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The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21

miles an hour and three or four farm CTS scared to death.
 "Oh, no-I crawl along in onel" was the reply.
 The accent was on the crawl. and MT. Cranston smiled where he wanted to grit his teeth. The immediate re- suits of the antagonism were that Miss Winnie determined to speed whenever she went out on the road. just to be independent. and MT Grams ton determined to crawl along. just to show that her jibe had glanced off his armor. Out of two hundred guests at the big hotel, and out of twenty auto- fists these were the only two who felt quarrelsome. Other autoists would come in after spin and congratulate Miss Winnie on her nerve and daring. but MT. Cranston would sit there with reproof spread all over his face. Other ladies, old and young. who had been out motoring would come back to speak of him as a sensible young man for maintaining slow and easy gait, and a smile of contempt could be mo- ticed on a certain face for half an hour after.
 The best road from the hotel, and the one invariably taken by the auto fists, led to the west. Ten miles away, at the foot of long hill, stood the farmhouse of one MT. Jones. There were other farmhouses, but MT. Jones vas the farmer fated to become en- tangled in the affairs of the two young persons. One day as MT. Grams ton had started out for crawl" and as Miss Winnie had sped past him in her usual manner, almost ticking his wheels and looking straight. ahead, Farmer Jones held up his hand for the "crawler" to stop and then said:
 Does 1t happen that you know that girl who went by here like streak of lightning a few minits ago?"
 "Why, yes. She is stopping at the Hill Top"
 Say, now she ought to be sent to jail! Almost every day she comes along here on the whizz and it's enough to raise your hair She's killed three chickens, two geese and a turkey. She's knocked down a calf and throwed a hog over the fence, and just now the wind of her machine blew my hat of. You tell her that she's got to stop it."
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
IMPOSED ON THE LANDLORD
Favored Guest Was Only Lieutenant Governor, Not Captain of the
 Baseball Team.

l had registered at a village inn on Long Island to stay over night, when the landlord came out to me on the veranda and said:
 ''I hope you won't be offended, si. but can you identify yourself as the man you claim to be-"
 I showed him a number of lette, that happened to have in my pocket, and satisfied him in other ways, and then he said:
 Yes, sir, I was taken iu and done for three weeks ago, and don't pro- pose to have 1t happen again. A char came here slinging on heap of style and some of our folks said he mus. be captain of baseball team. I didn'. want to ask him about it, but I gave him the bridal chamber, a table to himself, and h1d extra things cooked every meal. I took New York daily on purpose for him to read, End I sent up there for Holsters and other things, and I just spread myself to make his stay pleasant"
 And wasn't he grateful?" asked.
 Well, I don't know about that part of it."
 Then there was another part?"
 You bet there was. When he got ready to go I shaved his bill down, took him to the depot for nothing, and two hours later found out that instead of being captain of the baseball team he was only the lieutenant governor of the state. You seem to be all right, and I guess you are, but they don't play that trick on me again. n."-Cincin- pati Enquirer.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
How Matches Are Made.

Certain kinds of matches are shaved with the grain from sawed blocks; others are cut both ways by saws. In still further varieties the blocks are boiled to make them cut easily. By some machines a boiled or steamed log is revolved on it's own axis. and a shaver the thickness of a match Is cut round and round. This shaving is at the same time cut into lengths and split into match sticks. It may be said that there is hardly limit to the varieties of methods employed
 Round matches are made by forcing them through dies.-Harper's Weekly
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
LADS OF AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND.
Scotch Boys Reminded n Traveller of
 American Youngsters.

American Youngsters.
 The carriers wagOnette was ap- preaching. The grand big horse, MT. Hendry. himself a small, white-haired, apple-cheeked man, with a keen. twin kling light in his eyes, and the load of women, babies and boys which filled every part of the vehicle, made pie ture of rustic locomotion, and there was fine display of courtesy when the boys jumped out to walk, q writer in Scribner's says. The mothers crowded close together and the babies were al- lowed to sit on our knees. English country boys. though I like them well enough, do not remind me of American boys; but Scotch boys, especially the barefoot village boys of Ayrshire, re- minded me individually of this, and the other companion of my youth. The eye which never loses sight of yours, the bare, free brow, the freckles, the plucky mouth, the engaging air of free dom and enterprise and humor, in more than one Ayrshire face, brought up the image of a little group of schoolmates now scattered from Pennsylvania to New Mexico.
 The Scotch boys whom I've met on roads and hillsides have always been about some business of their own and very much interested in its outcome evidently had something on their minds, some adventure in hand. They were hurrying to some rendezvous or wear fly returning with jars and cans full of tadpoles or with strings of fish or combs of wild honey.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
chlIdren JoIned In Wedlock.

Briton Ferry. in Glamorganshire. England. claims to hold the record for juvenility in marriage. Quite recently man of fourteen years married a woman of less than thirteen, and now @ youth of twenty-six has married a wife of twelve and a half. She went on her honeymoon in a short frock and travelled at half farei
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
History Rewritten.

With much reluctance King George III. had decided to let his American colonies go.
 Mark my words. though" he said, they'll be governed some day by monarch ten times as absolute and despotic as I am!"
 If any doubt exists that his Britain nic majesty had the spirit of prophecy upon him. look at MT. Aldrich.-Chica- go Tribune.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
UnansWerable.

Ethel had been visiting at a neigh. bor's.
 T hope you didn't take a second piece of cake, Ethel?" said her mother.
 Yes, I did, mother" replied the child. You told me never to contra dict and the lady said I know you'll have another piece of cake;' so what could I say?"-Yonkers Statesman.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
Handicapped.

"Yes," said the man from St. Louis. I am very fond of green peas. but I can't eat them"
 "Why not?" queried the Chicago man who was dining at the same table.
 Because" explained the other, T cant keep 'em on my knife"
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
Looking for Bargains.

Patience-A municipal drug store has been established in St. Peters burg, where things are supplied at about 20 per cent. less than in the other pharmacies.
 Patrice-I wish they'd have such stores in this country. I'd buy all my stamps there.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
Ills Eye for. Business.

Ashley-I see that Lawyer Black will accept no client who is not merchant tailor.
 seymour-Isn't that rather strange procedure?
 Ashley-Not in reality. Black claims he gets the most business from mer- chant taflors because they have new suits to try every day.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
The Usual Way.

Gladys has tilted young Jorkins. yet when they were first engaged she used to say he was the star of her ex- istence."
 Does he carry pistol?"
 "T don't know. Why?"
 Because if he does Gladys had bet ter look out that he doesn't prove to be shooting star"
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21
"come Across"

Do these Englishmen understand American slang?"
 Some of them do. Why?"
 My daughter is to be married in London and the duke has just cabled me to come across" "Well?"
 Docs he want me or my wad?"
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21

Mrs. Russell Sage has offered half million dollars to the American Bible Society if an equal amount can be raised The time limit on this offer ex- pires on the last day of the present year.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21

Our idea of successful salesman Is one who can persuade people to want what he wants them to want.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21

Private Muldoon-I was absent this mornin' at roll-call.
 Sergeant Doolan-Well, me man, mkt toime you're absinu at roll-can be sure and say you're absint whin you hear your name called.
The Holbrook news., 1910-10-21

"As Rich as the President" John Tyler had a plantation and . sufficient. though not large. bank ac- count.-New York World
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
The Great American Can.

To the Malay peninsula every year
60 about 1900, 900 o%ne-gallon tin cans,
containing American petroleum. Thou
sands of the cans are used as water
buckets. The interior of a Malar, a
Tamil. or a Chinese home contains
American tin cans of all sizes and
shapes, put to some useful purpose.
Sleeves are made by puncturing holes.
Thousands of dust pans are made
from the cans by removing one side.
curying two sides and attaching a
large wooden handle. Baking and
cooking utensils of all kinds are also
skilfully manufactured from them and
may be seer in thousands of homes.
For storing articles of food against
ant onslaughts the tin a is a bles-
sing Hundreds of men are engaged
in manufacturing tin cans into fun
neis, pepper and salt casters, cocoanut
and nutmeg graters, lamps, biscuit
tins, tea and coffee pots, ladies', mugs,
cake patties, Chinese pipes, oil pumps,
money boxes and the framework for
false teeth.
So necessary has the American tin
can become to these people that to be
deprived of Its manifold uses would
cause a real hardship.-Consul-Gen-
eral Du Bots, Singapore.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28

First Grade-Julius Atkinson, Robert
Bonner, George Cunningham. Holden
Kincannon. Meadford Leake. Nelson
Lumpkln, Will Norton Robins, Horas !
Wilson. Myrtle May Hall, Olivia 1 ~.
Erin Mitts. Ruby May Porter. J.nss
Strain, Annie Mavis Taylor, Annie
Belle Weaver.
Second Grade-John Keyes. Saviile
Clark, Stafford Reeves, Holditch Gary.
Elaine Francis. Needham Howard,
James Hall, Sam Hutchinson. Ina
Paulk. Ruby Tho mas, Dabney Ledya,d,
Gertrude Wallace. Madie Ford, Johnnie
May Guthrie. Shirley Leake, Douglas
Trapp. Baskin Wright. John Wilson.
Third Grade-Blanche Boggan. Kath-
crime Finley. Leonard Godsey. Lloyd
Haygood. Alphonso Hambrick. Albert
Hambrick. Robert Kinds, Coleman
Hamilton, Lizzie Dee naygood, Daisy
Reyes, Waldo Long, Horton Matthews,
Edith Perkins, Ruth Allen Rogers,
Walter Reeves, Cecil Strain, Cary
Sigman, Frank Thomas. Russell Will
son. John Allen Weaver. Mary Bonner
Topp. Vernon Spreading.
Fourth Grade-Annie May Kincan-
non, Murphy Thomas, Springfield
Murff, John Thompson.
Fifth Grade-Lucile Harrison, Re-
genia Trapp, Margaret Long. Joe Bog
gan, Rebeccah Wilson, Prudence Stone,
Miriam Azwell, Georgia Weaver, Van
Rogers, Elizabeth Robins. Nell Kim
cannon, Vera Francis.
Sixth Grade-Annie Stark, Blanch
Paulk, Oliver Kincannon, Bates Kinds,
Turner Clark, Charles Curry.
Seventh Grade Elizabeth Topp.
Ninth Grade-Bessie Allen.
D. G. Langston, Supt.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
Election Officers.

W., the Commissioners of Election
in and for Lee county, Miss. hereby
appoint and designate the qualified
electors named below to hold the cleo
ton at the several election precincts Of
Lee county for a Congressman from
the First Congressional District of Mis-
sissippi for the CID G ongress, and for
the amendments which have been sub
mitted to the people on resolutions
passed by the Legislature of the State
of Mississippi at its session of 1910,
amending the Constitution of the State
of Mississippi as designated in said
resolutions. Said election to be held
on Tuesday after the first Monday in
November, the same being the 9th day
of November, 1910, to-wit:
Tupelo-E M Witherspoon, ticket
commissioner; W F Sparks, d 7 Full
ton. judges; R F Robertson. peace
officer
Belden-J C Barnes. 7 C; " G Burt,
S H Thomson, j; w Is Springer, P 0.
Mooresville-C w Austin. T C; ] u
McFerrin, L M Helms, j; Will Austin,
P O.
Gilvo-W A Gregory. T C; A C
Jones, J Z Gunter, j; F E Ballard,PO o.
Eggville--G w Patton, T C; j B
Hester, l. J Calston, j; J Culver,
Auhurn--P 8 Pound, TC; A Doty,
H S Lamb, J; j B Morgan, Pc.
Verona-C G Armstrong, c.; Dick
Wharton, J D Gregory, j; J r Bunch,
2 O.
PIantersville-J NJ Gullett. &c: w
w Wheeler, E B Marry. j. NJ Jones,
P O.
Pa!metto-A S Tankersly. TIC; C W
Malone, G W Wardiow, ~ S Howard,
Nettleton-J H Dabhs, T G; L J
Trapp. T B Smith, j; w r D Hairs
ton, P O..
Shannon-J B Abernethy, T G; d B
McGaughy. W E Riley. ); W Bar
nett, P O.
Asenshurg- Frank Monaghan. T C:
L D Coggins. G Edwards, ); &c
Adams. Pc.
Eucaba-W S Young, T C; SPierce,
J E Butler. J;"N Lyle. PsO
pichmond-Thos Harris, I c; LG
Akors, J F sAiddy. l;J Il Lesley, P O..
Baldwin Precinct-Henry Tison.T G;
j G Bell, ] S Bedford, j; r M Majers.
P @.
Guntown Precinct-C Y Houston, T
C; Robt GambreI, J D Cox, J;J c Nc
Carthy, T 0.
Corona Precinct-B F Smith, T c; S
" Stokes, ] H Wade, J; W L Parker,
Saltillo-P G Wesson, T G; D w
| Lynn, Will Tanner, J;WJ Wade. O.
Smiths Store-C E Miller, &c; w
C Tanner. w E Miller, j; W H Payne,
P O.
Unity-W J Lackey. T C; u VI Gar
ner, Nish Steavens. jill Davidson,
P ..
Davis,sStore-L S Livingston, T c;
Phillips, Chester Stands, j; R
Frost, PO
Bissell Precinct-N. L. Witcher, T.
e.. A. J. Kennedy, Geo. Il. Simmons,
j.; J.. M. Archer, p. 0.
Done at Tupelo, Miss. sthis the Sd
day OF October, 1910.
Signed: ). X. Frazer,
n. Z Porter,
,Jno. T.. BrySOn
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
VERY COOLING TO THINK OF
Artificial Ice Is Purer and Can Be Sold
Cheaper Than Natural
Product.

No longer are dealers and users OF
ice compelled to stand sentinel over
nature, with all her vagaries, and
wait for ice to be frozen for them.
Only a few years ago ice was gath
cred from anywhere and everywhere,
and none could guess what sort OF
refuse contaminated the waters, riv-
ers, canals, ponds and pools where It,
was gathered. No longer does the
citizen in the midst of a mild winter
take alarm at the prospect OF no ice
or ice at an almost prohibitive price
on account of its scarcity. The man.
ufactured ice is purer than that OF
nature, without flaw or blowhole, free
from aGmixture of snow and there
fore more lasting. Artificial ice is
one of the great discoveries of the
last few years and has been reduced
to such system that it can be sold
at a good profit cheaper than that
which was formerly sawed out, loaded
in vehicles, hauled to railrt ad or
teamer landing and shipped by rail
or by sea to the vast and ugly storage
houses, where it was taken 0
masses of sawdust as it vas sold.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
Tax Collectors N0tice.

Notice is hereby given that I will be
at the following precincts on the fol.
| lowing named days for the purpose Of
Collecting Taxes Owing to the change
IN the time OF holding the Circuit and
Chancery Courts being made this year.
@,.ich makes these courts come during
the tax collecting period. my time il
very limited and has necessitated my
which should have a whole day. So it
will be necessary for all parties who
desire to pay to he on hand promptly:
Macedonia, Thursday, October 81.
Forenoon.
Smiths Store, Thursday, October ~.
Afternoon.
Corona, Friday, October %.
Guntown. Saturday, October %.
Unity. Monday, October 81. Fore
noon.
Eggville. Monday, October 81. At
terno0n.
Mooresvil!e, Tuesday. November l.
Forenoon.
Eucaba, Tuesday, November ]. AT
ternoOn.
Richmond. Wednesday, November 2.
Forenoon.
Petersburg, Wednesday, November
2. Afternoon.
Nettleton. Thursday. November 8.
Shannon. Friday, November 4.
Verona, Saturday, November 5. Fore
noon.
Plantersville, Saturday, November 5.
Afternoon.
Belden. Thursday, November 10.
Forenoon.
Bissell, Thursday. November 10. At
ternoon.
Baldwin, Friday, November II.
Saltillo, Saturday. November IL.
Given under my hand this October
19, 1910. 0. T. TRAP,
Tax Collector of Lee Co., Miss.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
Non-R Resident Notice.

State Of Mississippi-No. 1855.
To A. D. Herndon, at Picnic rostoffice.
FLORIDA, and all unknown parties claiming any
interest in one acre in the Sc corner Of the
Sc. IA Of Section 10 and TT acres off the
North side Of the NE. Ia Of Section IS. all
in Township 10, Ranse 6, in Lee county, Mis-
sissippi, defendants:
Chancery Cou.t Of the county Of Lee, in said
State, at Rales, on the second Monday Of De
cember, A. D. 1910, to defend the suit in said
court Of Wesley Webb, wherein you are de-
PENDANTS.
This 18th day Of October, A. D. 1910
NORBN JONES. clexk.
c. ?. Lop&. Solicitor for complainant. 30-3t
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
Notice..

,Sfate OF Mississippi. County of Lee
Board . Supervisors, October Term,
1910.
To all persons owning or claiming any
interest in lands situated IN YJnaba
Creek Bottom, Lac county. Miss.
You are hereby notified that on Sep
temher the 9Th. 1910, q petition was
filed by j. T. Feweil, e. al, asking the
Board of Supervisors to cause a sur
yev Of the overflowed and swamp lands
in Yonaba Creek Bottom in Lee county,
Miss , for The purpose of having same
declared into Lower Yonaba Swamp
Land District. under and by virtue of a
provision of Sections 371 to 39l, inclu-
sive, of the Code of 1906, and all
amendments thereto; and that, on the
hearing Of said petition. j. I. Fewell,
j. S. Parks and D. r. Woods were
bound as Commissioners. who. having
employed w. A. Dozier. Surveyor,
caused a survey Of said overflowed and
smamp lands TO be made, which is now
on file with'the Board of Supervisors,
showing the overflowed swamp lands
in said Yonaba Creek Bottom.
You are notified to appear before the
Board of Supervisors
ON TUESDAY NOV. STH. 1910.
at the Court House in Tupelo, Missis-
sinpi, and then and there show cause
why, ii any you can, said petition Of
j.. T. Fewel, ct al, should not be
granted, and that the lands SO survey
ed, plated and mapped By the said
w. A. Dozier, be formally organized
and declared as Lower Yonaba Swamp
Lard District
Given under my hand this the 9Th
day Of October. 1870
28-4t. N0RBiN JONES. Clerk.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
WASH FOUR TIMES 4 YEAR
Old Dutch Custom Of Quarterly Clothes
Washing Required Immense
Quantities Of Linen.

Every n has heard Of the German
and Dutch method of accommodating
soiled clothes and Of having q washday
only two or three times a year.. Not
every one realizes, perhaps, that the
custom was brought over to this coun-
try from Holland and that the Dutch
settlers long continued its practise. In
these days Of ever-ready laundry, It
is strange to read of the laborious
period which camc to our New AM
sterdam ancestors four times a year.
Helen Evertson Smith tells about 1t IN
Colonial Days and Ways"
The custom of quarterly clothes
washing was maintained n~otwithstand-
ing our GUNNER heats and the Inn
mense quantities of clothes necessary
to keep up the state of cleanliness re-
CURED by Dutch instincts. A New
Englander who had married a citizen
of New York writes, in 1850, OF hi
practise which was undoubtedly
strange to her.
Grandmother Blum Is so deep In
her quarterly wash this Weeke, that
she has time only to send her love.
The washing was done in an out
house called the bleeckeryen, where
the water was boiled in immense ket-
ties, and all the other processes of the
laundry work carried on. The work
required was not less that a week. fire.
Quently two weeks.
During the time preceding this
cruelty hard labor, the soiled clothes
were accumulated in very large hamp-
ers of open b~asketwork. This GUS
tom originated the necessity for the
great stores of linen with which every
bride was provided.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
The Wonders About Us.

Let not care and humdrum deaden
lie TO the wonders and mysteries amid
which we live. nor to the splendors
and glorfes. We need not translate
ourselves in imagination to some 9th
err sphere or state of being to find the
marvellous, the divine, the transcend
ent; we need not postpone our day
OF wonder and appreciation to some
future time and condition. The true
inwardness OF this gross visible world
hanging like an apple On the bough
OF the great cosmic tree, and swelling
with all the juices and p~otencies of
life. tr~anscends anything we have
dreamed of superterrestrial abodes.-
John Burroughs.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
To the Taxpayers Of the City Of.
TuUelO. MiSSiSSiDDi:

You will take notice that at an adjourned
regular meeting Of the Mayor and Board of
Aldermen of the City of Tupelo, Miss, to be
held at the Mayors office in said city at 7:30
o'clock p. M, on Friday, October %, 1910.
the said Mayor and Board of Aldermen will
examine the real and personal assessment rolls
ef the city and will make such increases and
REDUCTIONS IN the valuation Of the property in
said city. as in the judgment Of the Mayor and
Board a Aldermen is right and just.
This October IL, 1910.
D. W. ROBINS. Mayor.
J.. N. TRIcE, Clerk,
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
Curious Seismic Phenomenon.

According to a Seville report, a curl
GUS seismic phenomenon was recently
observed near Cantillana at a place
caller Mesa Redonda. From ten in
the morning until moo stones lying
on the ground at certain spots within
a circumference of over 500 yards
were torn from the ground and hurled
into the air. and at the same time
subterranean noises were heard.
Traces of an extinct volcano are Wis,
lille at the spot, and It is believed
That q new crater is being formed.
The Tupelo journal., 1910-10-28
To Make a Home.

what do you include when you think
of housekeeping? If you take it to
mean merely the work Of the house
: hich could be accomplished by a
hired servant. then perhaps it does not
matter that you should miss such
things as opportunity for thought,
daily reading, etc.. says Home Notes.
But if you make housekeeping mean
bome-making and housekeeping, the
formation of a home into a center for
the life of the soul and spirit as we'll
as of the body, then you must cdlti-
yste your mind, not keep 1t always to
the level Of the mundane things. Of
lie.