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POLK COUNTY NEWS-GAZETTE. BENTON. TENNESSEE. PREMIUMJ.IST BIG Live Stock Show Will Be Fea ture of National Conser 6 vation Exposition . t FOR YOU WE'RE HERE WITH "TH National Conservation TI ? ii MS mm If - . a .mm. aw? 1 EXPOSITION - $14,000 IN PRIZES OFFERED BUT WE DON'T WANT 'EM We need the money worse than we do the Goodsthat's why we sell them so cheap. We have the most complete line of Groceries in town. You marry the girl, and we'll furnish the house. Visit our Soda Fountain when you want "something cold." And don't forget our line of Get our Drices. clothing-, IF IT'S JEWELRY, WE'VE GOT IT The Automobile way is the quickest way to travel, and is about as cheap as any other way. Phone us when you want to go anywhere. : : : BENTON MERC. CO. South-west corner of Public Square. BENTON, - - , - - TENNESSEE I Jh. 2otA Qommt JCmm.Saxtt "Covers Polk County like the Dew." Win. P. RUSSELL, Publisher. DAN HICKS, JR., Editor & Mgr. One year Six months Three months $1.00 50 25 - ' Published every Thursday at The News-Gasette office, on the North-east side of the Square. This paper has a circulation that is sufficient to circulate any ad vertising or news over all the important parts of Polk county The News-Gazette has a good list in every district of the coun ty. We solicit your support. Newsletters should reach our office ou Tuesday, and should be Addressed to the Managing Edi tor, to insure publication the current week. Please note. THE SOONER THE BETTER. Probabilities of selling the Polk county pike roads bonds are a little more evident than they once were. Of course they will sell some time andihe pikes would no doubt be just as good if they were built later on as if tbey were built right away, but it would be better for the C)napany that builds them to begin shortly after the two pikes now being built are finished, if they mean to buy all (or any) of their road building machinery. The people are anxious to see the work start. Although the pikes to be built after the sale of these bonds will not go right kerspat into everytoly's front yard, the county can, 'later on, build more pikes and join them, of course, to the ones already built, making it satisfactory to everyone whom it is possible to satisfy. Even though no more pikes were ever built in the county except the ones for which the bonds are now for sale, they atone would be a great advan tage to the people. McMinn. Monroe and Bradley all have good roads either under construntion or completed, and now it is up to Polk to build just a little better roads than any of the three adjoining counties in order to make this little corner of Tennessee equal to any other part of the state. sticks where you have to use a crooked telescope to see the sun risa; and they are always class ed with the fools. O, til YE US A REST. And still a lot of the papers are discussine the slit-skirt and the clothing worn by ladies. The other day we received a daily that was so full of such dope that when we brousrht it in the Hon. Benton McMillin : has been a'ppoiuted Minister to Peru by President Wilson. We know that Benton would get a good place after while, because he's got the right stuff in him. The town of Benton was named for him (we guess) well, to say the least, we congratulate him on getting '.he joh. As a general thing, when a fellow goes on a trip for a rH antra and fnr n root, tho vail door the gasolene exploded, th I roads get nearly all his change job press started to running and the hotels get the rest. It summer re- hark ward and the cat was last seen eoinr one mile a minute over the High School hill with a sheet of paper containing an editorial, pinned on for a slit skirt- We maintain that the ladies have a right to wear n-hatever they want to, nor do we think it a disgrace for a man to walk around home without any shirt nr snx on. So what is it to us of the masculine gender? We'll nevpr wear a slit skirt, and we will do well if we keep tab on our own clothes IT ISN'T OUR FAULT. We announced in previous issue that the opening chapers of "A Smoke Suitor's Daughter" a serial story by Hon. John S. Shamblin, would appear this week. Col. Shamblin informs us that he has been very busy and hasn't had time' to finish writing the story. When Mr. Shamblin gets the story ready for publication, then we will publish it. . i For your own sake, young man, don't be a dude. Don't think because you wear a straw hat or a cotton-checkd cap that you are "IT," because sensible people don't think so. Do you know what a dude is? It is a gink that was reared back in the JOHN S. SHAMBLIN ATTORNEY at L Benton, Tenn, AW is especially so at sorts. It pays a fellow pretty doggone well to get him a se-gair and an easy chair and spend bis spare time at home. It is an old saying that history repeats itself. It surely takes it some time. In fact, we can't remember when such conditions as exist now were ever in exist ence before. Let's see the country is mostly going. Demo cratic, all right; Teddydore Roosevelt has got tipsy, Taft is teaching law ana Ham Patterson has played the devil. Object of Managar of Llvt Stock D partmtnt la To Make Dlaptay Abao lutely Clean and Stimulate Breeding of Better Claeo of Anlmala In South. Some of the objects of the Live Stock Show to be held in connection with the National ConierTation Ex position In Knoxvllle. as aet forth by tb director of that department, John A. Jonei, are: To show to the farmer and lire stock man how much more economical, how much better. It is for him to breed a good animal than a scrub animal. To show that successful farming de pends, not only on the man behind the plow, but also on the weight of the team In front of the plow. To show that agriculture and live stock breeding are closely related and car not be separated. To prove that great opportunities opportunities as great as exist any wherefor the raising and breeding of live stock are being neglected and are going to waste in the South. To prove by actual demonstration the advantages to be gained by the breeding and raising of swine and sheep In the South. To make the show absolutely clean and high class. To do everything possible to foster tin- breeding Interests of the Southern country. , Fine Displays at Show. The Live Stock Show that will be held at the big National Conservation Exposition, in Knoxvllle, from Septem ber 1 to November 1, of the present year, will be the greatest event of its V. I Mm MISS JULIA C. LATHROP, One of country's noted women and head of Child Welfare Department of National Conservation Exposition. If ye kaint smile, jist grin. No paper prints it all take The News-Gazette. Notice of General Registration. Notice is hereby given that the Registration Buoks will be opened at the court house in the eighth civil district of Polk county on the second Monday in August iyi a and. stand open for ten days, Sundays excepted, for the purpose of allowins the voters of the said district to register under the general regis tration laws for two years. Said books will be open from 8 oclock a m each day until 4pm and all legal voters will be given an opportunity to register. Done by action of the board of election commissioners on this the 12th day of July, 1918. B. B. 0. Witt, Chairman v A. E. Love, Secretary M. C. Bacon Commissioners of Election kind probably ever held in the South. Ax the object of the National Exposi- tloii Is to teach the 'eeson oi the neces sity of conserving the natural re- ecurces of the country, so, too, will the object of the Live Stock Show to teach a lesson the lesson of conservation. By disnlays and exhibits of finely bred animals horses, cattle, sheep and awlne and also by comparisons between these well-bred beasts with aciubs will the lessons of the Live Stock Show be taught. Noted men of the live stock world will deliver Ut fmm timA tci time. There will be other features forming a part of the show that will be new and novel and of & character never seen at a similar how in the South before. The premium list 1b large. The total amount offered in premiums in all de partments of the show Is 114,000, and these premiums are so arranged that t ery owner of a well-bred animal will have a chance of being declared a win ner in some of the classes. Many Other Big Prlxee. There la a stake of $1,000 offered for the best saddle horse to be shown In the ring at the Night Horse Show. There la an offer of an $800 award for the best pair of heavy brood mares to be shown. This offer, it is expected, vlll result in a better class of heavy draft animals being raised In. the South. There is also a special prise of $2,000 for the best exhibit of live stock from any county in any Southern state. This is the first time that such a"pre mlum has been offered for an event of tkia kind. The total premium list in connection with this one event alone foots ap to $2,700. A commodious, well-ventilated build Inv w'.ll house the live stock exhibits at the Conservation Exposition. The ring In which the animals win be shown has been pronounced to be one of the best in the country. A Night i InoxviI!e.Tbnn,5eptl5itoNov.l51913 HAS BEEN PLANNED You Cannot Afford to Miss the Greatest, the Best, the Most ComprehensiTC Exposi' tion Ever Held in the South Exhibits cover every line of industry and every branch of education. Conservation features embrace soils, waters, minerals, forests, health, child welfare, etc. Amusements of high class shown only at national expositions. VERY LOW RATES pN RAILROADS ASK ABOUT THEM SPECIAL EXPOSITION EXCURSIONS EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY. s Bye Bye, Goods! They're going, because we sell the right goods at the right price. Wo are offering some special bargains now, and people are constantly taking advantage of them. Why hot you? Our line of Groceries is complete, and they are fresh. They never stay with us long enough to get stale. Fresh cheese always on hand. LADIES READY MADE V CLOTHING COMPLETE LINE Prices Right Oive Us a Call ITS) HP- STORE THE UP-BUILDING OF THIS BANK is due to the fact that wo have ampls capital and thai we have adhered to a poller which has been conservative, and yet along progressive lines. t3F We offer to our customers modern facilities for the prompt and proper transaction of their financial affairsjample vault and safe room for the storing and safeguarding of their monev, notes, insurance poli cies "and valuable papers and snch liberality of treatment as is consistent with prudent bahking. YOUR account is cordially solicited. WE PAY 4 PER CENT INTEREST DUCKTOWN BANKING CO. Uucktown, - Tenn. MARYYILLfcJ COLLEGE. 95th Year Opens September 9, 1913 tha 709 BMidents In attendance last year, 492 came from Tennessee-,210 came from thirty-eight other states and countries. Forty Instructors; eleven buildings, with steam heat and electric 5 light; campus of 235 acres Nine groups cf studie leading to the degree of B. A. Fayerweatber Science Hail tein? enlarged lo Drovide lor tbe new Domestic Science Department. Other de partments: College, Preparatory, Teachers, Bible Training, Mo.ic Expression, Art, uooKKeeping. . muuu, f.w ... V,r ,'u n Co operative Club, $1.75 a week. Toxt-books rented. Write Horae Show will b held, and tbli wtjt ' for catalog to , ba mtde much of. It ia ekpecwd to . uitam ui nil I IMfJHA M Dptrltrr MAvyiue attract large crowds and alao a fin, REV, VHPI W II uiuMMy.i. TNN8tB Itoe of tshtWts. . ... - ff