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ADAIR COUNTY NEWS
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Published On Wednesdays.
ftt Colurr6ia, Kentucky-
BARKSDALE-HAMLETT, Editor.
Democratic newspaper devoted to the Interest
I th City of Columbia and tba peopl of Adair
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law mall matter.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
WED. JFEB. 13, 1918
THE TUSCANIA.
The fate of Francis C. Cald
well who was on the great Brit
tish ship when she went down
last week, a victim to the Ger
man submarine, is not yet
known. The list of Americans
was lost when the ship was sunk.
It is believed and estimated that
approximately 200 American sol
diers were lost. But, whatever
the fate of Caldwell, his home
people, while anxious to hear of
his hoped-for safety, will be pre
pared for the worst, if it is later
known that he was one of our
American soldiers who when the
ship was struck, went camly to
his post, bravely awaiting his
untimely but glorious fate, and
did his "bit" chiming in with
the other heroes of this event
while the national anthems of
the Angle-American allies were
sunf.
Later Francis Caldwell writes
his brother, who lives in Camp
bellsville, that he is among the
survivors.
The sinking of the Tuscania
with the loss of more than one
hundred American soldiers is
already being used as good
proprganda by the Pacifist and
Pro-german. If two thousand
instead of two hundred had died,
the true American and the real
patriot would be the greater
and more nobly inspired to get
ready for the collossal sacrifices
that are yet to be made for the
freedom of mankind for the
democracy of the world. Our
only regret for these boys is that
they were not permitted by fate
to die on the goal line that they
were as men and patriots press
ing forward to. Let us at home,
dedicate as their monument, the
American Flag, and write
"Freedom" for their epitaph.
Their posthumous wishes if they
could be interpreted, would in
spire more sons of America to go
with gladness and pride to this
burial spot on the fields of our
country's glory and our country's
honor.
and rcon controversies as to the
wisdom of voting bonds, or as to
whether a man ought to be or
can be elected to office on the
issue, of whether he favored or
did not favor a bond issue for
the purpose of building roads
Let us get down to real business,
and improve our roads. Let us
use while we have the opportuni
ty, Mr. flochensmith who can
help us, if he is given a chance
to resurrect the Columbia-Camp-
bellsville turnpike; and toll or no
toll, with the people's equitable
ownership in fresh air, ana a
certain amount of space while
they are living and necessarily
moving on this boulevard of
freedom and patriotism, all pull
ing together, We can have and
control a decent road to the rail
way or the river.
There has been much talk and
much speculation as to who the
Repuplicans might run for Gov
erner next year. They seem to
think that they can win. It may
be a delusion, we do not know,
but it looks like they have a bet
ter chance than they had when
Stanley "became" Governor.
We hope for some optimistic
change. But if we've got to
swallow it please give us a Re
publican, who is, as Woodrow
Wilson is, a democrat: We mean
an American citizen, who is
broader, and bigger, and more
patriotic than the exhaust pipe
of a "gas well" in Somerset.
George Weissinger Smith, May
or of Louisville is today the big
gest man in the Republican
party, and as democrats are suc
cessfully trusting him now, they
could be relied upon to continue
this trust, as long as he contin
ues his present record as Mayor
of Louisville.
THE ROADS.
Adair County has had a hard
struggle to get started and or?
ganized a general public senti
ment in favor of building and
developing our county system of
highways. Chas. Hoge Hocken
smith came to the county with
his expert knowledge as a build
er of roads after his apprentice
ship in this technical field; as a
contractor in the business, under
the supervisory direction of the
State Roads Department. This
man has done more for the de
velopment and education of pub
lic sentiment in fayor of the
practical ways and means of
M. A. TRAYLOR.
Folks of Adair County and the
Pennyrile who have not watched
the remarkable career of M. A.
Traylor, President of the Chicago
Live Stock Exchange National
Bank, have missed an opportuni
ty to give their children and the
growing generation of this good
land of sturdy birth and growth
a lesson of inspiration and a
study in ideals. Mr. Traylor is
vet under forty, and but a few
years ago was working on a
farm in this county near the
frontier of Cumberland, for
fifty cents a day, for an humble
citizen who now lives in Colum
bia. By dint of pluck and na
tive ability, by self sacrifice and
rightious ambition to succeed, he,
today occupies the most conspi
cuous and the most enviable posi
tion among the financiers of the
second greatest city in the world.
Adair County people will be glad
to hear that Mr. Traylor has
been appointed by the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago as dir
ector of sales of the United
States treasury certificates of
indebtedness, pending the re
ceipts from the next big Liberty
Loan.
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Seeds That Grow
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Are what you want when you Buy, Seeds that have high puri
ty and germinating tests. You can get weed seeds for nothing.
We know seeds and have the best connections in the seed pro
ducing sections of the country, which enables us to go direct to
the section where grown and get the purest and best to be had,
Every bag of seeds we send ont is tagged as to purity and ger
mination according to the KENTUCKY PURE SEED LAW,
and you willl Always find our seeds above the standard.
We have everything that the Farmer needs. Wagons, Buggies,
Implements and all kinds of Hardware.
The
Jeffries Hardware
COLUMBIA, KENTUCKY.
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faction or the other, in the bi
plane status of party equili-,
brium, for the Democratic nomi
nation for Governer next year,
but "Rod" is dry enough for all
factions. The clerk may prove
himself more popular with the
people than the "man' in the
"marble chair."
& SAXES OjST TETE S
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THE
It was said of James Madison
that"politically"he could be turn
ed inside out and no speck could
be found upon his record. Up
to this time, it can be truly said
of Rodman W. Keenon, present
Clerk of the Kentucky Court of
Appeals. Judges of the present
Appeals bench are being consid
ered by the politicians of one
THE TURNPIKE AND TOLL GATES.
At a meeting on last Saturday
of our Fiscal Court, matters per
tinent to the past, and proposed-in-the-future,
management of
Adair County's part of the turn
pike between Columbia and
Campbellsville was the issue of
chief concern. But, as it is
represented to us by the people
of Adair County, and Russell
County, and Cumberland County?
and all parts of other counties,
whose farmers and people pass
thru Columbia rnth tobacco, live
stock, and other commodities, in J
their effort to get to a market,
the question uppermost in their
minds is, not what compensation
shall be allowed Judge Herriford
for his past splendid manage
ment of the pike and its Jewish
toll gates, nor what the present
court is going to do about the
continued and drafting illega
lity of this great highway of
prosperity, but how soon we are
going to get constructed and
maintained from this city and its
contributory members of the big
farmers and peoples family, A
ROAD over which we can in
safety haul our "dead." The
pike from here to Campbellsville
is a fake as a navigable stream
of mud, and the $1.72 that the
self and other misdirected Mat
thews thru ancient imagery take
from the pockets of the discom
moded wayfarer is as damnable,
and as incompatible with the
purposes and aims of modern
civilization, as would be the
cannonization of a German or
Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Company
bloors, luesday, February 5th, made an advace of 50c over
previous'sale of Thursday, Jan. 31st, which makes an advance
of $2.00 on Dark over sales previous to the date since Jan. 1st.
Buyers are discriminating to a great extent between Tobacco in
good keeping condition and soft Tobacco.
Dark sold from - $10.50 to $19.00.
Burley " " $12.00 to $34.00.
Bidding is more spirited and the market seems to be in better
condition generally.
Farmers Tobacco Warehouse Co., - Campbellsville, Ky.
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NEW GOODS
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We have just received a new line of Beautiful Druggets, Rugs
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entity in civic and political life is
a mere triffle, but we are con
cerned with SYSTEMS, and if
the individual is an unfortunate
victim of a combination of his
own weaknesses, and the other
fellow's power of insidiousnesa,
he must find for himself consola
tion, when called before the bar
of the people, in classic history
reflection: "The fault, dear
Hungarian nation that the plain Brutus, is not in our stars, but
people and the masses should
pay for the air they breath with
out granting them the right of
sterillizatioq.
We are not opposed to any in
dividual. The individual as an nized as the
in ourselves
lings."
if we are under-
A Bargain.
The Farmers Home Journal is recog
leading farm paper of
the State. Every farmer should sub
scribe for it. We have made a special
arrangement with the publisher of the
Farmers' Home Journal by which
that paper and the Adair County
News are put in reach of all. ITere it
is:
Farmers' II. Journal, per year $1.00
Adair County News per year 31.00.
Both one year for SI 65
This proposition will be good for
several weeks. Subscribe now.
Fraternal Spirit.
Some year ago Rev. D. T. Tarter,
who at that time was a member of the
Louisville Conference, was located in
Jamestown and was a popular minis
ter. Since being at Jamestswn he was
sent to other points, his last location
being at Smith's Grove, Warren
county. About three weeks ago he
left home, in company with his brother-in-law,
for a point in Minnesota, to
undergo, an operation. Before leav
ing he told his wife that if he did not
survive the operation, his remains
would be brought to Smith's Grove
and that he wanted, after religious
services, a Masonic and Odd Fellow's
burial, and that he wanted Mr. W. S.
Knight and Mr. Attis McFarland, of
Jamestown, to preside over the cere
monies, the tormer the Masonic, the
latter the Odd Fellows. When the
news of his death reached his wife,
she notified the two brothers of her
husband's request, and they started at
once, a distance of over one hundred
miles, for Smith's Grove, and there in
the presence of a large concourse of
friends, f unfilled the request made by
the deceased brother. The burial was
Sunday, the 3d inst., and Messrs.
Knight and McFarland reached here
Monday night, on their return to
Jamestown.