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SON COUNTY
VOL. 24. No. 33
GAINESBORO. TENN.. THURSDAY. AUG. 17. 1922
$1.50 A TEAI
PROHIBITION OFFICERS
High School To Open Mon
DYCUS TEAM CONTINU
ES WINNING STREAK,
A Treacherous Under tow
E1AKE SUCCESSFUL RAIDS
day, August 21.
Capture Seven Men, Destroy
ing Large Qaanily of Beer.
The Federal prohibition officers
were very active in their work
last week in Jackson and Clay
counties.
On Wednesday, D. E. Jenk
ins and Walter Stone, federal offi
cere, and Sam Whitaker, posse
man, made a raid on Dry Fork
of Brimstone, in the eastern sec
tion of this county.
Two copper stills. 800 gallons
of beer, and all. the equipment
v that goes with wildcat stills.
were destroyed. R. A. and
Walter Hatcher were captured
.at the still, and taken to Cooke
ville, where they made bond for
their appearance at next term of
i federal court.
Friday morning, W. L. Lee,
D. E. Jenkins and J. U. Tyler
made a raid in the famous Union
Hill section of Macon County.
Three men, Esco and Tom
Moore and Bedford Moss, were
captured red-handed in the very
act of making a big run. One
copper still, with 1000 gallons of
beer were destroyed. The men
. were taken to Cookeville Friday
evening, and bound over to
federal court. Two other men
were taken in custody, but were
later released.
Saturday morning J. C. Tyler
and D. E. Jenkins, federal
officers, visited a section of Clay
County, 5 miles northeast of
Celina. Two young men, Hun
ter Reecer and Lester Beson,
were captured. They were pre
paring to make their last run,
and had only 45 gollons of beer,
10 gallons singlings on hand.
This, with a 30 gallon still were
destroyed. The prisioners ac
compained officer Jenkins to
Cookeville late Saturday evening,
where they made bond.
Saturday, Aug. 5, D. E. Jenk
ins, federal .officer, with two
constables of Macon county,
were called out to capture what
was reported to be two wagon
loads of whiskey en route to Ky.
When the officers searched the
wagons, only a small quanity
was found on the wagon driven
by "Uncle" Bill Hix. Hix was
taken to Lafayette and given
a hearing before Squ. Meader.
The wagons were en route to
Kentucky, where Hix's grand
son, Bilbrey, was moving.
MICKIE SAYS
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The central high school at
Gaine8boro will open Monday,
Aug 21, at 8:30 a. m., with full
cor; of teachecs, for a term of
nine months.
We are expecting a large at
tendance again this year. The
opening day' is the very best
time for puDils to enter. Those
wishing to make good in the
work, cannot afford to miss the
beginnings lesson. Test exam
inations for promotion will be
given on entrance to all pupils,
who for any reason were not
promoted at close of last year.
Those in only a part of the year
cannot expect promotion. It is
not our desire to retain in grade
any one capable of taking a higher
grade, nor do we wish to have
any pupil promoted, who is not
capable of doing the work.
It . is certainly, not only an
injustic to the pupil, who is thus
promoted, when poorly prepared,
but it is also hurtful to the school
as a whole.
We earnestly insist that the
parents and sohool authorities co
operate with us a long this line.
It is so much better for the
child, that it knows thoroughly
each and every grade. This is
wny so many of our young
teachers fail in the examinations.
It is simply a lack of thourgh
ness. We will have the Teachers
Training Course again this year.
All Fourth year high schcol
pupils, who take this work and
receive diploma at close, will be
granted on diploma, a certificate
to teach one year in this county.
without examination.
As to numbers, our Teacher
Training class last year ranked
well, compared with other
schools in the state. Only ten
out of a total of 40 schools with
his course of work, had a
arger class than ours.
As to efficiency, we expect to
o make this work, better this
year than it was last year.
For th3 benefit of the school
in general, and in order that we
may hold our place among the
first class high schools of the
state, we are greatly, in need of
aboratoy equipment It will be
impossible to hold our rank with
out it. The cost will be approxi
mately $150.00, for both Biology
and Agriculture.
We now rank ''C" as a high
school with 103 other high
schools of the state. There are
95 schools yet above us. With
he above mentioned equipments,
we would be enabled to raise
the grade of our school for the
coming scholastic year. We
again ask the help and hearty co
operation of all patrons and
riends of our school, for the
coming year.
We also iivite the public to be
with us at the opening, next
Monday.
Very Respectfully,
H. J. Cox. Prin.
Reform does not always per
brm. Give us action.
It is now the honk of the auto
instead of the goose that fore-
ells spring.
An Omaha taxicab company
says it lost money last year.
No one has found any of it
Working out a plan for taking
care of the idle poor would be a
good job for the idle rich.
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Ben Flatt Dies From Injuries.
Ben Flatt, a highly respected
citizen of this county, died at
hid home in the 12th district
Saturday morning.
Mr. Flatt was thrown from a
mule Wednesday and sustained
a number of broken ribs and
aad other injuries, which caused
his death,
Funeral service was conducted
by Bro. John W. Fox, and the
remains interred in the Fox
cemetery late Saturday after
noon.
The deceased was a son of
"Uncle" John Flatt, and was
60 years old. He had been de
puty sheriff and constable of
his district for a number of
years, and was co sidered a good
officer. He had lived in the 12th
district all his life.
He is survived bv his wife and
several children, and numerous
relatives.
His bereaved family have the
sympathy of the entire commu
nity.
Commissioner Peck Points
The Dignity of Labor.
One of the many handicaps
uuder which the south had to
abor following the Civil War,
was the inherited notion among
a certain class that work was
ignoble and was a barrier to ad
mission to the best society. Be
fore the Civil War the wealthier
classes owned slaves, and their
children were not required to do
work of any kind. They were
given classical education and
were equipped for some one of
he professions-medicine, law.
or the ministry trained for a
career in politics or perhaps an
endeavor made to fit them for
a career in business in banking
or merchandizing
If there was a boy who did
not promise of a career in some
one of the professions or in
banking or trade, he remained
on the farm. And it was not
infrequently the case that the
"dunce" of the family, the one
who remained on the farm, was
the one who saved the day for
his supposedly more brilliant
brothers by his frugality and his
plodding methods on the farm.
With the close of the Civil
War the slave labor was lost.
Fortunes were swept away by
the war, and land owners found
themselves in the position of
having to do the Work formerly
done by slaves. And they were
handicapped by the lacK of work
ing capital Many of them
followed their work on the farm
under the protest determiding
to escape from it to some other
business or, profession at the
first opportunity. They were
not looking forward to farming
as a permanent vocation, and
therefore, made no effort to
develope and improve their land
They followed methods that
robbed the soil of its fertility
The galled and washed hillsides,
fields grown up with weeds and
bushes, dilapidated fences and
buildings, a few years ago gave
evidence of this lack of interest.
Children of parents having
this viewpoint grew up with the
belief that the farm was to be
endured only until some opportu
nity offered to get away from it.
The industrial developement of
the Souih offered many oppor
tunities they were looking for.
But some of our native citi
zens become interested in better
agriculture and inaugurated
soil improvemen and better live
stocK programs,- Some farmers
from the northern states, in
traveling through our State, rec
ognized the possibilities here for
crop and live stock production,
and some of them settled here.
The object lessons from their
work opened the eyes of our
people to the possibilities of our
soil and climate, and helped to
wipe out the prejudice against
manual labor. Agriculture is
being looked on with more favor.
(r people are coming to realize
that labor is ennobling that is
productive of what the peoDle
need for their sustnance.
One handicap under which the
farmer has been laboring is the
slump in the prices of farm pro
ducts, and difficulties have been
made worse by the lack of sys
tem in marketing the produce
of the farm. This is one of the
problems that is gradually being
worked out for the benefit of
farmer and the consumer of his
products. Cooperative market
ing associations in many sections
of jther states have enabled the
farmers to market their products
to advantage, and these associa
tions enabled their products to
be placed wite the consumer at
reduced price, thus benefiting
both the producer and the con
sumer. A farmer produced a crop of
potatoes for which he received
53 cents a bushel. In several
of the bags he placed notes ask
ing the consumer to write him
and let him know what price
per bushel he had to pay for the
potatoes In the course of time
he received a reply from one
consumer telling him that he
'paid $2.85 per bushel This is
!a wide differerence in value
from the producer to the con
sumer, and it is tbis difference
that it is proposed to eliminated
by marketing associations. Thi?
is one of the most pressing, if
Camp Girls Enjoy Outing To
Boy Scout Camp.
A number of the Camp Fire
Girls had a very pleasant outing
Sautrday.
They visited the Boy Scouts
at their comping grounds at the
mouth of Hamilton's Branch,
on Cumberland river. They
carried their lunch with them,
but on arrival they found that the
Scouts, with their Scoutmaster,
F. L Tardy, had made prepara
tion for them and had a nice
supply of fish on hands. The
girls were immediately put to
work frying fish and baking
bread. When the noon hour
arrived they had a bountiful
spread.
The afternoon was spent in
rowing, swimming and water
melons eating.
The girls say it was the most
enjoyable outing they have had.
Those in the party were:
Jewell Smith, Ethel Reeves,
Nannie and Kuth Young, Aline
Brooks, Mammie Gibson, Mattie
Dixon and Alice Tardy.
"Lithahni."
Prices Low In 1899.
We are in receipt of a post
card from J. H. Loftis, Waco,
Tex., under date of Aug. 7th,
which reads as follows:
Editor of the of Gainesboro
Paper:
"I would like to have a copy of
your paper, as mother was look
ing over her old keep-sakes the
other day and ran across one of
your town papers, dated Jan.
1899. It had Quarles' add in it
selling coffee at 10c per pound;
calico, 3 and 4c yd; brown
domestic, 3 and 4c yd; canton
flannel," 5c yd; Men's heavy
shoes, 90c pair; Fine shoes $1.;
ladies fine button shoes 75c."
A man who steals kisses never
gets caught with the goods.
Work never fagged anyone
out as much as worry.
The assessor knows of many
men who have untold wealth.
A love that is strong enough
to break bolts and bars often
goes limp when it comes time to
break up a little kindling wood
for wifey.
A politician may deserve to go
hades for some of the things he
has done, but the unjust criti
cism he has born like a martyr
entitles him to a seat alongside
th own. '
not the most important problems
that has to be solved.
The producer should get in
direct touch with the consumer
by as far as possible merchandiz
ing their products through such
associations. When this is done
it will be a long step toward
making work on the farm as
renumerative as work in other
businesses and in th; profess
ions. ' The producer .ill receive
the rightful share, of what the
consumer has to pay for his pro
duct, and will be better able to
provide those convenences for
the farm home that will make
life on the farm more pleasant
and make us appreciate he
dignity of labor. There should
be nothing but pity and on-.
tempt for the snob who think
his standing i3 affected by hon-
pst profitable labor.
Defeats Difficult In Fast
Ten Inning Game.
Dycus defeated the slugging
Difficult team in a hectic ten
inning game Saturday evening,
Aug 12, by a score of 13 to 12.
on their own ground, which was
one of the roughest the Dycus
team ever played on.
The game started, as if - it
would be a real good one, with
Draper in the box for Dycus,
and Kemp for Difficult. Draper
allowed one run in the first inn
ing, but in the next one they
were retiredjin one,, two, three.
One scored in the third.
In the fourth the whole team
fell down on him, allowing Diffi
cult to score three unearned
runs.
Jay Wiggins relieved Draper
at the beginning of the fifth.
Poor fielding and some slugging
allowed Difficult to make six
runs in the fifth, but thereafter
they could do but little with
Wicrgins speed and quick break
ing curve, getting only one run
in the last five innings
.Dycus scored is follows:
Three in the first, two in the
third, six in the sixth, one in
the eighth and one in the tenth.
Second baseman, Green, for
Dycus scored four runs, out of
five times up.
First baseman, Garrett Sadler
played sensational ball on first
Batteries for Difficult: Kemp,
Reese and Nixon; Dycus: Dra
per J W. Wiggins, Ray.
Bagdad also defeated Difficult
in a seven inning game by a
score of seven to one.
Jay Wiggins pitching for
Bagdad would have shut Diffi
cult out, but for a horrible muff"
of av asy pop fly.
Battries for Difficult: Price
and Brooks Bagdad, Wiggins
and Huffines. Umpire, Canter.
There wouldn't be nearly as
many marriages in this old world
if the courting had to be done
before breakfast instead of after
the young women have had a
whole day in which to primp.
ILL SAM'S DICTIONARY
By J. L. MARTIN
While It was raining so hard tb
other day. Bill Pooler suddenly ran
out of chewing tobacco; but Bill, not
to Ik outdone, ran nearly a mile over
to Lem Gardener's and borrowed
Leni's umbrella no he could go to tha
store for his tobacco without retting
wet.
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lif.l 1 nrtMe, whl'-h, whenever yea
wed it. onuses yon to study for an
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