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MAAIANNA, ARKANSAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1*17. . NO. 33
future FIGHTERS i
NOW AT CAMP PIKE j
lee county soldiers, volun
teers AND DRAFTED MEN. IN
TRAINING FOR PARTICIPATION
IN WORLD'S GREAT WAR.
Lee county’s first contributions to
Unde Sam’s big armies that will be
employed in delivering a death blow
to the autocratic Germans, are now'
jn Camp Pike. The members of
\ Motor Truck Co. No. Nine of Forrest
City, left that place Tuesday morn
ing They constitute one of the
units of the third Arkansas regi
ment. Those from this city and
county who are members of the
truck company are Ed Hinton, Eu
gene Hampton, Dan Felton, Theo- ■
dore Claywell, Thos. G. Mathews, Ed J
Conner, Will Hill, Jim Hill, Woodie
Keys, Wm. Weaks, Theodore O’Dell,
Amos Swaggart and Will Ashworth.
The members of the Marianna
Commercial Club band went to For
rest City early Tuesday morning and
participated In a big farewell jollifi
cation in honor of the soldiers. The
Forrest City correspondent of the
Arkansas Gazette sent in the fol
lowing account of the departure of
the company:
Forrest City carried a “lump in its
throat” that it coulH not swallow this
morning when camp N. B. Forrest
was broken and two units of soldier
boys, Motor Truck Companies 9 and
11, made final preparations for de
parture to Camp Pike at Little Rock.
No such demonstration was ever
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the farewell to the sqjdiers by their
home tolks and friends. All busi
ness was suspended.
In a tribute to the soldiers^ M. B.
Norfleet glorified the mothers, and
declared that every tear of love and
hope that was shed would, ere long,
burst into a rainbow of promise in
heralding the victory for American
arms in the fight for world democra
cy and freedom over the tyranny
and barbarism of autocracy and Ger
man kultur.
The Rev. W. F. Evans, presiding
elder of the Helena district, followed
in an address, and the Rev. J. F. E.
Bates offered a prayer of Benedic
tion
The Marianna Commercial Club
band from Marianna rendered music
throughout the morning.
The departing soldiers were show
ered with gifts. The women came in
automobiles with baskets filled with
luncheon.
The first contingent <|f thirteen
white men who were selected under
the draft act went to Little Rock
last Saturday morning. A large
crowd assembled at the railroad
station here and mingled with the
"goodbyes" and “God bless you” and
the shedding of tears the Commer
cial Club band rendered inspiring
and patriotic music.
The local board has received
orders from the adjutant general to
have the second contingent of thirty
six white men ready for entrainment
on September 19, and on October 3,
the board will send 176 men, white
and black. This makes a total of
212 men to be furnished for the next
two calls. The district exemption
rH nnt itc work of
passing on all the exemption claims
filed by the Lee county drafted men.
So far the district board has certi
fied back to the local board the
names of 137 men who have been
selected for service. It is hardly
probable the additional 75 men need
ed to fill the quota of 212 will be
secured from the lists in the hands
of the district board. In this event
it will be necessary for the local
board to examine and pass on others.
The district board has sent out
for publication the following notice.
“The District Exemption Board for
the Eastern District of Arkansas
find that it will be impossible on all
future calls to grant rehearing*
where it has overlooked some ma
terial affidavit. Therefore all persons
called to the service should use due
care to see that all affidavits are in
• j’ood form and any affidavits which
they desire to submit to the District
Board should be forwarded either
with the papers from the local board
or immediately after action of the
local board, which paper must con
tain both the order and the serial
numbers and no evidence will be
considered except in the form of affi
davits.
“The District Board will adhere
strictly to the regulation to the effect
that no person will be permitted to
appear either in person or by attor
ney:"
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FULL INSTRUCTIONS
Mrs. Casey—‘*Me sister writes me
that every bottle in that box we sent
her was broken. Are ye sure yez
! printed ‘This side up. with care* on
it •’ .
| Casey—“Oi am. An’ for fear they
(touldn't see it on the top, Oi print
it on the bottom, as well ”—Bos
h Transcript.
LEE COUNTIANS PAID
$158,093 IN TAXES
INTERESTING STATEMENT SHOW
ING SOURCES FROM WHICH
REVENUES WERE DERIVED—
DICTRIBUTION OF FUNDS.
Sheriff Arthur Cotter has made his
final settlements with the county
and state, turning over a total of
$158,093.33, gross amount of taxes
collected. The net amount that goes
into the arious funds is $154,531.48,
subdivided as follows:
State general_ $12,343 95
State school fund_ 16,458.89
Pension fund.. 10,972.16
Capitol fund.. 685.59
County general- 27,680.31
County debt fund_ 5,487.24
District school fund_ 36,758.40
Road district (3 mill tax) 28,171.90
General road fund (3 mill tax
on lands outside of improve
ment district)_ 400.00
In addition to the above road tax
the road improvement district gets
approximately $22,000 from the com
mutation tax of $5 paid by each man
between the ages of 21 and 50 years.
This tax is payable on Januar.) i of
each year and becomes delinquent
on November 1.
In addition to the above funds the
following taxes were collected:
Piney Drainage District_ $ 947.48
Poll tax.. 4,443.72
City tax, Marianna_ 7,656 30
Tick tax for 1915-16_ 1,811 33
Auto license_ 3,800 00
The revenues collected came from
the following sources:
Tax on real estate_ $115,352.77
Tax personal property.. 51,349.89
Real estate sold state_ 184.31
nplinnnpnt npnaltipc 8 i
Still further subdividing the sourc
es of revenue, the amounts paid by
the public utilities doing business in
Lee county were as follows:
M. &. N. A. railroad.. __ $ 4,458.02
Missouri Pacific railroad. 10,172 01
Mud Line.. 5,189.89
Southwestern Tel. Co_ 426.58
Wells Fargo Express_ 170.12
Western Union_ 272.78
Ark. Light & Power_ 383.76
SCHOOL DISTRICT FUNDS
The total amount of funds from all
sources apportioned to the school
districts in the county is as follows:
Marianna special- $11,873.96
Moro special_ 2,061.36
Aubrey special- 2,328.36
Rondo special_ 1,303.73
Oak Forrest special_ 1,236.70
Jeffersonville special- 414.64
Gill special_ 708.00
Haynes special- 1,240.19
Big Creek special- 178.91
District No. 3.. 794.56
District No. 4_ 210.02
District No. 5_ 184.20
District No. 8- 665.87
District No. 9_ 262.01
District No. 10_ 242.14
District No. 11- 171.79
District No. 12- 244.75
District No. 13_ 829.37
District No. 16- 410.29
District No. 19_ 155.69
District No. 21_ 981.65
District No. 22- 319.91
District No. 24_ 1,527.25
District No. 25_ 112.81
District No. 26- 2^215.26
District No. 27- 1,95.02
District No. 28_ 1,041.00
District No. 29_ 435.06
District No. 32- 261.82
District No. 34- 258.79
District No. 37- 307.67
District No. 4<»_ 743.69
Htstrlrt Nn 41 __ 266. *8
District No. 44- 425.94
District No. 45- 511.13
District No. 46- 143.87
District No. 47- 180.2.’.
District No. 48- 403.40
The amount of school taxes pai 1
by the Missouri Pacific and Mud Line
to the several districts through whicn
these roads run is as follows:
BY MISSOURI PACIFIC
Haynes special- $312.57
Marianna special- 521.05
District No. 8- 217.77
District No. 40- 276.25
District No. 3- 446.90
District No. 21- 421.8(1
BY MUD LINE
Marianna Special- $210.S.i
District No. 24- 514.6ti
District No. 26- 556.Id
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10,001 PERSONS KILLED ON
RAILWAYS DURING 1916
Washington. Sept. 6.—Ten thousand
and one persons were killed in rail
; road accidents during 1916. and
! 196,722 were injured, according to a
! compilation of figures covering the
vear, made public today by the inter,
state commerce commission. As usua
the greater number were trespass
ers on railroad property.
Passengers killed numbered 291
1 injured. 8.008; employes killed, 2,941:
; injured. 176.923. Other persons, in
eluding trespassers, killed and in
i jured numbered 6,769 and 11,<9
| respectively.
These figures show an increasi
j over 1916 of 1.371 persons killed am
34,835 injured
EUROPEAN ROYALTY OF TWENTY YEARS AGO—MANY IN GROUP NOW ENEMIES
This photograph was made on the occasion of a gathering of royal ty for celebration of Queen Victoria’s
birthday, more than twenty years ago. 1, present ging of England; 2, qu een of England; 3, the late King Ed
ward; 4 the crown prince of Germany; 5, ex-czar, dethroned and a prisone r; 6, the ex-czarina of Russia; 7, the
Kaiser Wilhelm; 8, Queen Victoria, grandmother of the king of England; 9, eldest laughter of Queen \ ictoria,
the mother of the kaiser. ____.__- - - -.-j-.nn.ru
PENSION WARRANTS
WITH COUNTY CLERK
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THIRTY-THREE PERSONS IN LEE
COUNTY ON ROLLS—ALL GET
$79.25 WITH ONE EXCEPTION—
HE RECEIVES $39.62.
County Clerk E. W. King announ
ces that the warrants or the Confed-1
erate pensioners in Lee county have
j arrived and will be distributed
! among those who are on the rolls i
as rapidly as they call at his office
! and receipt for them. There are
| thirty-three pensioners in the coun
I ty, all of whom receive $79.25 with
1 the exception of T. J. Outlaw, whose
i warrant calls for $39.62. The full
list is as follows:
J. L. Belsha, F. B. Blount, Mis. 1
Polly L. Boyer, Mm. T. Barnes, Mre. j
Martha Baker, Mrs. I. P. Bobbitt,
| Cynthia Carter, Estelle Blount Chap- j
; pell, Maggie H. Clark, Margaret F.;
| Cox, Sam Evans, Mrs. L. M. Fleener.
i John P. Farrar, Harriet E. Greer,
Mary C. Gray, Adlia Hardin, C. R.
Inge, W. A. Johnston. Josiah KelW,
N. S. Kirby, Longfield Lofton, Lucy!
Jane Moore, Lone McGrew. T. J.
Outlaw, Sallie Owen, Mrs. M. Y. |
Pettitt,, Mrs. A. L. Pasley, A. S. j
Rodgers, Indiana Sweeney, Caroline
R. Thomas, S. V. Wooten, E. D.
Walls, W. R. Wood.
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(Commercial Appeal)
'Tho MvHp Park- hi^h school of
Chicago has adopted the reply of
President Wilson to Pope Benedict
XV, proposal of peace, as a text in
the study of English. Printed leaf
lets containing the note in full will
be used by the senior classes in the
Chicago high school during the first
days of the fall season
The reply of President Wilson is ■
recognized by the nations of the
world as one of the most perfect !
diplomatic documents issued in re
cent years.
Europe, Prance and Russia bided
their time and awaited for the presi
dent to assume the initiative.
This he did with a firmness, a
frankness, a fearlessness that won
recognition at once.
His note is a classic of modern
diplomatic writing and the Chicago
high schools could have selected no
more potent example of scholarly
diction than the words of the presi
dent.
It is a fine text for the study of
i perfectly balanced English words
I For brevity, conciseness and simplic
ity, nothing within the last half
century can be recalled to equal it
The United States has been looked
upon with doubting eyes when the
subject of diplomacy has been dis
cussed in the courts of Europe.
The Michiavelian diplomats of the
old world, schooled in the art of the
crafty use of words, stood astonished
at the outspoken honesty of the presi
dent. Like other things that this
I man has done since residing in the
white house, it was altogether with
out precedent.
Cloaked by the proverbial veneer
of diplomatic policy, statesmen of
Europe have veiled their thoughts
with a polish of well selected words.
President Wilson thought things and
gave the world the benefit if his
thoughts in a master piece of En
glish
It stands peerless and pre-eminent
as one of the most powerful docu
ments of state on record at the cap
i itol at Washington.
[ It will be used in other schools. It
has been carefully studied in the
PUBLISH HISTORY OF
WATER CONTROVERSY
CITY COUNCIL APPOINTS COM
MITTEE TO ADVISE PROPERTY
OWNERS ON SITUATION—PE
TITIONS TO BE CIRCULATED.
At an adjourned meeting of the
city council last night the water
question in Marianna was given an
other airing, the result of the deliber- ^
ations being the council decided to
authorize the publication, through the ;
Courier-Index and through circulars |
to be mailed to every property owner
in the district of a plain statement [
giving a history of the waterworks j
situation, beginning with the time
the contract of sale was made with
the Arkansas Light and Power Co.
The purpose of this publicity is to
enlighten property owners so they
will he prepared to act upon a peti
tion that will be presented to them
within the next two weeks, asking
them either to ratify the action of
the council and water commissioners
in the contemplated sale of the plant
to the Arkansas Lisht and Power Co.,
or bv their refusal to ratify the con
tract authorize the council and com.
n.issioners to take the plant back.
Aldermen R. L. Mixon and Max
Miller and J. E. Stevenson, one of
the water commissioners, were ap
pointed by the mayor as members of
the committee to prepare this state,
ment for the public. They will be
assisted by City Clerk O. G. Normenc.
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FOUR CAR LOADS
HIGH GRADE CATTLE
CHAS. McKEE, FOR LEE COUNTY
NATIONAL BANK, J. R. AND
FRANK FELTON AND DR. C. W.
CHAFFIN BUY BLOODED STOCK
(’has. McKee, president of the Lee
County National Bank, and J. It
Felton, prominent planter and stock
man of Felton, returned Wednesday
morning from Ft. Worth, Texas,
where they went to purcahse sev
eral car loads of Aberdeen Angus and
Shorthorn cattle. Mr. McKee made
his purchase for the bank, which will
dispose of the cattle to Lee county
farmers at cost. Mr. Felton bought
stock for himself and for his brother,
Frank Felton. Dr. C. W. Chaffin if
Moro also ordered a car of cattle.
Mr. McKee bought a registered
Shorthorn male, one and a half ears
old, two registered cows, three years
old. and twenty high grade heifers.
J. R. Felton bought for himself
five head of registred heifers, one
registered male, and twenty-five head
of high grade heifers, and for Frank
Felton he purchase ! sixteen head et
Black Aberdeen heifers.
Dr Chaffin bought a car of high
grade Shorthorn and Whiteface
heifers.
editorial sanctums of every well-con
ducted newspaer of the I'qited
States. High authorities in Judicial
matters have keenly analyzed the
answer of the president, finding it
without a flaw. The wonderful un
derstanding of Woodrow W llson, his
Remarkable character, his supreme
fearlessness and honesty are power
fully illustrated in his now famous
reply to Pope Benedict. As a text
for the study of the English language
no better selection could have been
made by the Chicago superintendent
of public schools.
JEWISH NEW YEAR
BEGINS SUNDAY NIGHT
MOST SOLEMN DAY IN JEWISH
CALENDAR. CELEBRATING THE
BIRTH OF RACE—BASED ON LE.
VITICUS AND NUMBERS.
On next Monday all orthordox
Jews will observe the Jewish New
Year Rosh ha Shana which com
memorates the year 5678 in Jewish
history. The Jewish New Year .s
one of the most solemn days of the
Jewish calendar. On this day the
Jew asks for forgiveness, and his de
pendence on providence is empha
sized. The prayers and the special
hymns in celebration of the New'
Year are in this spirit.
The Jewish religious year opens
this season on September 16. The
day is called Rosh ha Shana and Is
observed not as a civil but as a re
ligious festival. Modern Jews use
the civil calendar for all ordinary
purposes but date their feasts and
fasts according to the moon. Ortho
dox observers still observe two days
for the New Year to make a distinc
tion oetween the inhabitants of Pal
estine and all others, out reform Jews
have returned to the older method or
a single day. The day begins at
sunset, a mode of reckoning that is
supported traditionally by the Bib
ical story of creation, in which the
evening is mentioned before the
morning. The year is 5678, count
ing from the traditional time of the
creation of the world.
The bible enjoins the celebration
of the New Year in the book of
Leviticus, chapter 23, and Numbers,
chapter 2S. The chief rite mention
ed is the blowing of the trumpet or
ram's horn, still observed in the
synagog The ceremonial of the day
is very impressive; it includes pray
ers of ancient and medieval origin,
and elaborate music, and the reading
of the account of Abraham’s sacri
fice of Isaac. The greeting of the
season is Leshana tova tikosevu.
* May you be inscribed in the book
of life for a good year."
The lesson of the New Year is that
men review the past year and look
with confidence toward the future.
Thus Rosh ha Shana is called the
‘‘Day of Remembrance” and also
the "Day of Judgment.” The influ
ence of religion on character, the
significance of the flight of time,
the suggestions of a large-scoped
view of life, are the themes of the
prayers and thought of Rosh ha
i-hana
The month of Tishri is the festival
season of the Jewish calendar. After
the “New Year” come the ”10 days
of penitence,” then the fast of .the
day of Atonement, and finally the
Harvest festival, the feast of Taber
nades. This holly season is uni
versally observed by Jews, stirring
in them impulses for renesved vigor
in their religious ami moral life.
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WAR TRAINING
She (belligerently)—'Why weren’t
you at the station with the car to
meet me as usual?”
He (meekly)—"My dear, you ought
to get in the habit of some meetless
days.”—Baltimore American.
A SURER TEST
• That man is so honest he wouldn’t
steal a pin." said the admiring friend
“I never th ughf much of the per
test," answered Miss Cayenne. “Try
him with an umbrella ”—Philadelphis
j Inquirer.
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i The flesh of the ring tailed iguana
I found in the W’est Indies, chiefly ir
! Jamaica, is uneatable, and it gives
l forth a disagreeable odor.
LIST OF JURORS FOR
LEE CIRCUIT COURT
NAMES OF THOSE WHO WILL
SERVE AT FALL TERM WHICH
CONVENES HERE ON OCTOBER
8—NO IMPORTANT CASES.
Circuit Clerk Guy Apple last Sat.
urday opened the jury lists and turn*
ed over to the sheritf the names of
those who had Deen selected to serve
as grand and pettit jurors at the fail
term of the Lee circuit court, whictx
convenes here on Monday, October 5.
Mr. Apple says there are no cased
of great importance on the docket.
The list of jurors follows:
GRAND JURORS
F. N.^ Burke, D L. Griffis, J L.
Robertson, G. H Leary, D. S. Clark,
P. F. Elledge, C. E. Dozier. W P.
Wilks, Milton Thomason, Brock Low*
Tom Gillam, W. L. Howard, J. 1C.
Moody, W. C. Vail, L. E. Langston,
Frank Adams.
ALTERNATES
J. B. Markham, W. T. Casteel, W.
M. Hale, Dick Ray, W. A. Ellio»t,
T. C. Conner.
PETIT JURORS
Geo. W. Allen. W. S. Atkins. J. J,
Chandler. L. E. Lanham, Wilsie
Wooten, Jesse M. Bush, Walter R
Grant, R. E. Brooks, J. R, Smith,
Hiram Cross, James Houston, Joh/i
Brooks, W, T. Yarbough, J. H. Warr,
J. D. Zerkle, B. F. Mangold, R. B.
Pipkin. D. A. Clark, J, W. Keys,
J. W. Jones, S. Goldstein, W A.
Willis, O. C. 8utton, Max D. Mills.*.
ALTERNATES
Jno. C. Jacks, Guss Jones, Frank
Felton, Pete Farrar. Pugh Govaa,
Jno. 1. Foreman, W. F. Ligion. M. l„
Brittain L. W. Womble.
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FIRST BALE COTTON
SELLS FOR 36 CENTS
W. L. BONNER, AUBREY, MAKES
INITIAL OFFERING OF SEASON,
MERCHANTS GIVE A PREMIUM
OF $66.00 ON BALE.
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W. L. Bonner, with Robt. Pope,
colored, a half hand, working land
belonging to Milton G. Thompson,
near Aubrey, brought the first bale
of this season's cotton to Marianne
on Saturday, September 8. The bale
was not sold, however, until Thura*
day morning, when it was purchased
by Wallace Greenhavv for twenty*
three cents. Glen H. Leary, secre*
tary of the Commercial Club, had
made up a premium of $66 in cash
| contributions from the business men.
The price paid for the cotton, includ*
ing the premium of $66, was thirty*
six cents a pound. The bale weigh*
ed 488 pounds, and the proceed!
amounted to *l7a.68.
The second bale was shipped to
i Marianna Thursday *by John Brooks,
! manager of tne P. M. Vacearo plan*
tat ion at Brickeys. and was con*
| signed to the Lesser-Goldman CottoA
i Company. J. L. Isaacs, the local
; manager for Lesser-Goldman, gav!
22 1-2 cents a pound for the cotton,
| the bale bringing $116.55.
Cotton is beginning to open rapidly
| and many of the planters have start*
■ t-d their pickers at work. John
Mann, manager of the Skidmore plan*
tation. expects to have five bales of
cotton ginned Saturday on his fath«
er's new gin in Marianna Joe Spend!
stated yesterday he had pickers at
I work in his cotton
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MRS. BANKS ENTERTAINS
The Elks club was the scene of A
most delightful party Thursday af*
| ternoon. when Mrs. Henry Banka
i entertained about fifty of her frlenda
with bridge
The club rooms were profusely
decorated with baskets of roses, as*
tors, marigold and other flowers The
j ices were served in military designs
of Boldiers. battleships and Uncle
Sam. The Individual cakes were dec.
orated In red, write and blue, and
! the table covers were of patriotic
design, as were the tally cards.
Mrs Banks, who was lovely in a
dainty gown of white crepe de chine,
embroidered in gold, was assisted id
caring for her guests by her si tef,
Mrs. Carter, of Memphis, and Mrs.
John Hughes and Miss Nina Hughes
of Haynes.
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An exchange prints the following
list of words ending in "ough," and
adds tho pronunciation of the more
obscure words, as far as ascertain.
! able from the dictionaries: Messrs
Gough tgoff), Hough (huff) and
■ Clough (cluff). though tough enough,
thought through the day that they
would visit Mr Brough (bruff), who.
having hiccough (hiccup) and »
cough, lived in a dough, (cluff or
clou) with plenty of dough, and a
tame chough (chuff), kepr near to
o plough in a rough trough, hung to
a bough over a lough (loch). A
sleugh (sluf) of the bank Into the
slough (sloo) injured his thorough*
bred’s hough (hock).