The Southern farm gazette. (Starkville, Miss.) 1895-1909, 1909-09-04
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The Gist of Things for Busy Readers.
BY CLARE>CE Ell POE.

pairn 10 defeat the prob ibtional constitu-
uonal amendment to be voted upon November
2sth The new prohibition law. which Is the
strictest ever adopted. Is nov being rigidly en-
forced The locker clubs have been broken up:
newspapers are forbidden TO advertise whiskey
nor is billboard advertising allowed: no beverage
containing more than one-half OF one per cen, OF
alcohol can be sold: the possession OF Federal
LIQUOR license subjects the holder TO conviction: in
no place OF business private ONCE can liquors
be stored. sold. given away. and any place un-
der suspicion may be closed unless proof OF limo
cense Is furnished Penalties for violation OF the
Law fines ranging from $50 to $500. together
with imprisonment from two to six months for
the arst orense. and heavier penalties for each
subsequent oGcnse.
In the six counties which went we, in tho re-
cent South Carolina prohibition election. the dis
pensartcs were again opened last Saturday Tho
re-oponing Of he Columbia dispcnsary was mark
ed BY tao Killings. tao serious cutting ARRAYS and
dozens Of arrests for drunkenness.
The city O. Monterey. Mexico. between one and
two hundred miles from the Tcraa border and
famous ia Mexican War history waa tho accne Sat.
srday 81 orc 81 the most disastrous Goods Of 70
cent years. Situated In tho valley surrounded on
Aree sides by deep Mountains. Monterey Ia on tho
edge Of the Santa catArlna River ordinarily only
$50 yards aide. bat whlch with elghtecn-inch
rA4nfan became three-quarters Of milo ~ldc
RE dam also barst. and eighteen blocks
u residences and business houses awept
away. more than a thousand lives lost. and prop
srty DAMAGE 10 tho cntcat % 90. 100000. Re
lie. ,saaa fro-s all over Mexico eolaE in. and
the Red Cross Society Of tho United States ia to
rive aid.
Tha, the boil ~corll IL not really the harmless
pes; have como TO believe Is pretty ~ell
shown by tho nc~ Louisiana tan ass~aa .nen,s
Every other State sho~H good Increase In values
b; the boil weevil ha. caused \ loss OF $40. 900
600 In property assessment in louisiana. To OF
s~f this. however. II In gratifying 10 record tha
TEXAS which has found out hos TO deal with the
veevil and has adapted itself To he's conditions
stts 1i25 .000 900 10 It's Assessments compared
With last year TEXAS IL making strenuous effort
TO have all property assessed at i,a ,rue value as
s'sry State should DO
When IT comes 20 Inventions there Is nobody In
America or AHy~ here else whose opinion goes fur
hsr than Thomas A. Edlsons-and Edison says
hat within ten years The United Stats. Govern
meat all be using 100 miles an hour aying ma
ehines 10 carry the mails. and that these nyinE
"~"Sa'H"a VIII also carry phH@~nSrFH NhooEh n"t"s
sariiy nj \ high rate. We are not unlikely cnisr-
ns upon In transportation hardly l"as
wonderful than the era akharei In by tho in'on-
ton Of the locomotive
For long time Dr II w Wiley. perhaps the
iofsmost food chemist In America. has insisted
mat the use 81 benzoAte OF soda as food pre-
ssssaiiFe IL dangerous and should be prohibited
!" law. committee OF chemists. headed by DR.
IA kemfen Of Johns Hopkins. To whom presi-
Last 90
a'sa against Or. Wiieys contention, and nov the
sA'ional Convention OF pure food chemists. meet
lag IN Denver. by "A vote OF 81 10 ~. has sustained
'as ksmaen board