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r Are you interested in your Home County's Development? Then Take your Home Paper published weekly LIBERTY A1ND JUSTICE TO ALL ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. VOLUME 7 BENTON, POLK COUNTY, EAST TENNESSEE, THURSDAY DEC. II 1013 NU ;BER 2 i 1 r. li i PERSONAL Social Calendar. o Mid-week prayer meeting at the Presbyterian church on Wednesday nights. You are invited to come. Sundiy school at both the Presbyterian and BaDtistchurch es every Sunday morning.' You ire welcome and ytMir presence will he appreciated ut either place. Rev. Robinson will fill his ap ointments at the Presbyterian c hurch next Sunday. o Christian Enieavor society meets at the Pre-bvterV.1 cinrch Sunday nights. Inter esting topics are discussed; and vou are requested to come. Don't send your we can do it. job printing Newt N:cholson of Chattauoo ra, -spent several days recently with relatives here. The Standard Oil wagon from ' Cleveland was' in Benton, last .'ills with kerosene. , m News-Gazette will e- publication of lbs ctuidrens' is to Santa Claus next r.y is near here building tow- i fdr transmission ot electric vvor from Ocoee to Maryville tv run the aluminum plant at 1 at place Vonore correspond ent in Madisonville Democrat. August McClarv, who has been in somewhat bad health for several weeks, made a trip ,V toKnoxville recently and was . examined by Dr. Kincaid, who ". , stated that the trouble wascaus ,, ed by catarrhal affections. We , are glad to state that he is im . proving, uuder treatment by ? Dr. Kincaid. i - Optical Specialist Coming '7 'Dr. F. P. McKowen, Optome ' arist and Physical Eye Specialist ti V-,ne leading Optometrist of the ';;south, will be at Central Hotel, t VJJentou, Tenn., December22 and S 23 for the proper fitting of eye glasses. Home address 513 Williams St., Knoxvllle, Tenn. Although it rained, a game of basket ball was played on the local court here last Saturday afternoon between the Polk and McMina county high schools. The score was 4 and 4. The 7 two teams expect to play off the tie on the Athens court before '. long. A good many spectators ' witnessed the game. L Last Sunday a motion was made at the Benton Sunday school, that the Sunday school give a Christmas tree on Xmas night. The motion carried, and ; committees will be appointed I next Sunday morning. We un derstand that the Baptist Sun i day school expects to give a 1 Christmas tree also. The one at !f the Presbyterian church will be 1 r,.ttia Kanotif of thrhil- jldVin attending the Benton Sun. - day school, but 'everybody in f. (the community b invited tn on ( 'M-es&nt and place their presents n this tree. AND SOCIAL. Advertise yiur holiday goods in this papnr. Esq. J. N. McBrayer of Re liance was called to the bedside of his father, who is very sick, recently. . Evangelist It. D. Cecil of Cleveland recently closed a good meeting at Birchwood Baptist church, Birchwood, Tenn. Rev. Cecil wouli be ghid to make en gagements for meetings. His address is Cleveland, Tenn. On next Friday eveniug begin ning at 7:30 will be given a box supper at the high school build ing, proceeds to pay for the new Physical apparatus lately install ed. Everybody come. TTrwri Tfthn S Rhnmhlin hn.9. returned from a business trip to Texas, the lone star state. He! traveled through part of the flooded section of Texas, and j reports that hundreds of miles ; of creek and river bottoms, and j lowlands throughout the state ! am flooded, ruininsr comoara-1 tively all the corn that had not and tbejadr" hog to her wallow hoon ;vfttWed and shinned ontlnsr 5h the mire" Better bcrin of, the' fioadfed section before the , - . ri - flood came. He also stated, that it was still'i rainins? when he left. Fifth Sunday Meeting at Reliance. The Fifth Sunday meetins of the Eastenalle Baptist Associa ciation convened with Hiwassee Union church at Reliance Nov. 28, 29 and 30. The introductory sermon was preached by Rev. Granville Lea. Several inter esting topics were discussed1 during the meeting. The col-! lection for orphans home! amounted to $10,14. Miss t,ook, or Sweetwater, at - tended the meeting in the inter- est of the Woraans Missionary TT! J ! 1 1 il u n iuii, ana organ izeu a local union at Reliance. The meeting was well attend ed, and was apparently enjoyed by all present. The next Fifth Sunday meeting will be held with the Conasauga church, in a few miles of Etowah. Servllla. L. C. Goss and family have been visiting relatives here. J. T. Kilpatrick is visiting here. School is progressing flue but somewhat crowded. Sunday school is progressing nicely. We want an evergoreen Sunday school, and work to that end. Mrs. J. A. Hammonds who has been sick for some time, is im proving. J. L. Morgan is making some Improvements on his place. W. G. Different Now. "Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice, fctole in and out As if they feared the light." But since she split if into halv ves We sue two spoitive little calves Come boldly into sight! -Judge, -v CONCERNING HAM AND HOLY ROLLERS Georgia Stakely of Mad isonvllle sets forth some Ideas. R. 6, Madisonville, Tenn., December 1st, 1913. Editor News-Gazette: I suppose that those depraved human beings who have been nraving for the Devil to be con verted think that Ham Patter son's change of heart meets all the requirements. "When the Devil a saint would be, The Devil of a saint is he." There is a gang of rotten 'Roly Hollers" turned loose over our fair land, meeting and cavorting ground, some of their main leaders being base men and lewd women. Their only converts are from the very low est and vilest, degraded and corrupt human beings, and these they bold up as examples for decent folks to follow. Of cours wicked men have been and can be, s sometimes, converted; but "the doff returns to his vomit - . .. .. ,..... . t at the crsdle to t z'.x your chil- jdren the commandments, the statutes and the ordinances of Holy Writ. Do not encourage them to live vicious, wicked f 11 ey are gr own with i fhj iinrlorwlnn.linor that (rOfl Will the understanding that God will convert them anyhow in His own good timey Tt is always vnw with and. and it is nowiout off until tomorrow bncause that He wants your children saved, and if you would only do :your duties, parents, your chil 'dren would be saved now. "Hounding" Patteron! I say hounding I've never in the least hounded him; I've never had the least use for him politically; always voted against I bim an(j my conscience is clear 1 for so doing. Better make our mjnds while young to ! what we are. and stick to it up be all can through life. I find that I not follow any leader whom 1 know to be corrupt. There are '. certain vile men who wjll candi date for any party, join auy church or do any rotten old thing just so they can be elected to public office. And when they get into office all they do, or try to do, is to reward those who helped to elect them never try to do a thing for people who walk uprightly and who have always clung to the right. Better let Ham alone. If he is truly a saint somebody will find it out without his tooting his own horn. Let's have de cent, sober, sane, sound, safe and clean men as leaders men who have always been decent and sober and clean. Let Ham Patterson round up the thugs and murderers and whiskey devils tie has pirdoned, hang at least nine-tenths of them; pay back to Tennessee the expenses of his rotten ad ministrations while governor; pay back; if he can, for all the sorrow and misery his wicked ness has caused; then get off into a corner ana stay thre jjntil called to come forth. V truly a converted man JfU,oeming but I want the fact PTtC fore I bid him "Godyie rules to tell. Very irwcrlei longingty, r.,niMjI4 you out. Any ULQKGIA 'Anything et U. But ft gtVe any Inform a ow I wlhl" U si TO THE FARMERS OF TENNESSEE. By Capt. T.F. Peck, Com missioner of Agriculture, Winter Work. When the crops are gathered in the fall of the year some farm ers consider their" work finished uatil spring, when they begin preparations for a crop. I have never yet seen; prosperous farmer who practiced that meth od of farming If you will go to a farm run that way you will find farm implements and ma chinery exposed to the weather; yon will find fences and building needing repair;-? you will find ditches that need cleaning; you will find, fence rows and ditch banks grown up; you will find harness that needs mending and oiling; you will find live stock exposed to the weather, When you find such a farmer, if you will examine his barnyard you will see . manure gohig to waste and he 'will be buying commercial. "fertilizers to boost bis 'crop and ytiXnx It on improp erly prepared grjo mi, that no matter bowVic ia .plant food. (! tfrfWtnrZJfi not" produce results because the soil was not in condition to make the plant food available? ? Now, brother farmer, you know that we . have too many farms run as I have pictured. You know that we, as farmers in too many cases have too little regard for the value of time. We we think we will have plenty of time, but when the day passes we can not recall it. Every day has its duties and its value, and when we neglect the duties of today it means a day lost, for to morrow has its duties ani cannot be neglected for the duties of today. . v The galled hillsides.the grown up and neglected fields, dilapi dated buildings are all evidence of wasted time and neglected opportunities. We have the winter before uc. Let us make up our minds that when spring comes with its rush of work we will be ready for it; that we will not have to stop ihrt work we should be doing to attend to something we could have atunded to during the winter. County Directory. Trustee, F. D. Copeland. S:ieritf, Aloert Crumley. Superintendent of scUouls, W. B. Kucker. , . Kegisier, J. E. Cook..." Circuit court moets the 'third Mondays in March, July and November. Sam C. Brown, judge; T. W. Peace, Attorney General; C. .S. Harrison, clerk. Ducktown Law court meets fourth Mondays in March, July and November. W. A. Woody, clerk. Chancery court meets the 4.h Mondays iu April and October. V. C. Allen, chaucellor; A. J. Williams, clerk and master. Quarterly court meets first Mondays in January, April.July and October. Quorum court ppens first Monday in eacn Bgh,. J. H. Williamsou, cam. down with Herk. and chatted 2t iptio One of them as the Beo Bowie, and deac At Ih. fluaerintio CLEMMER'S COLUMiNS. 3 SZ ByJ.D.Clemmer -j History Of Garwood's Raid through Polk county By Mrs. Sarah Sbamblin. and H. W. McClarv. Wishing to give the essential features of the Gatewood raid while it is interrupting our War Time Schools, the series would be incomplete without the rec ollections of a girl who was in her 'teens and who was an eye witness to the raid, and at whose father's house one of the victims was cared for until able to be removed by his comrades. Sarah Haskins was on the porch in front of their house which faced the upper fording entran ce of the ford between Sylco creek and Greasy creek, on the north bank of Ocoee river, when the first of the raiders came up 'and stopped after coming up the road along the river banK, past the halfway house then occupied by Mat Story. She saw 'Riley Sisson run from the, halfway house, and sw him fall when shot by some 1 of the g He "fell in the swampy land between the half way house and the hillside di rectly away from the river. Two women. A nagil Story und Rosa McKissack, pulled him out of the swamp and laid him out. While the shooting of Sisson was taking place, Col. D. C. Haskins, her father, crawled out of the corn crib near the house and keeping the buildings be tween him and the raiders made his escape to the mountain side, then sat there watching the raiders to see what would bap- pen. The entire gang, among them Rev. Bob McClary under gU'ird, passed across Greasy creek at the mouth and went on up the Ocoee river road that was, but now is under from 30 to 90 feet of the water in the Parksvjlle lake. About 2 miles above the mouth of Greasy creek in a sharp turn of the road with the mountain wall inside the turn and the rushing river on the right in going up Gatewood ; and his gang met eight men on j foot the men started up the mountain side, but returned to the road upon being told by Gatewood that they were friends no sooner back in the road than Gatewood's men lined the eight men up, had them strip off their clothing mainly and began to shoot thefto down rap idly one at a time. Pete Parris ran up the mountain side and was badly wounded, afterward giving a lot of trouble in being cared for by Jim Rymer, a son- in-law of Andrew Kerr. Jasper Parten ran, jumped into the Ocoee's roaring torrent, swam across where no one dared to attempt to follow him, then wounded, badly, lay behiod a rock on the south bank while the guerillas went both up and down the river shooting across at him, trying to get an angle from which to fiuish killing him. The Rev. McClary wa an un willing witness to all this, ex- n ! w tl.am trt ilinnk htm HiiBn next; but they proceeded up the,6 river some further and there Gatewood leveled his pistol in McCUry's face with trigger ready to pulL When Mc- (Clary came back alone to Has- kins' house he told them all about the shooting of the six men and the escape of the two others, as well as his own de liverance A woman, tremping with her little children down the 14 miles of river road from Geo. Barnes' Greyors' (Greers) ferry, was the first to find the human pile of dead soldiers, bhe began to scream, and Parten called to her to send him help. She came on down the river, told the settlers and two of them John Cain and Bat Guinn, crossed the river at Srlco. went up the rough river side, found Parten and, building ud a fire, staved all night with 4 him; then next morning Col. Haskins helped tnem bring him across the river on a raft of logs fastened together with hickory withes, and on a mule down the river road to Haskins' home where he was waited on by Mrs. John Rymer for two weeks, and Some of Boyd's, called the Hog backs' regiment (to which he and Karris, also five of the. men killed belonged) came from for bim. These victims had been home in Fannin county, Ga., and were on their way to the command when murdered. With them was a boy, James Hughes, who was also killed and piled with the others in the road. All six of them were hauled in a wagon and buried in one grave on the hill across Ocoee river from the halfway house. So another name for Sylco became 'Boneyard." Mrs. Shamblin well remem bers seeing the five men and the boy brought in the one wagon, also that Parten was snot in both hands, both feet and the shoulder. Parten died from the wounds not long after the war, but Parris may be living yet. At the Haskins house Parten was kept in the kitchen, a sepa rate room from the "big house'' and when Graham's raid follow ed the same route Miss Haskius closed the kitcnen doors and answered the raiders questions from the big house porch, and Parten was not disturbed then. Dr. Copeland sent medicine to give Parris, but the five men and the boy were all dead when found. (Continued next week) Reliance. Messrs. O. P. Johnson and Pulaski Williams of Etowah spent Sunday at Reliance. Mrs. Cbas. E. Johnson or Eto wah visited Mrs. Chesley Press wood the latter part of last week. J. D. Vaughn is still couflnad to bis home with rheumatism. Chesley Presswood is at Kuox ville, engaged in carpentry. George Siauley of Probst has been very sick the past week. Miss Arizona Warren return ed home from Etowah on last a Reliable. Several of our citizens killed hogs this week. bava 1 i 'A t I4 '.:( it 5I him, and moved un to what wa to b V, 1 i', t ,