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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-03-04

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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1911-03-04

SATURDAY, MARCH i 1910
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
County News.
Interesting Letters from Our
Regular Correspondents. e
RsdLtck

We are sorry to report little
Louis Ross on the sick list.
Miss Corinne Singleterry of I'm
ion Church is visiting her aunt,
Mrs. w. P. Sanders.
Capt Spencer attended the Sun
day School Convention at Mizpah
Sunday.
Miss Catherine KiIlingsworth
spent last week at the Ranch.
We are sorry, indeed, to report
Mrs. S. A. Barnes still quite sick,
though her temperature is Is be-
low 100.
Mrs. c. L. Braithwaite of Conn
visited her niece, Mrs. S. A.
Barnes, at Red Lick Sunday.
There was a nice sized crowd at
Rrsyer meeting Sunday that lis
tened attentlvely to a splendid lee
ture delivered by Mr.. E. G.. Wade.
Cane Ridge protracted meeting
commences Sunday.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Mr. Knapp's Visit.

The visit to this place recently
of Mr.. Bradford Knapp, who sue
ceeds his father, DR.. S. A. Knapp,
as head of the U. S. Farm Demon
stration Work, may mean a great
deal for Claiborne county and Mis-.
sissippi generally. Mr.. Knapp ex-
pressed himself as just as much IN
terested in the development OF
farming and stock-raislng in the
south as was his father, and the
Reveille would not be surprised II
Mr.. Knapp's department has an
expert live. stock man in this state
before many months have elapsed
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Survivors ot cIaiborne duards.

The following are the survivors
of the old claiborne Guards. !"
Company OK" 18th Miss. Vol.
Infty., so far as known, so years
after being mustered into state ser
vice, 23rd March, 1861. As many
as $50 or 100 men belonged to the
company during the war:
John D. Bridger.
William A. Calender.
H. Melvin Colson.
William P. Coen.
John R. Deering.
S. w. Harland.
L. Barnes Harland.
Andrew Jackson Lewis.
Cornelius R. Nesmith.
George B. Nelson.
William Neal.
Robert A. Owen.
Andrew ]. Sewer.
Stephen Thrasher.
I name them alphabetically, let
none dare name them otherwise.
R. A, OWEN.
August Ist, 1911.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Money in Fruit.

This is a plain story of how a
man and his bride, both of them
reared in the city and ignorant of
life in the country, went to the
Ozark hills in Arkansas and, with
out money at the start, made 500, :
900 in fifteen years upon farm
which they carved out of the pri-
meval forest. The land upon which
they did this was rough and so
covered with sharp-edged stones
that in the whole length and
breadth OF it there was not a spot
where the foot might step and not
touch rock. 1t was such a wild,
unpromising bit of hillside that the
people of the village of Decatur,
a mile away, took pity upon the
young couple from the city and in
kindness went to them and told
them they would starve trying to
raise a crop there. To-day this
couple own the best fruit farm in
Northwestern Arkansas, and last
year they cleared $4,000 upon it.
Their fruit farm is worth SIoo an
acre.
When E. N. Plank aud his bride
went to the Ozark hills, he was in
search of health, not money, but
he found both. He says now that
it was lucky for him that work in
the city broke his health, other
wise he would yet be earning only
a moderate salary, living in a fat
and worrying to get aIong.-Com
mercial. Appeal.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
The Democratic Leader.

Officially, the Democratic leader
of the Senate is Thomas S. Martin
of Virginia; actually, John Sharp
Williams of Mississippi is the SEN
ator who dominates his party. He
does it by virtue of scholarship,
alertness, pugnacity, and the very
important quality of excellence in
rough-and-tumble debate. Bailey
of Texas dreamed that be would
be leader; the realization that his
fellow Democrats distrust his mo-
tives and affiliations is what caused
his sudden resignation last March,
a hasty act which he was persuaded
to undo, not by Democrats, but by
the exertions of such StandPat Re
publicans as Vice President Sher.
man. In four months of debate
Senator Williams has made Bar
ley's preteusions absurd. In the
reciprocity vote, thirty-one Demo
Gratis followed Williams; those who
followed Bailey were exactly two
The country is in debt to Missis
sippi for John sharp Williams
Golfers Weekly.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Keeanton

The Baptist meeting begun here
on Sunday, Aug. I3th, and contin-
ued through Thursday. The preach
ing, which was done by Rev. W..
+. Farr, was of the highest type.
Misses Ettye Mae and Mary
Goodrum of Ingleside were the
charming guests Of Misses Ora and
Rosa Lee Foster recently.
Miss Sara Gulledge of Goodman,
one of our former teachers, has
been a pleasant visitor in this. COM
munity for the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. B. Fisher Of
Inverness are welcome visitors in
this Community.
Misses Julia and Edith Luster
recently returned from an extended
visit to friends and relatives at
Brandywine and Port GIBSON.
Miss Mary Crawford attended
the Teachers Institute in Port
Gibson.
Miss Perla Williams of Herman
vile is the guest of her cousin,
Miss Rosa Lee Foster.
Mr.. Joseph Jones of Hermanville
has been visiting at the home OF
Mr.. ]. w. Foster for the past week
Mr.. Robert Lee Horton recently
returned from Port Gibson where
he visited his parents.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Wants History Excluded.
The Memphis News -scimitar

The Memphis News -Scimitar of
Aug. 21st, says:
"Because it is said to contain
sIanderous reference to the South
ern soldiers in the Civil War, a
determined.efort is being made by
members of the Confederate His
torical Association, of Memphis,
to have a certain history of the
United States barred from all
Southern schools and colleges. A
committee has begun an investiga-
ton, which is not only directed
against this one history, but all
other histories that do not speak of
the Confederate forces with proper
respect.
cat a meeting of the association
Saturday night attention of the To-
cal veterans was called by Gen.
Edward Bourne to the report that
this particular history makes refer
ence to the South in terms which
makes it unfit for use in Southern
schools. Among other things, i
lis said, the Southern soldiers are
referred to as rebels and TRAITORS.
Gen. Bourne says that he under
stands the history is being used a
the University Of Tennessee and
number of other schools ia th'
South p
"Judge |. P. Young uttered
strong protest against the use 0
the offensive text book in Southern
schools, and urged that steps i'm
mediately be taken to have it sup
pressed if possible. Members Q
the Daughters of the Confederac
will be asked to cooperate wit
the veterans.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
The Man YIth a crouch.

Fault is the only thing that can
be found whether it exists or not.
The fault-6nder looks through
colored spectacles. The defect is
in his vision.
If anticipation did not 60 more
than halfway to meet troubles,
most of them would miss their way
and never get near us.
The man who thinks the world
is full of people and kindly blessing,
is far richer than he who thinks
the contrary. Each mind peoples
the world for itself. One man lives
in a world peopled with princes of
the royal blood, another in world
of paupers and priyation. 1t is the
same world, except for viewpoint,
In that you have your choice.
There are innumerable hooks
and recesses in our neighbors' lives
which our understanding cannot
penetrate. We can fill these with
fearful goblins, leering In the dark,
or we can fill them with smiling
angels.
The choice is yours.
But if you clog your own soul
with self and Shut out of it the
genial sunshine Of human sympa-
thy, and so have no light and JOY
to project into the shadows, you
must put up with the gloom and
the goblins.
"As man tllinketh in his heart,
so he is. +" That's scripture.
As he seeth in his mind. so is the
whole world about him. That's
the same thing in different words.
Those whom you distrust be-
come really untrustworthy so far
as you are concerned. They in
stinctively distrust you in turn,
and men who distrust you, though
honest in general, cannot be ex-
.5 - Io,f .-,ft1, ~. v,,;tI o.,a,,
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Farm Values.

According to bulletin just IS
sued by the census Office, the total
value of farm land and buildings
in Mississippi was given in 1910
as $3.50, 2o5, 900, as against SI52,-
oo7, 900 in 1900, an increase OF
$rz8 ,288, 900, or II7 per cent.
The total value OF all farm land
alone was reported in 1910 as
$3.50, $4,000, as compared with
STA, ,857, 900 in 1900, a gain Of
sI3s,858,ooo, or I18 per cent.
The total value of all farm build
ings alone was given in 1910 as
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
HEAVY RAIN.

One of the heaviest rains ever
seen here fell Tuesday morning.
It lasted for about al hour, q
small streams were swollen 70 4
record-breaking depth. Tns g
for the day was four inches. WhN
the down-pour was not gene1'4
several portions of the county sni
fered from its effects.
Cotton planters are feeling tbs
( fleets of the continued rains, and,
unless there is a cessation very
soon. many bolls will rot on the
stalks.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
KILLS LION WITH KNEE.

Brownsville, Tex, Aug. 2f.-
News reached here yesterday that
Juan Morales, Spanish farmer,
living seven miles out of town,
with a Jackknife as his only weap-
on, killed mountain lion which
had killed one of his children in
their home, bound up his arm,
which the lion had lacerated and
crushed. in the fight, and walked
into town where surgeons say he
must sacrifice his arm.
Morales three year-old boy,
thinking the lion was dog, had
called it into the house and started
to pet it when the animal attacked
the child. The screams brought
the father from his field, but the
babe which had ATTEMPTED to pet
the beast had been killed before
Morales arrived.
The lion instantly left its prey
and in its first leap caught Morales
right arm in its Jaws and crushed
lit. He worked his left arm free,
however, and succeeded in stabbing
the beast to death after desperate
struggle.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
CONTRACT LET.
rIain Fair Building to be Erected
at Once.

rlain Fair Building to be Erected
at Once.
The committee appointed to let
the contract for the main, or agri-
cultural, building of the Claiborne
County Fair completed its work
Monday. The building will be a
single story structure, 42xIoo feet
with 600 feet of 4-foot shelving. It
will be we'll lighted and ventilated,
and will cost about $500. Work
is TO begin as soon as possible and
to be completed by Oct. 5th.
Ample shed room for stock and
tents will be supplied to accommo-
date all of the exhibits.
Prospects for a big fair are very
bright. In fact, it will far excel
the fair of last year, and will last
three days.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Hogs Bring Good Price.

The Natchez Packing Plant IS
quoting choice corn fed hogs this
week as high as 738 cents. The
lowest quotation is 5A cents. The
farmer who has raised 40 or SO
porkers for sale this year will have
no trouble disposlng of them at a
fancy price.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
BoIls Punctured.

Several planters who have care
fully examined their cotton find
that many bolls are weevil pune
tured, and when they open there
will be only one or two locks to
these bolls. How great this dam
age is cannot be told until the cot
ton opens, but ii is going to be
much greater than the average
farmer has any ideaH
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
installation Services.

The colored Baptists Of Fort
Gibson will install their new pas
tor, Rev. Z. L. Blackstone, next
sunday. The services will last
practically the entire day, and will
be participated in by all denomi-
nations. There will be Methodist,
Christian and Baptist speakers,
and the installation sermon will be
preached by Rev. R. w. Demas oi
Gloster. Addresses will be deliv-
cred by Postmaster Richardson, ]
w. Lee, Revs. K. R. Brown, S.
L. Dobbins and M. c. Wright
and a sermon at night by the in.
coming pastor. Special music ha'
been arranged fortthe occasion.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
rIrs. rIartha Roy rs.

On Monday, Aug. 18th, the
body of Mrs. Martha Rogers was
laid to rest in the Hedrick ceme-
terry, near Martin, Miss. She died
in Jackson where she had gone to
undergo a surgical operation.
Mrs. Rogers leaves a husband
and four children, three little girls
and one little boys and a numbel
| Of relatives and friends to mourn
their loss.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
oiIk-Making.

There is no question that. silk
can be successfully made in this
section. Recently Mr.. Max AbFa-
ham, a merchant Of HermanYille,
had on display at the. Mississippi
Southern Bank a number of CO.
coons made by silk-worms raised
by him. These cocoons are said
by those who know to be made OF
a fine grade of silk. The silk worm
feeds on mulberry leaves, of which
there is an abundance in this coun-
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Flowing Up the Peanut Crop.

The incessant five weeks rains
of Iune and July compelled many
farmers to plow up their peanut
crop and plant to Mexican June
corn. The stands were bad in
many fields, and the field mice and
chipmunks have begun their raw
ages on the good stands.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
TopREY. TIE FLoATER.


w. H. Torrey was elected hoater
representative from Jefferson and
Claiborne counties at the primary
Tuesday.
Jefferson furnished the candidate
for this office. while Claiborne. fur
nished the senatorial candidate for
the two counties, and he was only
voted for by that'county, we hav-
lug nominated the senator at the
FIRST primary
Mr.. TorreS is doubly Interested
in Claiherne coupty His first in
terest developed when he married
Claiborne girl, Miss Wary Hedrick
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24

$79, $4,000, as against S36,I5o, 900
in 1900, an increase of $42,43o, 90,
or III per cent.
The reported value of farm i'm
plements and machinery was SI6,-
100000 in 1910, as against $9,-
$4,000 in 1900, gain of $780,
900, or rs per cent.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
The 1910 AgricuI,uraI Year Book

The seventeenth volume (I9Io)
of the year book OF the Department
of Agriculture has just been issued
from the government printing Of
fee. It contains the Secretary OF
Agriculture report, as required by
law, and gives the general report
of the operations of the depart
ment.
Twenty-eight articles are con-
tributed by experts in their lines
and concerning the agricultural
and urban population and the con-
sumers of foodstuffs Of the nation
Forty-nine fuIl-page illustrations.
of which eight are colored ane
thirty-one are text figures.
A quota Of the volume IS al
lowed representatives, senators anc
delegates in congress and secre
tary of agriculture for distribution
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Rev. j W. MeLaurin. Lhe vel

Rev. J. w. McLaurin, the we'll
known Methodist minister who died
at MonteagIe about two weeks ago,
left an estate valued at $40, 900 or
$50, 900. SIS, 900 Of which he left
to the Mississippi Charity Hospital
to be erected at Jackson. Mr.. Nc
Laurin became wealthy by invest
ing in lands around Jackson before
that city began to grow.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Americas public Schools.


In letter to the Times-Demo-
crat, Frederic j -Haskin says:
"Fully three-fourths of the boys
and girls of the United States end
their education in the common or
elementary schools; consequently,
the common schools constitute the
most important department of the
national educational system. That
this is fully recognized by the ma
ton itself is evidenced by the e.
normoas expenditure for the sup
port of these schools. Nearly 800,
600 buildings are now being util-
lied to accommodate the IS. 900, 900
pupils enrolled in the public schools
and the valuation Of these build
ings approximates $4,000, ,ooo. 900.
The expenditure for the support Of
all these schools very. nearly reached
half billion last year, which was
equivalent to an expenditure of SCI
for each pupil.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24
Going to the Cities.

Preliminary statistics showing
the consistent aud constant city
ward movement of the white and
negro population of the nine south
ern cotton states, based upon the
returns for the census of 1910,
1900, and 1890, are contained in a
comparative statement prepared
under the supervision Of Mr.. Will
liam c. Hunt, chief staustician for
population, in the Bureau of the
Census. The figures are prelimi-
nary and subject to necessary re-
vision later, but it is believed that
there will be no material change
in the percentages stated.
The nine cotton states concerned
are: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
North Carouna, south Carolina,
and Tennessee.
1t appears that the changes IN
the proportion of the total negro
population of these states living IN
the cities have been about the same
as those IN the proportion OF the
total white who live in cities. Both
white and negro show decided
movement toward the city. From
city proportion of II.6 per cent
in 1890 the whites have increased
to 1879 per cent in 1910. During
the same period the urban proper
ton of negroes increased from II.e
to I7.7 per cent.
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24

Hattiesburg has been designated
for the establishment of another
postal savings bank for Mississip-
The Port Gibson reveille., 1911-08-24

Rabbits and Bugs Destroying the
Sofa Bean.

It's said that rabbits and bugs
are destroying the Sofa bean. In
Iune one farmer had a beautiful
stand of Sofa bean, now he has
only a dozen plants left on the
acre.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-22
STREAM DRIED UP.
Effects of Drought In FrcdericksIurg.
Several Cases of Typhoid
lSpcciaI to The Times Dispatch.

Especial to The Times DISPATCH
Fredericksburg. Va. July al.-Ow-
ing 10 the drought the stream known
as Hazel Run, from which the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
railroad obtains its water :uppiy for
It's locomotives passing this ci.y, has
dried up, the railroad company having
been compelled to enter into I. cor
tract with the city of Fredericksburc
for furnishing city water for its To-
comotives temporarily.
Several cases OF typhoid fever hav-
ing developed here. DR.. ]. y. Barney.
the health officer sent samples CT wa
ter OF the city water works. Poplar
Spring water supply and other sources.
to Dr. Ferguson. the State bacterioIo-
Gist, for analysis. Reports have been
received so far on the city water. Pop
lar Spring and one other water which
We're pronounced to be excellent and
free from all germs.
The Fredericksburg Lumber Com
pany has purchased of the estate o.
the late DR. DeJarnette. in Spo.s-l-
vania county. a large tract OF timber
land of l69 acres on which there is a
large quantity of very fine timber
The infant son of Mr.. ami Mrs. r.
Vivian Turner. OF King George county,
was christened at the Mary Washing
ton Hospital in this city Ivy Rev IT,
II. Barber Mrs. Z. J. Smith sSood as
his godmother' and Dr. c. Mason S,nitl
S godfather. He was named Richard
Nelson Turner.
The Piedmont Assembly will open its
sessions near Gordonsville. in Orange
county. July 81 and continue to An
gust 6. Services Will be held each
day. and among the addresses viii be
one on Saturday night, July 80. by
Rev. p. A Cave, of Bowling Green.
and an address on August 3 on Some
Spiritual Aspects on Good Roads" by
Rev. c. r. Cruikshank, of Bowling
Green. Other speakers will be Pro
lessor c. G. Maphis. Professor s. b
Hedges. DR.. Roy X. Flanagan, Raw
]. D. McAlister.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-22
Negro Meet. Peculiar death.

Ispecinl 20 The Times Dispatchl
Farmville. Va. July 31.-Stok es
Miller. n worthy colored man of Cum
berland county. met a horrible death
in a most peculiar manner. He was
blowing q field with an OK to the
plow, when the animal suddenly
turned upon him and literally disem-
boweled him. He had worked the
same OK to the plow often, and his
frenzy can only be accounted for in
his being ovcrheated The animal wax
promptly dehorned and brought to
town for sale. but a purchaser could
not he found. Miller died in two
hours inter being gored
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-22
R EvEALS
LIFE OF ROMANCE.

Chicago. July 2l.--The identification
OF a woman killed last evening by an
automobile to-day revealed life of
romance. tragedy and sacrifice.
Mrs. Kate Porter the victim. was a
domestic employed by w. H. Hobbs, n
commission merchant. who said that
years ago she married Selwyn C. Ed
gar. wealthy st. Louis steel man.
from whom she separated after n son
mad been born. The courts gave the
rather custody OF the child
According to Mr.. Hobbs, the heart
broken woman gave UP her friends and
hne gowns to don tho garb of domes-
nc. and went out in the world to fight
HE and battle alone. She came to
Chicago i've years ago. to obtain en-
ployment. She received several let
ters from her son, who is now twenty
years old but pride prevented her
from meeting him.
she was always afraid she would
meet some or her former social friends,
and wore heavy veil to avoid recogni-
ton. She became confused while
crossing the street and was run over
by heavy automobile. She was not
Identified until Mr.. Hobbs viewed the
body to-day.