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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
SLAVES to Our
Time Pieces =

That's what someone said about
us Americans.
IF it's so, it isn't our fault, is it?
It's conditions.
Certain things are demanded
Of us.
One Of these things is that we
must be on the spot at the right
time.
Mostly we let our watches
measure out the hours and min
utes to us.
Hence the necessity for own
ing a truth-telling watch.
If you've a good accurate
watch, be good to it.
Ii you haven't you ought to
have.
We will be glad to talk watch
with ,ou any day.
BnI yet we can sell you the
highest grade Of watch accuracy
in the world at lowe st cost.
CALL.
OW SLEY jEWELER 10VE
Next to Citizens Bank.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

The sea kale used as food in China
comes largely from the coast Of
shghaiien. where the leaves average
une foot 10 width and As feet in length.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

Friendship One soul la two bodies. !.
PythagoTas.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07

cHIcKAsHA MERCHANTS MEET
ALL COMPETITION.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-06-07
OVERWORK

Win, in time, make your eyes
defective. Ii this is the case
with you, come to us and let us
correct all defects. We make a
specially of testing the eyes and
fitting the proper lenses. We
carry a full line of the latest OPP
tical goods of the very finest
quality. Our motto: do One
Thing Well"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Crayfish Pest to be Investigated,

A Jackson dispatch says:-The
crayfsh pest in the prairie section
Of Mississippi will probably be
made the subject of a special in
vestigation by the bureau Of en-
tomology, United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture.
The crayfish is the curse of the
section in question is the testimO-
ny of farmers who have had beau
tiful stands of corn almost COM
pletely destroyed by this pest af-
ter heavy rains, and an effort is
now being made to induce the De
partment of Agriculture to send
expert entOmOlogists to Mississfp-
pi to make a special study of the
crayfish and see if some method of
determination cannot be devised.
Letters have been addressed to
Senator Leroy Percy On the sub
.ject and he promises to take the
matter up with the department
Immediately, and will ask other
members of the Mississippi dele
cation to cooperate with him.
The crayfish, it is stated, also
causes considerable damage in the
famous alfalfa fields Of that re-
gion, and their ravages have been
growing more serious each year.
This is the best season to make a
special study, as corn planting
will soon be actively in progress
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Bonds for Sale.

Bids Invited for the purchase Of
Twelve Thousand Five Hundred dol
lars Of 20 years 5 per cent non option
bonds of the county of Noxubee Miss
issippi) of the denomination of Five
hundred dollars each, numbered from l
10 Is inclusive, dated March 1st 1910,
interest payable annually at the Office
of the Treasurer of said county, at
Macon, Mississippi, said bonds issued,
under Section 331 of the Mississippi,
Code of 1906. for repairing the Noxu-
bee County Court House.
Bids to be opened by the Board of
Supervisors of said county on the lst
Monday of March 1910. Each bid must
be accompanied by a certified bank
check in the sum of $500. 90 as evidence
of good faith on the part of the bidder
and no bid will be considered for less
than par value. The Board reserves
the right to reject any and all bids
BY order of the Board entered in
Minute Book ID at page 329.
JOHN A. TYSON,
Clerk Board of Supervisors.
(P. O. Address, Macon, Mss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
ANNOUNCEMENTS

For Mayor.
We are authorized to announce
CHARLES STRONG
as a candidate for the office of Mayor
of the City of Macon.
For Marshall.
We are authorized to announce
S. M. TOMLINSON
as a candidate for the office of Marshal
and Tax Collector of the City Of Ma
con.
We are authorized to announce
S. A. LEVER
as a candidate for the office of Marshal
and Tax Collector of the City of Ma
con, subject to the action of the pri-
mary.
We are authorized to announce
FRANK COLE
as a candidate for the office of Mar
shall and Tax Collector of the City Of
Macon.
We are authorized to
w. E. STENNIS
as a candidate for the office of Marshal
and Tax Collector of the City Of Macon.
We are authorized to announce
y. A. LEE
as a candidate for the office of Marshal
and Tax Collector Of the City of Ma
con.
We are authorized to
C.. l.: SMOOT
as a candidate for the office of marshal
of City uf Macon, subject to action Of
the primary.
We are authorized to announbe
e. F. MAURY
as a candidate for the office of Mar
shall and Tax Collector of the City of
Macon, subject to the action of the
primary.
Clerk and Assessor
We are authorized to announce
r. E. V. YATES
as a candidate for the office of clerk
and assessor for the City of Macon.
We are authorized to announce
JOS. SCOTT
as a candidate for the office of clerk
and assessor for the City of Macon.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
The Agricultural Hight Schools.

TO show the benefits to be de
rived from the Agricultural High
Schools, we publish, by request,
the following communications:
The County Agricultural High
School is a county institution
supported by the county. Every
citizen has an interest in the
school.
Therefore. l shall write this
communication as a report to the
county showing the good which
has been accomplished by the
school up to this time, and the
good likely to be ACCOMPLISHED in
the future. | shall make such a
report at the end of each school
term.
The Literary Department of
the County Agricultural School
is conducted in a two story house
situated in the center of a three
acre lot, The house has six
large rooms. This department
is managed by Mr.. D.. r. Ruff.
OF Millsap College, who has
proved himself to be one of the
best educators in the state of
Mississippi. Mr.. Ruff has four
assistants who are very efficient,
and they appreciate to the full
est extent, the great work they
are doing for the boys and girls
OF Madison County. This de-
partment, has increased from an
enrolment Of forty scholars four
years ago, to nearly two hun
dred at this time.
The Agricultural Department
is managed by Mr.. C. B. Had
don, of A. & M. College. The
Dormitory will accommodate ftv
boarders. The farm contains
thirty-six acres, of level land, on
which can be used. any of the
improved implements. | wish to
state here that the progress of
this department has not been as
rapid as could be desired; but
the delay was unavoidable. At
the beginning we donated twen-
" acres Of land west of Camden,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Madam Fisher makes the slide for life
by the teeth at 7:15 p. m. in front of
the Opera House, FREE.
ADMISSION: = Csc, 35c and SOC.
Seats on sale at Book Store, March IL, IS and 10

not, the signs are that new, and
grave responsibilities may fall up
on us. whether we are ready to
assure them or not.
We at least have the privilege
of voting for or against such rep
resentation. Let no one remain
con the fence"
AS our Mission Study Glass is a
new feature of our Society, it may
be well to define it from the leaf
let. "What is a Mission Study
CIass?D
1. 1t is a small group, in this
instance Of s members. The
method pursued is intensive. 1t
aims to reach the many through
the few.
2. Every member has a text
book. We are now studying "The
Challenge of the City," Each
lesson presents one'definite truth
with the purpose of compelling to
action.
3. The aim is to so show the
need Of the world as to create a
sense Of personal responsibility
which will lead to action.
4. 1t does not take the place of
the regular meeting. 1t Is extra
work done by a few in order to
contribute new life and effective
ness to the whole church.
The annual meeting of the w.
III. NJ. S. is to be held at Column
bus April 20. Our delegate is
Miss Ida Smith.
Why not invite this body to
meet With us next year?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11

and commenced to improve it.
The tremendous rains last sum-
mer washed it so badly that we
concluded it would not make
such a farm as we desired. We
sold the twenty acres and bought
thirty-six acres east of Camden,
being near the Dormitory and
much more convenient in every
way. We were delayed again
by the protracted drouth last fall
not being able to break and sub
soil the farm as we intended.
Then the school was declared
unconstitutional, and we felt
that luck was against US. All
these drawbacks are being rap
idly overcome and we expect to
have an ideal farm; an object
lesson worth visiting by the most
progressive agriculturalist in
Madison County.
We expect to produce every
thing possible to finish the boys
at the Dormitory and will then
be able to offer board at from
four to six dollars per month.
and boys not able to pay this
small sum will be allowed to
work out their board on the
farm, thus furnishing the poor
bows an education at no cost.
We will put in an eleventh
grade next term, and we will fix
the schedule so that the boys
who finish at the county Agri-
cultural School will be prepared
to enter the senior class at the
A. & M. College. Thus saving
two years at the college, equive-
lent to four hundred collars.
We ask the citizen of the
County to take an interest in
their Agricultural High School,
so pregnant with good for their
children. and we urge the boys
and girls to take advantage of
the educational opportunities Of
fered them, thus raising them to
a plane which will enable them
to stand with best educated and
most progressive citizens Of the
great state of Mississippi.
Respectfully submitted.
GEO. B. OLIVE. Trustee.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
WOnQD'S Home Mission Society,".


The Woman's Home Mission
Society met at the Parsonage Feb.
Dist. The important business of
the afternoon was the election of
officers for the ensuing year. The
result was as follows:
Mrs. Walter Price, president.
Mrs. L. c. Tucker, LIST Vice
President.
Miss Mary McCaskill, I'd Vice
President.
Mrs. John Fisher Ames, 3rd
Vice President.
Mrs. e. S. Murphey, Cores
bonding Secretary.
Mrs. J.. O.. Faser, Recording See
rotary.
Mrs. Walter Stokes, Treasurer.
Thirty-seven of the elect women
of the NJ. f. Church belong to
this society, and through them
much has been wrought for God
and His Kingdom. We are forg-
ing on towards the ideal.
In addition to the regular con-
nectional and local work, we hope
this year to assist the City Faith
er's in some much needed civic
improvements. Why should not
Macon be reckoned one of the
beautiful cities of the Staten
While our society has not pro
duced a single ~suffragist, we shall
bring all our influence to bear up
on the power that be, and earn
estly plead for the observance of
law and order in our midst.
"Help us save our boys" is the
mothers cry. ~
A memorial to the General Con
ference of the NJ. E. Church,
South, meeting in Ashvill, n. O.,
in May, 1910 was adopted by the
Woman's Board of Home Missions
in annual session at Savannah,
Ga and reads as follows:
EDear Fathers and Brethren:
Believing that the fullness of
Gods time has come for the more
than half million women of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
South, to have larger freedom in
the overwhelming work of the
Church that they may help to
hasten more surely and speedily
the coming of the kingdom of
God. f*
We respectfully petition that as
an act of justice you will at this
session of the General Conference
take the needed action to secure
for the women of the Church the
full rights and privileges of the
laity."
Since that time, women's equal
ly representation has been one of
the most spirited discussions in
Methedism, and if we mistake
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
The City Light and Water Plant.

The new poles going up in connec-
ton with the City Light and Water
Plant improvements look as if the work
which has long been contemplated had
at last been commenced. We are in
formed by the consulting engineer,
Mr.. G.. B. Baskerville. Jr-, that we
shall have forty-fve additional street
lights. This pole line, which will be as
good as the best, cost three thousand
dollars less than the lowest bid under
the former plans. The difference goes
to the credit of the City's treasury n
stead KEGS profit to the bidders.
Yet this is not the only saving to the
City that has been accomplished by
M. Baskerville. Besides installing a
condensing plant Of 200 kilo watt ca
paciLy, instead of a non-condensing
plant Of 100 kilo watt capacity as call
ed for by the former plans the total
cost Of all the improvements is only
$l4, $50, whereas the former plans
called for an expenditure of $21, 900. 90
not including the engineering fee,
THE BEACON thinks every one shouts
give the devil his due; and while we
are at it, we wish to state that Mr.
Baskerville is equally successful as an
operating engineer. AS every one
know, when Mr.. Baskerville made a
contract to operate our plant, the plant
owed $4,000 past due accounts, and was
in bad repair, wouldn't give satisfac-
tory service, and was run at a loss. The
services has been made satisfactory,
over $4,000 of the gross receipts have
been utilized for repairs that were nee
essary in order to give satisfactory SER
vice, the receipts of the plant have
been increased over $5O00.CO per year.
putting the plant now OF a paying bas-
is, and the past due accounts have all
been paid off, and has acash balance in
the bank.
The receipts have beer increased by
increasing the number of customers by
sixty per cent, by putting the a ilroad
on a meter, and by getting out and
hustling for new business. At the
same time the operating expenses have
been only slightly increased. The
number of employees of the plant is the
same as always, being two men at the
power house at night, one in the day
time, enc trouble or construction man
uptown, and Mr.. Baskerville at the
head. Beside this the City CIkerk is
bookkeeper for the plant.
The prospect for the light plant in
the future is very bright. A day cir
cult will be instituted the first of June
and will therefore be a -premananent
feature of the business. This day cur
rent will be utilized to do the City
pumping and therefore the engines
will have a day load from the start
justifying this service. All additional
use of the day current will be that
much added to the receipts of the
plant, yet the cost of operation will not
be increased because of the fact that
the new machinery will be more econi-
mical than the present machinery. We
predict that these improvements are
oAly the beginning of an ere of success
for the plant.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Citation Notice.
THE STATE OF MIssIss

H STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, -
DAISY INC In the Chancerv Court
No. 1858. VS.. of
JIM RINCE Noxubee County -
!. To Jim Prince. whose post Office address and
place of residence are unknown.
We command you to be and appear before the
Chancellor of our said Chancery Court at a terme
thereof to be holden at the Court House. in the
town of Macon. in said county of Noxubee. on
the Fourth Monday in April. A.. D.. 1910. then and
there to plead. answer or demur to the original
Bill in said cause wherein YOU are defendant
Witness my signature and the seal of said
Court affixed at my Office IN City of Macon. this
4th day of March. 1910.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Rhode Island Red Eggs for Sale.
ForSaIe.

About IL thousand feet secondhand
lumber, and 1900 to 1000 cleaned brick,
Lumber stacked, and nails taken out.
Most of it in good condition, and a part
of it as good as new Will sell at very
reasonable prices. Apply to
ED. M. MURPHEY.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Cedar Posts

1000 cedar posts for sale.
3-4-St CHAS. HARDIN.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Notice.

Any one having land for sale can OBJ
tain listing blanks free of charge. 1t
is my intention to advertise three of
the best and most attractive farms
listed with me in several papers in Ill
inois, Ohio and Kentucky. List your
lands now and get this chance of a big
adv. free. c.. G. CLAY,
Macon, Miss.
Office over M. e F. Bank,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Colonel James Gordon, Senator From
Mississippi.

When the Governor Of Mississ-
ippi appointed Col. James Gordon
to be United States Senator from
that commonwealth until a sue
cessOr to the late Senator McLau-
rim should be elected, he revealed
to the nation a venerable, vigOr-
Gus and versatile personality to
whom the capital and the country
have become endeared in the past
two months.
On Thursday the Eagle com
mented upon the election of a new
Senator by the Legislature of
Mississippi and on the versifca-
ton of Senator Gordon, while
temporarily occupying the chair
of the Vice President, at the lat
ter's invitation for a brief period.
The versification was clever,
pleasant and ingenious.
Yesterday this retiring Senator,
Colonel James Gordon, made a
farewell address to the Senate,
which has been carried by the
newspapers to-day and which will
bring him near to the heart of the
American people, and long and
"ondly keep him there. Colonel
Gordon came to the Senate as a
stranger but will leave it with
the affection of every member of
the body and with the best wish
es of all the people of the United
States.
He is an old man, nearly eigh-
ty He is a planter Or farmer by
occupation, a lawyer by professor
al rating and was a soldier Of the
Confederacy till he took the oath
of allegiance to the Union to
which he has been faithful ever
since. The country has for him a
regard now which atteSts his
worth and it's pride in him. He
has done something to reduce sec
tionalism, to augment nationality,
to forward good understanding
and to prove that the fairest
flowers in our national life are
those which Overgrow and blossom
on the other side of the wall of
party politics.
The Senate is better for Colonel
Gordon having been a member of
it. Colonel Gordon is probably
better for having been a member
of the Senate. Patriotism, affec-
ton, nationality, polite r finer
and broader and more civilized,
because of the revelation of his
personality to the world from the
Chamber of State-BrOOklyn Daily
Eagle, Feb. %.
CITY Pressing Club is the place to
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
UiNE OF TRAINS AT
Notice /!

All parties who left guns and pistols
with me to be repaired before the first
of January will please call and pay for
the same ond take it away.
@ L GpOCoAAAM
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11

City Pressing Club is the place to
have your clothes cleaned and pressed.
Also do dyeing satisfactory.
c.. L. SARsENT, Prep.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11
Interest to

Interest to Farmers.
% Acme Walking Cultivators SIP so
20 Riding 20 90
A few buggies and surries at cost.
MERIDIAN HARDWARE Co.
3-4-3m Meridian, Miss.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1910-03-11

Look for Combs Millinery Co.'S.
opening announcement in next issue.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
PERSON AIS.

Miss Leota Jester returned home
last evening from visit in Aurora.
Herbert McLaurey is visiting in the
city at the homo Of his brother, r. K.
McLaury.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. N. Farrell returned
TO their home in st. Louis last even
ing after a short visit at the home OF
Miss Ruth Castor in this city.
Mrs. G. F. Stultz will leave today lor
Bluff Park for weeks outing.
G.. b. Olson arrived home last even
ing to spend Sunday in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Jackson anu
daughter arrived In the city last even.
Ing to spend -ew days at the home
OF Mr., Jackson's parents in this city
Miss G. Knoppke of Peoria is visit
Ing in the city at the nome of Miss D.
Boilers.
Charles stepp and r. r. Carnes OF
Carthage are in the city today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
On Summer

When you would give most
anything for a glass of Ice
cold water, Is when you will
thank goodness you have an
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
CITY NEWS.
-Ewers' Grand Leader. hest 5c c,ys

-Ewers' Grand Leader. best SC cigar
Fly Knocker-Ant Chaser. VIZ
have them. Gate City Seed Co.
80 cents, round trip, to Quincy
on the Keokuk, every Thursday.
Al Opstelton cleans, presses ant
repairs clothes, 13 South Fourth
See the big line Of buggies sell
Ing at reduced prices at Sherwood's
Prices cut deeper than ever al
next week at the Bode-Larson clear
ance sale.
Don't miss the mortgage sale O
E. r. Crandall music stock, GOT MAR
street. The pianos will soon be gone
Come now.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
PERSONAL

Hon. C. A. Kennedy of Montrose
was in the city last evening.
Frank B. Singleton left last even
ing for Philadelphia in the interest of
the S. P. Pond company.
John Rogan, Sr., and John Rogan,
Jr., left last evening for Quincy where
they will spend today.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-17
CARD OF THANKS.

We wish to thank the Colfax Re
bekah lodge No. 4, the Sewing So
clety and members of the Westmin-
ster Presbyterian church, and many
kind friends and neighbors who as.
sisted us during our recent bereaye.
ment.
F. A. WEDLER AND CHILDREN
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-11-04
State as Hangnan.

The Board of Control has been notl-
fed that, under the new law, it woulo
have the task of executing in the state
penitentiary three negro prisoners
tried by district courts and sentenced
to be hanged. The prisoners are LINZ
Williams, Of Franklin parish, "ho
killed Moll;e Williams, and IS 10 oe
hanged Dec. 2; Alexander Lee, allat
Levi, from Plaquemine parish VINO
killed Joseph Smith, and IS to nenq
Dec. .; Hugh Connerly, Of Washing
ton parish, who killed Ed Pierce ane
is Ito hang Nov. Is. The prisoner
will be transferred to Baton Kaoag'
and executed behind the walls OF tn'
State Peni1entiary. The executor
on Nov. 25 will be the first TO TAX
Dlace.
The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-11-04
HIGH School Dots.

The usual monthly examinations
caused the pupils on College Hill to
be unusually busy last week. On &C.
count of the Teachers Institute being
held here both Friday and Saturday,
there was no school Friday. the
,ostponement of the society meetings
was made necessary by the sdismlssal
of school for the Institute Friday.
The High School, assisted by Miss
Graham, is endeavoring to raise
money for a library for the benefit OF
those pupils Of the high school. THESE
books are very necessary as they are
among those prescribed in the State
,ourc, OF, literature, for each and eV.
cry pupil Of the high school must reao
some of these books The ladies OF
the Civic Improvement League have
very kindly offered The high schoo
the privilege Of a booth in the fair tt
he held here on Nov. 18th, the pro
I ceeds of this booth to 60 tor tn
library.
Our football boys are patiently AM
perseveringly at practice and nue.
Improvement can be seen in the1
! work. The game between W1nnhel
md Alexandria will take place tc
morrow in Alexandria.
On every side nothing can be hear
Tut expressions of approval OF tn
way our school is being conducted D
/ Prof. Avery this year. We sincerel
|elieve that each and every one
\ the Bpatrons of the school are we
l pleased with the new faculty and ne
\ arrangements in generals