add here
that the duties of a helper are
not such that one feels he holds
a very high office. In short they
are to do all the Agent's unde
sirable work unless he wishes to
help. I was rather lucky. This
Agent was a fine fellow and we
got along fine. Will say the
southern hospitality was lacking
at this place. On one particular
occasion the Agent was taken
sick with measles. He sent me
to canvass the town, but not a sin
gle family would rent him a room
he had to lie on a cot in the
freight room at the station until
he was well enough to go to his
home some seventy-five or one
hundred miles away.
So you young men who wish to
leave Adair county had better
make sure you know where you
are going. You might strike
some part of the country where
you would not even get a burial
if you should die. Was marooned
at this Cordell, Kans., for some
thing like eight months, when I
was sent to Ellsworth, Kans , as
night operator. This last place
was a fine little town, and the
) people proved to be much more
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Goods Sale
Jpur entire stock of White Goods, bought for our February
White Sale, was in a wreck and a large portion of it was
slightly damaged with water, and stain from wrapping papers.
yy e have determined to put everything that shows the
slightest damage on sale Thursday Feb. 12th at 25 per
cent, on the dollar off. We believe that all stains can be laun
dried out, and you will miss Bargains if you don't take advant
age of this sale. The stock embraces assorted grades and prices
in White Linens, Natural colored Linens, Plain and Barred
Flaxons, Nainsooks, Ratines, India Linens, Heavy White Suit
ings, Crashes, Long Cloths, Swisses, Etc. Sale will begin when
store opens, Thursday, February 12th. Come early.
RUSSELL & CO.
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sociable than they were at my
former place of business, but
was not entirely without faults. '
One night in September, 1911, if I
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I remember correctly, a man, his'
wife and three children were
murdered while asleep in bed on
the outskirts of this, town. The
murderer used an axe as his
weapon. We viewed the scene
of the murder next morning and !
it certainly was a horrible sight.
Detectives were called and the
police department obtained some
blook hounds from a near-by
town, but all eftorts to catch the
party responsible for the deed
failed and he has never been ap
prehended to this day. About
that time we were kept pretty
busy sending press reports con
cerning the murder to various
newspapers in Topeka, Kansas
City, St. Louis and Chicago. We
actually had so much to send the
ends of our fingers were sore
from pounding the keys.
After working here for six or
eight months, I attempted to
steal some sleep on the Co., one
morning when a passenger train
I was in the habit of taking or -
ders for. ran in. and the next
thing I knew my walking papers
were handed to me. I immedi
ately purchased a ticket for
Campbellsville, but in passing
through Louisville, I saw the
sign, "Men wanted for the ar
my, so after a brief visit to my
home, I enlisted in the Signal
Corps of the army, was sent to
Fort Wood, New York, which is
on an island in New York Har
bor some two miles from the
city. The Statue of Liberty,
which was presented to this
country by France as a token of
friendship, is located on this,
Bedloes Island, and many hun
dreds of sight-seeing people pay
their respects to the Island and
Statue each year. A fine view
of the Harbor and city may be
had from here, and all steamers
entering the harbor, are com
pelled to pass quite near the
Statue.
Last February a number of us
were detailed for Transport Ser
vice, as Wireless Operators, and
were sent from New York via.,
steamship to Newport News, Va. ,
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Bargains!
Sixty Cases of Little Queen
Sugar Corn at 7 cents
per can, cash or
Produce.
COAL OAL
15c per gal
Low prices on everything else
kept in a first-clas Gro
cery store
Nell &
! to join the Transports which were
at that port. Soon after joining
this ship it was ordered to Phil
adelphia to carry a load of Ma
rines to Guantanamo Cuba, which
we did. There were quite a num
ber of battle ships assembled in
Guantanamo Bay at the time and
1 lt certainly was a beautiful sight
! t0 see a11 those electric lighted
ships at night when they would
start signalling to each other.
Then in the day time one could
see as many as six airships flying
in the air at once most any time.
We came from Cuba to Gal
veston last April and have been
here since then. There are not
many attraction here, the beach
and surf bathing are about the
only ones of any importance. The
weather is fine at this time of
the year, but it is most too hot
during the summer months. Mos
quitoes and flies prevail in great
numbers all the year, even in
this month, "February." Mos
quitoes may be heard singing
around on an exceptionally warm
night.
A fleet of Submarines arrived
in port a few days ago from Key
West, Florida, for a short stay
before sailing for Panama. A
Submarine is a small steel craft
shaped something like a cigar
and is capable of descending and
running beneath the surface of
the water. They are much fear-
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Survevinff
Land Owners Attention.
T. C. Faulhner, is prepared to do
your Surveying correctly.
He has thirty-three years
experience. Charges rea
sonable. Phone 74 or
write
T. C Faulkner,
Columbia, Ky.
time of war, as they can steal up
near a ship and place torpedoes
enough to blow it up, sneak away
and in all probability will nev
er be seen.
Believe 1 have written about
all I can think of for this time.
A card from any and all of my
old friends will be very highly
appreciated, and I assure you I
will answer any who may write.
My address is, U. S. Army Trans
port Meade, Galveston, Texas.
This is my first letter to the News
and if it is lucky enough to es
cape the waste basket, may write
again in the near future. Wish
ing the News force and its many
readers much success. I am.
Yours Truly,
Gilliam B. Patterson.
For Saie.
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Kussell & Co. 13-2t.
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