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ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
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WELL DRILLER
I will drill wells in Adair an
adjoining counties. See me ue
fore contracting. Latest im
proved machinery of all kinds.
Pump Repairing Done. Give
me a Call.
J. C YATES
HENRY W. DEPP,
DENTIST
Am permanently located in Co
lumbia.
All ClaMei of lental work done. Crow
djteand Inlay work a Specialty.
All Work Una ran feed
Office: Over Sullivan's Barber Shop
L. H. Jones
Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist
Special attention given Diseases of all
Domestic Animals
Office at Residence, 1 mile of town, on
Jamestown road.
Phone 114 G.
Columbia, Ky.
I 3 Yar- Practice
Consultation Free
Dr. James Menzies
OSTeOFftTH
Butler IJ'IM'S on Public Square
COLUMBIA KY.,
PRESSING SHOP.
Cleaning, Pressing, Dying
and Altering Ladies and
Gents Garment.
Also Agents for CRACK-A-JAOK
BRAND CLOTIIES.
Blair & Barker,
Columbia, Ky.
Montpeiier.
Measles have broken out in
this vicinity. We have several
cases on hand now.
Measles and foul weather have
seriously impared the attendance
at some of the schools in this,
section.
Messrs. Oral Helm and Henry
Conover, who have been in Ohio,
for several months, spent the
Christmas holidays at home.
On the account of the severe
cold weather only a small crowd
attended Lucian Blair's sale.
Rev. R. B. Grider of Bovling
Green, recently spent a few
days with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Grider.
Miss Maili Clayton who has
been visiting at the home of her
uncle, Ruel Jones, of Cincinnati,
for several weeks has returned
home.
Born, to the wife of Willis
Blair, a son. The mother and
child are doing well.
Mr. Luther Williams sold his
farm to Eldridge Montgomery
for $3,500. He has also sold his
stock of goods to Eldridge Mont
gomery and Osbern Lawless,
the purchasers will take poses
sion about Jan. 1st.
Mr. Lucian Blair who sold his
farm to Everett Petty, of Pettis
Fork, and has moved with his
family to Columbia where he
will temporary locate. Mr. Blair
is a good citizen and has a excel
lent family.
John Calhoun who has been in
Cleveland Ohio, for the past
year is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Calhoun.
A large crowd attended Luther
Williams' sale. Everything sold
well up to its full value.
The U. S. A. Railroad employs
1,700,000 people and represents
a capital of 17 billion doll ars.
From North Carolina.
Casar, Dec. 24th '17.
Editor Adair Councy News:
This is to tender the compli
ments of the season to your es
teemed journal, as well as to the
surviving friends of the "Old
Kentucky Home." My rule is
to judge a workman by his chips,
and while not personally acquaint
ed with Hon. Barksdale Ham
lett, he evidently knows how to
edit a local paper. In the lan
guage of the book of common
prayer, from these fawning,
time-serving, spineless broad
brimmed rural roosters that sur
feit its readers with glorifica
ions of some imaginary endown
ments of some ordinary local or
acle, or the charms of some back
woods belle: "May the good
Loid deliver us."
As everywhere else, ve have
that infliction among us m North
Carolina. Among other extrav
agant claims, they also assert a
monopoly of courage and pa
triotism. To read their lurid ar
raignments of Prussianism, you
would expect to see them smear
ed with war paint, with reeling
tomahawks; and we expect, dai
ly, to read the thrilling an
nouncement that they have the
gory scalp of the unspeakable
Kaiser in their belts while his
pelt ornaments their stable doors.
But, strange to say, they re
main on this side of the Atlantic,
and associate with Theodore the
Unspeakable and Boisterous
Boanerges, Billy Sunday Both
these worthies are the incarna
tion of war; but when it comes
to a showdown their fangs are
not venomous. Certain sky-pilots,
dough-faced lawyers and
belicose goods-box-statesmen are
in same category, but are not
missed from home, nor are they
clad in uniform. The most mil
itant talkers in our midst are an
cient and faded crowbaits who
know they will not be drafted,
and move heaven and earth to
have their patriotic sons exempt
ed on pleas of "weak eyes,"
'undersize," and "dependents."
I am 60, have three sons who
are volunteers and one drafted;
and tendered my own enlistment
last spring. So far, I have not
been accepted; but am ready to
march forth at tap of drum.
Yet, strange to say, I deliver no
militant speeches and indite no
fierce philipic3. I have whined
around no exemption boards, and
can take care of mvself. At
present 1 am teaching, as prin
cipal, in a three-teacher school,
and have oversight of 124 pupils,
with more to follow after the
holidays. I have one son, aged
12years, at home in public school
and I look for some "called" but
unendowed skypilot, or some
long-haired dough-faced lawyer
to raise a wailing protest' because
I don't send him as a drummer
boy. If I suggest that their sons
might toe the firing line, I am
charged with sacrilege and dis
loyalty.
A man who permits a boy of
19 to enlist, and whose parting
injunction to a son on his de
parture to the tented field is the
language of King Saul to the
shepherd youth who went to try
conclusions with the blustering
giant, is of course an unmitigat
ed slacker, coward and traitor,
and for him no minsttfel raptures
swell. His proffering his own
enlistment at 60, and not asking
a ccAnmission as major general,
is proof that he is a cringing
coward.
Turning to themes of a local
nature, I desire to pay a sincere
but tardy tribute tn memory of
the lamented Jim Cager Yates.
Four years ago I was a guest at
his palatial home; and never was
recipient of more unstinted hos
pitality. The commonwealth ot
Kentucky is pre-eminent for
that virtue, and Jim Cager wa
its true exponent. I had been
teaching school in Carroll county
Missouri, and was on my way
home. Jim Cager importuned
me by letter to visit him, and
drove his car from Bradfordsville
to Louisvilteto welcome and con
vey me to his ideal home. I was
a day late, and he missed me.
But I got around, and his royal
welcome had the genuine Ken
tucky spirit. He had kept a bar
rel of crab cider, palatable as the
nectar of the gods, from Octo
ber to May for my delectation,
and sundry potations of this
elixir explored, cheered and sat
isfied my internal improvements
He took me in his buzz wagon to
see the dignitaries of Bradfords
ville, and to temples whose tow
ering spires proclaimed them
churches of the living God. He
was a votary of melody, and his
daughter and I led the songs of
Zion in earthly tabernacles of
worship with organ and violin,
and the appealing cadences of
"The Old Kentucky Home" for
delectation of visiting auditors.
We also made parlors vibrant
with rollicking notes of ' Dixie"
the sad refrain of "Massa's in
the cold, cold ground the plaint
ive strains of, "when you and I
were young, Maggie" and some
airs fast and furious enough to
suggest the revels witnessed by
Tarn O'Shanter. When 1 lef t,
the parting injunction of Jim
Cager was: "Good bye, Melvin,
God bless you." He also gave
me tangible evidence at a later
date, of what St. Paul declared
the greatest Christian virtue.
Of course human perfection has
never been attained; for the wis
est of men was beguiled from
the path of rectitude; but I have
the comforting hope that Jim
Cager will be welcomed to a
room in the house of many man
sions. Yes, Sid Snow, you are em
balmed in precious memory, and
I tender to you the compliments
of the season. 1 affectionately
hold you, Belle, Etta, Loren, Les
lie and Corinna in fadeless mem
ory. I have a pretty fair knowl
edge of 12 states and the citi
zenship thereof; but the memory
of Old Kentucky linger. "Like
the touch of a hand that has
vanished, and a voice that for
ever is stilled." Ere you read
this the joyous yuletide will be,
as I hope, a pleasant memory;
but like Tiny Tim, my articulat
ed wish is, "May heaven bless
us, every one."
Melvin L. White.
iesldence Phone 13 B
Business Phoe 18 P
DR. J. N. MURRELL
DENTIST
Office, Front rooms 'in Jeffries BTd'g
up Stairs.
Columbia, - Kentucky
DENTAL O'ETO'ICEJ
Dr. James Triplett
NTIST
OVER PAULJj DRUG OO.
Columbia, Ky.
RK8 PHONO 30.
OFFICE PHONB
Uncle Sam's Debis
Reach Great Total.
Washington, Jan. 1 The Unit
ed States enters the new year
with a national debt of 6,615,000,
000, more than five times great
er than when it entered the war
nine months ago, but only one
third of the debt which promises
to develop by the first next year.
The debt per capita is about $51,
and the percentage of debt to es
timated national wealth is 2h per
cent.
The Treasury financial sum
mary statement, issued to day
for the first time since last June
80, shows that actual disburse
ments during the first half of
the fiscal year have fallen below
the estimates, particularly for
the military establishment. An
enormour prospective increase in
War Department expenses, for
munitions and materials con
tracts o be filled in the spring,
will raise the Government out
lays at that time but officials feel
some doubt that ordinary dis
bur3ements will reach the $12,
316,000,000 estimated for the
fiscal year ending next June 30
The actual outlaw for the mil
itary establishment up to Decem
ber 1 was $1,311,000,000; the es
timated outlay for the whole
fiscal year is $8,790,000,000 The
Navy spent $426,000,000 and the
estimate for the year is $1,300,
000,000. Shipping Board ex
penditures were $118,000,000
while the vear's estimate is
$901,000,000
Each of these three principal
departments has outstanding
contracts for which big expendi
tures will have to be made with
in the remaining half of the
fiscal year, however, and the ag
gregate of these is tue uncertain
element which make it impossi
ble to determine at this time pre
cisely how many additional Lib
erty bonds must be issued be
tween now and next June 3.
Great as the national debt
seems to this country, whose
debt before the war was only a
little past the billion-dollar mark
it is only about one-fourth that
of either Great Britian, France,
Russia or Germany. The debt of
all America's co belligerents is
about $84,000,000,000, or 14 per
cent, of the estimated wealth of
those nations, and the Teutonic
Allies' debt is about $40,000 000
000 or 28 per cent of their esti
mated wealth.
Farmers Doing Their
Sit
"Farmers of the great agricul
tural states have responded to
the pleading of government
officials to plow and plant in a
manner that only the future can
make understandable," remark
ed F. O. Holt, , a farmer and
stockman of Iowa, who was in
Washington this week. "In my
state the acreage under cultiva
tion this year was far greater
than ever, and the farmers gave
more attention to their planting
than in any other year, because
they were anxious to do their
part toward winning the war by
making two blades of grass grow
where only one grew before, if
it were possible to do so The
yield of corn per acre and of
wheat in some sections of the
West has been remarkable. As
sistant Secretary of Agriculture
Vro'oman set the pace for the
farmers when he produced on
one of his farms inlllinois 90
bushels of oats to the acre, while
his axerage was 73 bushels. Trie j
average production of oats Der I
acre in that state is something
like 34 bushels to the acre, s
you can see that intelligent farm
ing will bring results. T is fact
has come to t-e farmers all
through the West, and where
once you would find the farmers '
doing their planting, cultivating
ana narvestmg according to
their own methods, now.- they are
adopting the advice of the De
partment of Agriculture as laid
down in its reports.
"I venture to say that next
year this country will raise more
lood than ever before or more
than even the most optimistic
expect. We shall be able to sup
ply not- only our own needs at
reasonable prices, but shall have
sufficient to feed our allies over
there. It took the farmers a
long time to come to a realiza
tion that we are in this war, but
I believe most of them fully un
derstand it now, and they are
going to bear their part.
I don't think I have seen in
the cities any boys more anxious
to go into the trenches than the
farmer boys of the Western
states."
From Nebraska.
Riverton, Dec. 31st, '17.
Editor News:
As the New Year draws near
it reminds me to keep the dear
old home paper coming. I must
write to the Editor and enclose
$1.00. In the 19 years I have i
been in Nebraska I have never
missed a copy of the News. I
see by the News that the good
people of Columbia are doing a
great work for the Red Cross. I
want to say in behalf of our
town, we have a Red Cross of
one hundred and thirty members
and are doing all we can, sewing
and knitting. Last Sunday night
the Sunday schools gave a Xroas
program for the Belgian chil
dren and raised $96.00. So you
see Nebraska is doing her part.
Every thing is very high here.
Coal $10.00 per ton, wood $6.00
per cord, Alfalfa hay $20.00 per
ton, corn $2.00 per bu., flour
S6.00 per hundred and every
thing else in proportion
Will say for the benefit of our
many friends in Kentucky that
my mother, Mrs. James Dice,
now 82 years old, is quite well
and has knit fifteen pairs of
socks, one sweater and a pair of
wristlets for the soldier boys
and is still knitting. We sure
have had some winter here. 20
below zro. v. ith a wind from
the north oing al the rate of 60
miles an hour.
Wishing the News and its
many readers a happy and pros
perous New Year, I shall say
good-bye tor this time.
Mrs. Ella Farlee.
A bill providing for national
rohibition during the war wash
pintroduced by Senator Shafrot
and referred to the Agricultural
Committee. It also would per
mit commandering ot distilled
liquors for Government purposes.
Moscw is cut off from railroad
communication and Turkestsn
has declared itself independent
of Russia.
Tr, 0 ioQh ,;, TTn,0rf Shu
Mil t I-IUJ" "" wn.uvi utui,.
troop3 six Mexican bandits were
killed in Mexico just across the
Rio Grande.
Bitter cold has stopped fight
ing in prance and Italy.
form Uregin.
Ednor New
I' as been qiW a a' i I'mc&z
I havf written a letter i tbe
News, so deiidd as our subscrip
tion expire the 14:n of Jan. Am
sending $1.00 for it another year.
We like the News as i1 is . ab
lished near our o'.d him' ' is1
like a letter trom home. see
in the paper that so mam c mr
boys there have or.y . wir.
Oh! we would be so gi id t i vsr-
that peace could be declar i andf'
war over for all time and . ne
boys come back home v. ithou
the loss of one. But some moth
er's son will fail to corne i ue.
So far the war ha3'.it ide
as much difference nre a- ' here
so far as thinning out the yoosagr
men, but several have enlisted i
and lots more to go. The oung .
men in our neighoorhc- : are
scarce, only two enlists- i tiaoi
were accepted near us and oiWrs
were rejected for one cau- &&
another, some have detective
sight others bad teeth and vnri
ous other defects.
This has been an u .isu-vi-f
year all around, an abundance o
rain in the spring and none from.
May until the last of Septernoer.
The summer was so dry that
there was very little of any cning
raised. The hay crop v.-as al
most a failure in some part, and4
many are selling off their tock .
at prices that would ast nsh .
one. Good mil. cows for $25
and some times lower, good
young horses from $15 up. The
man that hasn't much stock e
the lucky one this time.
So far we have had a good fall'
The grass is still green and we
have had very little ice snd na -snow
on the ground, only we.--could
see it on the mountains,
and on the tree tops on the higrt
hills. We had an awful ta(I.
winter last year. Every thing
that we have to buy is clear oon
of reason here as at other places .
Mrs. C. S. Mooney.
DenmarKv
The health of this community
very bad at this writting-,
is
there
being several cases or
measles and pneumonia.
Mrs. Williams Akers died test
wrek with measles and pni
monia.
Xmas was very dull at this
place.
Mr. J. H. Cain bought Mr. A
G. Coffey's farm near here.
Messrs. Dowell and Mann ship
ped a boat load of cattle and.
hogs last week.
John Helm is moving to aie
mother farm.
Rev. Oscar Capshaw and Mr
J. N. Meadows of Jamestown,
came out to Moores School house
one night last week and organia--ed
a Red Cross. Almost the ere
tire crowd took membership.
The Sunday School at Moores
school house is progressing nice
ly, with a large attendance.
Miss Nina Acre who has beein
visiting her mother at Tex:re
Haute, Ind., has returned horce
In Palestine the Turks have
received another defeat having:
been driven back three miles cuj
l a nine mile front with heavy
slaughter.
Mrs. Edna Atkins, at Franfe
fort, was killed by the exploskaii
of a cook range due to the water-
being frozen in the water back
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