The Adair County news. [volume], February 24, 1915, Page 5, Image 5

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TRP. .ADAIR COUNTY .NEWS. .
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Additional Locals.
Important Educational Notice.
The Kentucky Educational Associa
tion for 1915 will meet in Louisville,
April 21-24. Ic is to be the greatest
meeting in its more than 40 years of
history." We want a large attendance
of both teachers and trustees from
Adair county, To this end I wish to
call a meeting of all the teachers and
trustees of the county at the Court
house in Columbia on the first Mon
day in March: At the same time
steps will be taken towards organiz
ing boys' corn clubs. The meeting
will be held at one o'clock p. m. I
earnestly insist that all teachers, trus
tees and boys between the ages of ten
and eighteen, who desire to enroll in
the corn club, to be present at this
meeting. Respectfully,
Tobias Huffaker, Supt. A. C. S.
Cary's Weekly, a neat six column
paper published at Burkesville, Cum
berland county. S. A. Cary and wife
publishers. Mr. Cary is a wide awake
young man, and having run a paper
before, we predict for him success.
Here's wishing you success Mr. Cary.
We regret that when some people
have a grievance they send their trou
bles to the News. This paper is not
out of humor with any person, and it
can not take up the fight of an indi
vidual who has conceived the idea
that he has been terribly wronged by
outsiders
Mrs. Fannie Taylor, whose home
was in Glasgow, died in Austin, Tex
as, one day last week. She was the
widow of Dr. F. J. Taylor, who was a
native of Adair county. The deceas
ed was an aunt, by marriage, of
Messrs. L O. and A. O. Taylor and
Eay Conover, all of this place.
Mr Murray Ball has removed his
business from the Store of Neat &
Murray to a room next to Mr. Geo. W.
Lowe's Shoe Store, on north side of
the square.
Good show at the Parlor Circle Sat
urday night and a good one will be
billed for next Saturday night.
Mr. Jack Young is now in the gro
cery business, having bought a one
half interest in the store of Mr. O. C.
Collins, located near the Roller Mill.
Buffalo Bill and Pawnee's Wild
West Circus at the Parlor Circle next
Saturday night, a drawing exhibition.
Do not fail to attend the Old Maid's
Convention which will convene in the
gymnasium of the Columbia High
School and Craded School Thursday
night. If you want to roar with
laughter, get a seatearly.
Quite a number of farmers started
plows last week, and in the next week,
if the weather is suitable, many acres
will be turned, corn planting to soon
follow.
A little child's gold ring, found on
the street near Methodist church, by
Mrs. W. W. Bradshaw, the owner can
get it by coming after it.
"The Tramp Convention" will be
given at the court-house Saturday
evening, March 6th, instead of Febru
ary the 27th.
The ColumbiaLibrary will be opened
Feb. 27. Hours from 2 p. m. to 5 p.
m. The members who have not paid
their dollar will do so at once as the
books must be settled for. Every one
Ms cordially invited to join and also to
contribute any books they will..
Rev. C. C. Brown, of Louisviile,
preached a very Interesting discourse
at the Presbyterian church last Sun
ay night. He also" tilled the pulpit
at Union in the forenoon.
A notice of the death of Mrs. H. O.
Smith, of Greensburg. can be found
pin our Greensburg letter.
Wanted the date and the month in
1863 when" Gen. Shcofieldcame through
Columbia with his command .and
camped at Glenville. I will reward
the person furnishing me the above
infoimation.
J. R Cundiff, Columbia, Ky.
In the Russell cireUjt court the case
against Silas out lirafo xiharged with
removing indictments from the cir
cuit court clerk's office, was contin
ued until next weefc
Mr. John Lee Walker has been
elected a member of the Board of
Trustees, Graded School, to fill a va
cancy, caused by the death of Mr.
Frank Sinclair.
Lindsey Honor Roli.
Sixth Grade.
James Cox
John Ottley
Frances Strange
Mary Harris
Mary Shreve
Rachel Faulkner
Fifth Grade.-v
Amelia Damron
Dolly Bryant
Fourth Grade.
Margaret Harris
Margaret Hynes
Leona Bryant
Lewis Feese
Delbert Arnold
Bryan Young
Clyde Miller
Second Grade.
Pauline Arnold ""
Raymond Shreve
First Grade.
Mary MaxineMoss
Neither absent or tardy during Feb
ruary. Leona Bryant
Margaret Hynes
Walker Bryant
Sanford Strange
George Faulkner
Lewis Feese
Clyde Miller
Frances Strange
Amelia Damron
100 per cent., in Spelling.
Amelia Damron
James Cox
Cljde Miller
Delbert Arnold.
Notice.
W. H. Wilson has opened a feed sta
ble at the W. H. Goff stand and so
licits your patronage.
Birds of a Feather.
The wife of a Methodist Minister
in West Virginia has been married
three times. Her maiden name was
Partridge, her first husband was
named Robins, her second Sparrow,
the present Quale. There are now
two young robins, one sparrow and
three quales in the family. One
grandfather was a Swan and another
a Jay, but lie's dead, now and a bird
of Paradise. They live on Hawk aven
ue, Eagleville, Canary Island, and the
fellow who wrote this is a Lyre and a
relative of the family. Valley En
terprise. Miss Mary Rexroat, who made her
home at Mr. Darnell's, this side of
Russell Springs, died last Tuesday
forenoon, a victim of pneumonia.
Old Maid's Convention at the High
School Gymnasium Thursday night.
Fun for every body. Do not fail to
attend.
If you want to laugh and grow fat,
be at the High School and Graded
School Gymnasium Thursday night
Next Saturday the Fiscal Court
will meet and decide which road will
be piked first. There is much spec
ulation as to the first pike, but it will
all depend upon the amount of money
subscribed The citizens who put up
the most cash will be awarded the
first road.
J. A. Dul worth, of Camp Knox,
sojd, a few days ago, to J. S. Smith,
eighty acres of land, lying near the
Adair and Green line, for $2,000.
Recently Mrs. Bertha Robinson,
who was the widow of Mr. Lee Rob-
i inson, was married at her home, Dade
City, Fia , to Mr. J. E. Sanders, of
Campbellsville, Ky. Mrs. Sanders'
first husband was a native of Colum
bia, and Mrs Sanders was born and
reared in the extreme eastern portion
of Adair. Mr Robinson died in Flor
ida two or three years ago. We learn
that Mr. and Mrs Sanders will come
to Campbellsville to live.
ManT People In TTus Town
never really enjoyed a meal until
jgreadvised then: to take a - .f
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before and after each meal, gold only
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Paull Drug Co.
HEALTH OFFICER'S COLUMN.
BY U. L. TAYLOR.
I want to speak to the News read
ers this week about a disease that has
been a curse to humanity for hundreds
of years In this county it stands
second to consumption in the number
of its victims. The name of it is ty
phoid fever. It is a contagious dis
ease, and is spread largely by the com
mon house fly. Physicians have never
been agreed as to its cause or its treat
ment. I am more interested in its
cause than its treatment, but I am
more interested in its prevention than
either one It is a disease that orig
inates in filth, and no man ever has
had a case of typhoid fever, no man
has a case of typhoid, and no man will
ever have a case of typhoid fever, un
less he gets into his system in some
way. a small portion of the contents
of the bowels or kidneys of some one
suffering from the disease. This is a
mighty ugly thisg to have to say, but
it is better to say it that some one
may be warned, so that one may use
all the means in his power to avoid it.
Typhoid fever kills its hundreds and
its thousands every year, and it would
be absolutely criminal in me, on ac
count of a little false modesty to ne
glect to tell the people the truth as to
the sole cause of this terrible malady.
I have said, and will say again that
the common housefly is largely re
sponsible for the spread of this disease.
The question then comes up, that if
the common house fly is the cause of
typTioid fever, and that no human be
ing ever has the disease without get
ting into the system a portion of the
discharges from the kidneys or bowels
of.some one suffering from it, how can
these two statements harmonize? I
shall undertake to make this plain be
fore I close this paper. Every body
knows if he has noticed the habits and
customs of the fly, that filth is its nat
ural habitat. It breeds in the stable
manure, in badly kept water closets,
in hog pens which are not kept clean,
and in every place where filth and
dirt abound. We can swat the fly, we
can trap him, we can tangle (him in
tauglefoot, but the only way to utter
ly destroy him, is to break up his
breeding places It is only a few
years ago that the fly was proven to be
so dangerous to the health of the peo
ple. He had been destroying 'the hap
piness of the people ever since the
dayo of Pharoah. He had been sus
pected of being a disease carrier for
some time, but he had not been
proven guilty until the time of the
Spanish-American war. Iu the Amer
ican camps down in Florida, It was
noticed that officers living in screened
tents did not have typhoid fever,
while soldiers staying in unscreened
tents, a large majority of them were
infected. The sanitarians of the ar
my led by the medical men, set r snare
for the fly which proved a success
They sprinkled a tine white powder
around the water closets, and the fly
walking over the white powder got it
on his feet, and were tracked to the
dining rooms, and to the sick soldiers,
and the tracks were seen on the pro
visions on the dining tahle, showing
that the same flies that had visited
the water closets were visiting the
dining rooms. And we all know and
have always known, that flies are re
markably good to visit the sick, and
unlike common white folks they visit
the sick every day. They do not wait
for Sunday when they have nothing
else to do, but go daily. And they go
where there are no screens, into the
dining rooms, swim about in the gravy,
crawl over the soft butter, drop into
the butteimilk, and sometimes go in
to the kitchen and help the cook to
make up the biscuit. I suppose every
body has at some time seen ally baked
up in a biscuic. This is not very appe
tizing, but it has one redeeming qual
ity, and that is that that fly has been
everlastingly put out of commission,
with all the disease germs appertain
ing thereto. You can kill disease
germs by baking, by burning, or by
boiling, but never by freezing. When
the waiters on the table that I have
been describing, find flies in the but
ter, in the buttermilk and in the gra
vy, they will fish them out, dash them
out of the window, and the eaters will
go on eating as though nothing had
happened. These flies are always
germ 'aden, and you can see how easy
it is for them to get into the stomachs
of those who are eating at that table
When once in the system, unless the
patient has resistive power enough
to overcome the germs and throw them
MI, lie will fall a victim to this dis
ease, and will ne ver know how. in the
world he got hold of it. When a man
is sick of typhoid fever in a screened
Cumberland River Route
Burnside & Burkesville Transportation Company
'( Incorporated )
Packet Steamers: ROWENA and CELINA.
Tow Boat: ALBANY and Large Fleet of Barges.
These Boats are fast, of exceptionally light draught,
having been especially built for the Upper Cumberland ,
River, and the only boats having working arrange-
ments with Railroads at Burnside. Traffic handled
direct from boat to cars. Not subject to wagon transfer.
Through Kates and Bills of Lading to all points. Through
Tickets to and from Cincinnati and Louisville. '
Cargo Insurance carried on our packet Boats for the protec
tion of shippers.
SCHEDULE: Str.- "Rowena" leaves Burnside Saturday 3 p. m. of each week
for Gainsboro, Tenn. Keturning, arrives, Burnside Wednesday 6 a. na.
Leave Burnside Wednesday 3 p. m. each week for Celina, Tenn. Ke
turning, arrives at Burnside Saturday 6 a. m. Strs. "Celina" and "Al
bany" subject to demands of traffic. This schedule subject to change
without notice.
G. M. ESTES, G. F. & P. A. A. B. MASSEY, President.
Burnside, Kentucky.
room, the flies are watching on the
outside, and whenever the nurse sets
a chamber on the outside, they pounce
on to it and in it, and frequently by
the time the vessel is carried away,
the flies have made way with its en
tire contents, or if it has been emp
tied into a privy that is not fly proof,
they go to that privy and make a raid
on it, and load themselves with the
germs of disease, and carry them to.
other persons who have thus far es
caped. Now if any one denies this
theory, let him come with a better
one, and I will willingly give up mine.
But if he cannot do this let him for
ever afterward-hold- his peace. But
continue to swat the fly.
A tribute to the memory of Prof.
P. H. Jackman, of color, will appear
next week.
CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE
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G. B. LIKENS
TO THE VOTERS OP KENTUCKY I am a candidate for Secretary or I
State, subject to the will of the Democratic party to be expressed Jn "
the primary election Aug. 7, 1915 My party loyalty, my availability '
as a candidate, my conduct as a private citizen and my record as a public '
official are respectfully submitted for investigation and consideration. For
more than three years I have served you as Assistant Auditor, and
while the office is not an elective one, the duties are important and exact
ing. These I have honestly endeavored to discharge properly and efli- -ciently.
My experience, I feel, has especially equipped me to fill the
office to which I now aspire. If nominated and elected as your Secretary
ol State, all the energy and ability which I have shall be earnestly de
voted to the business of that department No duty will be too arduous
for me to perform faithfully, and none will be considered too trivial to re
ceive careful anel prompt attention. Peeling very grateful for the assur- '
ances of support already received, and soliciting the votes and influence
of all, I am, Sincerely yours,
tn G. B. LIKENS.
K. K. Young sold a load of tobacco,
last week, at Greensburg, for 86.25 to
814.00 per cwt. The load averaged
$10.00 per cwt.
Mr. Wm. Coffey, who lived in tha
Keltner country, died last Saturday
week. He was eighty-two years old
and was a native of the community.
PATTERSON HOTEL
Mr. K. E. Lloyd has leased the Pat
terson Hotel building, Jamestown,
and the house is now open to the pub
lic. Strict attention will be paid
guests, and the table at all times will
be supplied with the best the market
affods. Kates S1.00, per day.
Jamestown, - Kentucky,