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The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM LAKE COMO, MISS.
Dear Advocate. and Cousins:


Dear Advocate and Cousins:
Here comes farmers son for adj
mittance into your happy band of
cousins. have been wanting to write
to the Advocate but never have be-
fore. thank the editors for giving
us a page in their valuable paper so
that the cousins can correspond with
each other. Dear Cousins, let us try
and make this page more interesting
in the future than we have in the
past. am not subscriber to the
Advocate, but my father is, and en-
Joy reading it very much am not
a member of the Farmers Union, but
think that it is a great organization.
think that the farmers can accom-
plish great deal Of good if they will
only stick together and make home
self-sustaining. The battle may be a
long and a hard one, but If we will
only stick together and press onward
the victory will be ours. May God
speed the day Of victory. Who is en-
titled TO the CROWN think that it
is the farmers, for they are the ones
who keep the country going. / think
that the women should join in and help
out. They would be great deal of
help and the farmers need them very
much. hope that you will all have a
prosperous and happy year during the
year 1909. Well, / will describe my
self and the cousins will know how
look. am five feet and eight inches
in height, weight is 12S pounds, have
blue eyes, dark hair and fair com
plexion. If see this in print, | will
come again. Long live the union and
its members. With best wishes to al
the cousins and the Advocate, / am,
Your friend,
FRANKLIN STOCKMAN.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM PRENTlss, MISS.

Dear Advocate:
Will you admit a stranger into your
happy band of cousins. We sometimes
hear the farmers say that we cannot
accomplish anything, but I say that
we can if we will only try, and stick
together We can raise our living at
home and not be dependent on the
merchants and others for what we
need. We can raise peas, potatoes,
have chickens. eggs, milk and butter,
plenty of syrup and fruit of all kinds,
raise our own meat and be independ-
ent in every way Dear sisters, we
have a work to do and let us do It
with all our might, for we have join
ed the union and should stand by our
obligation and with Gods help we will
win the victory Come again, Alma
Hainey, your letter was fine | wish
that the cousins would all send me
postcard and | will send one in re-
turn for each / receive.
Your cousin,
LUTA WATTS.
Prentiss, Miss, R. 8, Box s.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13

accomplish what it is fighting for. I
have been going to school and my
teachers name is Miss Ina Hearden
she is a fine teacher. Otis McElroy,
agree with you on the subject Of
education for without an education you
can accomplish nothing. Well, ! will
tell you all how we spent Thanksgiv-
ing. Our teacher left it for us to
decide as to whether we would come
to school or have holiday and SO six
of us decided to come but it was SO
lonesome without the other children.
We were dismissed at noon and all
went home. I will close for this time
and hope it will escape the waste
basket.
Your friend,
TTTT A TAvI TNTl
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FOR SALE.

Farm of $50 acres, 100 woods past
ure, so cleared, plenty of good build
ings, plenty Of water, good level land;
12 acres in fruit orchard, miles from
railroad.
Poland China sows. years old SIS
each.
Barred Plymouth Rocks and Single
Comb Brown Leghorns, at $1.OO each.
all full blooded.
THOs. j. NEWsON.
Whitesand P. O., Jefferson Davis
County, Miss. 4t-6-1s-2O-27
COOKS coTTONSEED--I have 400
bushels Of pure Cooks Cottonseed for
sale. This is one of the two varieties
recommended by the Mississippi Ex-
pertinent Station as the best plant in
or out of boil weevil territory.
G. H Afford. Magnolia, Miss.
BY placing an advertisement in the
want column at one cent per word,
you will be able to get that position
you are after, sell what you want to
dispose of, or buy what you need
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM MccooL, MISS.

Dear Advocates:
AS have seen my last letter in
print, / will come again to chat lit
tile while with the cotton raisers.
Every man who depends on raising
cotton to buy everything he uses will
certainly be left. How the merchants
do love to see the poor old farmer
come in and say, Mr. Merchant, |
want about five pounds of meat this
morning" The merchant will say
alright and when the crop is made
he will say to the farmer, Have you
got your cotton yet just bring it in
it all belongs to me-" and the poor
old farmer has to carry it to him, and
if it don't pay him out, he win s2y to
him, I can't furnish you any longer
for he knows he has got all the poor
fellow has and that is all the use he
has for him.
Guess / had better ring off for this
time.
Your friend,
OTIS McELROY.
McCool. Miss.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM a LITTLE wEssoN COUSIN.

Dear Advocate;
Will you admit little Mississippi
girl into your happy band of boys and
girls. / am not going to school now
as I have been sick. / have written to
the Advocate before but my letter
must have found its way to the waste
basket as it was not printed ! am
in the fifth grade at school Well, |
will describe myself SO that the cous-
ms will know how look. have
blue eyes, light hair, and fair complex
ion and my weight is SO pounds. can
help mamma to do all her work, such
as washing, starching and ironing,
washing dishes, making up the beds,
and sewing. I have four sisters and
three brothers. have one sister that
has been to Natchez. but she is at
home now. Well, / will close and If
Ii see my letter in print, l viii come
again.
From your little friend
MARTHA BAYGENTS.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM BRAxToN, MISS.
Dear Cousins: i:

Dear Cousins:
Here comes a little boy to join your
happy band OF cousins. am twelve
years old and am going to school now
and like to go fine. This is the first
letter have ever written to any pa
per for publication My brother and
sister belong to the union and am
going to join when | get old enough
i live in the country one mile from
town have no father or mother
Mother died on 9th day Of December
two years ago and papa died the 14th
of last September. have no pets
except two cats. / have gun and
/ killed a squirrel this morning. Well
as my letter is getting long, ! will
close for this time for fear of that
awful waste basket, and if this is
printed, / will come again. With best
wishes to all, remain,
Your cousin,
MAYNE AMMONS.
sRraxton Miss
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
WAN I C OIL u NJ N
HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO SELL,
BUY OR TRApE7

II so. remember the want columns
of the Advocate are at your service
and it stands to reason that out Of the
$4,000 readers of the paper that your
want will be bound to be just what
some one is looking for.
The rate is SO small that It will
justify you to give the column trial,
so If you have particular brand Of
cattle, horses, hogs, or anything you
want to place, don't worry about it,
just let the Advocate want column do
1t for You.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
between IA and II. To the one guess
ing my age, will send a postcard.
Good bye for this time.
Your new cousin,
LILLE EDWARDS.
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Here come again to join your hap
py band Of young people for short
chat. How many OF you like to go to
school? / do for one. / would rather
go to school than do anything. / can
iron nicely and can do all of mammals
ironing now. Well, Christmas will
soon be here and I want all Of you
cousins to come to our Christmas tree
at our school house. We will have a
fine time, SO come on girls. ! will
bring my letter to a close for this
time as l am sleepy. / hope that my
letter will escape the waste basket.
Your cousin,
HASSIE STEADMAN.
Smell Miss.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM sYLvARENA, MISS.

Dear Advocate:
Will you allow farmers daughter
to enter your happy band Of cousins?
/ do not belong to the union, but
i think it is grand organization for
the farmers if they will only sick to-
gether. / think it is SO kind for the
editor of the Advocate to give us a
page in the paper and let us show our
appreciation by making it as interest
ing as possible. wish to say that !
certainly appreciate the change in the
Advocate and hope that it may long
live to fight the battle of the farm
ers and may its columns ever be for
right and Justice. / think that every
union man and woman should take the
Advocate and read it. | will describe
myself and then the cousins will know
how / look have blue eyes, light
hair and fair complexion. My age is
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM A COLLINS COUSIN.
LULA TAYLOR.

Dear Editor:
/ viii write to the Advocate again
as it has been some time since have
written to the Advocate. am going
to school and our teachers name is
Mr.. Pat Harper. am in the seventh
grade at school. am glad that Uncle
Tom is editor of the Advocate again
and like to read it fine. Willie May
Smith, come again. / can guess your
riddle and the answer is as follows:
1t was bird which built her nest in
a dead horse head. will send a rid
die and the one who gucsses it will
send a postcard. A man rode across
the London bridge and yet he walked
/ will close for this time and if / see
this in print, / will come again.
Your cousin,
WILLIE SHOEMAKE.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13

FROM 4 LITTLE srUReEs cousIN

Dear Editor
Here / come again for short chat
with you all once more am going
to school every day and am learning
fast Cousins, come with me and /
will give you a short sketch Of part
of my schooling as the editor has
asked me to tell you all how old /
was when / started to school. was
four years old, but did not take a
book as they all said was too young
to study, so went with my sister
just to be with her and by watching
the other children / soon learned my
letters and was soon reading, and
then papa began to get me books and
in three months | had laid aside four
books. Now, Mr.. Editor and cousins,
if you do not believe this, just call
and see me and ! will show you al
what can do. ! will ring off for this
time and hope to see my letter il
print.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
FROM A LITTLE COUSIN AT KERR,
MISS.
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
Here come again knocking for adj
mittance to your happy circle. ] am
little cousin from Choctaw county.
think that country life is more pleas
ant than the crowded city life. My
father and brothers belong to the un-
ion. / think that the union Is a noble
organization and hope 1t will soon
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
WANTED.

Subscriptions to the Farmers Union
News. / have entered the contest to
take subscription for this great pa
per, and wish to ask every one who
wishes to take the paper or renew
their subscription, to let me send it in.
With six months subscription, SOC
get 500 hundred votes for trip to
Washington, d. G.
With six months subscription, soc,
200 votes.
| am farmers daughter, a member
of the union, and greatly desire loyal
support from those who wish to aid
me.
ADA CRAWLEY.
Farmers Union Headquarters, Jack
son, Miss.
CORN FOR sALE-All parties want
ing to buy corn in ear and shuck
or shelled, sacked, / can name you
delivered price f. O. b. cars, any sta
ton in Mississippi, and il sale is
made, ship car to your station sub
| ject to examination before you pay
any money. Write me for price.
Car load is $50 to 500 bushels. I
sell in car lots only. Always name
railroad station to which you want
corn shipped. J. P. Lambert Coffee-
vile, Miss.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
LUTA WATTS

Prentiss, Miss, R. 8, Box s.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13

McCool. Miss.
The Mississippi Union advocate and Southern farm and home., 1909-01-13
Your friend.
EULA STEADMAN.

NOTE We are glad to hear from
you again, Eula, and you certainly do
write nice letter for a little girl
just six years old, and we are sure
that your mamma and papa are. proud
of their little daughter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08

prostration symptoms pour it copi
ously down the back of the neck.
1t is not advisable, however, to
fill your shoes with cracked ice be.
fore putting them on, as only in
rare cases does sunstroke develop
in the region of the big toe.
By all means keep away from
the thermometer. Don't tell any
body about the temperature, nor
let anyone tell you about it. If
you are new in the land, be patient
for few moments until you begin
to realize that Spokane weather is
always just right. Abstain from
longing for your native billiards
and be happy in your improved
mental and physical state.
If, in spite of all this, you per-
sist in cultivating sunstroke until
you achieve it, there is but one
proper remedy. Secure transporta-
ton to Medical Lake. The state
will furnish it.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
HUTCHINSON
GETS ACTION
MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR MEDI-
CAL LAKE BUILDING NOW
ANXIOUS TO FIND OUT
WHAT THE TROUBLE is.

State Senator Hutchinson has
started something with his investi.
cation of the insane asylum at
Medical Lake. j. K. Dow, archi-
tect, who drew the plans and su.
perintended construction of the
building complained of, is to make
another inspection of it by request
of E. l.. Farnsworth, state repre-
sentative from Lincoln county.
AS Mr.. Dow is responsible for
the construction, his report is ex-
pected to be in the nature of a
defense against Senator Hutchin-
sons discovery of faulty work and
unsanitary conditions. Mr.. Dow ad-
mits probability of dampness in
the basement. saying the site is
low and a fill was intended. some
thing the board of control has ap-
parently overlooked. He says it
may be necessary to put in drain
another matter that escaped atten-
ton until Senator Hutchinson took
notice.
Mr. Dow also admits that the
concrete floors have probably sag
ged, a matter Senator Hutchinson
has on Photographic record. Ac-
cOrding to Mr.. Dow, sagging is a
failing of concrete floors.
L. Bartlett, who supervised the
work for the contractors, has also
gone to Medical Lake to look over
the building
An accounting will be necessary,
as Senator Hutchinson is not in
the habit of making unjustified
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
CAN USE X-RAY
# SAFE

Myrtle Ferguson. the frail girl
who is suing the Washington
Water Power Co. for $20,600 dam
ages, has been ordered by the
court on petition of the attorneys
for the defendant, to submit to an
X-ray examination of her person to
determine the character of her in
juries, provided such examination
in the opinion of the physician OPP
Grating the Xray can be made
without injury to the girl. Attor-
neys for Miss Ferguson contested
the motion vigorously, claiming
that an examination of this char
acter made in the region of the
hips might cause the girl serious in
jury. Examinations by the Xray
on the limbs have been successful
and conducted without injury 20
the subject but such examinations
conducted on the body proper nave
been attended by serious results IN
some cases. they argued.
Miss Ferguson claims to be af-
f1icted with tuberculosis of the hip
due to fall from one of the street
cars of the defendant corporation
in July of last year. She has been
an invalid since the accident and
unable to leave her bed During
the trial of the case she was
borne to and from the courthouse
on a cot
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
READS LIKE MONEY
LOOKS LIKE A JOKE

PAY to the order of C. w. Cot
finson $755-George R. Gilbertick."
This is the inscription borne by a
somewhat ancient check on the
Old National bank that was turned
over to the police this morning by
James M. Head. He received It
from man who found it near the
Penny parlor.
Though the check is dated Janu-
airy 6, 1909, the demand for the
amount of money is written on
paper issued by the bank previous
to 1900, The paper was not in
dorsed, consequently the police
doubt that any one has tried to
get any money on it.
Old National bank officers re-
gard the check as a joke.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
NO DANGER NOW
OF SUNSTR0KE
Medical Profession Agrees
That Fear Is Greatly
Exaggerated.

On the authority of the city
health department and the medical
profession generally, it may safely
be assumed that possibilities of
sunstroke these days are greatly
exaggerated.
With ordinary precaution, there
is little danger even in the middle
of the day. The risk is especially
minimized in the mornings, say
about o'clock.
However, the man who can per-
suade his wife to get up at that
time and make what fire may be
needed for cooking, will escape all
danger whatever. The wife won't
mind it after she gets used to it..
She needs the morning air.
1t is sometimes difficult to awak-
en- the average woman's apprecia-
ton of this great truth, but there
is no time like the new year-and
emphatically this new year-to be-
gin the course.
Dynamite in reasonable doses is
an excellent tonic in such treat
ment.
In this connection it must still
be remembered that excitement is
peculiarly congenial to heat pros
tration. Keep cool under all cir
cumstances. No more clothing
should be worn than person can
walk under Care should also be
exercised in protecting the feet
from blistered pavement, and
something similar to sunburn may
be incurred by leaving the ears
exposed-especially if they are
fanlike and tapping.
1t is probably not wise just now
to permit small children to run
about the streets before breakfast
in their nighties. There may be
seeming harshness in denying
them this blissful privilege but no
real hardship will be inflicted by
waiting a day or two until the tenn
perature abates a bit.
There are a number of other
precautions to be observed, partic-
ularly by those who cannot now
afford ice or cold water. Owing to
the peculiarly beneficent nature of
Spokane climate, water may be
cooled perceptibly even at this sea
son by simply leaving it out on the
porch over night. This can be dem
onstrated beyond reasonable
doubt by pouring it over the bare
feet on arising. In cases of heat
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
SAY JAPS NOW GET
RESTAURANT TARDE

From Seattle and San Francisco
come warnings to cooks and
kitchen helpers to stay away from
those cities. for there's nothing
doing" In all the cities along the
coast, it is said hundreds of kitch-
en- men are out of employment.
Some of the men waiting about
the local halls of the Spokane
union have wives and families.
Some of them have already been
out of work for seven or eight
weeks, but the present conditions
give no promise of employment till
March or April.
That numerous union men of
different vOcatiOns are patronizing
the japanese restaurants instead
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08

of the union houses, is an asser
ton made at the cooks and
kitchen helpers hall this morning.
They are undoubtedly doing this
because living is cheaper in these
places, but taking the trade to the
Japanese restaurants is a condi-
ton that is partially to blame for
the slump in work for the union
men. rr
Thomas Isbister and r. ]. Ram
sey were initiated into the union
last night
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
PROTEST new
GRAVES ROAD

The first marked opposition of
interested property owners to the
city granting ]. p. Graves and as
sociates franchise to run cars
over certain streets for the pur-
pose of connecting the proposed
Columbia river interurban line
with the city lines of the Inland
Empire system, appeared this
morning by the filing of a protest
of citizens owning property on
Superior street. The signers are
c. G.. Brown, Anna M. Berg.
Marion c. Wharton, j. T. Scott, w.
J. Doust and James Newlands.
In support of their protest, they
allege that the construction and
operation of the line would render
their property valueless for resi-
dence purposes on account of the
noise and dirt.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08
SENDS BILLY A PIG

A pig, veal and box of apples
were presented to the Billy Sun
day household this morning by O.
E. Kenyon. the real estate man,
who recently announced that he
intended to take up evagelical
work.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08

One of the riskiest things about
proposing to a girl is how she will
probably accept you.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08

Many a woman's laugh is merely
~..-p.ty OF dimples and dentistry.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-01-08

Wanted--A good, live boy Is or 16
years old for Office and outdoor
work; opportunity for boy to
learn a good business. Address b I.
care Press.
The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1909-05-27

What ofttimes holds stock market back what is common
y called the undgesed securities" That u.s. enterprises of
III kinds issue bonds and stock and depend the foaton
# these carry their business expand their endeavors
At times this financing quite essential heavier demand
commodities For months many corporations dwafed
because they could raise money This not only affected
heir expansion but also concerned the value of their securities
lready in the hands Of investors
When people who hold stocks find there are no markets
or them is tough business When these stocks again begin
find demand their inclined to become in
estors again The situation today in which the stocks
hat have been sleeping waking up at remarkable
This just important the advances in the issues that
lready lively And because Of these facts brokers who have
ecowed the situation closely for years. believe midsummer will
witness the completion Of this revenaton at least point
where business proceed.
From the Burke section word that the Stanley
Vas shipped of the highest grade antimony produced
the United States Arrangements for marketing this
1ulny have been completed and the property will
suently be kept under continuous development.
70 detail all the good that the pastee has produced
would be onotonous and unnecessary The columns of
Mis- issue filled with reports Of strikes Of milling
Which that eventually great many properties
will Join the ranks of the producers
The price Of all metals shows stiffenng tendency and
etter feeling manifested all the country This is not
without it's effect locally and plans being made for push
ng projects which have been in state of inertia for months
The next three months will important developments
n the Occur Aenes and believe right this section
the Of period Of prosperity beyond the fondest
7reams Of the most optimistic