Walkerton Independent, Volume 55, Number 9, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 25 July 1929 — Page 2

Walkerton Independent Published Every Thursday bv TH K IND EPEND EN T-N EWs CO. Publishers of the WALKERTON INDEPENDENT NORTH LIBERTY NEWS IAKEVILLE STASDAED T'Ha BT. JOSEPH COUNTY WEEKLIES Clem DeCoudres, Business Manaaar Charles M, Finch, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES On* Tsar ...ALM Ki Months »• |Qtroo Months ~,,, ,tt TERMS IN ADVANCE Entered at the post office at Walkerton as second-class matter.

That old phrase "pitiless publicity” still endeavors to hold its own in affairs. Another way to make a million: Give diplomacy a workable substitute for red tape. Social precedence is now mentioned by physicians as rather dangerous in causing loss of appetite. Italy has Vesuvius, but her dictator does not tolerate the wholesale murder gangs that infest this land. No doubt it is the gallant thing to remove a derby hat in a crowded ele- . vator, but is it fair to the hat? People used to marry and settle down, now lots of them marry and spend the rest of their years settling up. An Eastern college affirms that thin men have better brains than fat ones. Sure I That’s why they are thin. Dora is all upset: She had her fortune read the other afternoon in a teacup and one of the tea leaves was a fly. “Stray Bullet Grazes Shirt” —headline in Indianapolis paper. We understood it was stray goats that grazed on shirts. We often wonder why Demosthenes, when he had filled his mouth with pebbles at the seaside, didn't just announce trains. I Not so much has been heard lately 1 of the truth-detecting machine. Possibly the inventor has taken a wife. 1 and concluded not to improve on na- ; ture. , । Fairy Story: “Pull up a chair,” said । the tired man, as he passed the box of cigars to his sunburned companion, “and tell us all about your European । trip.” ’ I Young Westinghouse is working at this time on a rubber alarm clock which may be hurled into a paved al- 1 ley mornings, without injury to the ! clock. When the present prince of Wales becomes king, he will be expected, as ■ a matter of public policy, to promise ■ never to go horseback riding any ’ more. ' The expedition of Chicago college boys into the heart of the head hunt- । er country of Borneo is liable to revive that old one about “Youth will be 1 served.” Literature would receive some valu- । able contributions if learned censors would write their precise reasonings ; In objecting to long-established classics. ( The movement to save whales from ( extermination should be generally sup- i ported. We shall always need one । whale, so the fisherman can say it ] got away. ; — ] A dispatch from Moscow mentions ( an official, Mr. Yorislavski, whose po- । sition is “chief theoretician.” It sounds like a useful job. in case of having a Rothstein mystery. ; Back borne, if the opera house manager interrupted the performance to ask whether Dr. So-and-So was in the house, the town cut-up always arose and started rapidly toward the lobby. Another rather awful interlude in the dignified young lady’s life, usually at the age of four, is when the high-chair is too high, and an ordinary chair brings her chin just up to the oats. A commerce report says 18,000.000 pairs of cotton stockings were made in this country in February, and there’s another thing that would be fine for cleaning lamp chimneys if there were lamp chimneys. In the United States we have a Presidential election every four years. In Great Britain a general election, involving change of administration, is possible any year. In France the year which passes without one is abnormal. One rather attractive possibility in ocean travel by plane is that there probably won't be an earnest pedestrian out every morning doing an 18lap constitutional around the deck, and colliding with his fellow man at each turn. Learn a new thing every day: A naturalist says his investigation of African elephants shows they are "right-handed.” There’s always a trick in it. They sell you a car or a phonograph on credit, and then demand cash for gas and dance records. Scientists have found that milk contains some of the chemical elements used in making tireworks. Maybe that’s why the youngsters occasionally act the way they do. Jazz music has been introduced into Japan, and here we thought all the time that jazz dancing was just a variation of jiu jitsu ! A Thirty Years Ago Today column speaks of a forest tire in Rhode Is land. But wouldn't a forest fire suffocate —in Rhode Island? The New York Post recalls that years ago the popular song was “Up in a Balloon, Boys. Up in a Balloon." But since then the airplane has come along and punctured it.

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4 By ELMO SCOTT WATSON

EAR the courthouse at Knoxville, Tenn., stands a tall white obelisk. As you walk along one of the shady paths in the courthouse yard and approach the towering stone these words meet your eye: “The First Governor of Tennessee —John Sevier, ‘Nolichucky Jack,’ September

23, 1744; September 24, 1815—Pioneer, Soldier, Statesman and One of the Founders of the Republic.” You’ve never heard of “Nolichucky Jack"? Then you’ve missed knowing one of the really great characters of the American frontier and one of the must picturesque figures in all our history. Walk around the monument and read this inscription: “Governor of the state of Franklin; Six terms governor of Tennessee; Four times elected to congress; A projector and hero of King's Mountain; 35 battles—3s victories; His Indian war cry was: ‘Here they are I Come on, boys, come on I’ ” Thrilling as is the story which those words suggest, it is not complete until you read an inscription on still another side ol the monument. Here it is: “Katherine Sherrill Sevier. ‘Bonny Kate.’ came when a girl with her parents to Tennessee from North Carolina. Married John Sevier August 14, 1780, when she was twenty-six. She became the mother of eight children and died October 7, 1836, aged eighty-two. Move*! from Russellville, Ala., and reinterred here July 22, 1922.” And set in the brick walls of the courthouse nearby is a still more interes’ing memento of this great frontiersman and his pioneer wife. There you will see the original tombstones of Sevier and his “Bonny Kate” which were erected over their graves in Alabama and moved to their present location nearly 100 years later. One bears the simple inscription “J. Sevier Died September 24, 1815.” The other reads "Catharine Sevier (Notice the difference in spelling). Wife of Governor John Sevier of Tennessee. Died October 7, 1836. Aged eighty-two years. ’ These had been erected over their graves in Alabama, where they spent their last years. For history, you see, had not yet given their people rhe proper perspective of time through which to view their part in building the nation and it was not until nearly a century later that (he Tennesseeans reclaimed them as their own and paid to them in enduring stone the honors due their greatness. For this John Sevier is characterized by one historian thus: “The organizer of the first, free and independent government on the continent. The leader of a great commonwealth; an Indian fighter whom few have ever equalled; a soldier who could meet the finest troops on the continent, in the field and with inferior numbers win success from adverse circumstances; an administrator who could conduct the affairs of his fellowmen under circumstances of the greatest difficulty; a statesman who takes rank not far behind those colossal men who watched the travail pains and facilitated the delivery of the new nation to be.” Os- him, too, another historian has written, “The most daring spirit. . . . was the young John Sevier of French Hugenot family (originally spelled Xavier) born in Augusta county, Va. It was from Millerstown in Shenandoah county where he was living the uneventful life of a small farmer that he emigrated in December, 1773, to the Watauga region (in eastern Tennessee). Witli his arrival there begins one of the most fascinating and romantic careers recorded in the varied and stirring annals of the old Southwest. In this daring and impetuous young fellow, fairhaired, blue-eyed, magnetic, debonair —of powerful build, splendid proportions and athletic skill —we behold the gallant exemplar of the truly heroic life of the border. The story of his life, thrilling in the extreme, is rich In all the multi-colored elements which impart romance to the arduous struggle of American civilization in the opening years of the Republic." The Watauga settlement had been made in 1769-70, by James Robertson and a party of North Carolinians, who had climbed the mountains and built their cabins in a fertile valley on the other side. The young Virginian, who was a man of wealth Ln those days, soon became a leader in the settlement and for the next 43 years he was the one outstanding figure in that part of the frontier country. For it was not long after his arrival that he had an opportunity to demonstrate his qualities of leadership in the troubles with the Indians which started during the Dunmore war of 1774 and continued after the outbreak of the Revolution. During the Revolution Sevier more than once broke up the plans of the British for launching the savages upon the borders and thus delivering a fatal stroke against the colonies who were revolting against the mother country. One of the first of the British attempts was

Debunking a Sheepherder Myth

There is an ever-recurrent story that the laws in certain states compel a sheepman to keep two men with the sheep all the time, one to herd them and the other to keep the herder from going crazy. What would happen if the ovine influence should upset the mental equilibrium of both of them at the same time is a matter for conjecture. Speaking merely for myself, the sight of

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0 Kathcrir.c Sherrill J “Indians! Indians! Run. Girls. Run!” A kcnn-eyrd lass at thp fort rate cried # To the women who milked the cows outside. r They ran. a whocn and a cun's report * Speeding their • eps as they fled to the fort. Farthest of all from its shelteiing wall, t » Latest to catch and heed the call. * * Was Katherine Sherrill, fairest of maids * * In all Watauga's forest glades. ; Hearing, she sprang like a startled deer 0 And fled on feet that were winged with fear. f But the call had come a moment late: * • The redskins cut her off from the gate, * * And while the rises blared away Rushed yelling and gloating to seize their prey. * » I At the gate of the fort bold John Sevier, * Statesman and warrior and pioneer. * Was grasped by a dozen hands and stayed * As he tried to rush to the fleeing maid; * # Grasped, held back, and the great bar dropped— * f It was cei tain death if he were not stopped, > And better a girl be captive led Than the foremest man of the West lie dead. * J • . The Indians rushed to seize their prey, * But sho whirled aside and sued away—- * Away from the gate, but toward the wall. Eight feet it stcod. The maid put all f f Her strength in one great leap and flung * * Her arms across the top and clung * * One instant, trembling, out o‘ breath; Then over the top and away f,om death Strong arms had caught and drawn her clear— y f The eager arms ol John Sevier. > ( f * Such is the story; so it was told To our fathers by theirs in the days of old; So will our children the tale repeat y * To children clustered about their feet. * < Fer as long as beauty is loved, and youth. * ■ Acd deeds ol valor, and manhood’s truth. Will a place be 1. ent in the heart of the State ( For John Sevier an! his Bonny Kate, * f For the hero brave and the bride he won * * And the love that lived till their lives were done. * J —E. E. Miller. J y * in 1775 when a war party attacked a rude palisaded inclosure built on the banks of the Watauga, near Sycamore Shoals. The fort was closely besieged for some 40 days and during this time there occurred the romantic episode which lias made famous the story of “Nolichucky Jack” and his “Bonny Kate.” Despite warning some of the people in the fort, growing tired of the confinement, had gone outside the walls. A party of savages suddenly appeared and tried to cut them off. At the first alarm Sevier sent his men to the walls to cover the flight of the terrorstricken fugitives by a sharp rifle fire which would hold off the Indians until all had reached safety. One young girl, Katherine Sherrill, in her terror, leaped to the top of the palisade and fell over the walls into the arms of the commander. She seemed to have leaped into his heart also, for they were married soon after. During this siege of the fort, Sevier and his men inflicted such heavy losses upon the Indians that Oconostota, the great war chief of the Cherokees, withdrew his warriors. But the genius of Sevier was not shown so much in defensive tactics as it was in the tactics of attack. Time and again he led the borderers on s-vift expeditions to surprise an Indian village and drive them into headlong rout. Then after destroying the village and the crops he withdrew to the Watauga settlement. In fact long before there was a Napoleon, “Nolichucky Jack” adopted the Napoleonic idea of a small, mobile, concentrated body, hurled swiftly Upon a superior, but scattered force. And this policy of audacity and speed soon broke the spirit of the Cherokees and

< someone watching me from day to day for signs of incipient madness would be the surest and quickest way to call to life the germs of that dis ease which is supposed to lie latent in the herder s calling. And if. in addition, 1 had to do all the work, while the other fellow confined his labors to his optic nerve, there would inevitably steal into my consciousness the thought that Insan-

ity is a valid as well as popular excuse for several major crimes.—Archer B. Gilfillan in the Atlantic Monthly. “Journeyman” Defined The word “journeyman,” according to the best information, is derived from the French word “journee,* meaning a day. Therefore, the “jour neyman” Is in reality a "day man’ and may be defined as applying to one who, having served his apprenticeship to a handicraft or trade is prepared to work at it for a day’s wages.

their allies and prevented their being used by the British in a rear nttnek on the < >'<>nies who were enraged in their desperate struggle on the Atlantic seaboard. Il was these same tactics wh‘ch Sevier used in winning one of the im> l brilliant victories of the Revolution the th s|; to trap Colonel Ferguson and h s force of Briti-h at King s Mountain and ovens helm them before they could receive aid from Cornwallis. Not far from Johnson City. Tenn., stands a monument where Sevier, • Shelby, and o her leaders rallied the mountain mon for tie march over rhe Great Smokies t<> take part in that battle which was afterward* t<> be known as “the turning point of the Revolution." For the loss suffered by the British on King's Mountain was one of the steps whi<h le«l to Ue surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown and tie end of the Revolution. At the close of the Revolution the North Carolina legislature, without consulting the settlers' wishes, ceded the Watauga region to the federal government with the provision that it must be accepted within two years. During the two years congress debat« d the matter and finally rejected the gift. While the discussion vas going on in congress. North Carolina withdrew her courts and militia and the settlers awoke to the fact that they were under the protection of neither th? state nor the federal government. And from neither could they gain any help in repelling the attacks of the Indians, who were again becoming troublesome. Although they were still subject to federal government taxes they were receiving nothing in return for them. Finally angered by being thus deserted by the state and nation which they had served so well during the trying times of the Revolution, the frontiersmen decided to establish a state of their own. And in 1784 there came into existence the independent state of Franklin, a commonwealth unique in American history. The leader to whom they turned was "Nolichucky Jack” Sevier and during the stormy history of that commonwealth, ho, as before, was the outstanding leader of the east Tennessee frontiersmen. For North Carolina, after withdrawing the act of cession, attempted to assert her authoritj- over that region again. As a governor of the commonwealth and a man whose forceful personality naturally made enemies for him, Sevier was singled out for punishment. He was treacherously betrayed, captun d and afterwards tried ai Morgantown, N. (. ~ for high treason. Immediately 1,5(10 of the trans-Allegheny borderers assembled for the rescue of their beloved “Nolichucky Jack." For awhile a civil war seemed imminent. Then, aided by some of his old comrades-in-arms, Sevier made a spectacular escape, whereupon the people of the Watauga country promptly elected him to the North Carolina legislature. There was some protest about his taking his seat but eventually he was allowed to hold the office. When North Carolina ratified the Federal Constitution, and became one of the sisterhood of states, one congressman was to represent the North Carolina district beyond the mountains. It goes without saying Unit Sevier was unanimously elected. When Tennessee became a territory, he was made general of the militia and when she became a state, he was chosen governor without opposition. He was elected to that position for three successive terms and then, under the constitution, being ineligible for a period of two years, he was thereafter elected for three more successive terms, after which lie was sent back to congress, and three times re-elected. “Nolichucky Jack” died as he had lived, in the harness, and in the field. The end came in 1815. in a tent on a surveying expedition for the government, surrounded by his soldiers. His wife lived on for more than a score of years and was buried first in Alabama where she died. But in 1922 her body was brought back to Tennessee and there in the very heart of the country where this pioneer couple saw history in the making, and helped make It, “Nolichucky Jack” and his “Bonny Kate” are together.

Spelling Varied The Old Testament was written in the Aramaic and older Hebrew, the New Testament in rhe later Hebrew and possibly to some extent in Greek. This accounts for the difference in spelling in the translations. Changes His Outlook "Give a philosopher wealth.” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown "and he seeks money more and wisdom less, and so becomes, like most of us, only a gambler.”—Washington Star.

SUMMER HATS IN VARIED MOOD; TYPICAL DINE AND DANCE FROCK A, * V a ' ' - - *: MB ♦ * - \ 'dy’ 1

MILLINERS are gradually growing more liberalI minded in regard to the use of trimming on milady's chapeau. Note the word “gradually” for

It is a slow pnxess. this of reviving interest In trimmed millinery. After the despotic and I long-root in ued reign of the “tricky” little un- , trimmed felt. It is bound to take time for women i to come out from under its sway

Among midsummer collections there Is considerable reaction of the “eter 1 nal feminine” to rhe call of lace, ribbon and flower adornment. Especiali ly is lace lending its enchantment to I current hat fashions. Considering that s this is a “lace season” it could not . be otherwise that creators of the hat I beautiful should incorporate lace in { to Its making. In many instances so adroitly does the modiste introduce lace, it becomes a very part of the but rather than giving the appearance of applied trim tiling One sees this to a fascinating degree In colored felts which have Insets ot matching lace worked Into the very structure of the shape. One very charming method is to form the long side <>f the felt brim of stiffened lace, after the manner of the modish hat shown centered to the right in the picture. The original nuxlel photographed here happens to he black, but the idea is lust as often carried out in beige, or grayish green, porcelain blue, or any of the newer shades Thin, filmy mesh strer<-he«i over smooth straws or felts is another favored lace treatment The exotic lin enlike straws such as bakou and bat libuntl make an inviting background for lace thus manipulated. Some times the lace Is drawn taut all over the top of the hat. or perhaps lust the crown is covered, or the brim. Often the brim of a large picture shai>e Is lined with lace. A beguiling use of j fine black lace is made in the tn- | stance of the natural bangkok bonnet 1

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Illustrated to the left renter of this group In the upper picture. Sprightly ribbon bows tor hats of more or less tailored aspect give an air of piquancy to an^ number ol the , newer felt and straw modes. The rlo che with a cluster of loops and banded as shown on the model below to , the left Is a favorite type among those who sponsor ribbon trims. । Much Is being said in favor of the t long-side off-the-face shapes. Completing the group 1n the picture you । see one of these very recent silhou ettes, its charm accented by a perky , bow placed just over the left eye. Multicolored grosgrain ribbon trims , the wee cloche at the top. Sheer, sleeveless and flounced, with

Evening Gowns Jackets The short jacket or hip length • wrap matching the evening gown Is t i highly successful, according to Worth | Hardly any self-respecting evening i gown will be seen abroad at night this season without its accompanying short wrap. । Half Belts I Front half belts on coats, jackets । and some coat frocks suggest the fitted line. They are invariably p ; ced at normal waistline.

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Some of the Summer Hats. color enchantment its chief asset, cleverly tells the story in brief of the typical dine and dance frock as it registers on the summer program. Perha|>s It is the very simplicity of frocks such as this which has captured the heart of fashion's clientele. At any rate, no modern, young or young-plus can boast of a perfectly apiMiinted wardrobe, unless lust sudt a frock as here pictured is included in tier dress collection I’he tone-and-tint rote played by these utterly feminine fna-ks is endless. One simply decides on her fa vorite color —the one most hecotning, and there’s no doubt about finding the chiffon or georgette in the wanted shade An idea which Is being followed by certain color enthusiasts is the matching of one's chiffon fr«»<k to the color of one's eyes Try it in the fabric field there are chiffons to match eyes ot hazel . rown. and brown Is wonderfully cld< this season Die color card Is largely given over to ravishing blues, prominent among which are the very liglil blues which Paris ho i claims for evening wear Milady fair. wtu»se eyes are blue, will find that the new and lovely blues will prove a ha|>py choice for her next chiffon i party dress. A color especially highlighted tor I boudoir, beaeh and sjiorts clothes, also 1 ultra formal attire, is yellow. Maize

I to pumpkin yellow and allied shades I of chartreuse, lime and citron are everywhere In the summer landscape. Quite the newest color note for chiffon gown is smoke gray. The styling of Hie dress pictured Is typical of the general trend for chiffons—a few lionm-es id.n-ed low on * bodice which suggests rhe new princess lines. The latest maneuver of hemlines Is In flip almost with effect of a short train of the hack. 4a ! does the one in the pictnre. No sleeves. I of course, jot that steevelessness Is ' confined to evening mode. for without sleeves is the message for every hour from morning to midnight. JU-IA BOTTOM LET. <©. 1929 Western Newspaper Union *

Blue Suita No color is more appropriate or smarter for young girls than navy blue, and this season the classic bine suit is given greater variety by adding a blouse of gay printed silk in small patterns. New Nerk» The square neck, finished with overstitching in points in front and tying in the back, is good. One-sided necklines bold their own place iu style.