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The Franklin Favorite from Franklin, Kentucky • 3

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51 SATS MANSION WAS BUILT Of. BEt BURNED BY SLAVES. Sk-Cylitider Mysteries SuWnr Wu Vtt4 Startle Plate fr Special Variety Sweet rteet X2. 5V. 21 Favorite In receipt cf the ng letter from Caldwell in whfch he relates rly history of the "Eight Mansion" erected by hit fatheij the late Andrew Vjti CaldwtlL The old home ii bow the "1 77 property of Dr.

Miles Williams, of Nashville, and wa the subject of a vTM A featurfe article appearing in the Nashville Tennessean and reprinted -j ber Jan. 28, 1929. Editor (Favorite: Referring -to the article in a recent issue i ihe Favorite, copied from the NishvUle Tennessean, about the Crisp, Brom ToW Kits aKeen Edge on the AreakjKst Amfetite! Eight-Square Mansion" five miles Tht with increased Speed bf Franklin, on the old Louis- north ville and. Nashville pike, I want to give sou some accurate infor A Hint Md. Accejratioit msewes mation about, and some old-time incidents jeonnected with(Nrrir fereakiast bend your imsband on to ni Ks builder, tucked somewhere under hirest and hi nly tackle ThiJ hot ziAim father, A.

J. Andrew Jactsim) Caldwell, in you're his job with enthusiasn-he'lltelllhe iversel the most wonderful Itfle wom in the 1861-f 2 thtrt is, the walls were then put and the inside partially finished: the war stopping Marvelous slxVdemoothness throughout the entire gpeeu tJCiom roiW vlbrttlOrraVum' mlniSnid rumblhat makes driving and riding a constandelighf Irfreased speed and acceleration, with 32 nap power wOillls and Jieavy going! Such are tireWalities of performance now available In the price of theirL Such are some of the -outstarvfllcg reasbnsray theiew Chevrolet Six Is She was a clever wife if bo first saicwhthe'w4toaJ)uS' bands' mart and iocketbook) throhgb bis stoma and tie house remaining in this condition! untjl long after my father's Crisp, golden Mown toastmade inn electric .395 rsw tint 0J rwCaiiMr-t7')E MUnUa. mTonChM-l: CA 1 with Cab -wW Allfrlettf.o.k. factory. 1 lint, iiieMtm Ckeck Chemist DnvtM4 Prtess Th ry IncKudt tha lowest haadllns and flnaacla rharsw amllabla.

enjoying the mostJfbmphant public reception ever toaster at the make almost anv breakfast appetiang. And Avhen you've sV an accoiued a Chevrifet ca aooetizinr breaktat before vojir If you have niver driven Oie new ChWolet Six, you husbandproblem A solved for the daj cordiallwlnvited to comeHn for a demonstration. death which occurred in 1866. Thi house was biiilt of bricks burned or the place by my father's negro slave 1, the, wood work being done by one particular slave owned by; my ath and it all fashioned by hand from the raw lumber. This negro a skillful carpenter and the work was of a very fine order.

Thi mysterious "sub-cellar" referred i a in the article in The Tennessean, was nothing more than a sweet potat) cellar, dug into the perfectly If you haven't an toaster now, get one (a Siyin the price rangef the four! IG FOUR COMPANY today Toasters ah moderately priced, w'ell made and willfgive many years' service. KENTUpK? "UTILITIES COMPANY lncor(wrolJ Jed clay, and in which a special "3H East Cedar Street Franklin, Kv. variety of potatoes raised by my father wire stored from" year to keepilg sound all the time. Tha Tennessean article says "being at odds with his family and perhaps of a iightly perverse turn of mind, ttUALITY, AT LOW COST this Cildwell is said to have decided to hava an 'entirely different house. I can'tl conceive of this having been tering Bees all ffect that he was ever the cause of my father's building this verjhe place.

tion in selecting either, a stable or One from kind of I a house there is no family mis family," about this day a soldier history to the "at odds with or anything el ized off a "cap' given the information to the public and there is a dtmand upon'-the part of the citizens of this country for the repeal of any Senate rule which makes PTAMNt PLANNING FOR THE GARDEN PAYS, and he certainly was a hive and proceeded to gouge out speculative lisledjstock. A careful cleck-up of the people you are doinglbusiness with is the greatest single factor in the success SAYS EXPERT rse turn of mind." not of a "pervi of Senators on any secret the vote It Is a fact fiat this house attract vitally affects the proposition whi ed a great deal of attention, and was ful investment savings and no doubt much mor important than the known "far anl wide up and "down welfare; of the country. It is absolutely certain that the public is vitally B. Gardner, By John average person attempt to sum up ke of Agriculture" weeks, start with 30 feet, and repeat with 30 feet in 2 (week! and so on the summer Thus, beans will be the- merk-of Kentucky Colie the pike," illustration of this is the following ii icident; 7 7 Shortly after fthe close of the war, a young fellowi in a ragged The much too hisual way of "put Most of us confmon mortals cannot is to wait until gir- see into the finaifc ial statement "much ting in" a garden had at a skadyjrate, without le protection of the natural power this country from private, control ind, therefore', the appointment of a man as Secretary of the Interior wh had at one time been connected with the power trust' is the honey with a bayonet. The bees, en masse, attacked him, settling all over his face i nd headj with the result that he wnt to the hospital in bad shape.

-1 could relat many other of my boyish recollecti ms about 'Octagon my i ther loved to call it, but these will ie enough to let the present ge'nerat on have a glimpse into the past, "sac ed to- the memory of their fathers a id grandfathers. Yo irs truly, II. M. CALDWELL. 339 Carondelet New Orleans, 1 1.

mes, and then, with dening weather cd and tne beans win be ot tne best quai farther, than' we can see through the cast iron in a ity. automobile's mo- the gardening urge upon us, to fill the tor when we lift its shining hood. jrtot with as many things as we can vital. of, regard -conveniently' thinlj If a canning surplus is desired and even small but well-planned garden will yielc a canning surplus-r- to relative quantities or things of The American (people are ppposed to star chamber proceedings and the re 600 CUPS OF CAFFEE A YEAR ROR EACH SWEDE that sort. Doubtless, such a garden hose plantings that simply double cent conduct of the Senate in endeav will yielq the early vegetables, usual are made GO dayt Stockholm.

ix hundred cups of ly in such profusion that much, is I before canning time. be made to conform plan. It is "essential Tomatoes ca coffee a year a parson is the average but when such a garden is beautifully to consumption in eden, according to so is gardening? that the proper! varieties be used, and oring to keep i rom the public the vote on the West confirmation has aroused" a- prote it upon the part- of many citizens, is contrary, to the spirit of govern iient, and conducive to the destructio 1 of the fundamental proposition thi the legislative A much better way to have gone that they be grown on a schedule. Later articles (will deal with these about the matter would be to plan for and an orderly, sustained garden, matters in gold time. Suffice it to i Investors Advi ed to Consult Bankers stick to the plan.

John Thadeu, managing director of the Brazilian coffe exporting firm of J. Aron In of Santos, who visited Stockholm ecently. Thadeu also-stat that in no other country in the womd is the discrimination in the tas of coffee as high as in Sweden, doffee merchants in" Brazil are particularly careful with Before acing-Money' on branch of our Government is supposed to represent tne people and, there "Sbre Shot" begin, the measured up and outline made on rarden should be 1 careful. plan of its paper. fore, its votes upon all matters of feed catalogue and Next, get a si vital concern sho ild be openly recorded and publishec instead of concealed; Elizabethtov News.

coffee destined for She vegtables to be a list of the inspection of Many dollar; and many regrets yearly if investors ill catalogue will serve consumption in Sweden grown. The seed would be sav as a reminder con the Swedish gov- would seek competent advice before CELLAR FIRES LEAD LIST bfeau in Stockholm, The secretary i ernment social Ii Hugo, Heymaiv usually overlooks erning those things until it is too late a servings budget. hazarding hard earned savings "Ask admits that coffee to have them. your banker is any, good banker" Next work out Out of every LOO alarms answered always a proiifer first move. Abased on the size of plays as signifies nt a role on the Swedish trade ba ance as grain, comprising 20 per ce it of the whole im 'This is generally Ham Ai say, now, that a safe yield to expect is 10 pounds if fruit per plant.

A bushel will can 15 to 18 quarts. Sweet corn, another staple( can similarly be 1 udgeted. Whether put in hills or rov the average yield is one ear every 2 square feet of space occupied. Six ears will can. a pint.

Next put th garden rows on proper plan, spac ng them to suit the means of culi ivation, horse or hand, too be used. Jgar in mind that late crops may fo low eajly ones, Short season crops i lay be set, close to those requiring mo: ground later, but not before the lort season things will come out. It maybe that even after every scheme is used, the garden may be 'too smal If it is, the. bulkier things will ive to be left out. But, if a plan is ade, the garden spot will have come rearer doing its ultimate duty than if haphazard methods are followed.

Gi rden -planning pays', and the time spnt doing it is time well the family and cm. its likes and dislikes. likqs and dislikes must brs and tobacco. port of food, liqu! is well to include a by the New rk Fire Department last 53 re located in cellars and originated ii piles of rubbish. Fire statistics prepared by The National Board of Fire Underwriters show that rubbi and litter cause a fire loss to the r.

ition of over one and be- respected, it new vegetable Rail! two. This will 1 FREEl SEED I iahment by The investo generally does not wish to take landes, The banker is familiar with nvestment pitfalls." We sometimes thi him too conservative. But he help joii; select a gilt-edged bon 1 or can put you in touch with loi established investment houses th it he knows to be rep-, utable and wh( will gladly, give you expert advice. i Perhaps you lave the urge of this 1 I The record Mail this witn luc cqupp the past th U. S.

erate uniform, came tramping along the pike and st ipped just at night at our house. Of my father took him in and ca ed for him for the night. Next orning, under friendly questioning fr my father, the boy said his name was Gus Brantley and that he had en mustered out of the army "away below Nashville," and was looking or an uncle of his who lived in "a nund. brick house somewhere near I ranklin; father was over jiyed thus to find a nephew. Th boy was the son of my father's siste in Texas, from whom he had not ard for a long time.

He had run awa from home when sixteen years oh and enlisted in the Confederate arm My father 'as an intense and-openly avowed Lei," and did all in his power to helf the "cause. He largely outfitted his John W. Caldwell, of Russc lville, who became Cel-onel of the fa ious "Orphan Brigade," and he never failed to aid a Confederate soldier when opportunity offered. He1' took 'In Texas Rangers, who were nursed rough typhoid iever in our house. 0 le of them, a Captain Maxey, when le left, gave my father a long gray Cc federate overcoat, out of which my ather had a Franklin tailor make i a complete suit of clothes the gulation Confederate uniform; butto is and all.

Our farm an Kthat of our neighbor, K. D. Nicoll, vere favorite camping ground for thi soldiers, because, on the Nicolls fai there was an everlasting spring if fine water, right on the pike; and an reason doubtless was that both my father and Mr. Niche lis were known to be Confederate sympathizers." When Bragg retreated South and was followed Buell, the army was camped, for tlree days here, and Buell's headqu irters were in our front yard hi and his staff, being quartered in oi house. These "Yankee" soldiers levastated both farms --killing and ting every hoof of live stock on both places, except one old milk cow on oi place, on whose milk my twin brotht rs, Joe and John, were being fed.

Th i horses and mules on both places ha 1 been taken to big cave under a Huff on Drake's Creek, but a few mil -s off, and there kept and fed by fait iful negroes of ours. My father nised bees, and about hot monument over packing coin or Bine yean Shall a half million dollars annually. This is entirely preventable as it is appar the monotony in the diet, and that is important, if as many vegetables are to eaten as should be Previous year experience will aid in fixing expecte i yields; in fact, gardens differ so much that past yields to their and mailing cist ed or dia- nt be thia monumi and I will my choicest the con- pped send ycV three figured. ent that if ordihary rules in regard of rats inab tinuation guaranteed to Gladiolus itly cut- Ibich reduction fferent colors bloohv in three 'enueslorvie en- tint don actment levie- in 90 dW alio oupon fud on ably impi are the only guide as to how much of each vegetable ti 1 plant." For instance, if a 30 foot row of beans lasts 2 package good for railroad oSeraticia? to preventing 1 cumulations of litter were follows no such fires. Witl the total annual fire loss of the' nati )n amounting to ap-proximattely a I alf billion dollars, every effort shoul 1 be jnade to curtail this' most easily prevented fire waste.

spent. in iful fragrai public i new and most The uced these with illrNieed Chinese Regal faiveetmM of largely coal interests as a member of the In- THE SECRECY OF THE, SENATE ata- much-headlined speculative wave Hurry to tWft same banker faster' than ever, befoi i some shrewd stock salesman or pre noter has that itch- ing money place! on a "sure shot," Your banker will refer you to a good brokerage house that Is a member of one or more of lur great city stock" exchanges and acain you will gladly be given expert advice and explana- my Spring Bulb in improvin and terstate Com merce Commission. log. What is' heeded is a continuous, clean- Jet, lotwiaiatanding Qus While thel memory is fresh in the WARREN NURSERY, i coupled witn vast- up campaign to prevent accumulations minds of the omies of operation, public of Albert Fall's 1301 Third AveL Seattle, Wash. The United SI ates is a real democ- would seem that it not earning tbeuur Us Secretary of.

the In- of rubbish and should not be difficult matter, to nctifced bylaw and recog- racy and, any ilfort upon the part of Jvhat is termed in many derelictions tenor, and quarters as biuineaa. Hucn re-only 4.66 per cent. reduce the amount of fire loss charg the criminal act in his the United States Senate to keep its proceedings and its vote from the ed to this causel every year. naportation Act, they earnS54 per cent, and disposal of he Teapot Dome, to pri- they have fallen short ate interests, it was unfortunate people relative to the confirmation or return unoe tne law SOME HIGH-PRODUCING COWS that President Coolidge. should have 1920.

The aggregate rejection of a Cabinet member is con selected to fill the same post a man to over three blither ia no guar- trary to the spirit of our Govern who had beerl financially interested in oads of thia fair ment Two Holsteins in the herd owned aninst th govern- lAlimen Dairy at La- by the Gray-Von the power trusts. Whether Mr. West should have ibeen confirmed is not The Senate, in executive session, undertook to keep from the public Grange produced 6.87 and 5,72 pounds the vote on tha confirmation of Mr, of butter fat eath in two days Jast month, according to a report of offi- cial testing from the Experiment Bant baa been made, or couia enforced. Mast th eirailroad oiwaya re-'atrictad to an income leas than th rneaaor of return et op by th Transportation Act? The indefinite continuance of such a policy i not only unjust and unfair to the investor, who hav aesumed the nak and reeporisibmty of maimg the railroad possible, but it must in the long rua prov detrimantal to th entire bust. BtM atroctur of this country.

Station, Univers of Kentucky. The the material patter that The News desires to emihasize in this editorial but rather the) purpose of the Senate to keep from the public the vote of the members 01 that body on it. The Senate should not be a secret body nor should it, bs representatives of the States, keepWnythlng hidden from West as Secrets ry of the Interior. 'There seru us objection to Mr. "West because had been connected -with the Insull wer interests.

While lie had disposed his holdings in this company upon lis appointment as Secretary st the Interior there was a one-day division pas led by the Jer- sey. owned Jy A. Baldwin, Shep- alrecord of 2,4 pounds day. Four Holsteins herdsville, with of fat in one made the honor the public in- which the public is in very decided sentiment in the coun roll in the two-day di twenty hives stood lined up around terested, try, especially iri the West, that he vision, and 19 Jerseys and one Guern We are not inclined to commend was not a suitable man for the post, the methods byl which the United upon the same idea which caused the the yard fence -made of hollow sycamore logs, wit! boxes on top for the honey. These the "Yankees" demolished and revc in the honey skit "IT.OURE 10 6oOD COFFEES sey the honor rol in Ihe one-day division.

Ninety-e ght Jerseys, five Holsteins and thi Guernseys were on 'official test duiing the month. Senate to reject (the 'appointment of Bit Press secured this- vote and published it. The Senate! itself should have an attorney tori the Pennsylvania.

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