The Stewart County Enterprise from Dover, Tennessee • 1

ft Y' 7-J ll v( yawaareArasii 1 i i pirTi- (VvAii i 4 ir 5 Jt ntisii i mB I bl 1 A i' I'- 1 a i i V-: A JTj I V' I jl ti -W I v-( 1 r-rrtr r-r-ns arsrs n-55SaTSf5T SMS 75c Per Year voli-No 31 1 i 7 1 1 a-7-mMV-zrri 1 3feVr' DOVER TENN Thfrsday July 20 1922 Proyen Facts lout Erin JMH BEITS KILLED Our Public and HighSchools the jStesk law -i Jesse Bwti the Assailant Makes Defeats Dover The Dover baseball team was defcaLed by the Erin team which had been greatly strengthened on Tuesday last on the Erin field by a score of 7- to 0 1 Lamb for Dover pitched an excellent game alfowing only i yr four hits und striking put 10 men but tbo ragged fielding of his team cost him the game Daniel who pitched for Erin allowed only three -hits and 1 struck out thirteen men These two teaiilawill tiny in Dover Friday arid Saturday To the Voters of Jtowart fJuunty: have occcpl'Ua position with the Nii It (Jo that is mure profll able than the efllce 'of Sheriff and I have withdrawn from the Vaco for Sheriff I went to thank my frii-nris who so loyally me ami llii'su whow luibiilnlity I enjoyed during my eanviu-H Nothing can take from me the memory of the kincku-sseu 1 received in all parti of the county I visited I also lliauk my opjioncnU for the and courteous treatment I received at their hand lruv the race with malice toward none but good will to Carter Betts a fanner about 25 years of age of Weavers Store is dead and his father 0 Betts aged about 55 years is seriously wounded by pialol sHotTreportedto haye bpon in-dieted Sunday by' Jesse Baud aged about 25 years Details of the trouble are very meager The trouble occurred near the state line across which' Beard escaped immediately and has not i 4 as yet been apprehended Carter Betts leaves a wife and two children i Tliroul) the dnh'i'S!) cf tlie Editor of the Unlcr jrii vp hupc to be ablu tw present cv)(k' rcas fur every voti-r to cost iiit ball fur Uic "elock I low" on 11 txyuu tyij look fur these fiicta Bjiuin tut week' 1 We have furnish nil he Dover Courii with tlm rcnolulk'i and comniiltccs uplKiinLed psute-l by our meeting at Dover on July i but for tome unknown I lcaxiri (best to theniRelves) they have joiicd them We Are again firiiiiriT them with these notes this week' fv ny thia in explanation- to Any ivhn might wonder hy our procecdinjii do not Appear in the Courier I ulitnircd their promise to allow us space I i First I want to denounce untrue iiiu statement of To)xsition that tliis law Is af ilic poor hud renter td maki hiui imiur' They kmiw that tho is untrue Mr II Hodges at told us joW he hajlived uiidcr lliHjiwuinlgoncry County for 15 yeark XC'aa peer when law "woe pa -'otl oTd' a renter prospered under tim law and got able to buy the fiirm that he formerly Vented' Never was asked a penny for all (Respect fully A Wediiing Shower A shower party was given to Mr and Mre Claude Townzen orfJuly 19 1922 A large crowd attended and many'prcseiits wore received and greatly epprec iated by thd bride and groom Rc-fret hntyite vere served and music and' singing was carried cii nicely and was by all present A crowd from Carlisle attend rarui Tenh Sidney Crisp Odd Fellow end Masonic 7" atlharpe -4 The Odd Fellows and Masonic fraternities' of this- place will give their annual picnic on Saturday July 22th for the purpose of finishing paying for their new halt Jo3eph Byrns has promised be with us and make a speech on current events! There will also -be two other good speakers in tho morn- Camp Mating on Standing Rack A meeting to be conducted by Patterson at the Standing Rock Camp-ground will To the Stewart County Enterprise Wo are a friend to our University Normals Polytechnic Private Denominational Common and High School They all do a great and noble work May -God speed them in their efforts to educate and develop our people But the schools that my heart goes cut in sympathy for are the Common and High School because they are nearest to the great mass of our common people and do more than all others to: aftucate them The 817 824 chil- dren of our people attend these schools They prepare and furnish students' fojall our' schools and they reach a class of children that no other can Over ninety per cent of pur scholastic population attend them and they furnish more than seventy-five pc cent of all our teachers These schools are Badly neglected by of State Board -of Education whose duty it is they hAver permitted them to Joe taught in one room logand frame school buifdings i with terms of from sixty days having no equip' ment and taught by teachers i who bass the examination' to secure a certificate This State Board of 4 A tt Education which has so sadly neglected Common and Uigh Schools has hid laws passed taxing us to raise money to build a great University four normals anda Polytechnic School- They have given them first class up- -to-date teachers equipment and teirni of nine nrntjis 'If they can do this for our higher institutions why can't they do the same thing for common and high schools when they have -the same power and right-oyer all our schools? It is now up to them to explain to an anxiond and demanding' public why they pasturage and haard of any one br ing rf'pyrd tur swsJ-rd folliMin tbiJ and aunt J' (r Vh orwna 'about bralp wViorii sh anpnt uf tlui' bride where she spent to most of her life The crowd broke away about lQi30 The presents were a great surprise to the bridd and groom getnents Jtave Ibeein nVadeto protect them and to guarantee good order at ail times Naira Escape for Secretany Denby pf the jaunts ill between Uariel ai Tbar)o An admission fee cf 5ctswill be charged to ce both games There will be plenty officers on the ground to see tliut there js no misbehavior -We mean for this to be our bestipicnic' Everybody invited (kimmiilcc for I 0 0 F-J Westorr II Committee foj Masons Sykes John Burgess GTI: Moe- ry V- 1 MsadowsrOutiaw T7t- Mr Acree Meadows and Miss Lecy Outlaw were quietly married last Sunday by Vinson Mr Meadows is a young farm -er of Long creek and a son of Ijr and Mrs Ab Meadows -Mrs Meadows is a beautiful daughter of Mr and Mrs Alex Outlaw of District No 11 i The wishes them much joy and happiness i A Correction Peking July 19-r vv" Edwin Denby "bf the American navy narrowly escaped death here thifternoorr in an airplane Ib was lly-ing at a height of 4000!" fect ovea the great wall wlen I lie- engind a of the plane broke down-' -The machine was demolished in lur-fi- ing but Mr Denby was un- fi 4 injured r- 4 IJoO-utHrm1 SlvniKoincy county lkea tfie law pwt ui oi his tenants stuck: free! Aiid ho" the matter goes Te fact is it in a success everywhere when it is tried Jhe opjpjsition knows if 1 but tries to put up this man of straw a- to deceive if they can Sucoew of road impep' mnent deemlt 1 i in large nicajure to jlraiinigo and this cannot be successfully' indintauuii witli stock outside '-Thera prtf 05 countieJ in Teiifteascd Wo are' Informed that SMI of them now havjlru stnckvlaw A like it1 is A'bad law? No if it was a bad lauf it tyiiuld have lieen repealed long age iiiseasea aniong live stock' will be- a 'stocU law ft will iinprpve ds the peitple wiirdhijfouc-oj thesFicrub stock It is right for evyr- jaii td look after his own stock- unA ong tjuden his neighbor wih tlicnu" 1 Tulk ubuuL fi-ej vailga Tliere is ho free range softcbwjy uwps pie land and pays taxes on Wnni you are just im- a r- I jtoaing on noma whea yon turn stock outside Vuu how this is" true So don't deny it! bnig ugo with ifu fi'o landu with tl possible except of tlm llcrbert Domain in the coal region 1 1 Jf i jr We tnse notes in aiwwer to tbeupipainn sf miarcpreicntaliona being punnicd by Ike njilHwiUnn We are going fo play 'a clean' game bli the vtiAy through 'i 1 I I 1 fa -1 -f (Watch for da next wvek 's y- i Ii lIsiliday: Victory fur Ford Jack Martin Dead kS V- are sorry to report the death of Jack Martin which oc- 1 'I-- ekirred on Long creek yesterday tL' afternoon after an Illness of'sev- 1 a eral months of tuberculosis i Mr Martin was abbutWjTara of age' was a good Christian boy CatfcmoogfC July 19 Dr Clarence Owensr director of the Southern' Ccnlmerelial Congress and chairman of Ike legislative committee of the National Muscle Shoals Congress who came- here to confer with Jt Preston president Of tho Com-mercial Congress stated that the action of the senate agricultural committee "reporting the Ford offer unfavorably thy a voteJbf 9 to 7 was in trirth a- Ford victory It vas hot he paid expected that tlie ccmmittije would report otter favorably but IhSir veton has suc'cecdKl iti eliminating ml't'itiei private bidders- Editor of the I notice in the hut irnue of your paper that 1 wax appointed one of the district chairmen in the fence" election That wax dune Without my knowledge or consent I have taken ho stock in that election I postivcly refused to take any part in that matter! TV- Rice ANNOUNCEMENTS OF LW NELSON our State Board of Education has 3- I Jv leavers surviving him a wife Kef father aadntherr and Mrs tWW Martin of Ixmg creek and a Mveral brothbrs and sisters' flii'liereayod family have the' well a': the 'entire com- others Is it not time i people were waking up and looking: after the interest of J' 5f5 their schbols by electing a leg-' I and governor wh6 is in Our meetings for tHb summer are1 as -ollQwsrt-Nevils creek seopnd TSdnday in July' Crocketts fourth T-Sunday in Walniit Grove" fif th- Simi day jjg July Jhigh Flat secoifid Sundivjn AugupEf Aafticles inten.