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Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03

Mrs. Jessie w. Dickson was elected
treasurer and very interesting eve-
ming was enjoyed by all present.
Mrs. Lem d. Cooke, a former presi-
dent, was visitor from Memphis.
Memorial Day-7April 26-will be OBJ
served as usual, with an address and
singing old songs, march to the GEM
etery and placing wreaths and flowers
on the graves of departed veterans.
Further notice will be given next
week. lr9fI6G ~
Also Crosses of Honor will be given
the following named veterans to-wit:
j. w. Herbert, Horn Lake; Crawford
Joues, Nesbit; j. w. Rutland, Mes
bit; w. A. Acree, Kelly; @. @. Scott,
Memphis; A. Ct. Atkins, ColdWater
Robt. A. Heron, Eudora; who will
please be present.
The prize, a medal, offered by this
chapter for the best competitive essay
ON Jefferson Davis, will be presented
to Miss Elizabeth Dabney, as the
judges, Mr.. Upton, Mrs. Bradley and
Miss Mamie Jones, decided hers to
be the best, but the chapter desires
that honorable mention be made OF
the essays written by Misses Leona
Dean of Nesbitt, and Mamie Strick-
land of Byhalia, and appreciate their
interest in responding to the call
. made to the school children of De-
Soto county, and hope next year the
county schools will be better. repre-
sented. This service will take place
in college hall April 10 at 2 o'clock.
Friends are invited to attend. The
essay will then be read by the writer.
The chapter will meet with Mrs.
Cooke April Tth. A full attendance
is requested, as it is important.
MRS. DABNEY, Sec.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03
CEDAR VIEW NOTES

Seeing the lawns so green and flow
ers in bloom is undoubtedly the sign
spring is here. Win likely have few
more cool days before Easter.
Mr.. Milton Payne, the new mer-
chant, who has been quite i'll, is
slowly improving.
just three more weeks of school.
Hope we can succeed in securing Miss
Allen for another year.
Miss Eula Mitchell spent Tuesday
in the city.
Hope Supervisor Long didn't fail to
see the awful hole in the road fright
in town.
Miss Ridgley Murrell, of Memphis,
spent Tuesday with her mother, Mrs.
s. w. Hall.
Miss Lucille Patterson, of New Al
bany, who spent Monday at the home
of J. A. Mitchell's, left Tuesday for
st. Louis.
Mr.. jackson, of Memphis, is quite
frequent at the home of Mr.. s. M.
Finn.
We wish the new born Sunday
school rapid growth.
The young people are enjoying ten
mis- once more.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03
Commissioners Sale Of Land.

j. M. Dockery, Complainant VS. Ma
dora Mosby ct al, Defendants. No.
1898.
Under the authority conferred upon
me by decree of the Chancery Court
Of DeSoto county, Mississippi, rem
dered in the above styled cause on
March 25, 1908, within legal hours at
the court house door in the town of
fernando, in said county, expose for
sale by public auction to the highest
bidder for cash on confirmation with
10 per cent. of purchasers bid to be
paid on the day of sale, the land situ-
ated in DeSoto county, Mississippi,
and described as follows to-wit: The
West Half of the Southwest quarter
of Section 2s, Township 3, Range 8
west, containing so acres more or less.
Witness my signature April 8, 1908.
N, p. WILRox, Commissioner.
Holmes & Tucker, Solicitors.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03
POPLAR CORNER plCK.Ups.

Well boys, Sunday night rained the
farmers out. Some of us expected to
plant corn this week. It's all off now
until the land gets in order again.
The Poplar Corner school closed
last Friday. Miss Ethel done more
than any teacher ever done at Poplar
Corner as far as I remember. She
never taught single Saturday to
make up lost time. When she closed
her school and began telling the chill
dren goodbye and kissing them they
all broke down and wept. The ne
groes blowing nearby stopped their
mules to listen. 1t was sad sight to
see the students have to give up their
teacher.
I am informed that Brannan at
Lyncburg has nine acres of corn up.
Mrs. w. III. Williamson and Miss
Ethel Wright are visiting in the Bluff
city.
Boys, saw old Dave Harraway, Of
Olive Branch, in Memphis last week.
He is one of the old "a Mississippi
vets that heard it thunder at Chicka-
manga on the 1s, 1ss and 20 Of Sep
tember 1868. ..sa-s
OLD HUGHEY.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03

mash for hog feed, what moral law
has he transgresseds II a neighbor|
should give him bushel of potatoes
for gallon of whiskey, what moral
law would either Of them transgress ?
The time is rapidly approaching
when we will find the distillation of
spirits on or near the farm.
When that time arrives we win
never think of developing sober and
useful men by statutory prohibition,
or any other sort of legal prohibition.
The federal liquor and tobacco taxes
are only the worst features of bad
system, as the whole of federal taxa
tion falls upon consumption and does
not bear the slightest relation to ones
ability to pay, or to the privileges
secured to him by government. The
combined effect of these federal and
state taxes is to pile up unearned
wealth and its attendant vices at one.
extreme, and at the other to con-.
denim people to hopeless poverty,
ignorance and degradation.
They furnish fruitful soil for the
growth of intemperance.
They have made the struggle of life
largely struggle of man against man
instead of contest of man against
the difficulties which nature offers.
In this struggle of man against man,
prompted by poverty and the fear of
poverty, some are subjected to such
nervous strains that they resort to
artificial stimulation. Some lead a.
dull, hopeless existence, and seek to
relieve the monotony of life by get
ting drunk occasionally.
There are few other conditions in
life which seem to create desire for
something to stimulate or stupify, but
there is no necessity for mentioning
them.
Before going any farther, it will be
instructive to consider the historical
derivation and effect of excise taxes
on liquor. These taxes were unknown
to the English race until after the
restoration of the profiigate Charles
III, when the Parliament of aris-
tocratic land-h5iuers shook Jtf tie
feudal dues which they rendered in
return for the exclusive use and pos
session of the public property, and
made good the deficit in the treasury
by an excise tax on beer, wine and
spirits.
By this act they changed their
status from that of tenants of the
state to that of being the absolute
owners of the common inheritance of
the British people. They built upa
powerful ring of millionaire brewers
and distillers. They laid upon their
toiling brethren nearly thefwhole bur
den of taxation, under which they
sunk into deep poverty and distress.
Our excise Cor internal revenue taxi
system has been handed down to us
from darker times. 1t did not origin
ate in any desire to establish justice
or benefit humanity, but in the neces-
stiles of profigate monarch and the
greed Of a privileged class, and it has
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Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03
Baby

should be sunshine in the house and
will be if you give it Whites Cream
Vermifuge the best worm medicine
offered to suffering humanity. This
remedy is becoming the permanent
fixture of all households. A mother
with children, can't get along with
out bottle Of Whites Cream Vermi-
fuge in the house. 1t is the purest
and best medicine that money can
buy. Sold by all druggists.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03

KODOL is the best remedy known to-
day for dyspepsia, indigestion and all
troublee arising from disordered
stomach. It is pleasant, prompt and
thorough. Sold by fernando Drug
and Grocery Store.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03
fiemphiIl Gels His.

Andrew Hill, a negro, was convict
ed in Justice Freezes court last week
of two charges of carrying concealed
weapons and charge of assault and
was fined $50 in three cases.
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03

Bedford Forrest Chapter U. D. c.
At the last meeting of the chapter
with Mrs. r. p. Cooke on March II,
Times-promoter. (Hernando, DeSoto County, Miss.) 1898-1970, 1908-04-03

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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
RISE OF RIVER
CAUSES PANIC
Residents of Pine Bluff, Ark,
in Fear of the
River.
BY Associates Press.

Pine Bluff, Ark, Nov. s0.-Reports
of 16-foot rise in the Arkansas river
above this point has almost caused a
panic here. With the steady rains OF
the past two days, and the rising
waters, large sections of the river
bank are caving in to-day. Should
the flood reach here to-day it is fear
ed large property loss will result
-Four large warehouses we're prac-
hically destroyed by high water a
month ago, and a two-story warehouse
owned by r. NJ. Knox is on the brink
OF the caving banks. The Jefferson
hotel, a 100000 structure, and the
Jefferson county bank and court house
are not more than thirty feet from the
caving banks
A mass meeting was leld at IL
O'Clock and the discussion as to the
advisability of cutting across a mar
row neck of land above town and thus
divert the river three miles from town,
was taken up.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
INVENTED THE
SHIRT WAIST
The Late Mrs. Osborne OF
New York, Conferred
Boon on Women.

Josefa Osborn, who died in New
York last week, was a wonderful wom-
an, and If the women of the nation, of
the whole world for the matter OF
that, only knew their unpayable in
debtedness to her they would wear
mourning bands on their arm for thir-
ty days and get extra allowances from
their husbaIfas and fathers and broth
ers TO raise glorious monument
over her bones. All the wpma1's
clubs, too, from GAINESVILLE to Zanzi-
bar would drape their halls and put
suitable resolutions of their great loss
on their minutes
+, Mrs. Osborn invented the feminine
shirt waist.
According to the consensus of femi-
nine opinion no single article of fem
mime wear and feminine decoration
has ever equaled the shirt waist. 1t
is at once the most comfortable, the
most becoming, and the most adapt
able article in my lady's wardrobe. 1t
is capable of being drawn out to any
extent like an accordion. 1t is for
NAL and it's informal. and everything
that lies between. II is suitable for
anything from a seance with the cook
ing stove to a reception at the Got
rocks with footnan at the front
door.
Its genesis is simple. Mrs. Osborn
saw her husbands soft Shirts and en-
We'd them From that, as one who
has a surface knowledge of the sex
viii testify, it was but step to an
nexation. Mrs. Osborn went to the
man who supplied her husband and
told him that she wished half dozen
shirts cut on the regulation mascu-
line plan save slight Emergencies here
and there and with a decided curtail.
ment in length He demurred; she
insisted and she won.
She wore them nerself she gave
them TO her patrons for she was the.
most famous dressmaker of New York
and from them sprung the millions OF
shirt waists that have covered and
made attractive the women of tie
world.
Mrs. Osborn was a wonderful wo-
man in many ways. With no exper
fence and only the necessity for &C
ton TO inspire her. she left the ranks
of New York's Four Hundred and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01

Fast Passenger Crashed Into
Freight on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad.
BY Associated Press.

Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. 30.-One man
was killed, five others were seriously
injured and many passengers shaken
up when train No. 5, Known as the
Chicago limited, ON the Pittsburg and
Western branch of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad crashed into a 'sbuckled'
freight train near Valencia, Pa, about
20 miles north of here, early today.
The dead: G. r. SDidell, GAINESVILLE,
o., fireman of passenger train, caught
under boiler.
The injured: o. B. Stuart, Chicago,
left arm broken, scalp and other
wounds.
P. c. Eastmas, Uniontown, Pa, left
hip broken, face and head cut
G.. J. Anderson, Philadelphia, cut
about head and face by flying glass.
w. w. Williams, engineer of passen-
ger train, Chicago Junction, left arm
bruised.
H. s. Fout, conductor passenger
trainfi Pittsburg. cut about head.
The injured were taken to the But
Ter county general hospital at Butler.
Pa.
The wreck was due to the breaking
of long freight train on the grade
near the scene of the accident. One
of the cars on the reaS end of the dis
connected freight lurched over the
northboHnd tracks just as the limited
came along.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
$4,000 SUIT
AGAINST LIZ N.
Miss Bessie Johnson, of
Goulding, Has Brought
Suit.

Suit was brought in the circuit cour-
yesterday by Reeves and Watson, rep
resenting Miss Bessie Johnson for $40,
600. the suit being directed againsi
the Louisville & Nashville, and il
based on injuries received by the
young lady.
It will be remembered that a few
weeks ago Miss Johnson, who resides
at Goulding was run over by a south
bound passenger train, and one leg sc
badly crushed that amputation was
necessary.
Another suit filed was that OF
William Drake FonviIle VS.. Chas
Sparks, owner OF the Sparks shows
which were here Saturday. The
amount sued for is $4,000, and is on
account of injuries received in Au-
gusta, Ca, while the plaintiff was in
the employ of the show. Maxwell &
Wilson brought the suit.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
COTTONDALE.


Cottondale, Nov. 30-Mr. r. C
WEIGH, our popular young mayor, wa.
united in marriage on Sunday last K
Miss Beatrice Wallace, of Tallahassee
They arrived here on the evening trair
yesterday and many OF the young PEG
pie here gathered at the depot to vel
come them home. While at the sta
ton they were treated to a shower oil
rice. They will be at home to their
friends in future at their home, near
the Atlanta & st. Andrews Bay r. r
station.
Several hunting trips were pulled
on on Thanksgiving day. julie Sho.
maker and his friend, Mr.. Belser and
Mr.. Maywhinney. went to Russ Creek,
and brought home about seventy-five
pounds of fish, good bag of quail.
doves and squirrels. j. C. Shoemaker,
Geo. Bnrnes and Clayton Gay went to
Compass Lake. They report a jolly
time and game bags full. r. NJ Hol-
diday. with couple of friends from
Mariana. went to Chipola river They
report the weather too hot and dry
for good hunting. DR.. W. H. Harrison
and. two friends from Pensacola took
IN two days hunt last week and
came homie with well filed bags of
quail
The stork visited the home Of Mr..
and Mrs. r. H Lewis on Monday even.
Ing last and left with them a fine girl.
Cottondale was never on a greater
building boom than now. ~
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
WOMEN HELD
MASS MEETING
Cook County Clubs Want
Municipal Suffrage For
Chicago Women.
BY Assoeiatee Press.

Chicago, Nov .3e(The first public
mass meeting of the campaign which
is being waged by women's clubs OF
Cook county for the granting of mu-
nicipal suffrage to Chicago women was
held here yesterday, two hundred
prominent women being present.
Speakers described the American wo-
man as the "unenfranchised patriot.
Miss Grace Reed, principal Of one OF
the large Chicago public schools, threw
a metaphorical bomb. "why don't
women have municipal suffrage?" she
began.
First of all the saloon men are
afraid it will be a hindrance to trade.
Now, take my stand beside the bust
ness men of Chicago. ! believe a sa
loon keeper of good principle ana
clean character is as legitimate a bust.
ness man as baker or banker and
quite as valuable. An unprincipled
baker or banker can do twice as much
harm as an unprincipled saloon keep
er. One Peter Van Messenger does
Chicago more lasting injury than do
one thousand unprincipled saloon
keepers" W
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
NOW DESIRES A
POSTPONEMEnT
Standard Oil Co. Wants Con-
sideration of Writ of Ger
tiorari Continued.
BY Associates press.

Washington, d. c., Nov. -30.-A three
weeks postponement of consideration
Of the governments petition of writ
of certioari In the case involving the
imposition of a fine of s29. 240,000 on
the Standard Oil Company of Indiana,
will be sought by attorneys for that
corporation.
John S. Miller, of counsel for the
Standard, reached Washington last
night and expressed his intention of
filing the request in the supreme
court today for sufficient delay to
enable the attorneys for the defense
to make the answers which they con-
slider is required if the Standard OIL
IS to attempt a successful light against
the government to have the case re-
viewed by the higher court.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
MILLIONS OF LIVES LOST
The Awful Toll Collected by consump-
ton.

Inc Awful Toll Collected by Consume
ton.
II people could only understand that
Catarrh is an internal scrofula-that
nothing applied externally does much
good-they would not need TO be
warned so often about this fatal dis
ease, which, when neglected, invari-
aDly ends up in Consumption. at the
cost of millions of lives every year.
Yet Catarrh is easily cured If the light
treatment is employed.
Catarrh is caused by germs in the
blood which circulate throughout the
entire system. External remedies give
but temporary ease. Although the eff
fects are often seen in the form OF
pimples, rash, eczema or dry scaly
skin, the trouble is internal. and can
never be cured by external remedies.
The only way to cure Catarrh is by
employing a medicine which Is alb
sorbed and carried by the blood to ali
parts of the system, so that the mu-
cous membrane or internal lining of
the body is thoroughly medicatej,
soothed. disinfected of germ matter.
and the soreness healed.
We have a remedy prepared from
the prescription of physician who
for thirty years studied and made Ca
tarrh a speciality and whose record OF
success was a cure in every case
where his treatment was followed as
prescribed. That remedy is Rexali
Mueu-Tone. We are so positive that
it will cure Catarrh in all its various
forms, whether acute or chronic, that
we promise to return every penny
paid us for the medicine in every case
where it fails to cure or for any rea
son does not satisfy the user.
We want you to try Rexall Mucu-
Tone on our recommendation and
We are right here where
you live, and you do not contract any
obligation or risk when you try Rexall
on our guarantee. We
have Rexall Mucu-Tone in two sizes.
The prices are soc. and 81. Very Of
ten the soc. size effects a cure. OF
course, in chronic cases a longer
treatment is necessary. The average
In such instances is. three $1.00 bot
ties. The Crystal Pharmacy, Blount
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
TWO STOCK CASES
BEFORE RECORDER

Two persons, arrested by Stock ON
Ger Brown, were fined in the record
er's court yesterday morning for vio-
lation OF the new live stock ordinance.
G. F. Gonzalez, manager of the Ma
tional Biscuit Company's branch in
this city, was fined 50 and costs. A
horse owned by the company escaped
from an enclosure and was picked up
by the officer in the cattle limits.
r. Kelly, colored, was fined 81 and
costs for allowing his cow to escape
and roam within the cattle limits de-
fined by the ordinance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
FALCO.

Falco. Ala, Nov. 30-Mrs j. M
Besll returned Friday from a four
weeks visit to friends and relatives
ut Enterprise, Ala.
@. Adams, son Of Jack Adams, form.
erly of Bagdad, has accepted employ
ment with the Florida and Alabama
Land Co., as lumber grader.
+. ]. Cook. who has been employed
by the Florida and Alabama Land Co.,
Tor the past five years as section fore.
man, severed his connection with the
hart TO work for the Jackson Lumber
Company.
Miss Aurelie Durant. sister of Mrs.
ID. d. Miles, is assisting in the post
once this week while Mr.. Niles Is, at
court in Andalusia
John w. Stokes is building a nice
dwelling house on the west side OF
town, and when completed will be
one of the incest and largest houses
in town
D. wilkinson returned today looking
very much refreshed after spending
Thanksgiving with his family in Pen
Eacola.
DR.. A. H. Miller will leave tomor-
row TO join his brothers in their an,
pual deer hunt on Choctawhatchee
Bay. and will be gone about one week.
The crowd will be composed OF
Koonce. Bragg. Thomas, Dobbin, AL.
len and Griffin Miller. We hope them
their usual success on this trip.
DIR. and Mrs. Allen II. Miller enter,
tanned last Thursday evening at a
Thanksgiving party, in honor of Miss
rs Mayme Townsend and Minda Star
ling. The home was beautifully deco
rated for the occasion. Dominoes were
the feature of the evening. The score
cards were hand-painted Thanksgiving
symbols. Delightful refreshments
were served throughout the evening"
and each guest joins in pronouncing
DIR. and Mrs. Miller a charming host
and hostess.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
L. H. SMITH DIED
OF HIS INJURIES
specIaI to IT. .ournaI

Mariana, Nov. 90. H. Smith
died at 10 o'clock Saturday night from
the many wounds received in a run
away of pair of horses. He was
coming to town from Greenwood, ac-
companied by his wife. Both were
thrown from the buggy on some rock.
Mrs. Emily Smith is doing finely. She
broker.
Amos E. Lewis. a Jackson county
boy, and secretary of Hon. w. H. Mil
ton, leaves for Washington Wednes.
day next, to resume his duties as sec
rotary TO our senator.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-12-01
l.. w. MORSE HELPS
ORGANIZE NEW BANK

A recent issue of the Jersey City,
n. J., Journal, contains the announce
ment of the organization of a new
bank for Bayonne, to be called the
City of Bayonne Bank.
Lemuel W. Morse is one of the in
corporators. Mr.. Morse Is vice-presi-
dent of the firm of VIM. Johnson &
Son, of this city. and is brother-in-
law of VIM. R. johnson, of that firm
Mr.. Morse is a frequent visitor to
Pensacola and he has numerous
friends here who will be interested TO
learn OF his new business venture. .