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Crossville Chronicle. THE TINNIMII TIMS I 1 CONSOLIDATED OSaviU-B ONROMIOCB I 1,86 VOL. XXX. CROSSVILLE. TENNESSEE, WEDNESDAY.

AUGUST 2. 1916. NO. 31 INSTITUTE DIVISIONS First Teachers' Meeting to Be Held at Pomona, Saturday, August 19. The following are the Institute Division! tor the school year of 1916 with the schools and teachers of each divis ion.

School and agricultural problems will be discussed at these meetings; better methods in school work, better fanning and stock improvement, Home Economics and Community lite. It is expeeted that all the teachers of each division and all the farmer and farmers' wives and children will attend all these meetings. The Chairman of each division, as-sited by Sept. Cline, will make out programs lor each meeting and have them advertised in the Chronicle aad otherwise at least two weeks in advance. The series of meetings will begin at Pomona, in the First Division on Saturday, August 19 at Woody, in the Sceond Division, August 26; at Hales Chapel, in Third Division, Sept.

at Daysville, in Fourth Division, Sept. 9, then returning to the the First Divis ion the second meeting ot the series in that division will be held at the place chosen at the first meeting and so on through all the divisions thus giving to each division a meeting every four weeks, there being a meeting every Saturday somewhere in the county. Let the chairman and teachers advertise these meetings thoroughly, urging everybody to come school children, club boys and girls, all the farmers and their wives, everybody engaged In the industrials of whatsoever kind, and discuss with the master and the expert the vital oroblems of educational and industrial life and help make county of Cumberland one of the foremost in the state in civic development. Let everyone bring well-filled baskets of good things to eat and make all these meetings gala and recreative as well as instructive to all the people. FIRST DIVISION.

Pomona, Dora Hamby, Chairman. Taylors Chapel, Minnie Jones. Smiths Chapel, Clarence Hedgecoth. Neverfail, Minnie Chastain. Pleasant Hill, Frof.

Wheeler and faculty. Browntown, Hattie Stanley. Lantana, Nancy Morrow. Crossville, Prof. Vincent and faculty.

Howard Springs, Maude Stanley. Fairview, James Anderson. County High School, Prot. Miller and faculty. SKCOND DIVISION.

Woody, W. P. Baldwin, Chairman. Bakers Roads, Eliza Norris. Fugh, Mae Jones.

Mayland, Fred and Nota Slate Springs, Addie Henry. Tolletts Chapel, Nancy Anderson. Cross Roads, Ollie Jones. Forest Hill, Hassie Brown. Cold Springs, Grace Todd.

Mill Creek, Taylor Henry. Shiloh, Mack Henry Creaton, Carrie Shadden. Fredonia, Edna Tanner. Elmore, Earl Baldwin. THIRD DIVISION.

Hales Chapel, Gertrude Needham, Chairman. Burgess, Cora Richardson. Oak Grove, Everett Martin. Flat Rock, Harriett Taylor. Linaria, Viola Rhea.

New Era, Mattie Norris. Pilot Knob, Theodore Hedgecoth. Orme, Jackson Turner. Newton, Olhe Kerley. Flynns Cove, Violet Stever.

Mt. Union, Thomas Kearley. Thomas Springs, James Tucker. Cave Springs, Chester Hedgecoth. FOURTH DIVISION West el, Mary Spencer.

Kindred, Joe Snadden. Daysville, Sadie Hunger. Alloway, Mae Brown Dogwood, Clide Mitchell. Hebbertsburg, Juanita Manning. Ozone, Mimi Dunbar.

Moulder, Lenora Lingo. Jewett, Ruth Davenport. Big Sandy, Willie Hedgecoth. Meridian, Grace Ray. Pine Grove, Mason Derrick.

Crab Orchard, J. S. Cline, Maude Swicegood, Burke Manning, Susie De-Rossett. Millstone, Sarah Turner. Grassy Cove, Robert Potter, Naomi Bristow.

Chestnut Hill, Nellie Hedgecoth. Respectfully, J. S. Cline, Supt. Pub.

Inst. OPPORTUNITY FOR CROSSVILLE Chance to Make a Splendid Summer Resort That Would Attract Many People. There is an opportunity for some enterprising citizen to build up a business for himself that would be very profitable and at the same time be of great benefit to Crossville. The expense need not be much, but the benefits would be large in many ways. At the Greens Ford bridge, four miles north of town on the Dixie Short Route, the bed of the river is a solid, smooth and almost uubroken rock for nearly a mile.

A part of the way the water is about four teet deep, while at some points it is less. By building a dam four teet high just above the bridge a depth of water of ten feet to four feet could be had for a distance of almost a mile. This would make a most excell. nt watering place tor Crossville, if ithing and boating facilities were i vided. The expense of building the -m and clearing the stream ot ru ish and loose rocks would not be i rge.

It could be reached in fifteen utes from Crossville by auto If such were perfected and the i lace properly advertised hundreds of people would come to Crossville during the sumiuet to pass some time. What such an arrangement would do for our town is hard to estimate and considering the comparatively small expense it presents a chance tor our town that should not be neglected. APPAM NO WAR PRIZE Will Be Turned Over to Great Britain, Cargo and All. The United States Federal court has decided that the English vessel, Ap- pani, brought in to Hampton Roads some weeks ago under her own steam with a German prize crew on board, is not properly a German prize and the vessel will be turned over to the British government. The grounds on which the finding was made was, that owing to the fact that the Germans brought the Appam into a neutral port was evidence that they were not able to take her to a home port and under the present rules of war neutral ports can not be used as a haven for prizes unless convoyed by vessels of the nation that makes the capture.

The Germans stated that before they would allow England to have the vessel they would take her out to sea and sink her. The vessel is now in the hands of Federal authorities which will prevent any such outcome. The German government will carry the matter to the United States Supreme court. There seems little hope that the lower court will be reversed. WAR SITUATHON.

The Germans are being slowly pressed back on all fronts by the Russians, French and English, where concentrated forces of guns and men are employed. The gains are small and doubtless are won at heavy cost. The Germans are also losing heavily. German advices say they have suffered so much less than they expected by the great concerted offensive that they are in better spirits over the war than at any time since hostilities began. It is very probable that such statements are somewhat exaggerated just as the great progress claimed by the allies is stretched beyond the real facts.

Hot weather has set in wit a them and the suffering of troops and wounded is beyond words to describe. ROAD WORK REIN6 POSHED. Jas. Smith and His Force Moving With Speed and Doing Good Work. The pregiess that is being made in road building in this county now is very gratifying for it is moving along logical lines and results that count are being produced.

James Smith has a force of about 80 men working on the line that is pointing straight for the Fentress county line north and unless the Fentress county road builders do some lively stunts Mr. Smith will be first to reach the county line with his work. No part of the road is completed but it is in such shape that it can be trav eled over for nearly six miles. The Dridge at Little Obed is not completed yet but the grade work is several miles beyond that point. Recently a thought was presented by Andy Elmore that is well worth considering.

Mr. Elmore thinks it a wise plan to put in all necessiary cu'verts, make all intended fills and do such other grading as is necessary to make the road passable but not to do the grade work on long stretches of road where no special fills will be required. In such cases he feels it will be a wise course to leave the turf unbroken after filling and tamping such holes as are made by removing stumps and grubs and let the people use the road that way for a few years and do the grading when needed. Those who are familiar with the tough turf in this section know well that it will stand considerable traffic before cutting through and becoming muddy In some st ctioDs of the county the travel is so light that such a road would last tor several years before ltwonid need grading. The lay of generally is such that road buimfng is done with small expense after the slumps are removed.

In view of what has been accomplished it now seems sure that for the $200,000 to be applied to road building, v.e will get fully 200 miles of good graded roads. That with the completion of the Metnphis-to-Bristol highway, will give us fully 250 miles of roads that will! be well suited to automobile traffic. COCKNEY AN OLD DIALECT Writer Asserts That Peculiar Pronunciations Have Been In Use for Hundreds of Years. Cockney speech has found a defender In Mr. Mackenzie MacBrlde.

who undertakes to Show that Cockney is no modern dialect or corrupted form of the King's English, but that it Is of ancient and honorable lineage running back for nearly a thousand years. It is pointed out that when the person "born within the sound of Bow Bells," says "thet" for "that," "benk" for "bank," and "byllff" for "bailiff," he is really guilty of no corruption of the English language, since these pronunciations have obtained not only in London but In Kent and Surrey for hundreds of years. In like manner is justified "abaht" and "ahtside" for "about" and "outside." It is suggested that many Londoners have been laughed out of these "ancient and excellent" pronunciations. Mr. MacBrlde earnestly urges them not to change their speech because of any uncalled-for animadversions against it.

Whether Mr. MacBrlde be correct or not in his contentions, it is a fact that Cockney has survived for many centuries in the midst of speech that Is deemed more cultured. A is a curious fact that in the Bahama Islands, which were settled more than 200 years ago by Londoners, the Cockney speech is as strong as It is in Cheapside. Swords for British Soldiers. Sword manufacturers are very busy, and in Sheffield, England, they use the old method of band forging which produces a more satisfactory blade, though at a slower rate, than where machinery is employed.

Now, however, says a Manchester newspaper, a Sheffield firm of engineers has completed an installation of plant for rolling cavalry swords, the first machinery ot its kind in the city. Before the war government factories were equipped with this class of machinery, and the copying ot the design for use by manufacturers of swords has now permitted. "AUNT JANE" IS GONE. Mrs. H.

0. Newberry Died Monday Morning After Short Illness. The community was saddened Mon day morning when it became known that "Aunt Jane" Newberry had died about one o'clock after an attack ot heart failure that lasted less than an hour. Dr. V.

L. Lewis was called but the advanced age of the patient, coupled with the seriousness of the attack, rendered medical aid of no avail and she passed iaway quietly and peace fully. None of the children arrived before death came. Paul, son of Wm. Dayton, was stay-night with his grandmother Sunday night it being the custom for some of the grandchildren to stay with her every night -and was awakened at 12:30 by "Aunt Jane" and told to go fb'r the doctor as she was having a 'bnd spell.

The boy went for neighbor and then for Dr. V. L. Lewis. Dr.

Lewis arrived in a short time but death Claimed her within 45 minutes after she was first attacked. She had been in failing health for several months aad was subject tu sinking spells. "Aunt Jane" as she was familliarly called, passed her 80th birthday last April. She had lived from her early childhood in this county and leaves five sons, four of whom: James, Fielding, William and John, are residents of this county, and Edward, who lives in Idaho. Also one daughter: Mrs.

Mattie Hichew, living in Wyoming. "Aunt Jane was widely known and much beloved by our people tor en many, many occasions she has gone with hurried feet, extended hanJs and a kind heart to minister to the sick and distressed. In Her Ion a- life in this community she never missed an OPJW tumty to do a kind deed. She was a member of the Christian church and the Order of the Eastern Star and dearly loved the principles ot the order, in compliance with her often expressed wish, the Eastern Star conducted tbe burial services and bor the body to its last resting place in the cemterey here. The funeral was conducted in the Christian church, which was filled to its seating capacity and more.

Judge C. E. Snodgrass, J. W. Dorton, Judge G.

P. Burnett and others spoke. They did not pretend to extoll her as being without faults for they well knew she would net approve of such a course. She realized she had her faults, but so far as was in her power she kept them subordinated to kindness and generosity. "Aunt Jane is gone and she will be missed for on the whole her life was one of service and usefulness.

Her husband preeeded her to the grave some nine or ten years. CARD OF THANKS. To thpse kind friends and neighbors who ministered to our dear mother during her protracted illness, we extend our most sincere and heartfelt thanks. Most especially do we extend grateful thanks to the Eastern Star, whose members have been so kind to her for years and for the beautiful manner in which they showed their kindness at the last sad tites. Dayton Brothers and fam lies.

CASEMENT TO HANG Sir Rodger Casement, who was connected with the Irish revolt of a few weeks ago, is to be hanged as a traitor in a short time. The case seemed to have been proved conclusively against mm. Casement was once an honored representative ot the British government in some island possessions. KIKES IN CANADA. Terrific fires have swept away five or more town in Ontario, Canada, and 200 or more persons have lost their lives.

Manv miles of country have been fire swept and practically everything in the path of the flames destroyed. Many persons saved their lives by rushing into lakes and rivers. The loss cannot be estimated fully either in lives or property. SCHOOL APPORTIONMENT Semi-Annual Divide of State Funds Gives This County Nearly $2,500 Comptroller John B. Tbumason has completed the apportionment of tbe state school funds derived during the first six months ot the current year, a total of 1906,564.60 being available for that purpose.

Checks were mailed out yesterday, August 1, in accordance with tbe apportionment. Under the law one-third of the gross revenue of the state goes to the schools ot the state. The amount is computed and paid twice a year, each apportionment being based on the revenue derived by the state daring the six months preceding. This is in addition to the semi-annual apportionment of the interest derived from the permanent school fund, amounting to about each half-year. The report of Comptroller Thomason on the apportionment for the six months ending July 1, 1916, follows: "The gross revenue from January 1, 1916, to July 1, 1916, was $3,098,481.78 and, after deducting receipts from charitable institutions and other legal credit, amounting to 1378,787.98, the following balance is left 12,719,693.80.

Thirty-three and one-third per cent of this, which is placed to the credit of schools, amounts to $906,564.60. "in accordance with the act this amount has been divided as follows: Common schools. 61 pet. $553,004.40 Equal com. schools 10 pet.

90,656.46 High Schools 6 pet. 54,398.88 Cookeville Poly tech. 2 pet. 18,131.29 School libraries, 1 pet. 9.065.66 University ot Tenn.

7 pet. 63.459.62 State normal sch'ls, 13 117,863.39 Total "Sim state normal SJHXU64.60 school money is divided as fellows: Mid. Tenn. Normal 2-7 pet $33,500.97 West Tenn. Nor.

2-7 pet 33.500.97 East Tenn. Nor. 2-7 pet. 33,600.07 Col. Tenn.

Nor. 1-7 pet. 16,760.48 Salary bookkeeper 600.00 Total $117.853. 39 "Section 2 of chapter 264, acts of 1909, provides that 61 per cent of said general education fuud shall be apportioned to the several counties of the state, according to the scholastic population, as the interest on the permanent school fund is apportioned and tor the same purpose." It will be noticed that the Cookeville Polytechnic school gets one-third as much as all tbe high schools in the state. How do the people of the state like that? Seventy-eight counties out of the 96 in the state get more money than Cumberland.

Seventeen counties get less than Cumberland. Poor, little Van Buren gets the least of any county in the state. The apportionment is based on sehoj lastic population, which means that Cumberland county has tower children of school age than 78 counties ana more than 17, while Van Buren stands at the bottom of the list. Following is the number of scholars in each of the four largest counties and the money each receives. Also the same for this coun ty and Van Buren.

Pupils Money $44,554.64 34.859.57 26,021.20 20,234.06 2,479.12 731.24 Shelby Davidson Knox Hamilton Cumberland 62,768 49,102 35.244 28,601 3,492 1,080 Van Buren The total scholastic population of the state is 778,943. The amount appor tioned per capita is slightly cents. over 71 ESTES IMPEACHED The senate committee found Attorney General Z. N. Estes guilty on co-int 19 and he is removed from office as attorney-general of Shelby county.

In the finding the senate court did not disqualify him from holding office in tbe future. There war 25 counts against him, and conviction failed on all but one. He may appeal the case to the state supreme court but just what course he will pursue he has not yet announced. The cost of the two impeachment cases will aggregate close to $45,000. The cost in the impeachment case of Judge Edington was a little over in the Estes case it will approximate $18,000..