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M - ' 16 - PARIS DONS SUNDAY CLOTHES FOR CELEBRATION MAN !i. Have you seen Stein's Specials at JOE THE TAILOR You are invited to call and see Stein's Imported goods at JOE THE TAILOR THE PAPER WITH A CIRCULATION AT HOME VOLUME XXI OH' 'Vv PARIS, TENNESSEE, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1916 NUMBER 8 1 1 V r?4 SCHOOL RALLY DAY IS HERE AT LAST; GREAT TIMES ARE PROMISED Annual Contest in Debate To Be Held at the Dixie Theatre Tonight HOME TEAM CROSSES BATS WITH HUNTINGDON THIS P. M. All County Schools To Be RepresentedBarbecue On Campus at Noon Today is THE day. Before the sun rises Saturday morning the students of Grove High School expect to have es tablished, for all time to come, the fact that Friday is lucky rather than unlucky. Grove students are confident of winning the baseball game, the debate and the contest in declamation over the Industrial Training School, of Huntingdon, All of these events will be staged in Paris today. The town is decorated for the occasion. Flags and other deco rations are displayed by every business ' house and practically every residence. The long await ed day has arrived. In addition to the annual con tests with I.' T, S., contests of ' various kinds are to be held by the students of the Atkins-Porter and Lee schools; a big barbecue and basket dinner is to be served on the Grove school campus, and teachers and students of all the schools of Henry county will be - on hand as the invited guests of the Paris schools. Every school, large and small, in Henry county will be repre sented. v Those in charge of the great rally day and school celebration have completed all pluls. Every body is ; anxious for the "fire works" to commence. The Huntingdon students, about 800 in number, will arrive this morning and the students of Grove, Atkins-Porter, Lee and all the county schools, as well as Continued on Page t HOUSES RAZED; FENCES LEVELED; TREES UPROOTED WHEN WIND STORM SWEEPS OVER NORTHERN SECTION OF COUNTY THURSDAY Salmon School Building and Number Of Barns In That Vicinity Are Wrecked By High Wind, Accompanied By Torrents Of Rain and Hail. Sweeping through the North ern ssction of the county at a late hour Thursday afternoon of last week, a wind and electric storm accompanied by rain and hail, destroyed the Salmon school house; barns belonging to James LaFever, Sam LaFever and Mrs. John McSwain; leveled fences and uprooted trees in k great numbers. Other sections of the county were visited by the cyclone, al though little damage was done outside the Salmon school house vicinity. In this section several persons are reported to have 'had narrow escapes from falling timbers and branches that had been blown from trees and car ried a great distance by the high winds. According to information from the Salmon school house FIGURE NINE ON END OF PECULIAR HEN EGG On Wednesday R. T. Edgar, of the old Fourth district, brought to The Parisian office a most peculiar egg, laid re cently by one of his Brown Leghorn hens. On the large end of the egg there is a figure very much resembling a figure 9. The figure also bears some resemblance to letter "C." The peculiar egg caused con siderable comment on the part of those who saw it. Federal Soldier Spilled Coffee On Book Years Ago In the office of County Reg ister W. L. Manning there is an old book deed record book, page 632 on which a federal soldier, W. A. Sherman, wrote and spilled some coffee over fifty years ago. The writing states that "W. A. Sherman writes A. Sherman and says he belongs to 52nd Indiana regiment, in 0 Captain Dike's Company H." The eommunica tion is addressed to Mr. Alpheus Sherman, Corners ville, Ind., Fayette county, and is evidently a letter started by W. A. Sher man but never completed. The coffee stains can be plainly seen on the old book. i Bates appear ing just before this inscription show "March 28, 1864." ARE ALLJOR PORTER Henry County Candidate Is Unanimously Endorsed By Paris City Council T We, the undersigned members of the City Council of Paris, en dorse heartily the candidacy of Dudley Porter for Congress, and hereby pledge him our support A. 8. Scates, Mayor, R. L Dunlap, Alderman, J. M. Freeman, Alderman, F. M. VanCleave, Alderman, J. T. Porter, Alderman, Joel M. Porter, Alderman, J. M. Pierce, Alderman. vicinity the storm there resem bled a small tornado, cut a path of good width, demolishing near ly every fence in the neighbor hood, in addition to wrecking the houses and barns. Howev er, no loss of human or animal life has been reported from that section. From Springville comes the report that a terrific wind storm visited that section, although little damage was done. As telephone connections were destroyed and the wires down it was not until noon Friday that news of storm reached Paris, and it was many hours before it was learned positively that there had been no loss ot human life. Residents of the Northern part of the county were kept in terror for several hours, and many in the vicinity where the E AGAINST TV COUNTIANMRRESTEO Deputy U. S. Marshal Maxwell Captures Doss Bateman and Alvin Hampton BOUND OVER UNDER BONDS OF $500 BY COMMISSIONER Preliminary Hearing Will Be Given Alleged Distillers Late Next Week Deputy United States Marshal J. E. Maxwell, of Paris, went to Carroll county a few days ago and placed under arrest Doss Bateman and Alvin Hampton, residents of the Eastern section of that county, near the Hender son county line, on charges of illicit distilling and selling whis key without government license. Revenue officers have been in vestigating that section of Car roll county for sometime and it is said that they have collected sufficient evidence to convict Bateman and Hampton, although th stills were not discovered by v aer the officers or Deputy Laxwell, so far as known. For many months it has been, sua picioned that moonshining was going on in the Eastern part of Carroll county, which is very hilly. "Female of the Species Is More Deadly Than Male" Contest Closes With Women In Lead Easter Sunday at the First Christian Church Bible School was a day of history making. The largest attendance in the annals of the school was present 270. The second largest attendance was made in 1912 when there were present 242. The school has had a steady growth and increase in attendance for the past year. The.church was beautifully decorated in ferns and white and purple flowers for the Bible School and church service. Yes, the women and girls won the contest. The total points last Sunday were: Women and Girls 3,824; Men and Boys 3,232, which gave the Women and Girls a total lead of 961 points. Another contest will start Sunday and continue five Sundays. The side winning three Sundays out of five will be the victors in this contest. HOW MAIL ORDER HOUSES SECURE BUSINESS The advertising manager of one of the biggest mail order houses in the country, in a talk before members of an advertising club recently gave some interesting information on how his house secured much of its busi ness. He said: "11TE HAVE a bureau whose duty it ii to read each W week the country newspapers from all over the country. There to not a paper of any consequence in our trade territory that our bureau does not get. This bureau looks over theae papers and when we find a town where the merchants are not advertising in the local paper, we immediately flood that territory with our literature. It always brings results far in excess of the same effort put forth in territory where local merchants use their local paper." Paris merchants can kill much of the business of these foreign competitors by advertising regularly in The Parisian. storm did its heaviest damage were badly frightened as the wind played havoc all around them. -' While hail fell and the down pour of rain kept up for several GOVERNMENT OFFERS GIG REWARD FOR 10R0BBE0U.S.1L H. Grady Webb, Birmingham, Thought to Have Unsigned National Bank Bills THOUSAND DOLLARS UP FOR ARREST AND CONVICTION Held Up B. & O. Train In West Virginia Early In Last October Uncle Sam offers a reward of $1,000 for the arrest and convic tion of H. Grady Webb, who held up and robbed the B. & O. train ai lientrai station, w. va., on October S, last, taking a number of unsigned national bank bills, among other things. A notice of the reward has been posted at the Paris post office. It is stated that Webb probably has some of these un signed national bank bills in his possession. He is described as about 33 years of age; 5 feet 9 inches in height; weighing 190 pounds, with dark hair, small eyes and smooth face. Webb is said to have left Birmingham on March 29 and to have been seen in Atlanta on the day following. The officials have obtained no further clew to his movements. hours in the Southern part of the county, no damage or loss of property or life has been report ed from that section. However, numerous houses and barns were unroofed in other sections. SUMMONED TO CAPITAL IN FREE PASS PROBE Hon. W. E. Weldon and At torney Frank E. Bryant, of Paris, both of whom were members of the Legislature of 1913, are in Nashville this week where they have been summoned in connection with an investigation by the Inter state Commerce Commission of the number of free passes issued by the railroads during the Legislature of 1913. Section of First Atlantic Cable Is Owned In Paris Frank B. McNeill a few days ago gave to The Parisian a piece of the first telegraph cable ever laid across the Atlantic ocean. This cable was laid by Cyrus W. Field, of New York, in 1858. Eight years later it was broken and when taken up was cut in pieces and sold as souvenirs, Mr. McNeill's father secured the section in question in Phila delphia many years ago. It is about four inches in length. JOHN B. TH0MAS0N HERE State Comptroller John B. Thomason, of Nashville, was in Paris yesterday, shaking hands with his friends. J J. T Porter Building On East Side Of Court Square Is Now Occupied Mrs. H. W. Matheny yesterday opened a restaurant in the Por ter building on the East side of the square, recently occupied by the Nelson restaurant. She has purchased the furnishings of the Nelson restaurant and has fitted the place up, making it up-to-date in every way. To those who are acquainted with the kind of meals served by Mrs. Matheny, it is not necessary to say that they are good. MATHENY Lightning Demolishes Porch At Home Of Guy Poyner, Near Fair Grounds. Paris Is Visi ted By Terrific Electric, Hail and Wind Storm. Lightning entered the home of Guy Poyner, near the Fair grounds, through the chimney, escaped through a window and demolished the front porch, on Thursday afternoon of last week. This is the only reported dam age done by the fierce wind, hail and electric storm which swept through Henry county on that date. At the time the lightning struck his home Mr. Poyner and several members of his family were in the building and some of them suffered a rather severe shock. Mr. Poyner's mother, who is ill, was lying on a bed at the time and did not feel the shock at all. The storm was one of the worst that has visited Henry county for years, and it is sur prising that more damage was HARRYS1ES OUSTER T E Popular Nashville Lawyer Is Killed In Own Office By Attorney for City HAD BEEN MENTIONED FOR GOVERNOR, OTHER PLACES Made Big Reputation In Suit Of Nashville Taxpayers Slayer In Jail Harry S. Stokes, who during the past few months has made a state-wide reputation as attorney for taxpayers in the Nashville city hall probe, was shot to death by Charles G. Trabue, a special attorney for the city, in the former's office at the capital city about 11:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. Three shots were fired, two of which entered Mr. Stokes' head and neck. He died instantly. Trabue was arrested a few minutes later and locked up at the county jail. He later made a statement claiming self-defense. There were no witness es to the tragedy. Stokes was 39 years of age. a graduate of Vanderbilt Univer sity and a lawyer with a wide reputation. Following the sensa tional developments in the city hall investigation, during which former Mayor Howse and some members of the commission were ousted Mr. Stokes became very prominent. He h?d been re peatedly mentioned as a possible - candidate for Governor, Congress and Mayor of Nashville, although he had never encouraged those who have boosted him for politic al honors, evidently preferring his profession to the game of politics. DR.E.W. GROVE HERE. Dr. E. W. Grove arrived in Paris yesterday for the school rally, base ball game, debate and declamation contest today. Ha will return to St. Louis within a few days. not done. In Paris the hail fell for half an hour or longer, the. lightning flashed, the thunder roared, the wind blew and the rain came down in torrents. The hail stones were the larg est that have fallen here in many years, being as large as hen eggs in size. The storm here was a contrast to the usual April showers, and at the time it was raging here cyclones were sweeping several of the Mississippi Valley States, leaving numbers dead, hundreds homeless and destroying thous ands of dollars worth of property. The property loss in Henry county will reach several hun dred dollars. Several thousand pounds of tobacco were destroyed in the Salmon school house vicin ity when the barns were demol ished by the storm. ATTORNEY BY CHARLES C IRABU