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The record., 1911-06-15

Many people are planning e go
90 Louisville on the first SI.7S ex-
cursion Of the season. which will be
run Tuesday, June II.
The record., 1911-06-15

Several of our people have the
auto fever in bad shape, but it is
feared they will all recover without
buying a car.
The record., 1911-06-15

The longest day of the year is
approaching rapidly, and will ar
rive in one week.
The record., 1911-06-15

A fresh shipment of vBig Ben"
alarm clocks is going fast at Mack's
watch shop.
The record., 1911-06-15

Few visitors from the farm these
days.
The record., 1911-06-15

Call on Leslie Hale, next to First
National Bank, for candies, books,
sundries, cigars, tobacco, etc. IS
The record., 1911-06-15

Mclean county has only one
prisoner in the Jail at Calboon, and
he has been alone for some weeks.
The record., 1911-06-15

Our horses are getting accustomed
to automobiles, and very few of
them shy any more.
The record., 1911-06-15

Showers, with promise Of good
rains. enlivened things up vastly
yesterday afternoon.
The record., 1911-06-15

Try Miss Lena Arnold's shop fol
high grade cloths pressing.
The record., 1911-06-15

Sr.7s excursion to Louisville on
June II.
The record., 1911-06-15

Nobody wants better summer
resort than Greenville has been this
week.
The record., 1911-06-15

Dc you drink coca-cola9 Then
try ours. 1t is pure and refreshing.
a2o TAvtcs 3 Pootr.
The record., 1911-06-15

Eggs for sale-R. c. r. l. Reds,
two pens, DeGraff and Tompkins
strains, 75c aud 81 per setting. S.
J. Lands, Greenville, Ky.
The record., 1911-06-15

Needles for all sewing machines at
Roark's.
The record., 1911-06-15

Besr McCracken has the largest
stock Of dials for timepieces ever
carried in the county, and can fit
anything from the court house clock
to toy watch.
The record., 1911-06-15

See Big Ben at Macks watch
making shop.
The record., 1911-06-15

Nc has vBig Ben," one of the
best alarm clocks on the market.
The record., 1911-06-15

]. E. Coombs & Co. buy beeI
hides. Highest cash price.
The record., 1911-06-15

See Miss Lena Arnold for bulbs
of all sorts.
The record., 1911-06-15

Swing settees for poTches at Ro
ark's.
The record., 1911-06-15

Several patterns Of swing porch
settees at Roark's, and you are in-
vited to cali.
The record., 1911-06-15
2ocA MeMtloM.
Let Nc fix your clock.

Continue to swat the flies.
The record., 1911-06-15

Give us your Job work.
The record., 1911-06-15

Porch swing settees in various
lengths and finishes at Roark's.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
COTTON GROWING
VERY RAPIDLY
PLANT GREW AND DEVELOPED
DURING WEEK.
CopiOus Rains Bring About Decidedly
More Promising 0utlOok-BOll
Weevil Damage Is Slight.

Memphis, Tenn.-The cotton crop
grew and developed in a normal way
during the week in the two Carolinas,
Georgia and all states west of the Mis-
sissippi river and in Tennessee. In
Mississippi and Alabama there are COM
damage appears to have been slight and
such as will be easily overcome with
fair weather. The plant has grown
quite rapidly, but generally is taking
on fruit also. Continued excess of rain
fall might cause excessive growth at
the expense of fruitage, Sc that dry
weather east of the Mississippi river
is desirable.
General and copious rains have caused
a marked revival in the plant in Texas
and Oklahoma and the outlook is de-
cidedly more promising. Sufficient rain
for the present has fallen in these states.
Boil weevil damage is very slight,
although many correspondents note that
the warm, moist weather is quite favor
able to their increase.
The cotton plant has generally at
tanned good size and is very healthy.
Cultivation is nearly completed and the
fields are clean, except in limited To-
~calities where the rainfall has retarded
cultivation for several weeks. The crop
is much earlier than last year and APP
pears to be somewhat ahead of an aver
age in advancement.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
WILSON MAY Be
FORCED TO QUIT
WILEY AFFAIR MAY CAUSE THOR
OUCH HOUSE CLEANING.
Roosevelt Appointed Remsden Board and
Wiley and Robson Were Over
ruled.

Washington.-The case of DR.. Harvey
NJ. Wiley has become a mere incident
of the department of agriculture situa-
ton, with the practical assurance that
DR.. Wiley will be retained in the service.
Congress, through the house committee
on expenditures in the department of
agriculture, now proposes a searching in
quiry into the motives behind the Wiley
affair. A housekeeping of the depart
ment is regarded as highly necessary,
and the conviction is growing that in the
near future there will be a complete
reorganization, with a new secretary Of
agriculture in charge.
The dismissal of Floyd W.. Robson,
one of DR.. Wiley's right-hand men, which
was but a sidelight on the case at the
start, is rapidly becoming the dominant
feature of the case. Robson, who was
employed in the food and drug laboratory
of the government at New York, was
especially identified with the benzoate of
soda case, one of the celebrated fights
in which DIR. Wiley engaged and in which
he %antagonized particularly powerful
canning interests. It was Robson who
backed Wiley in his decision against ben.
zoate of soda, after which decision James
S. Sherman, now vice-president, visited
President Roosevelt at the head Of a dele
cation of New York Gamers, and was
turned over to the Remsden commi 5sion.
whose decision was practically a reversal
of DR.. Wiley's ruling.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
CONGRESS MAY
REGULATE PRICES
LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND HAS
BECOME OBSOLETE.
Existence of Industrial Combinations Is
Measured by Recent Decision of
Supreme Court.

Duluth, MINI. Attorney General
Understands speech before the Mime
sofa Bar Association Wednesday was lit
tie short of sensational in many of its
features. lie declared it was a matter
of serious consideration whether it would
be practical to give to the proposed in
terstate commerce commission the power
TO fix prices. He said to do this would
simply require an extension of the prin-
ciple of which the interstate commerce
commission controls the rates on rail
roads.
The law of supply and demand, Mr..
Wickersham said, no longer controls
prices in the United States. For years,
he declared, the prices in all the great
staple industries have been fixed by an
agreement between the principal produc-
ers and not by a normal play of free
competition. An interstate commission,
the attorney general added, would pre-,
vent violations Of the antitrust act and
aid business men to maintain a continued
status of harmony within the require
ments of the law.
The attorney general discussed what
further regulation Of interstate commerce
is necessary or desirable from a broad
point of view, and said he had not at
tempted to express a conclusion, but
merely to state the elements of a great
problem.
That some further regulation of cor.
porations carrying on among
the states may be necessary" he said,
lis coming to be a matter of current com
ment. 1t has been openly advocated
quite recently by representatives of some
of the larger combinations of capital,
probably as a means OF salvation, and to
preserve under government supervision
great organizations whose continued ex-
istence is menaced by the recent interpre-
tation of the Sherman act, that disinte-
grafton would necessarily be attended by
much loss. To such, it is a case of any
port in a storm Better continued CO.
operative life, even under a powerful
master, than disseminated properties and
segregated activities without constant
governmental supervision"
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
Work for Extinction Of Tuberculosis,
.hILILinAn nlDni.A L. 49,

Work for Extinction Of Tuberculosis.
Exhibitions showing in graphic form
the prevention of consumption have
been shown in every state in the
United States, except Nevada, Arizona,
New Mexico and Wyoming, and also
in most of the Canadian provinces and
in Mexico, Porto Rico and Cuba, 40
cording to a statement made by the
National Association for the Study
and Prevention of tuberculosis. There
are now rs states and 16 cities hav-
ing permanent and travelling exhibits
besides the two operated by the Ma
tional association itself, and the total
number of similar displays is over
200, including about $50 small school
exhibits. The first tuberculosis ex-
hibit in America was shown by the
Maryland tuberculosis commission in
January, 1904. In 1906 there were
four such exhibits.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
NIKE HAD A KICK COMING
And Typically Milesian Was Plan He
Had Evolved to Put Things
Straight.

For sixteen years Mike Flynn had
cleaned out the town hall after shows
lectures, political meetings, Decora-
ton day exercises and other doings,
and never a complaint did he make.
Recently, however, he fancied he had
a kick coming, and he went into the
mayors office to register it. What is
1t, Mike?" asked the mayor. It's
about the hall, yer honor. The byes
stand up in the rear, they do, an they
chew an spit durin' the intire perform
ance. An not a wurrud would Oh say
yer honor, If they would spit out ON
the f1ure where OF could git at it, but
the varmints-they would spit all
over the legs OF the chairs In the
back row, an on the places where the
chairs do be fastened to the flure, an
hard work 1t is fer a man Of me age to
stoop down an scrub 1t off, There's
a favor OF would be askin' of yer
honor this mornin' in rispict to it"
What is that, Mixer" "Indade, OF
would ask yer honor fer permission
and authority to do away with the
back row of seats entirely. Nobody
likes to sit In the back row anyway,
yer honor, an sinceless it is to have
one In the hall at all. "-Kansas City
Ntar.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
HOLD FOUR BOYS AND GIRLS
Wealthy RanChman Found Drowned
After Their Visit.

Grand Junction, Colo.-Gladys Thomp,
son, aged II; Lillian Osborne, aged IA;
Lee Baker, aged Is, and Virgil Wilson,
aged II, are held for the alleged felonious
drowning OF Clark L., Wolikill, a rich
bachelor ranchman, who was found in
the creek near Clifton. According to the
evidence the girls and boys have been
living in a tent near WolfkilIs ranch.
On the morning of his death Wolfkill
received $4,000 in a horse deal, and at
the anne time the two girls visited him
at his ranch. The money disappeared.
About noon the girls left the ranch and
came to town, and in the afternoon came
back with the two boys. Soon after
WolfkilIs body was discovered on the
river bank.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27

II anybody was asked % suggest
why the soup plate was made broad
and shallow the almost certain an
swer would be that such an arrange
ment facilitates the cooling Of the
soup to a temperature comfortable to
the mouth. We believe that utilita-
rians drink tea out Of a saucer for
tie same reason, says the Lancet.
While that may be the explanation Of
the peculiar shape of the soup plate,
the advantage indicated is surely in.
significant compared with the obvious
disadvantages which may probably
arise from exposing so large a sur
face Of nutrient fluid to the air. Soup
should be served in a cup, a low, broad
teacup, and the method, which is be.
coming more usual, is hygienic. Too
deep a vessel would be an error on the
other side; its advantages would be
Cancelled by its great drawback; we
should miss some of the delicate fla
vors of the soup. In the shallow cham
payne glass the bouquet as we'll as the
taste can be appreciated. In a mar
row, deep glass the bouquet may miss
appreciation altogether.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
SCALES LOST TWO MILLION
Bull Leader Sustains Heavy Losses on
Cotton.

New York.-Eugene G. Scales, recog,
nized a year ago as the brains of the
most powerful bull clique which ever
operated in the cotton pit, has lost be-
tween 81, 10000 and 50, 900, 1000 through
the unexpected collapse in futures"
Tuesdays sensational break of 28 to
80, or $1.4O to $3.50 a bale, brought
Scales market position up as the chief
topic of discussion in the cotton pit, par
ticularly when it was noticed that a very
large commission house, supposed to be
his chief brokers, were conspicuous OH
the selling side,
This house is supposed to have sold
at least 100000 bales in two days of
the October, December and January OPP
tions, or nearly the entire amount of
long cotton estimated to have been held
by the former cotton king General
liquidation undermined the holdings of
bulls and intensified the excitement.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27

The news of the day tells Of a Japa-
les youth who was once a bellboy In
a Boston hotel, but who managed to
take a course at Harvard and is now
returning to his native land to head a
university department there. He was
not an American boy, but he deserved
to be, and his honorable position is a
lesson to some in this superior land
of ours who greet with prompt snub-
bling those who would take advantage
Of the opportunities offered by this
country to all who would rise from
humble positions to higher ones by
force Of determination and their own
merit.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
COUNTRY LIFE.

This is especially the season Of the
year when the man who is able to es-
tablish q home in the country, and
bring up his children there is to be
felicitated. The trend of migration
for many years has been strongly to-
ward the cities and the busy hum Of
men," but nowadays the city dweller
Is encouraged in various insidious
ways to become a communter. or II
he cannot get beyond the purlieus Of
the city he is taught the conservation
OF a little space-in the back yard, 1t
may be-for horticultural purposes.
There is no satisfaction quite the
equivalent of that of making two ears
Of corn grow where none grew be-
fore, or causing the tomato plant or
the bean vine to blossom even as the
rose beneath the careful nurture Of
ones own assiduous hand. A Sign of
the times" is such an institution as
the Pennsylvania School OF Horticul-
ture for Women at Amber, says the
Philadelphia Ledger, Women are by
natural instinct fond Of flowers and
of all growing things, and they are,
by Unborn and inbred patience as well
as by this pr~edisposition, qualified to
be successful gardeners and planters.
1t is gratifying to be able to chronicle
the success Of institutions which un-
dertake to give women instruction
that reduces to the rational and scien-
tiic basis the culture of plants and
flowers and fosters and appreciation
of the advantages of country life.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
FALSE HUNGER
A Symptom of Stomach Trouble Cor.
rected by Good Food.

There is, with some forms of stom-
ach trouble, an abnormal craving for
food which is frequently mistaken for
a good appetite" A lady teacher
writes from Carthage, Mo, to ex-
plain how with good food she dealt
with this sort of hurtful hunger.
Il have taught school for fifteen
years, and up to nine years ago had
good, average health. Nine years ago,
however, my health began to fail,
and continued to grow worse steadily,
in spite of Doctors prescriptions, and
everything l could do. During all this
time my appetite continued good, only
the more | ate the more l wanted to
eat-I was always hungry.
The first symptoms Of my break
down were a distressing
and a loss of flesh. The
grew so bad that finally it amounted to
actual p~rostration. Then came stom-
ach troubles, which were very painful,
constipation which brought on piles,
dyspepsia and severe nervous head.
aches.
The doctors seemed powerless to
help me, said l was o~verworked, and
at last urged me to give up teach.
ing, If wished to save my life.
But this l could not do. | kept ON
at it as we'll as I could, each day grow.
ing more wretched, my willpower
alone keeping me up, till at last a
good angel suggested that l try a diet
of Grape-Nuts food, and from that
day to this have found it delicious
always appetizing and satisfying.
Il owe my restoration to health to
Grape-Nuts. My weight has returned
and for more than two years | have
been free from the nervousness, con-
~stipation, piles, headaches, and all the
ailments that used to punish me so,
and have been able to work freely and
easily" Name given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little book, The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter. A new
one appear from time to time. she's
are genuine, true, and full Of humaH
interest
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
Ponrose Worker for Lorimer.

MISUNDERSTANDING concerning
the interest shown in the election Of a
senator from Illinois by Senator Boies
Penrose, of Pennsylvania, an admission
that he invited Edward Hines to become
active in the contest; a suggestion that
President Taft telegraphed Hines TO get
the Lorimer scandal "hushed up" and a
queer order to deliver" to Hines the
original list of contributions to the Re-
publican 1908 campaign-these were the
developments of Friday in the senatorial
investigation into the election of Senator
Lorimer.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
POSTAL SALARIES BOOSTED
Hitchcock Believes That He Will I'm
prove Efficiency.

Washington. - Postmaster General
Hitchcock ordered promotions for post
office clerks and city letter carriers,
which carry increase in salaries approx
mating 100000 a year. Orders also
were issued for promotions in the rail
road mail service, which will total $175,-
900 a year. These increases are in addi-
ton to the increase for rural mail car
riers, t%otaling $4,000 900 a year, which
became effective July /.
Thus four great groups of postal EN-
ployes have received increases in pay
aggregating $6,OOO,OOO during the cur
rent fiscal year.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
Originated Memorial Day.

Washington,-The woman credited
with having first expressed the idea of
a general memorial day, Mrs. Sue Lam
don Vaughn, is dead here. She was a
descendant of John Adams, the second
president of the United States. On April
20, 1865, she led Southern women in
strewing with flowers the Confederate
graves in Vicksburg, and the date and
custom were perpetuated in the South.
Three years later, May 30 was adopted
throughout the North as memorial day.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
PULLED GIRL ON LOCOMOTIVE
Brakeman Jerks Girl Off Tracks While
Train Is Moving.

Terre Haute, Ind.-Fannie Vaughn,
aged Is, stepped from the side of a
watchman's house on the Vandalia
tracks at Paris, ILL.,, as a freight train
approached at fifteen miles an hour.
Brakeman E. 0. Brake was on the pilot
of the engine. Reaching out, he caught
and lifted her 50 that the momentum
of the engine brought her against him
with such force that both were thrown
against the boiler head. Neither was
seriously injured.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
RATIFY PECUNIARY TREATY
In Accordance With the Anglo.Americap
Treaty.

Washington.-The treaty between the
United States and Great Britain, provid.
ing for the arbitration of pecuniary
claims between the two countries i'll ac.
cordance with the general arbitration
treaty, vas ratified by the senate in ex.
ecutive session Wednesday.
This treaty provides that within four
months either of the governments may
submit to the other any claims which it
desires shall be passed upon, the only
conditions being that the claims shall be
grouped. All claims not submitted WITH,
in the time specified are to be barred.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
PRESIDENT TELLS
OF PEACE TREATIES
TREATIES WITH ENGLAND AND
FRANCE WILL BE MADE.
Presidential Auto One of Few to Navi-
gate Virginia Roads and
Streams.

Manassas, Neutrality-suspicious. after
a strenuous trip from Washington by
automobile over flooded roads and
swollen creeks, President Taft Friday
faced al audience made up in part of
veterans who wore the blue and the gray
within a few miles of the scene of the
first great conflict of the civil war, and
was applauded and cheered when he made
a plea for international peace,
The president declared a general arbi-
tration treaty both with Great Britain
and with France probably would be
signed within the next ten days. He
added that he hoped within the EeXt few
days to announce that the three other
great powers would enter into similar
agreements with the United States. He
did not 90 SO far as to indicate the ma
tions he had in mind, but it was gen
orally believed that he referred to Ger
many, Italy and The Netherlands. Japan
ultimately may come into the far-reach-
ing pact, but the negotiations with that
empire as yet are said to be merely
tentative.
The presidents trip from Washington
to Manassas would have thrilled the heart
of a moving picture man. He left a trail
of stranded automobiles in his wake,
made p%erilous voyages across streams
out of their banks, stopped on his way
to rescue a party of marooned senators
demanding votes for reciprocity as a
reward-plowed his way through rain
storms and mud, and finally wheezed
into this historic little village at sun
down
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
Cotton Growing Center.

Washington.-The center of production
of the cotton-growing area of the United
States in 1910 was located three miles
south of Walden, Carroll county, Miss,
according to the census bureaus statis-
tics just issued. The cotton producing
area is about 1900 miles long and 500
miles wide. The total area of the coun'
ties in which cotton was ginned in 1910
is approximately 625,0OO square miles.
or about 4OO,o 600 acres. OF this only
about one acre in every thirteen was
devoted to cotton.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
VALUES OF FARMS DOUBLED
Census Report Shows an Increase of
118 Per Cent.

Washington.-Of marked interest be-
cause of many statements made during
the Canadian reciprocity debate, was the
census bureaus announcement of the
latest general farm statistics of the
United States showing that land in
farms more than doubled in value dur
ing the past ten years, having increased
$15,252, 788, 900, or 118 per cent. In
1900 they were valued at $13,o51, O33 900
and returns of the thirteenth census
show that they are now worth $2s, 1884,
$4,000.
Farm lands, farm buildings and farm
implements of the country are valued
at $35,859 $4,000 compared with ST.
357,425,OOO ten years ago.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
CANADIANS ARE PLEASED
Say Taft Has Made Good His Word on
Reciprocity.

Ottawa, Ont.-The Canadian cabinet
received the news of the reciprocity
victory in the United States while they
were seated around the privy council
table, Sir William Laurier presiding. All
present expressed their satisfaction over
the ultimate victory of the bill without
any amendments.
Both the Liberal and Conservative
parties will hold caucuses to determine
what policy shall be followed as to the
voting on the Canadian reciprocity bill.
There are indications that several mem.
hers of the Conservative ranks will
break away from their policy of OBJ
struction and work for the bills passage.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN
Ex-Confederate Colonel Rescued by an
Old Federal.

~Chicago.-William Nelson, an attorney
and a colonel in the Confederate army,
was mistaken for a crook and arrested.
He was held several hours before Po-
liceman James Talcstt of the Desplaines
street station identified him.
THAT man is no crook" said Talcott,
81 took him a prisoner"
"When?' demanded the sergeant.
"When he was a colonel in the Con-
federate army"
And you?'
81 was a private in the Seventh Wis
consin regiment"
Attorney Nelson was taken into Gus
tody by Detective Maggie, the detective
believing he was William Duffy, who is
wanted on the charge of passing worth
less checks.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1911-07-27
Saw New Comet.

%ieneva, N. Y.-Dr. William R. Books,
director of the observatory and professor
of astronomy at Hobart College, an
nounces that he discovered a comet Fri
day morning in right ascension % hours
10 minutes 40 seconds, declination north
20 degrees 81 minutes, moving slowly
northwest. The comet is in the con.
stellation Pegasus.