The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1913-07-25
WEST.

The most important news of today
it is raining. | hope it will continue
until we get enough for everything is
needing it badly.
DR.. Cashus Alexander and children
visited relatives here Tuesday.
Miss Willie Moore Clark is spending
the week at Emory.
Mrs. Hariett Alexander and family
are enjoying visit from her niece,
Mrs. Brown, from Texas. From here
Mrs. Brown will visit Chicago and
other Northern points before returning
to Texas.
Mr.. W. P. johnson accompanied his
srandsons home and spent Sunday with
them at Durant.
Miss Ruth Buckingham returned to
her home at Mathiston Saturday after
spending some time with Miss Clark.
Miss Buckingham fitted in our social
circles so perfectly that we regretted
to have her go at all.
MIR. and Mrs. Joe Crow and little
Maud Cain are visiting relatives in
Mathiston.
Aubry Bell is in the postoffice while
Mrs Tucker is taking her vacation.
Mrs. Tom Ellis came in Tuesday to
meet her aunt, Mrs. Sarah Causey.
Miss Mertye Jordan is visiting rela-
tives in Lexington.
Mrs. w. j. Holmes and children are
visiting in Merigold this week.
Miss Beatrice Holmes is keeping
store" during Mrs. Holmes absence.
MIR. and Mrs. r. B. johnson, from
Eupora, are spending few days with
their brother, s. b. Johnson, while en-
route home from visit to relatives in
Alabama, South Mississippi, Jackson
and Durant.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Moore, Misses
Mary Lou and Dele johnson spent
Sunday at Durant and Castalian.
We all enjoyed the Methodist meet
| ing which closed Friday evening. Bro.
| Lipscomb certainly gave US some of
his best sermons while here, and much
good was done.
Mr.. Baxter Wilson was over from
Lexington last week.
Mr.. Ham and family passed through
making the trip fromGreenville to Bir-
mingham in their touring car
Miss Laurell Howard is in our town
this week.
Billie has gone.
]. W. Afford is busy improving Mrs.
Harriet Alexander's home.
Mrs. T. A. Bayliss received news
last week of the death of her niece,
Mrs. Mittye Shipp Burkhead, of Fres-
no, Cal.
West Sunday evening. They were
Mr.. and Mrs. Ashford and the Misses
Sullivan, from Koscusko, were in West
Sunday.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Moore and Caroline Jack
son returned to Jackson Sunday.
What constitutes state? Not
coast defenses and dynamite guns; not
armored battleships and torpedo boats; /;
not hero worship and monument build
ing; not material accumulation, wheth-
er in personal fortunes or confederat-
ed trusts-not these, but men! Ours
| is the man-building civilization. Our
government is the reign of the citizen
and the manhood which stands four
square, like the Eternal City, must
constitute at once the foundation of
the state and the heart center of her
institutions.
Hello Acona! Surely was glad to
hear from you.
Vernon Holmes was in West a short
time ago.
If the boil weevil continues I'll ad-
wise some of the preachers to try the
old negro preachers method. 1t is
said an old negro preacher down in
Georgia had more than one way of
making sure that none of his parish
toner's let the contribution plate pass
unnoticed. "We have a collection for
foreign and domestic missions dis
mornin', brederin and sisters, he an
nounced one Sunday, land, for de glory
OBJ heaven, which eber one of you
stole Widow Johnson's sheep, don't